It's a curious (and perhaps instructive) fact that no-one has better taste or judgement than the processes of weathering and erosion constantly at work on the world around us. It's also curious that we are here to appreciate that fact. If I were feeling grandiose, I might wonder whether there is a flaw in theories of entropy that assert that the universe aspires to the condition of a uniform grey sludge. If that is our destination, however, we are clearly taking the scenic route.
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Sometimes we use random waves to test the behavior of ship models - these waves are effectively white noise, but because they are confined in a tank they are not quite white noise, they "off white" but rather than being called grey noise they are called "Pink Noise" waves quite why I don't know.
It's strange how decay "suits" photography.
"I might wonder whether there is a flaw in theories of entropy that assert that the universe aspires to the condition of a uniform grey sludge"
Indeed there is. Entropy tends towards maximum radomness, which actually means lots of clumpy bits, which causes all the interesting stuff.
IMO, the deeper truths of science show Nature to be more sublime that we can ever image.
Sorry guys, thanks for the comments, I've been away for a week.
"pink noise" sounds intriguing, I'm going to tuck that away for future use...
"the deeper truths of science show Nature to be more sublime that we can ever image" -- I think this is partly why I'm not a fan of the "hi-fi" approach to photography. What is interesting (in any art form) is the humanity of the gestures, not their accuracy.
Mike
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