Hi, fellow bloggic nomads!
A couple of posts ago, I mentioned the similarities I see in how I approach the workflows of photography and fractal art.  Exploring fractals does have a different challenge for me: I keep finding weird stuff in the fractals.  While other folks are stumbling across structures that they then build into the breath-taking pieces that lead to audible “wow”s, I stumble upon the odd, weird and not-particularly-pretty with some regularity. Maybe  it’s a quantum-level “the observer affects the outcome” thing, but I suppose it could be called “not understanding the math and trying outrageous numbers,” too. *grin*
Or, I could be projecting, finding what is floating around half-submerged in my thoughts.

For example, at one point in the late 80s, we rescued and gave away more than thirty-five rabbits born of two does and a buck rabbit that some one had dumped nearby. We kept and raised 14 that were medically challenged. As a result, I had rabbits in my thoughts for roughly a decade by the time the last one passed away.  A couple years later,  I downloaded Fractint and that’s when odd things started showing up, from the fractals.   [Inserting tongue in cheek and putting on record of the Twilight Zone theme]   I submit here, for your approval,  a few pairs of cross-dimensional similarities.

Hershey, a fourth generation from our original dump-ee’s, sitting on the neighbors’ woodpile.  Next to Hershey is a fractal spiral that, explored with much zooming in, changing parameters and altering how it was colored, gave me a rabbit on a rock ledge to the side of the opening of a rocky warren.

Next:

To reach even further out into the “Pete finds weird fractals” exposition, here we have an ordinary fractal artist, fractaling away at a computer late into the night.  (Okay, there would normally be a room light on, it’s a portrait,  I’m taking license *grin*)    His  fractal counterpart seems to be intently peering at something, as we can see through this fractal keyhole.

I don’t really understand how it happens.  Maybe it’s a fluke of how I built my color palettes.  Where ever I go fractal exploring, the absurd seems to crop up.  Here is another reality/fractality pair:

On the left is an outtake  shot from a small study of eggs made for a class at LVS; a paw-print of eggs, and on the right a pretty fractal perhaps if found by someone else, but a basket of eggs to add to my file of fractal fossils, eggs, paper cut-outs, ring-spouting towers, internal body parts  and critters.  Speaking of critters…

In an earlier post, I related my lifelong interest in bugs, insects and butterflies/moths.  I watch for butterflies, always keeping an eye out for a visit from one of the varieties we had in the yard for years, until the area started being built up.

These swallowtails are in the wet iron-and- lithium-salts-laden sands, near a natural lithium-laced spring, beside the river near my grandparents’ cabin.

On the right is a flight of fractal butterflies…never wavering from their flight formation.

Lastly for this post [fade out Twilight Zone music....fade in Night Gallery music] is a spooky li’l thang, that appeared from neophyte me playing with Atriatix, not really understanding it.   Not something I expected to see, and with a certain level of spookiness to it, but a very interesting image, nonetheless.

On the left here is my only cooperative model for camera classes, in a snazzy tam, posing to demonstrate filling in light on *his* right side with a reflector. To the right in the post is the spookiest fractal I’ve run across in my explorations. It’s an interesting one , the way you can move around the circle to find seven skulls, moving one eye’s orbit at a time.

Well, [fade out Night Gallery music...remove tongue from cheek]  that’s the post.  I had fun looking for pictures to go with the oddities from the math and, if it’s all right with you, I’ll revisit this in the future, when I have more pictures of the real world to go along with more of the weird fractals.

Cheers, take care of each other ‘out there’!

pete