thats lovely :-)
natural patterns can't be beat lol
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Sorry to hear about the Credit Card thing. Once, the bank called me with a little scare, they informed me of ten overdrafts on my checking account, and told me my identity had most likely been stolen..Come to find out they're just dumb, and my identity was fine, it was all on their end.

I love the colours of the image. On first glance, it reminded me of a Christmas tree. If you don't mind me asking..what exactly is it?

Sandra: thanks.

Tanner: if you don't mind I'd rather wait and see how many other people don't know before I tell you. So, if you do know ... shhhhh! ;-)

I don't know either... how about a clue.. Is it from the UK?

Cool! Both the picture and todays story! Really amazing depth in this photo. A great way to display the theme pattern.

Louis: I'm not sure where it's from. I bought it in the UK, but it may well have originated elsewhere, possibly Italy :-)

Great image though I have absolutely no idea what it is.

Hehe, I know what it is, though I've never had one. Are they any good?

By the way, I also really like the story that goes with each photo. I'm sorry about your credit card. :(

Wow, that's an awesome shot you have there. And I have no clue what that object is at all. On close inspection all I can tell is that it's a cone, with smaller cones on top of it, and then smaller cones on top of them. A species of coral?

Great shot for patterns. I like the low key lighting adn the tone on this...

*Ouch* on the CC thing!

... I think I know what it is! isn't that thing called Romanescus or something like that? I think it's a vegetable similar to broccoli ... I had it long time ago but I remember it's yummi ;) .... I love the picture by the way! ... :)

I've never seen one before.......whatever it is. Very interesting tho'. Is it somekind of a shell? Would love to know what it feels like.

Very evocative and unusual. I like your interpretation of themes very much! Also, it was interesting to read about the subtle switch of photos and text over time. :)

Hi
I’ve been around the last week and I already saw all your pictures. I am from Mexico, and let me tell you that your work is just beautiful. I have read some of the stories that go with each picture and I find them good enough to let me know a little bit of you and your precious family. By the way I don’t know either what’s the object in the picture, but I do like the work with the color. :)

I know what this is, but only because I purchased one myself about a month ago, prior to my purchase I hadn't seen one before. Strange enough, I only bought it to take photographs of (how sad I'm I? (don't answer that!)), mine I didn't think good enough to post, but this is cool and a good and brave descion to colourize as their colour is bright and vibrant.

Sorry to hear about your credit card. 'There, but......'

Beautiful picture. Reminds me a book of my father's by Andreas Feinniger called (I think ) Patterns in Nature. How did you colourise it?

GallinAzul is right, it's a type of broccoli – Romanesco Shannon Broccoli (Brassica oleracea). The only information I can find about it is here.

peterv: this was colourised with the Hue/Saturation tool in PS with a setting of 212, 15, 0. The original is a rather pale lime green.

When I saw this I remembered how I had seen one in Tesco earlier in the year and later wished I had bought it. It is the most remarkable Mandelbrot vegetable and this is a fine specimen (much better than the one I saw in Tescos!) and a fine photograph of it .

This is soooo cool! Of course I know what it is now but at first (before reading the comments) I thought it had to be from the sea somehow...wondeful patterns David. I too am sorry to hear about your credit fraud troubles.
:-(>

This is beautiful! A mountain range of little pyramids, lol.

I bought some from M&S a while back, just to take some pics of - though I was only using my mobile phone camera back then.

They taste nice though, and there's something cool about fractal food.

I am really impressed. The tone and the colours are beautiful. I have seen this veggie before but I have never tried it - hopefully it taste really good :-) I am sorry to hear about your problems with the credit card and I'll keep my fingers crossed for you that the problem will be solved soon!

Wow! Never would have known that this is broccoli, not in a bazillion years.
This one needs to be framed - in a big way.

My dad's American Express was cloned in Turkey and within two days it had been used in Indonesia and Hong Kong.

Small world ;-)

Thanks everyone.

Hopefully we'll get around to eating it at some point ;-)

As for the credit card thing: if there's anything interesting to report after I speak to the American Express fraud team tomorrow I'll let you know.

Quite an interesting post. I think I'm even more weirded-out by this thing now that I know it is a type of broccoli ;)

Very nice lighting on this!

-Tristan (picture life)

I think it's a relative of the cauliflower!

Lovely picture. Interesting patterns emphasized by the nice use of sidelighting, simple composition and choice of mono. It's all made so much better when you find out it's is a veggie available on the high street! Just wonder about a tad more space top and bottom, as it feels a little hemmed in as framed, but that is a minor point.

Cheers

Found one! Woot.
http://www.ifb.uni-stuttgart.de/~doerner/romanesco.jpg

Very good macro David.

Very, very nice.

Wow, I like the texture and the darkened background.

o! kalafior! ;)

broccoli?! this just about confirms how disgusting they are =P
great photo... very creepy and out of this world, which just serves to remind us how wonderful our world is... cheers!

great example of a fractal... nature still does it best IMHO.

Congratulations on the 'noteworthy' David! It was a given with this shot...
:-)>

Yeah,
they've begun to sell christmas trees out here in Northern California too.

Gorgeously fractal :) Great lighting.

Hi, David.
Congratulations for your beautiful work. Your photoblog seems to me very elegant.
Thanks for show to the World your photographies.