Double Helix Inspiration

Double helix stairs

Taken on Treasure Island in the San Francisco Bay of California, this image titled “Double helix stairs” by photographer Jef Poskanser is composed of strong sun on a man-made  spiral access stairway paired with its natural shadow on the wall of a nondescript tank.

Our banner is a remix of this image found using the search term “double helix” over at Google Images. A second page search result yielded an image file named Double helix over at Wikimedia Commons.

Originally posted in a Flickr photostream on October 20, 2006, the file was  was transferred to Commons in the Category: Spiral stairs on March 25, 2008 and graciously released into the public domain through Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic.

Here, perhaps, is visual evidence, that both man-made and natural elements can mimic each other.