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The photographer is looking for generalized feedback about the aesthetic and technical qualities of their image.
I found this small piece of cedar on a beach having floated in on the tide. I’m not sure what caused the intricate sculpturing, but it runs throughout the whole piece. The photos are of top and bottom.
I submitted these images to see if anyone has seen something like this.
R5; 1/50th; f16; iso 2500.
Jim, that is a cool find. I have no idea what caused the sculpturing either. Maybe the movement of the tides and it floated from who knows where. A fun find. Sorry I couldn’t help you, I have never seen anything like it.
I have no idea how that geometry formed, Jim, but it’s incredibly cool. Maybe some kind of strange little critter gnawing away, but how it would end up with such amazing regularity is beyond me.
Jim, this is very unique. At first glance on the first photo I thought it was a small Armadillo curled up in a protection mode. Or, maybe even some kind of flying insect hive of sorts. I can truly say I’ve never seen anything like it and I suspect it would have me taking a hard look see if I did.
Jim, this is an excellent find and your first photo shows it off wonderfully, looks like the model for a large cruise ship… Yes, the how it got made would be great to know. I assume you have this at home on display. 
, it is awesome.
@Shirley_Freeman @Dennis_Plank @Paul_Breitkreuz @Mark_Seaver I’ve had it for a couple years. It possibly washed down the Columbia River to the mouth where it floated north and was deposited on the beach at Long Beach; at least I like to believe that.
Jim, I’m loving this object, especially the first shot of it. It reminded me of the upper part of a motorcycle engine for some reason. Then of part of a wasps’ nest. You could polish it or sculpt it some more, but it’s a great piece as it is now. Might make an interesting home for spiders!
Wow, what a cool find. The patterns are so intricate and so geometrical. I love the first image with a clean focus on the object and the patterns contrast well with the plain background. Almost reminds me of some sort of futuristic building of sorts.
@anuradha Thank you. Great analogy to a futuristic building.
Jim: I’m late to this party but what a wonderful find. I like the second image for providing a sense of scale and the first for demonstrating the intricacy of the structure. A frame filling view of the first would be awesome. Congrats on the find and your captures.>=))>
Bill, Thank you. I’ll try a frame filling view.
I just discovered the EP. Thank you very much.
Very cool; I’ve never seen anything like it either. Just for fun I submitted it for a Google image search. Your image posted here was the first result returned! Google seems to think the patterning is caused by insects burrowing through the wood, and showed examples of other types of wood where this happened.
Thank you. Very interesting.
It looks like it was caused by termites. My observations of termite infestations in my roof in Baja is that they seek softer ‘veins’ in the wood and tunnel into them. This results in tunnels. The attractive configuration in this case I think is due to how the wood actually grows. I actually don’t know much about wood but I bet that it’s not just homogeneous throughout. It probably has different densities to give strength. When you look at the picture it looks like an apartment or high rise building in a way.
