FRACTAL PRODUCTS

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To produce these images, photographs were compounded 

with fractals.  This form of image making has only become 

possible in the home with the advent of powerful PC's, 

fractal generation software and image editors.  The fractal

software frees the user from technical work but opens up 

new creative possibilities.  Fractals are infinite in their 

variety and extent so finding a good fractal is as difficult as

 finding a good landscape view.  Fractals are one of the

beauties in reality, but more hidden than some.  Image editors 

can be used to manipulate colour and shape the fractals, 

enhancing their appearance in subjective terms, or indeed

creating a compound image with a message.

To me this provides an opportunity to develop a new art-form,

It is all the more fascinating because it is an artform  peculiar to our time.

Sometimes the use of  fractals is criticised by photographic purists.  

I do not understand them, for undoubtedly photography can be, and is

used as an art-form.  These same people will happily photograph,

for example, stained glass windows. To do so requires technique but no 

creative input.  Also they will photograph  crystals viewed through a 

polarising microscope i.e. using technology as a tool to aid the creative 

process, as is the case when composing fractal pictures.