Not too sure where to go with today’s prompt. Curve? Guess I could fall back on my photo library again and pull out visual curves. Maybe I’ll start there and see where it takes me… Back in a minute with some images.

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Alrighty then. How about the curves of a sandy beach in Mexico – washed with curved lines of waves splashing in from the Pacific Ocean? Nearby construction site has curved tracks left from construction vehicles which entered and left after turning around. More curves if you trace the outline of the horizon, or check out other visual aspects of the image. Curves are almost always omnipresent.

I frequently create my own curves. Lunch daily includes small oranges and when I’m hiking the trick is to take the orange peel off all in one piece – creating the following orange peel curves…

My mind is more visually oriented than just about anything else. And my photography is one way to record and share the images I encounter on almost a daily basis. I laid my glasses down on the kitchen counter one day and spotted this gem. Now, tell me it doesn’t have a lot of curves in it!

Nature is full of curves. And fractals. This image of dried mud alongside a Jeep trail shows many of the former. Not perfectly formed, but definitely curves. Isn’t it wonderful how many such artful images you can spot if you just keep your eyes open?

Spotted this group of curves on a recent trip to Florida. Over many years this plant had been twisted and intertwined onto itself, created a mush-mash of curves. Almost possibly painful to endure, but interesting just the same.

Long trunks of bamboo trees have a very gentle curve, allowing them to sway in the wind without breaking. As a group they form an almost impenetrable wall beneficial and protective for wildlife, but not great for human foot travel.

Where bamboo has been cut, the sawed off remnants of the trunks form circular curves, surrounded by dead leaves – many forming soft curves of their own, all in different shapes and sizes. But, all coming from the same basic plant – Bamboo.

Even when not observing curves in nature, you may spot artistically created curves in man made structures, like this mortuary room at Tumacacori National Historic Park in southern Arizona. Photographed in black and white with a large format camera, the top of the wall creates a large swooping curve going from a dark area on the upper left to a brighter area lower on the right. The entrance door with multiple curves acts as a frame for a scene in the background with it’s own curve, a small niche built in the outer wall possibly used in the past for display of religious sculpture.

So, once again, I threw a curve ball, utilizing photos rather than words on my WordPress blog to show you images of curves. Hopefully, you won’t mind too much since, as I mentioned when I started, I exist in a more visual than verbal world.

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