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During my astrophotography trip to the Canary Islands the Tajinaste rojo were in full bloom.
Standing between these strange looking flowers in the barren volcanic landscape of the Las Cañadas caldera and seeing the starfilled sky unfold above me, evoked a feeling of being in a completely alien world. One of the spots that almost gave me goosebumps was this sloping hill, where the terrain nicely matches the angle of the rising Milky Way.
As a Swiss national I found it interesting to learn that the scientific name of the Tajinaste (Echium wildpretii), honours the 19th century Swiss botanist Hermann Josef Wildpret, who was head gardener of the famous botanical garden Jardin de Aclimatación de la Orotava (also called Botánico for short) near Puerto de la Cruz on Tenerife.
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Canon EOS Ra
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iOptron SkyTracker Pro
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7 x 60s @ ISO1600, tracked
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Focus stack of 4 x 15s @ ISO1600 during twilight
So George Thorogood was incredible but before he appeared we had the treat of the most spectacular clouds at sundown. Sadly no cameras are allowed at the amphitheatre but at least I had my cell phone! The light on these clouds changed by the minute. What a bonus!!
Whatever your opinion is of David Finchers Alien 3 there can be no doubt in the excellent choice of location for the opening scenes. Chemical beach and Blast beach on the Durham coastline provide some very unusual and rugged settings. The harsh light of the cloudless sky proved quite challenging though, requiring full use of the filters.
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I was photographing this nature scene when a strange light appeared. I snapped the picture and when I got home was very surprised to see what that strange light really was.
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Alien: Isolation
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The Alien Throne in the center presides over his courtiers discussing important matters on our right but the mouth on our left is sticking out its tongue.
Part of a wider project documenting Aliens From Abroad in their natural habitat. Have space ship - will travel.
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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).
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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.
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Sculpture 30 at Bondi's 'Sculptures By The Sea', 2025.
See the videos:
sculpturebythesea.com/sculpture-sea-bondi-2025-exhibition...
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVJbwsWK2i0
Sculpture 30, entitled 'Alien Arums', was created by the artists known as the 'Ghost Net Collective'.
The 'Alien Arums' are perched on the northern side of the headland at Marks Park - along the Bondi to Tamarama coastal walk.
Zoom in to see all of Bondi Beach in the late afternoon.
The artists say:
"Arum spikes emerge as alien invaders. Numerous species such as these 'Arums' are invading our coastline, establishing and thriving. 'Alien Arums' explores connections between embedded ghost-nets washed up on our shores, and the emergence of these reconstructed, growing, forms."
I am not sure what they are talking about, but interestingly, the sculpture is made from the ghost-nets that wash up on beaches. These ghost nets are attributed to the deaths of marine life all around the world.
SO, I think this sculpture is a statement about the dangers of ghost-nets, discarded by ships, in the ocean.
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV with the Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L IS II USM lens.
Processed in Adobe Lightroom.