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This composite image is created by blending two meticulously stitched panoramas, each composed of 7 individual frames. The foreground panorama, captured during the blue hour on Socotra Island, features the iconic blooming Desert Rose (Adenium obesum) standing resiliently above the rugged coastline. The soft ambient light of twilight highlights the intricate textures of the rocky landscape and the delicate blossoms.
The sky panorama, taken under a dark, moonless night, comprises another set of 7 frames that reveal the sweeping arc of the Milky Way in striking detail.
By combining these two 7-frame panoramas, the final image merges terrestrial rarity with celestial grandeur—offering a seamless vision where the mystical beauty of Earth meets the vastness of the cosmos.
I'm pretty sure I could win a ‘guess what this is?’ competition with you on this one .
It’s an in-camera multiple-exposure of three ICMs, taken with movements along the vertical and both diagonals. It was virtually monochrome in the camera, but as it’s Monochrome Thursday today I've processed it in Silver Efex and given it a rich selenium tone.
But what is it of?
It’s of the top of some trees against a cloudy sky. The trees are all black twigs in winter so that’s what has given it the monochrome look with lots of scratchy lines. I used the Light blend mode in the camera and because the ICM pushes the images to a mid-grey the blending is random and unpredictable.
I rather like these abstract effects and I was a bit surprised when these monochrome fabrics started appearing on the camera screen. I'll put this one as the first in my monochrome 100x sub-project.
Thanks for taking the time to look… and even have a guess. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Donnerstagsmoncrom and 100x :)>
sayuonara headpiece by ERSCH
piper jacket by madame noir
julia gown by dernier
kalantia tikka jewels by slavia
star halo by air
reaper wings by malified
pygmalion's bride by cureless
shasi nails by avanti
In creating this digital composition, I wanted to explore the tension between our urban constructions and the cosmic immensity that hangs above us each night. Starting with a photograph of a modern building in Toulouse whose rigorous geometry struck me, I imagined this edifice opening like a curtain onto the celestial spectacle.
The black and white treatment allowed me to unify these two distinct realities - human architecture and the lunar body - into the same visual language where only forms, textures, and light matter. I deliberately accentuated the perfect symmetry to create this sensation of precarious balance between order and chaos, between the constructed and the uncontrollable.
What particularly interested me in this fusion was playing with scales and perceptions: how a building, imposing at our human scale, can suddenly seem minuscule against a crescent moon which, despite its modest apparent size in our sky, actually represents an immense celestial body.
Through this creation, I sought to evoke that vertiginous sensation we sometimes feel when, walking through our gridded and planned cities, we suddenly look up at the night sky and become aware of our tiny place in the universe. It's this collision between our everyday world and the cosmic infinite, between the urban grid and the natural curve of the moon, that I wanted to capture in this image.
Image of a sip of sunshine filtering through dense clouds captured at the crossroads of Sales i Ferré and Garriga i Roca streets, in Guinardó neighborhood of Barcelona.
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Looking at the south celestial pole.
About 65 minutes worth of shots each with 20 second long exposure and about a 5 second interval in between each shot.
I loaded all the photos into Photoshop as layers and set the blend mode to 'Llghten'. That caues all the layers to form into the star trail.
I also took one light-painted photo of the stone work so I overlaid the light-painted stone work part into the final image.
I didn't bother with gaps or aircraft lights..
Notice how the stone is modified to fit in its metal orbit.
This sculptured detail - of a larger installation - was made by Alicja Kwade.
a burgundy sky on July 24, 2022 at 23:10. The yellowish light on the left is light pollution from the city of Dijon which is 65 km away!
“Where her wings brush the sky, galaxies awaken.”
Born of twilight, her wings unfurl in silence, each feather a shard of forgotten stars. The constellations whisper her name across the heavens, their glow etched into the armor she wears like woven myth. With every breath, the night bends closer, listening to the rhythm of her soul.
She holds the blade of eternity not for conquest, but for balance, guarding the fragile threads between heaven and earth. Beneath her gaze, shadows soften and time slows, as though the cosmos itself surrenders to her quiet, unwavering grace.
~ Storme
(Created with MidJourney, post-processing work completed with Photoscape X)
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