(Sarayu): "... this garden is your soul.
This mess is you! Together, you and I,
we have been working with a purpose in your heart.
And it is wild and beautiful and perfectly in process.
To you it seems like a mess, but to me,
I see a perfect pattern,
emerging and growing and alive -- a living fractal."

From 'The Shack' by William P. Young

Please take time to see where these wonderful fractals come from - each artist has plenty more treasures for you to see!

My latest selection of favourites... don't you just love them all?



Thanks to everyone who featured my work lately - I do appreciate it!

A selection of images that I have loved and been inspired by lately...



A very belated thank you to for
Thank you so much, Iwona!
Thanks also for the parameters you have made available to the community - I am having a lot of fun playing with them.

For those of you who don't know about [link] yet, you really need to have a look at it. I downloaded it this weekend and have had a lot of fun with it. It also works with DA. As the blurb on the site says:

Ginipic takes image search to a whole new level. Now you can search image search engines, photo sharing websites or your own local picture collections simultaneously. Find what you're looking for and use it instantly in your own creation - document, presentation, art work - you name it. Work alongside other applications with Ginipic in Dock mode.
Did we mention it's completely FREE? Try it now!

Something that might be of interest to you with all the art theft going on is that if you search for your own images, you find lots of places where your images shouldn't be... very interesting.

A selection of images that I have loved and been inspired by lately...



Oh yes... I have posted a load of kaleidoscopes because I CAN! If anyone complains about it, I'll post more and I have LOADS more so just try me!

Thanks to everyone who featured my work in their journals lately - I really appreciated it!

I am off to the Scottish Highland for a few days, so I'm sure you'll be seeing some photographs soon.
(If the weather is very bad, probably a lot more kaleidoscopes too!)

Take care!

I have read some of the latest fuss about fractals and I think it is really sad that people are becoming despondent and even leaving because of it.

I use scripts and I'm not ashamed to admit it. Before I post anything resulting from running the script, I try everything there is to get my own result. My parameters are saved throughout the process and then I go back to rework them and tweak and fiddle until I find something that I think is worth posting. I LIKE scripts... I learn from them. If I knew how to write them I would... but I don't have a clue!

I'll post whatever I like in my gallery - it's MY gallery. My subscription is paid and so I'll do as I please in my own space. If I irritate anyone by posting hundreds of flowers, please feel free to remove me from your friends' list - I won't be at all offended - I will keep posting flowers because I can and because I like them.

Finally, regarding the standard of work that some of us post: a clause from DA's 'Etiquette Policy':

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Guidelines for Deviants: Quality and Placement

It is our policy to welcome artists of all levels from amateur to professional and to that end we do not attach any minimum standards of quality to deviations submitted by our membership; all manner of artworks are welcome providing they meet with our etiquette and copyright policies. While we do not impose quality standards we do ask that you practice self-moderation in what you choose to submit and that you submit your works into the most appropriate gallery. While we encourage the submission of only your very best works we have provided an area for those submissions which may fall short of that ‘top quality’ mark; this is your “Scrapbook” gallery and we highly encourage its use.
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If I didn't like my own images, I wouldn't post them. Who determines someone's 'very best' but the person him/herself? Some of us will never meet the level of perfection and expertise that we see on DA, but should that stop us from trying? My images are hardly fractals and I am the first to admit it, but Apophysis is the tool I use to create my so-called 'art'. Yes, beauty IS in the eye of the beholder!

Stop destroying and get on with creating!!





With all the art theft that is going on I wondered if any of you had heard of 'myfreecopyright'?
It's worth a look at this [link]




Thank you for featuring me in your tag journal!! I will get you back, Alex!

I'm not going to tag anyone but I am going to do the '17' thing because it gives me a chance to appreciate again some of the artists who have inspired and motivated me to try harder! Here goes:

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I also greatly admire the following photographers:

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fractals by mistywisp


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