Scale

Posted on February 6, 2015 by | 30 Comments

By Vladimir Brezina

Big fleas have little fleas,
Upon their backs to bite ’em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas,
and so, ad infinitum.

And the great fleas, themselves, in turn
Have greater fleas to go on;
While these again have greater still,
And greater still, and so on.

The Siphonaptera

Scale 1 Scale 2Scale 3

But, big or little, they are all overwhelmed by the incoming tide—

Scale 4

A contribution to this week’s Photo Challenge, Scale.

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30 responses to “Scale”

  1. Dina | February 6, 2015 at 2:32 pm | Reply

    Great entries for the challenge!

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  2. Max510 | February 6, 2015 at 2:52 pm | Reply

    Perfect !
    Ciao Vladi !

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  5. sailingpenguin | February 6, 2015 at 4:15 pm | Reply

    I love this. It’s brilliant!

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  6. Marilyn Armstrong | February 6, 2015 at 4:54 pm | Reply

    A nice, literal interpretation reminding me I am on a crusade to figure out how to get the barnacles off the mussels without a chisel!

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  8. dogear6 | February 6, 2015 at 5:58 pm | Reply

    I loved all the detail on the pictures. They were all great but for different reasons.

    Nancy

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    • Vladimir Brezina | February 11, 2015 at 9:48 am | Reply

      What reasons, if I may ask?

      Thanks, Nancy!!

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      • dogear6 | February 11, 2015 at 2:42 pm | Reply

        I enjoyed the top picture because I saw the whole thing – the composition was appealing and so were all the shells, lines, and other smudgy things.

        The next two showed finer and finer details. They were also composed to be pleasing, but the top one had lines leading from one corner to the other, while the other was circles and swirls. I found the detail fascinating – so much there to see!

        The last one – while perhaps not technically as good – brought closure to the story, showing the tide starting to come in.

        I’d say my favorite was the second one – I liked the composition and detail the best. But all were good.

        Does that make sense? Not sure if that’s what you intended, although I find that I tell the story and then later figure out why I chose the elements that I actually used.

        Nancy

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        • Vladimir Brezina | February 12, 2015 at 1:13 pm |

          Thanks, Nancy! That feedback is really helpful.

          Yes, I find that I assemble the photos to tell a story, if possible. And I don’t pay much explicit attention to the composition, etc.—I just pick photos that appeal to me :-)

          But yes, the idea was to show finer and finer details, and then the tide coming in. So it came across!

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  9. Ruth | February 7, 2015 at 12:21 am | Reply

    Could be a Valentine post, too!

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  10. NatureSpeak Photos | February 7, 2015 at 4:47 am | Reply

    beautiful and very apt indeed!

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  11. Virginia Duran | February 7, 2015 at 10:39 am | Reply

    Wonderful captures! Happy to read your blog again after some time absent on WordPress :)

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  13. dunelight | February 7, 2015 at 4:34 pm | Reply

    :) I enjoyed that, thank you.

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