Autumn leaves - A series of vector illustrations

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face.
~John Donne

I have this strange fascination for autumn leaves. There is something peculiarly attractive and romantic about them.

The warm and vibrant hues of yellows, browns and orange... or those gorgeous, intricate cuts and shapes... in autumn leaves I see nature at its graphical best! 

But more than that, at the most personal level, I interpret their elegance from a rather philosophical perspective. The autumn leaves boast of a beauty of a different kind, one, which only wisdom can bring. In those worn out and aged leaves blowing carefree with the wind I see that “been there, done that” kind of suave, peaceful and confident look…But then nature always have something to tell, it’s about how much keen you are on listening to it…

To depict the autumn leaves in different ways, I created a mini-series of vector illustrations. 

Check out complete collection for fall/autumn vectors from Lensdepictions here!

Oak tree donning the autumn colors!

 

Angry grandpa sweeping away frightened maple leaves!

Wind swirls and the blowing leaves!

Autumn leaves lying gracefully on wood

Girl walking over the autumn leaves on a windy day!

 

Check out this gallery to buy these vector illustrations and many more !

 

Article & Illustrations © 2013 Gyaneshwari Dave

Of Chickens & Image Stabilization...!

Recently I came across this Fuji-film TV Commercial:

The ad promotes the image stabilization powers of the Fujifilm X-S1 bridge camera.

Clever idea I must say. 

I could not stop myself from researching further into the subject and the following is what I found...

Apparently chickens have image stabilized head. 

 Here is another example of a bird having an image stabilized head! :P

Well, it turns out cats can do that too... :D

Crazy right??

Human bodies have a similar feature, but our stabilization involves mostly our eyes rather than our entire head. It’s called the vestibule-ocular reflex. 

According to Wikipedia,

The vestibule-ocular reflex (VOR) is a reflex eye movement that stabilizes images on the retina during head movement by producing an eye movement in the direction opposite to head movement, thus preserving the image on the center of the visual field. For example, when the head moves to the right, the eyes move to the left, and vice versa. Since slight head movement is present all the time, the VOR is very important for stabilizing vision.

Congratulations to Fuji-film for using such a nature inspired concept in a commercial for an out and out man-made feature of the camera!!! 

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