[x]

Browse More Like This

More from ~theMuspilli

View Gallery

Featured in Groups:

Not currently featured in any groups.

Details

Submitted: July 19, 2004
Image Size: 151 KB
Resolution: 992×680

Thumb

Statistics

Comments: 20
Favourites: 35 [who?]
Views: 1,322 (0 today)
Downloads: 102 (0 today)

Camera Data

Make:SONY
Model:CYBERSHOT
Shutter Speed:1/30 second
Aperture:F/2.8
Focal Length:14 mm
ISO Speed:127
Date Taken:Jul 18, 2004, 7:12:41 AM

Shop For This Camera

[x]

SM - Snail and Angelby ~theMuspilli

Photography / Urban & Rural / Gardens, Parks & Cemeteries

SM - Snail and Angel

A snail vs. an angel. While a snail is not commonly referred to as an
extraordinaryly fast being, it clearly beats the statue in terms of speed.
You might not expect this angel to move at all and noone would probably
doubt the reason of your expectation - or lack thereof. But what are
the reasons behind the relatively low estimated terminaly velocity of
stonen angels?

... In case of the marble statue, molecules in solid marble are
continuously jostling against one another in random directions. The
jostlings of the different molecules cancel one another out, so the whole
hand of the statue stays still. But if, by sheer coincidence, all the
molecules just happened to move in the same direction at the same
moment, the hand would move. If they then all reversed direction at the
same moment the hand would move back. In this way it is possible for a
marble statue to wave at us. It could happen. The odds against such a
coincidence are unimaginably great but they are not incalculably great. A
physicist colleague has kindly calculated them for me. The number is so
large that the entire age of the universe so far is too short a time to write
out all the noughts! ...
Richard Dawkins in The Blind Watchmaker

Now think about that ...

Cemetery: Düsseldorf Nordfriedhof

~~love 0 0~~

joy 2 2

~~wow 0 0~~

~~mad 0 0~~

~~sad 0 0~~

~~fear 0 0~~

~~neutral 0 0~~

~violanigra May 13, 2012

Nice image!
In snails vs angels, I know the snail wins.

~pastseeker Jun 22, 2007

Very beautiful!

~theMuspilli Jun 23, 2007 Hobbyist Writer

TNX!

~jesst7 Jan 9, 2007

this is just gorgeous, great work!

~theMuspilli Jan 10, 2007 Hobbyist Writer

Thanks alot, and for the

, too!

!DottorDestino Sep 9, 2006

i love this kind of composition.
the colours and the deep of field are perfect....

really great work man

~MetalMessenger Sep 1, 2004

Excelent!

`gorjuss Aug 22, 2004 Professional Digital Artist

wow... another of your SUPERB shots.. you've set it off beuatifully... it's almost TOO perfect !

for the feelings you capture, the statue itself bares the snail crawling up her with almost painful distaste on her face !
I can almost feel her moving to try and get it off her !.. I love the clean looking statue in the background, in amongst the prim and proper gravestones... looking clean and not weathered yet... almost making THIS statue ..erm...some kind of victim.. but definetly 'different' to the others in some way ! I love it !

~Swaroop Jul 23, 2004

nice

~theMuspilli Jul 23, 2004 Hobbyist Writer

TNX!

More from ~theMuspilli

Featured in Groups:

Details

Statistics

Camera Data

SM - Snail and Angelby ~theMuspilli

The Journal Portal

Polls

What is your preferred drawing software?

deviantART [dee·vee·un'nt·ART]

Keep in Touch!

Deviousness

Add Media

Style