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Photo posted by gary phillips in the Landscape gallery on 02/20/17 at 11:50 pm EST
Registered on 10/24/13, 185 Posts, 4136 Comments
Post last edited by gary phillips on 02/20/17 at 11:51 pm EST
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Comment posted by Lon Overacker on 02/21/17 at 12:20 am EST
Registered on 11/24/06, 521 Posts, 19147 Comments
Seriously? Do you have a new, secret plugin for PS? The Alien filter? Maybe a NIK plugin? 
So the alien on the right is eating a donut with a bunch of Skittles flying all around. Looks way too much like a Storm Trooper though to be a complete alien. I can't even begin to think or imagine what's on the left, but I do know that the black in between is deep space with moons, planets, stars and galaxies...
Gary, these are all truly UNREAL and unlike ANYTHING I've seen posted here on NPN since I've been a member (2006?). Ok, And an outstanding job processing these. I'm gonna ask one favor. When you're done with all these, please share a broad view to give us some context? I'm just having a hard time believing these existed in nature!
These do wonders for the imagination, but leave me speechless.
Lon
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To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. -Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Comment posted by Ian Wolfenden on 02/21/17 at 06:37 am EST
Registered on 05/18/07, 1108 Posts, 7647 Comments
Just got round to viewing your ice bubble series, Gary - amazing ! I actually like the previous post best of all, but they are all fascinating. It's that feeling of seeing a world in a grain of sand ( or, in this case, a grain of ice !! ) that makes them so appealing perhaps. Anyway - well seen and captured 
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Comment posted by scott lanz on 02/21/17 at 07:51 am EST
Registered on 11/14/03, 840 Posts, 12902 Comments
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Outstanding again, Gary. Pointless and impossible for me to try to say which are better, as they are all outstanding. This one looks like like deep space. Just terriific.
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scott lanz
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Comment posted by Eva McDermott on 02/21/17 at 09:16 am EST
Registered on 01/04/09, 1015 Posts, 13229 Comments
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Another fascinating ice abstract Gary. I love them all..... Definitely out of this world.
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Comment posted by Harley Goldman on 02/21/17 at 10:21 am EST
Registered on 11/19/03, 586 Posts, 11271 Comments
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Galaxies from outer space!! Another fascinating and outstanding ice abstract. You are absolutely killing it with these ice images!!
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"You were born an original. Don't die a copy."
- John Mason
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Comment posted by Preston Birdwell on 02/21/17 at 11:54 am EST
Registered on 11/01/03, 471 Posts, 5188 Comments
Another fine ice abstract, Gary. Your processing on all the images in the series is spot-on. I really like the negative space created by the blacks.
On the right, I see a dog eating one of Lon's Skittles.
Very cool stuff!
--P
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Preston Birdwell
Columbia, California, USA
NPN 429 | California Nature Photographers (CANP) Moderator | 'NPN Discussion' Moderator
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Comment posted by Prashant Khapane on 02/21/17 at 3:57 pm EST
Registered on 11/01/03, 492 Posts, 4580 Comments
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digging this Gary. The one on right reminds me of Aliens!
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Dr.-Ing. Prashant Khapane
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Comment posted by Alberto Patiño on 02/22/17 at 12:25 am EST
Registered on 12/02/14, 278 Posts, 1736 Comments
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Pure Sci Fi!! I love it! MUST be seen large.
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Alberto Patiño Douce
Athens, GA, USA
Four Billion Years Website
Four Billion Years Blog
We have faith that future generations will know that here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance and intolerance.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, February 12, 1943
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Comment posted by Mark Seaver on 02/22/17 at 08:56 am EST
Registered on 01/23/11, 1103 Posts, 17270 Comments
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Definitely best when viewed large, Gary. The shapes and the 3D nature of the bubbles look great. You've got a fine balance here with the different formations and the dark ice strips between them. I'm also fascinated in thinking that here, the tiny bubbles that speckle everything with white dots look great, while in my views, i find them mostly distracting.
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Mark Seaver
Burtonsville, MD & Emigrant, MT
seaverphotos.com
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Comment posted by Navin Sarma on 02/22/17 at 09:58 am EST
Registered on 07/17/11, 233 Posts, 1373 Comments
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Really cool. Looks almost like an asteroid belt. The black channels allow a sense of motion that is really effective here. Composition is spot on
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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on 02/22/17 at 4:19 pm EST
Registered on 02/01/04, 752 Posts, 14140 Comments
Another super cool ice abstract!!! These are pretty amazing, Gary.
Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI.
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Comment posted by Paul Breitkreuz on 02/22/17 at 7:54 pm EST
Registered on 02/25/06, 525 Posts, 8448 Comments
Comment last edited by Paul Breitkreuz on 02/22/17 at 7:55 pm EST
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Gary, I took a quick run through all of your recent abstracts and they're truly unique. I think the B&W approach pushes them toward pure artistic thinking all around. The viewer becomes more intrigued with the patterns and the nature created designs & leaves the aesthetical thoughts to the wayside.
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Paul Breitkreuz
Corona, California
Trailimages.com
NPN 2326
"Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."
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Comment posted by Ryan Shain on 02/23/17 at 8:39 pm EST
Registered on 02/20/07, 226 Posts, 4571 Comments
Dude Gary wow,
The recent work you have shared is phenomenal in my book. I love the abstract nature of the shapes, lines, and textures. The black and white conversion really highlights the graphic nature of these images wonderfully. These are all so well seen and captured bro.
Fine art
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Ryan Shain
Joliet, IL
The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the ultimate potential of all things. To it, all things are possible.
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Comment posted by Dave Dillemuth on 02/24/17 at 8:31 pm EST
Registered on 12/10/15, 104 Posts, 1112 Comments
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Another mindbending ice abstract. Starting to have a Phillips signature style.The arrangement of bubbles and negative space works beautifully. Processing looks great. Hard to pick a favorite of these.
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Dave Dillemuth
Santa Barbara, California
davedillemuthphotography.smugmug.com
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