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One of the photos I took while exploring this week's Macro Mondays theme of 'green'. I thought it would be a great chance to get back to one of my favourite subjects - water droplets - but in the end I didn't take that many, and wasn't terribly pleased with the ones I did get. So eventually I settled on this macro shot of moss and lichen for my contribution to this week's theme.
Part of a wider project documenting Aliens From Abroad in their natural habitat. Have space ship - will travel.
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Models: {ChinaGirl}, ZodaZoul
Imagine...imagine you are an astronaut...in a shiny titanium rocket...who has just landed on another planet. The first visitor from another world. The first explorer of your kind. You walk through the dust of the red planet as you approach a small extraterrestrial village. And there they wait for you, the blue people - beautiful, savage and wild. And here you will introduce yourself and bring gifts. What will be your first words? What emotions will you experience? Will you survive the first five minutes of this encounter? What is the statistical life span of a star traveller? How now, Nathaniel York?
Fear. Curiosity. Apprehension. Exhilaration. The complex range of emotions experienced by both the anonymous onlooker and the aliens from another world. And in this moment of shared sensations and wonder, the realization that all life is connected through invisible threads of shared humanity. The same fears. The same hopes.
Loosely inspired by the short story 'Ylla' by Ray Bradbury, published in 'The Martian Chronicles' (1950). I first picked up this book when I was a teenager, back in the days when I kept live trilobites in my bathtub. This book never let me go. Such a fantastic read. Beautiful, entertaining, lyrical - and profound.
Alien romance, drama, premonition, tension, fear, jealousy, crime, symbolism and xenophobia - this story has it all. And at the end of each paragraph, as we get pulled deeper into the story, we feel reminded of Planet Earth, every step along the way. Bradbury is holding up a mirror to ourselves.
This story is deeply personal for me. I have been a life-long explorer. I also have been "the Martian". The two are interchangeable. I know both perspectives. And what I have learned: despite major differences in cultures and religion, if we can just find time to sit down, share a hot drink and talk a little, we find that we are actually not that different from each other after all. The same hopes, the same fears. All over the globe. And perhaps beyond.
Our entry for the LensCulture Critics' Choice Award 2022 (Single Photo Category).
An online copy of "Ylla" is available here:
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Alien: Isolation
Free Cam/ Custom FOV/ Remove HUD/ Freeze Actors via Cheat Engine
Alien: Isolation
Free Cam/ Custom FOV/ Remove HUD/ Custom DOF/ Freeze Actors via Cheat Engine
Hey all, I'm taking a break from blogging. May be indefinite, may not be. I don't know.
I have to rediscover why I fell in love with sl photography in the first place.
Anyway, here's alien fuckery for you.
Also, happy new year
I imagined myself floating weightless in the middle of a waveless sea. Moments, minutes, hours stretched lazily, between the future and the past, like strands of taffy twirled between the fingers of an alien god. The clouds were everywhere and nowhere, water was air and air was water-like. Then, in a blink of an eye, the alien forms rose up from what remained of my life. I laughed.
The bee balm reminds me of an alien being of some kind or an alien world before it fully blooms. Note the wee fluorescent neon green bug on it and the tiny raindrops. I put a flickr note where it is.
Sigma 105mm f2.8 macro lens on a Canon EOS 5D Mark II at f4.5 hand held.
I want to thank each and everyone in advance who took the time to visit my little space here on Flickr.
Taken for the theme "Guess what this is" of "Crazy Tuesday"...
any guess? ;-)
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Challenge finished: it is a sponge, captured with a 50mm pentax macro smc takumar plus an extension tube of 28mm.
Nature at its freakiest best?
Most unusual, these bi-coloured Rococo Parrot Tulips, flowers with twisted, irregularly fringed petals.
Even their leaves are wild and 'Baroque'.
They are weird, even a little 'alien'?
Are they ‘monstrous beauty or beautiful monster’
These white and green are the most exotic of the lot though!
Love them or hate them, Parrot Tulips are Spring's grand (bulb) showcase, big and beautiful, they have flamboyant flowers with streaks, ruffles and frayed edges.
Have a glorious day and thank you, M, (*_*)
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I found this Alien Welcome Center in Bowman, SC back in May of 2020. I’ve heard it has since been torn down and hauled off, due to ongoing vandalism. I can’t verify if this is true.
A serene, dreamlike landscape features glowing moons and planets above vibrant purple trees and flowers. A tranquil river reflects the celestial hues, creating a magical atmosphere.
Created via Artificial Intelligence (Deep Dream Generator)
My little bean made a thing!
Monocle - Alien Stompers @ SaNaRae [07/26]
pose: [KuddelMuddel] Boredom #1 (edited with animare hud)
The wind and rain have conspired together to create fantastical rock formations in the New Mexico desert. Strange rock creatures surround the Alien Throne.
I decided to make a transport vehicle similar to the APC from Aliens and inspired by another pic from the IMDB for Neill Blomkamp's next (fingers still crossed) movie.
The vehicle was built to be played with so has appropriate play features- slinging doors, moving ramps, rotating turret and access via hinged rear door and driver bay. The lighting is a bit naff but I wanted to get something similar to the image online.
Based on the image I'm guessing they're basing the artwork on the "radio controlled" xenomorph idea from the comics.
This mix of roots and small branches met along the way, in the shadows, around the Petit Mont-Cenis area (France) reminded me the Facehugger of the legendary film Alien by Ridley Scott... so, being myself a sci-fi fan, it looked as a nice catch, something not to be missed.
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Built for Innovalug's Style it Up contest. Week 1 was to create a build using only one color. The only exception is minifigures and their accessories.
An alien strike team explores the surface of a new planet. Lavan's surface is a startling shade of purple known as Lavender. The strike team hopes the fauna is a different shade than the flora.
The recent announcement of a discovery of potential evidence for life on Mars during the ancient past, does get us thinking. There was a time when there was no life on earth as well. Of course, complex life evolved on earth over eons of time, and this infrared image gives us a glimpse at a rock formation that might be at least 200 million years old. In other words, we are much closer to the time when homo sapiens began populating this planet (just a mere 300,000 years ago), than when these alien rocks emerged through volcanic action and were shaped by later glacial activity.
NASA Mars rover Perseverance finds best potential evidence yet of ancient life
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-11/nasa-discovery-ancient-lif...