spalted sycamore bowl

[wider]

this bowl is 12x2 and finished in butchers block oil.

[GBF]

All this bit of beautiful wood needed was a very simple form.
Looking at the middle pic it is a nice bit of wood spoiled.
Just my opinion

Regards George

[wider]

this bowl was a nice shape and is set of by its beautiful grain. maybe the angle that the photo was taken dos not do it justice.

[GBF]

Maybe.

Regards George

[mickdundee]

Looks like you've got a very nice finish to bring out the figuring of the timber. I like it

[Wood spinner]

I like usable styled bowls , Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

George why is this spoiled ? is it because he did not make it how you would have ?

[GBF]

As I said just my opinion.

[Bryan Milham]

Wider,

I think the position of your camera, slightly low, to take the second image has not done the effect of the shape any favours.

I can see you were trying to show the faint spalting in the timber and so got close, but (and I'm guessing) the lenses commonly found on digital SLRs (35mm - 70mm) are not particularly suited to close images. Those found on mobile phones are even worse, set to take fairly broad images with a lot of definition.

You'd be better standing back, taking a high def picture from futher away and then trimming (cropping) it down and resizing it to suit the forum, with software.