# Squiggles & Patterns **URL:** \ **Category:** Image Critiques\ **Tags:** landscape, intimate, weekly-challenge\ **Created:** [February 25, 2026, 2:09am UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/squiggles-patterns/49916 "2026-02-25T02:09:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![robert21](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@robert21](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/robert21)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2026, 1:00am UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/squiggles-patterns/49916/23 "2026-03-02T01:00:32Z")
Thank you, Ed. Bob ---
**Author:** ![Ingrid\_Vekemans](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/ingrid_vekemans/32/2252_2.png) [@Ingrid\_Vekemans](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Ingrid_Vekemans)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2026, 9:23am UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/squiggles-patterns/49916/24 "2026-05-08T09:23:31Z")
Having read through all the above I have the same nit. But I still prefer your version over the crops. I wonder if a different POV could have delivered an image where the top isn’t an issue. I.e., would a higher POV have been possible perhaps? I don’t know the area so maybe you can’t pick and choose where you stand. But with the image as it is, I would crop a bit from the top, but not much, and then the top right hand corner fits in and isn’t too heavy for the rest of the photo - if that makes sense. In any case, I was drawn to the image and I think it’s beautiful, even funny, but certainly artistic. Grt, Ingrid. ---
**Author:** ![sebastien-maloron](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/sebastien-maloron/32/86072_2.png) [@sebastien-maloron](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/sebastien-maloron)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2026, 9:53am UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/squiggles-patterns/49916/25 "2026-05-08T09:53:47Z")
What a lovely little patch of earth. The first thing the image does is mess with scale: it could be an aerial view of a vast eroded plateau, or it could be a square meter of clay you nearly stepped in. That ambiguity is part of the charm, and I am happy to leave it unresolved. The texture carries the whole show. The fine network of cracks gives the surface an almost reptilian feel, like the hide of something very old having a long nap, while the larger rounded lobes look as if a patient thumb has been pressing them into shape over a few centuries. The two scales of texture talking to each other is what keeps the eye busy and content. Composition wise, the gentle diagonal pull of the lobes from foreground to upper right gives the frame a quiet sense of movement, and filling the frame edge to edge was the right call. A strip of sky here would have ruined the spell and demoted this from sculpture to soil report. The whole thing has a meditative, slightly otherworldly quality. I keep waiting for a tiny creature to poke its head out from one of the folds and ask what year it is. Lovely work. ---
**Author:** ![robert21](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@robert21](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/robert21)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2026, 3:15pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/squiggles-patterns/49916/26 "2026-05-08T15:15:26Z")
Than you for your kind words. I think that you and I at least for this scene interpret it in same way. Robert ---
**Author:** ![robert21](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@robert21](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/robert21)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2026, 3:23pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/squiggles-patterns/49916/27 "2026-05-08T15:23:04Z")
Thank you, Ingrid. While the other comments have their valid ideas this was my artistic view at the time. You are correct the existing terrain limits photographic positions. ---
**Author:** ![Ian\_Cameron](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/user_avatar/community.naturephotographers.network/ian_cameron/32/583_2.png) [@Ian\_Cameron](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/Ian_Cameron)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2026, 1:28pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/squiggles-patterns/49916/28 "2026-05-16T13:28:29Z")
Wow love this wonderful absract slice of wriggling converging lines and hexagonal Pangolin scales. Very happy with the original crop. It all seems beautifully balanced and suitably mind bending. ---
**Author:** ![robert21](https://assets.naturephotographers.network/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@robert21](https://community.naturephotographers.network/u/robert21)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2026, 2:14pm UTC](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/squiggles-patterns/49916/29 "2026-05-16T14:14:38Z")
Thank you, Ian. That original crop was my vision of the scene. Robert Engle [Previous page](https://community.naturephotographers.network/t/squiggles-patterns/49916.md?page=1)