Planet of the Petrified Entities
This body of petrified forms, almost muscular and animal, brought to my mind the shape of the spaceship crashed on the alien planetoid LV-426 from which the Nostromo received a transmission of unknown origin, in the iconic movie "Alien" by Ridley Scott.
So, basically, I was trapped again, I had to take another night shot :-) ...
Night photography (which I practice intensively for years now) is in effect the most instinctive and natural way I know to connect one of my deepest passions ever: the science fiction... with reality, with the tangible of this world, with the simple earthly means I have at my disposal (a camera, a tripod, two legs).
This is a startrail - one hour single exposure toward the north polar star - taken along the ridges of mount Ostanetta (Italy).
The night was moonless, so I've played a lot with my torch, light painting here and there: on the foreground rock face (almost as eager to get back to life!) and especially behind, in order to provide three-dimensionality to these huge rocky bodies in their yearning toward the cosmos and a new life, after all, after thousands of years of petrification...
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©Roberto Bertero, All Rights Reserved. This image is not available for use on websites, blogs or other media without the explicit written permission of the photographer.
Planet of the Petrified Entities
This body of petrified forms, almost muscular and animal, brought to my mind the shape of the spaceship crashed on the alien planetoid LV-426 from which the Nostromo received a transmission of unknown origin, in the iconic movie "Alien" by Ridley Scott.
So, basically, I was trapped again, I had to take another night shot :-) ...
Night photography (which I practice intensively for years now) is in effect the most instinctive and natural way I know to connect one of my deepest passions ever: the science fiction... with reality, with the tangible of this world, with the simple earthly means I have at my disposal (a camera, a tripod, two legs).
This is a startrail - one hour single exposure toward the north polar star - taken along the ridges of mount Ostanetta (Italy).
The night was moonless, so I've played a lot with my torch, light painting here and there: on the foreground rock face (almost as eager to get back to life!) and especially behind, in order to provide three-dimensionality to these huge rocky bodies in their yearning toward the cosmos and a new life, after all, after thousands of years of petrification...
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©Roberto Bertero, All Rights Reserved. This image is not available for use on websites, blogs or other media without the explicit written permission of the photographer.