Tied and tangled in the web of Karma

in photography •  7 years ago  (edited)

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This photo of a miniscule bit of plastic yields a magnified scene where karma stands revealed in all its horrid complexity. Figures of humans or other creatures are tangled-up by strange forces that interfere with their free will, and hasten them to unexpected destinies.

Your interpretation may well be different, as meaning is hard to impose on what could be just an abstract landscape.

Here's another one, showing another 1/2" rectangle of a piece of plastic shining under a fluorescent light. I think this looks like a peaceful underwater scene, of a fan-shaped clump of seaweed, and a fish in the upper left, silvery in the radiant water. It beckons us to enjoy our day!

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You have a minor misspelling in the following sentence:

This photo of a miniscule bit of plastic yields a magnified scene where karma stands revealed in all its horrid complexity.
It should be minuscule instead of miniscule.

Oh! Thanks! I thought I'd better look further, and discovered that although the word 'minuscule' has a Latin and French origin, that the alternative 'miniscule' is frequently used.
Here, from stancarey@wordpress: "a minuscule matter of spelling":

"The common prefix mini- has probably lent minuscule a folk etymology that influences its contemporary spelling: miniscule is a popular variant. Pronunciation might also have played a part.

Here are some examples of miniscule I’ve come across in books:

There is even a miniscule dance floor for the perpendicular manifestations of horizontal intentions (Hugh Leonard, A Peculiar People)

Only in the microscopic domains of the atom, or the vast reaches of interstellar space, do miniscule discrepancies between nature according to Newton and nature according to Nature make themselves known. (Ian Stewart, Does God Play Dice? The New Mathematics of Chaos)

So, the alternative use exists and is not condemned. "Mini-" seemed right at first glance because these images are enlargements of "mini-sized" originals. Thanks for the dialogue!