'DUNE' by Frank Herbert (Macro Mondays)
Macro Mondays - theme: My Favourite Novel (Fiction)
You see a moving sandworm in the heat of the desert planet Arrakis ...
The novel (source: wikipedia - the link doesn't work):
"In the far future, humanity has eschewed advanced computers in favor of adapting their minds to be capable of extremely complex tasks. Much of this is enabled by the spice melange, which is only found on Arrakis, a desert planet with giant sandworms as its most notable native lifeform. Melange improves general health, extends life and can bestow limited prescience, and its rarity makes it a form of currency in the interstellar empire. (...) As this planet is the only source of the oracular spice melange (...), control of Arrakis is a coveted—and dangerous—undertaking."
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Dune by Frank Herbert (published 1965) is one of my all time favourite novels, which I reread many-times.
It's not merely a thrilling science fiction, but still (after 50 years!) a great story of myth and legend, politics and religion, the human condition and its moral dilemmas.
I had to think a lot about a proper way to portray the desert planet Arrakis in a macro picture and first tried soy flour, but it didn't look right. So I used a metallic wrapping paper and an off-focus to produce bokeh to show the sparkle of sand grains - and an intentional blurry srew anchor (dowel) for the shape of the essential and moving sandworm : )
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Ihr seht hier einen sich über den Wüstensand des Planeten Arrakis bewegender Sandwurm : ))
"Der Wüstenplanet" von Frank Herbert ist eines meiner Allzeit-Lieblingsbücher:
Nicht nur ein spannender (wenig technischer) Science Fiction, sondern vor allem eine auch nach 50 Jahren immer noch großartige Geschichte über Mythologien und Legenden, über Gesellschaft, Politik und Religion, über Menschen und ihre moralischen Zwickmühlen.
Nach einigem Grübeln und Fehlversuchen mit Sojamehl habe ich hier nun versucht, das Glitzern des Sandes des Wüstenplaneten Arrakis durch Bokeh abzubilden und die Form und Bewegung des unentbehrlichen Sandwurms über einen absichtlich unscharfen Dübel. : )
Happy Macro Monday !!
'DUNE' by Frank Herbert (Macro Mondays)
Macro Mondays - theme: My Favourite Novel (Fiction)
You see a moving sandworm in the heat of the desert planet Arrakis ...
The novel (source: wikipedia - the link doesn't work):
"In the far future, humanity has eschewed advanced computers in favor of adapting their minds to be capable of extremely complex tasks. Much of this is enabled by the spice melange, which is only found on Arrakis, a desert planet with giant sandworms as its most notable native lifeform. Melange improves general health, extends life and can bestow limited prescience, and its rarity makes it a form of currency in the interstellar empire. (...) As this planet is the only source of the oracular spice melange (...), control of Arrakis is a coveted—and dangerous—undertaking."
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Dune by Frank Herbert (published 1965) is one of my all time favourite novels, which I reread many-times.
It's not merely a thrilling science fiction, but still (after 50 years!) a great story of myth and legend, politics and religion, the human condition and its moral dilemmas.
I had to think a lot about a proper way to portray the desert planet Arrakis in a macro picture and first tried soy flour, but it didn't look right. So I used a metallic wrapping paper and an off-focus to produce bokeh to show the sparkle of sand grains - and an intentional blurry srew anchor (dowel) for the shape of the essential and moving sandworm : )
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Ihr seht hier einen sich über den Wüstensand des Planeten Arrakis bewegender Sandwurm : ))
"Der Wüstenplanet" von Frank Herbert ist eines meiner Allzeit-Lieblingsbücher:
Nicht nur ein spannender (wenig technischer) Science Fiction, sondern vor allem eine auch nach 50 Jahren immer noch großartige Geschichte über Mythologien und Legenden, über Gesellschaft, Politik und Religion, über Menschen und ihre moralischen Zwickmühlen.
Nach einigem Grübeln und Fehlversuchen mit Sojamehl habe ich hier nun versucht, das Glitzern des Sandes des Wüstenplaneten Arrakis durch Bokeh abzubilden und die Form und Bewegung des unentbehrlichen Sandwurms über einen absichtlich unscharfen Dübel. : )
Happy Macro Monday !!