Loch Ness

Loch Ness by Robert O'Neill
  • digitalmidge

    digitalmidge

    Ow this is cool Rob, love it..;-)

  • Robert O'Neill replied

    Thanks Zoe, just a bit of fun—or revenge. or whatever. Last week, or so, the BBC declared they had scanned the Loch and there is no ‘monster’ lurking in the depths.

  • Shelleymay

    Shelleymay

    Love it! Believer or not it would certainly make your heart miss a beat or two…lol

  • Robert O'Neill replied

    Thanks Shelley. Definitely!

  • Jen Whyte

    Jen Whyte

    What do they know!!!! Nessie wid be hidin’ in her cave! This is a fabulous piece of fun.

  • Robert O'Neill replied

    Indeed! Thanks Jen for the view. Yes, I guess the old monster was playing a bit of hide and seek with them.

  • mrscarlotta

    mrscarlotta

    This is brilliant Rob, xxx

  • Robert O'Neill replied

    Thanks Carlotta. Fun image to make.

  • VanSnuG

    VanSnuG

    Gyahahahaha. Awesome Image. Great Theme. Love the comment of yours. :-)

  • Robert O'Neill replied

    Thanks Van.

  • butchart

    butchart

    fun indeed rob.. and masterfully done… i love this….....b

  • Robert O'Neill replied

    Thanks Butch.

  • mychaelalchemy

    mychaelalchemy

    haha, very clever

  • Robert O'Neill replied

    Thanks Michael.

  • Eyeleen

    Eyeleen

    Beautiful underwater image! Great work!!

  • Robert O'Neill replied

    Thanks Eye. Glad you like it.

  • Kathy Kuzma

    Kathy Kuzma

    This is so cool! You’ve got so much work up since I last visited your site! Great work!

  • Robert O'Neill replied

    Thanks Kat. A bit of a laugh this one.

  • rosepepper

    rosepepper

    wonderful to keep the romance alive, ah where wid we bee without Nessie.. warms every Scottish heart.

  • Robert O'Neill replied

    Yes, the old monster gives the tourist industry a helping hand. Where would we be without it?

    Also, wanted to have a sly jab at debunkers—boring buggers.

  • Walter Colvin

    Walter Colvin

    Nice job, great image

  • Robert O'Neill replied

    Thanks Walter. I had fun with this one.

  • RosaCobos

    RosaCobos

    They are wrong..
    There is “a monster” in Lock Ness.. and inside each heart.
    As for many there are Lords… Gods…. Fairies… Gohsts… Spirits coming from Nowhere…
    Life after Death… and an evanescent Soul…
    Who cares?
    I love the pictre… I feel afraid of diving.. of water profound…. buthere… he seems to be in such amiable companionship.. that it feel warm and lively.
    Rosa (thanks for your entry on my Circle Game …)

  • Robert O'Neill replied

    Tanks for the view Rosa. Bit of fun, but I also wanted it to be a comment on debunking/materialism (metaphysical naturalism).

    With limited knowledge, materialists make great pronouncements about the life and universe, upholding modern dogma and orthodoxy. Only a materialistic world view can be contemplated.

    Debunkers often claim to have science on their side, but any information they cannot disprove, they will just ignore. Thus their world view is very limited, but they claim it is everything.

    I feel that one day, these debunkers and materialists will be in for a shock.

    Hopefully, the picture above symbolizes this.

    Take care Rosa

    Rob

    And once again, thank you for taking the time to give an extended comment.

    Also, as you say, the myths and stories of the past are often symbols for the things that exist within us, of changes of life, the struggles of life etc.,

  • RosaCobos

    RosaCobos

    I have seen the documental about Lock Ness scanning.. or one very likely. I have understood how the lake was created.. what sort of specimens had been proved to lie there and what their original migration into was. i have heard about the manifold possibilities and “encounters” that several people had had along the time. And the more I heard and saw… the more I knew that the work itself was not trying to disrepute the existence of Nessie and family..even it may seem so… but an emergency for the soul to obtain nourishment for what there inside had been born.

    I have read many things…sometimes beyonder my own intellectual capacities..but insisted again and again on them for they too, were calling my attention about how the world is.. was.. will be…or it seems to exist. I have found that right now Science and Spritituality are coming to a relationship that is no longer a discrepancy..a dualism but an encounter of the Taoist kind in which the Yang…meant to represent reason….formulation…paradigms..naked prooving…etc…at the utmost and purest of it give way to wonder… awe….acceptance of a intellectual void….humbleness before the misterious…..reachness to the change and flooding of Life…respect and love. this late representeng the Ying. And so…they dance around the axis…feeding themselves mutually and giving birth to a constant new life.
    Debunkers are simply unconsious beings. Ignorant..and for this reason afraid. They will fundamentalize and in the worst…of emotional moves…despise. They can be very near of the frontier of a fundamentalist…a sort of Inquisition if something would become too menacing to their own shortness. And the materialists are something that is is shown in many parables… stories…even in the Bible..as when St. Thomas though he see with his own eyes that Jesus is there.. reborn…he demands to put hisnfingers into his side wound..just to be sure… you see?
    Now that sicentifically is been shown that our brain is continually cheating our sensorial system.. even it controls it and that not everything “is” as we see it.. and that is mostly anything for our eyes capacities are short just to get the world “objected”...and that what we hear is not what there isnreally sounding around us…and that we may even be keep feeling and suffering from an amputated limb though it is notlonger in our body.. what can they say? Is our body less poetic…less awsome… spiritual less love deserving by that reasons?. Not for me….the more I know…they more they teach me…the more I observe through the “whole-soul”...the more I feel the profoundity , mistery, grandeur, and whatever you name Life..Apart from than I suffer the miseries and enjoy the blessings as always. Part of my manhood.

    Well ..I have talked a bit too much. I get enthusiastic. You have opened a sort of “Pandora”´s box….i the good sense, of course. And gettting lengthy and confusing forms part of its containing.
    Have a good…very good Sunday.
    Rosa

  • Robert O'Neill replied

    Thanks for the extended comment Rosa. I really appreciate it. I agree completely with what you say. Like you, I find the debunkers desperately seeking security from the possibilities that lie out there. If they can construct a universe that functions to their ideas and rules, then they hope not to worry or be confused.

    So, that monster is waiting to get them when they dive.

    ROb

  • Michael Beers

    Michael Beers

    NICE!!!

  • Robert O'Neill

    Robert O'Neill

    Thanks Michael.

  • Leno

    Leno

    well done Rob and totally agree with your opinion!

  • Robert O'Neill replied

    Thanks Leno.

    Rob

  • john graf

    john graf

    I love this. You have some really amazing art.

  • Robert O'Neill replied

    Thanks John

  • john graf

    john graf

    You are welcome :o)

  • Ryan  Fisher

    Ryan Fisher

    this reminds me of one of my favorite shows “Surface”
    i love this. Favoriting it for sure

  • Robert O'Neill replied

    Thanks Ryan.

  • Shauna O'Neill

    Shauna O'Neill

    Haha, i love this!!! It took me ages to spot the second monster. keep up the good work _

  • Robert O'Neill replied

    Thanks neomod. Lots of fun with this one

  • Damian

    Damian

    Haha, wonderful work, love the style of this image.

  • Robert O'Neill replied

    Thanks Damian.

    Rob

  • Nathan Walraven

    Nathan Walraven

    Wow, this is inredible! Fantastic image!

  • Robert O'Neill replied

    Thanks Natew. Glad you like it.

  • Walter Colvin

    Walter Colvin

    Grand work Robert. Very well done.

  • Robert O'Neill replied

    Thanks Walter.

  • Terry Best

    Terry Best

    Excellant work. Supurb light.

  • Robert O'Neill replied

    Thanks Terry. I spent a lot of time on the lighting here-forgotten most of what I did-trial and error.

    I really should write some things down

  • Larry Butterworth

    Larry Butterworth

    Great work, so much fun to look at

  • Robert O'Neill replied

    Thanks Larry

  • Atheum

    Atheum

    Aye. That monster, what ever it is, is lurking down in the belly of Loch Ness, claiming the lives of all of those who have “drowned” in its frigid waters. Have you read The Loch by Steve Alten? It suggests that the monster is actually a subspecies of something like an anguilla eel, which inhabit the Loch itself.

  • Pete Katsiaounis

    Pete Katsiaounis

    Really awesome. Great sense of depth. Love it.

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