Pentaptych

Abstract Thursday: Pentaptych

It is havfever season (for me at least), so I am sure that I can be forgiven this pollen filled entry to this week's abstract challenge that sounds like a sneeze.  To be fair, I'm not sure how you pronounce the word "pentaptych", although its is just a fancy ancient Greek way of describing an image divided into 5 panels.

This image started off as a shot of one flower against another.  I deliberately added some grain to the photo and then chopped and enlarged sections of the original image into 5 slices to achieve this end result.  The 5 slices are layered over a background that takes an averaged blurred section of part of one of the images to provide a tonally pleasing neutral back cloth to the main image.

It sounds complicated, and to be fair ensuring the 5 panels were the same size did involve a piece of paper and a pencil.  I need to write my maths down - so that I can find the inevitable errors.  If I wasn't doing this on a Thursday night, after a walk across the fields to the beer garden of the pub in the neighbouring village I probably wouldn't need to write down the calculation as the maths involved doesn't really require a calculator. 

We do, of course, have pubs in our own village - 4 in fact. But the best beer and the most responsible Covid-19 protection, is to be found in the beer garden of a (much smaller) neighbouring pub a good 2K across the fields. 

That might sound like a chore, but the walk there, and more importantly, the walk back across the fields with the clear skies of Summer are good for the soul.