A cool new take on the portrait, and the landscape

Just as I have been imagining the creative possibilities that lie ahead as I hone my crocheting skills, I find something that blows my ideas away...

Joe Hamilton's crocheted landscapes and portraits are just awesome. The bottom landscape might even be pdx?

This stuff reminds me of Chuck Close's recent tapestries. It's great to see what people come up with when taking what they know of design and applying it to a new medium.