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Recently the field of theoretical cosmology has been enervated by the suggestion that our universe is the mirror image of another one stretching back in time before the Big Bang (see, for example, www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/publications/icpti-symmetric-uni... ).
Intrigued, I set out to test whether this was observable in practice. After a quick calculation on the back of an old envelope (cigarette packets now being not Politically Correct) I worked out that conditions would be favourable for an experiment in the period around the vernal equinox for my latitude (51N). At this time the angles of the Earth’s gravitational field, the neutrino flux from the sun and a local EM field could be arranged to the optimum.
So, setting a sufficiently powerful Tesla coil in a glass envelope with an inert gas (I used Nitrogen), I tried it out.
And it worked!
Sometimes I could actually see the dim reflection of the alternate universe appear in the glass capsule, but perhaps the best result was this one where I managed to create a wormhole bridging the paired universes.
If you look carefully at the image though you might observe that the energetic feedback created by the wormhole burnt out my coil… such are the sacrifices of science…
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Storytelling idiocy aside, this image was one of the fun results of an evening spent with a local friendly group of photographers taking images of lightbulbs on tablets (and other things but I didn’t get that far :( ).
I used a clear glass bulb on my iPaddle which I set up to show some very colourful graphic images that I had generated using Midjourney (I finally found something useful to do with that toybox… The text prompt for this one, if you are interested, was ‘Close - up macro HDR photograph of the centre of mirrored 3D circle sculptures, overlapping rainbow circular fractal, vivid rainbow colours, graphic abstract’).
The bulb was lying on its side at an angle resting on the bayonet fitting so I made the canvas larger and rotated it. Starting in Capture One I dropped the greys to black using a levels adjustment and played with the Clarity and a little Dehaze. In Affinity I sharpened it with High Pass/Linear blend and a bit of Unsharp mask and enriched the colour. Then quite a lot of work with inpainting to remove the vestiges of the iPad and a lot of dust.
PS I forgot to mention that this was a focus stack of ten images, though I suspect only four or five contributed anything useful. The camera did the focusing and I used Helicon Focus for the stacking, which I've not really done before (it was fast, worked with raws and produced a dng output).
Thanks for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Easter and 100x :)
Macro Mondays 'trash' theme.
I tried a few items destined for the trash but liked this shot of a small blown light bulb the best.
The image measures just under 2 inches in width
FlickrFriday No. 104: #UpSideDown
Didn´t have any enlightment on a creative approach for this week´s theme; so I tried to look at my world from angles I usually avoid...
Sound: Lightning Bulb by Dinosaur Jr.
This is a tiny bulb in one of several really small torches I use for photography lighting. I buy tiny torches of all shapes and colours, from a $2 store, and find them really useful (especially for macro work). This particular torch is pen shape and size. It has a tiny bulb at one end that shines white. Then there's another tiny bulb in the centre section that shines gold. The white light end of the torch is just like any other torch, however the other end is made of white plastic cut out to be a whistle (and it's loud). There's a tiny rubber button in the centre of the body that you press to turn on, first the white light, then press again and the centre gold light comes on, then press again and the centre gold light flashes. I'm assuming it was made to be a tiny hazard light that you carry in your pocket and, if you get lost or in danger, you can blow the whistle and set up the little flashing hazard light. It fits easily in your pocket and takes a AAA battery - clever little thing.
August 2020 sunset as seen from the Albany Bulb. At this time of year, the sun sets a tad northwest of Mt. Tamalpais on the north side of the San Francisco Bay.
This is simply a light bulb on top of an iPad. It is an HDR, 3 -image combination processed in Aurora HDR Software. A little sharpening was added in Post Processing using Topaz Sharpening.
Since I wasn't bold-faced enough to take pictures of all the thin and beautiful families around me, I took lots of pictures of the light bulbs.
A theme of "Bulb" and I decided to photograph the filament of a light bulb going up in flames after the glass had been broken and the switch was turned on.
This would cause the filament to burn out when exposed to oxygen and would briefly burst into flames and emit a bit of smoke.
This was captured with the camera set to continuous shooting mode and is a frame towards the end of the sequence. i liked this one as the filament was visible and still glowing.
I also used a flashgun to help illuminate the glass and smoke and was impressed it kept up with the camera at 1/32 of it's power.
Does light bulb look bright only it lights up? No, sometimes, unlighted bulbs look bright and colourful and look better.
I had two friends at the office. One put on lots of makeup, but it didn't make her any better while the other didn't put any but was so pretty.
Bulbul Tricolor, Dark-capped Bulbul, Pycnonotus tricolor.
Especie # 1153
Kruger National Park
South Africa
Park Avenue that is, as this area of Arches National Park is called. An iconic view that many get to see here on their way entering the park. It is a beautiful little canyon tucked in between the rock formations on both sides. I posted this one to show that it was a bit too forced an image with the bulb capture, as the clouds here were moving slow, and not towards the camera, so their effect is not as great. I would have loved to have had the clouds rolling in from the south direction at the camera, making the "v" in the formations there even more dramatic with clouds streaming in the opposite direction ... like many of the streaming clouds I was able to capture over top of the Grand Tetons.
Alas, you may see this view again with some other streaming clouds ... something I will have to keep an eye out for and just capture them and then apply some photoshop magic to ultimately achieve the image I had in mind here ... that will be a lot easier then moving there and waiting for the right clouds and direction to show up ;))
Arches National Park
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Captured with a Nikon Df and a manual Nikkor Ai 24mm ƒ1:2, post processed in Lightroom using VSCO Film.
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