@cliffordbeshers First one: shadow of a bike wheel (with reflector in the spokes) on a (torn) cardboard box?
Second one: fascinating image. Don’t have the faintest clue. Makes me think of a solar system somehow, but then I just came from a planetarium talk about the Geminids.
@cliffordbeshers The part on the right looks like a cutaway revealing the chambers of a nautilus shell, but the rest of this image looks entirely man-made, not naturally grown. The black swirly parts could be oil or rubber.
@fgtech i figured this one would be tough. It’s all man-made, except for the green/black area, where a physical process has made patterns. Hard to give a useful hint here, but lets start with this: you can see the black and green, but you can’t touch it.
@fgtech The black surface on the right is a glass stovetop, the grey rings show where the dual (small inside large) burners are. The left side is a glass saucepan lid, rimmed with metal, glittery plastic handle in the middle. Apparently I cooked something green that spattered the underside of the lid, with condensate running down and clearing away the green in wavy tracks.
Simple!
@cliffordbeshers I can see it now. So glad you let me of the hook because I kept staring at the image and coming up blank. You did a beautiful job capturing the light and shadow and framing it to look like an alien landscape.