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This prairie in the Everglades National Park show startling foliage that contrasts with the barren environment giving it an other worldly feel.
It came from outer space! Standing in the clearing it absorbs all available light to feed its photoluminescence living skin. It feels for its next victim waving a multitude of tentacles where none will pass. In the meantime sucking the very life out of the forest floor with its giant proboscis means time is on its side, it can wait and wait and wait! Coming soon, in wide screen cinematic technicolour to a wood near you, the wetter the better.
Just below the summit of Legges Tor, which rises above the central plateau of Ben Lomond, we come across some interesting equipment. The ski lift is obvious enough, but my title reflects a little confusion as to the origins of the solar panel on the right.
My first thought was a weather station, but that seems unlikely since we lack the means of measuring rainfall and wind speed (there's no anemometer). Is it an alien probe? My guess is that it in fact measures seismic activity and relays this information electronically.
Interestingly enough, this is the only place on the entire mountain that has mobile phone reception. So one would think that our phones can tap into whatever signal is being emitted from this "probe". Any suggestions warmly welcomed.
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62. Alien Predators - Poland - 8/04/2017...
Sony SLT A55V + Tamron 90.0 mm...
Cat: Close-up ...
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“Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter.” - Ansel Adams...
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"Macro Mondays" "Queen"
(Figurine of Alien Queen /face is half a credit card)
The "Alien" (also referred to as "Xenomorph XX121") is a fictional endoparasitoid extraterrestrial species that is the eponymous antagonist of the Alien film series. The queen was designed by Cameron in collaboration with special effects artist Stan Winston, based upon an initial painting Cameron had done at the start of the project. In the years since the release of Alien, the Alien has become one of the world's most recognized movie monsters and a pop-cultural icon. In 2003, the Alien was voted as the 14th most memorable screen villain by the American Film Institute.
Super-Takumar 50mm/f1.4 (8 elements) + Raynox DCR-250 on Pentax K-1. Shot wide open. Color grading in Lightroom
a bit of fun while gathering a carrot harvest from the polytunnel!
....I am easily amused.
phone picture
Strange Movements - Amuse Yourself
A disk-shaped flying craft supposedly piloted by aliens; a UFO.
Uma nave voadora em forma de disco supostamente pilotada por alienígenas; Um OVNI.
"Science Fiction Series"
Arte Digital - Digital Art
Image-editing
Effects - Texture - Collage
Double Exposure
Software: Pixlr; Windows, PicsArt Photo Studio, Snapseed
In another Galaxy
Em outra Galáxia
Is this a space ship landed in ancient times, is it an alien egg or the dragon egg of legend? Who knows.
May be our origin lays within this shell, because we too are born of eggs floating in an ocean.
This shot was taken at a glorious sunrise at Moeraki, New Zealand.
Maori tales state that the boulders littering the beach of Koekohe are storage baskets and sweet potatoes fallen off the canoes of the mighty gods, who formed The Land Of The Big White Cloud.
Certainly scientific researchers tell another story:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moeraki_Boulders
Ist aus diesem Ei in grauer Vorzeit ein Alien geschlüpft?
Wer weiß, vielleicht stammen wir sogar von ihm ab, denn auch wir entstehen aus Eiern, die befruchtet in einem Ozean schwimmen. :)
Dieses Bild wurde kurz vor Sonnenaufgang am Strand der Moeraki Boulders auf der Südinsel Neuseelands aufgenommen.
Die Maori in Neuseeland erzählen sich, dass die runden Felsenkugeln am Strand von Koekohe in der Nähe von Moeraki Vorratskörbe und Süßkartoffeln wären, die aus dem Kanu der Götter gefallen sind, die Neuseeland geformt haben.
A pink alien with green spots and purple veins? Obviously not but this macro shot of a drop of water on the leaf of an ornamental cabbage put me in mind of such.
Alien: Isolation
Free Cam/ Custom FOV/ Remove HUD/ Custom DOF/ Freeze Actors via Cheat Engine
Custom SweetFX 2.0 with ReShade
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Captured this with three RAW shots at -2..0..+2 EV. Digital blending in Photoshop CS6. I increased the overall saturation with Hue/Saturation in Photoshop. Curve adjustment to increase the overall contrast. 1 layer mask in soft light mode at 50% gray, using brush tool to lighten and darken some areas of the image, to bring out details. Topaz DeNoise to reduce noise. Topaz Clarity for additional boost in color and contrast.
Alien-looking rocks under the Hawthorne Bridge Along the Willamette River in Portland Oregon at Blue Hour. Have a Happy Monday!
To view my other Images from Oregon, click here.
This short-eared Owl takes the saying, “sticking your neck out” quite literally. 😅
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Or maybe it’s a big fan of the alien movies.
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The lighting was pretty rough as the owl was mostly backlit with harsh sun, so I put my ISO as low as it could go, so I had more range to push later on.
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shot at 700mm 5.6.
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Todays (12th Aug 2007) walk through the Botanic Garden in Linz (Upper Austria) gave me the opportunity to move to something completely different after all those stage shootings I did recently.
Usually I do not flash animals but I accepted this for the fly on the blossom here. It did not care ...
Canon 5D with Sigma 105/2.8 Macro
1/200s f/5 ISO 100, Ring flash
Explored, Aug. 12th 2007
Macro 1X con apilamiento de foco por control remoto del anillo de enfoque
Macro 1X by focus stacking using the focus ring remote control
2016-03-23_18-51-22 M=A R=8 S=4
Ingredientes:
-Nikon D600 + Nikor 105mm macro 1X
-Helicon Remote para control automático de la pila de foco mediante el anillo de enfoque (por medio de USB)
-Helicon Soft para apilamiento de foco (38 shots, Method A, R=8, S=4)
-Helicon lo puedes bajar a prueba durante 1 mes gratis, o una licencia para un año por 50€, controla casi todas las Nikon y Canon mediante USB. Existen otros proveedores de soft para stacking (apilamiento), p. ej. Zerene, ControlMyNikon o Canon, Combine Z, etc
-Opcional: impresora 3D (Up Plus 2) para la fabricación de focos, soportes, mesa de trabajo, etc. Puedes utilizar el sencillo 123D Design (free soft) para diseñar las piezas.
Receta:
-Montamos el bodegón con sujeto y fondo
-Lo iluminamos con 4 o 5 micro-focos de leds. Los focos se pueden diseñar e imprimir utilizando una impresora 3D y después montar los leds (alta luminosidad y 5300K), la alimentación es de 12vdc para grupos de 3 o 4 leds. La ventaja frente al uso de flash, es que se pueden dirigir los focos y componer la iluminación antes del disparo, además del volumen que se consigue jugando con la iluminación.
-Disparamos las fotografías utilizando, p. ej., Helicon Remote: Helicon controla el enfoque con el movimiento del anillo de enfoque antes de disparar cada foto, todo el proceso de toma de fotos es automático, se pueden ver videos en youtube
-Para 1X se necesitan de 20 a 100 fotos, según valor de f, focal utilizada y profundidad de campo necesaria, lo calcula el soft automáticamente. Se suele utilizar el punto dulce de la lente (normalmente en el entorno de f5.6) para optimizar los resultados
-Apilamos el stack de n fotografías utilizando Helicon Soft
-Utilizamos Lightroom o similar para eliminar “halos” y “artefactos”
-Una vez se tiene práctica, todo el proceso puede durar 30 min
pepo
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Macro 1X by focus stacking using the focus ring control
How do you can do it :
Ingredients:
-Nikon D600 + 105mm macro nikor 1X
-Helicon Remote control for automatic focus stack using the camera focus ring (using USB)
-Helicon Soft Focus Stacking (56 shots, Method B, R = 8, S = 4)
-Helicon: You can download a free trial for 1 month, or a license for a year for € 50, it controls almost many Nikon and Canon via USB. There are other suppliers of soft for stacking, p. ex. Zerene, ControlMyNikon or Canon, Combine Z, etc.
-optional: 3D (Up Plus 2) printer to manufacture light bulbs, brackets, desk, etc. You can use the friendly 123D Design (free soft) for pieces designing.
Recipe:
-Ilumination with 4 or 5 micro-LED bulbs. The lighters can be designed and printed using a 3D printer and then mount the LED´s (high brightness and 5300K), the power is 12VDC for groups of 3 or 4 LEDs. The advantage over use of flash, is that you can positioning the lights and lighting make up before shooting, in addition to the volume to be achieved by playing with these lighting.
-Shot photographs using, p. eg Helicon Remote. Helicon controls the approach to the movement of the focus ring before the photo shot, the whole process of taking pictures is automatic, you can watch videos on youtube
-For 1X do you needed 20-100 photos, depending on value of f, focal and deep of field needed, automatically calculated by the soft. Often used the sweet spot of the lens (usually in the vicinity of f5.6) to optimize results
-Now we stack of shots using Helicon Soft
-We can use Lightroom or the like to remove "halos" and "artifacts"
-Once you have practice, the whole process can take 30 min
-And sorry my English, please.
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This was my favorite sculpture at the Ricardo Breceda sculpture garden. This alien was on a bluff overlooking Highway 79. He really captured the fierce look that it is known for.
A local radio station was doing a poll on the best bad asses of all time and this guy was the first one that popped into my head. This creature has terrified audiences nine different movies. Not too bad.
Alien art
My picture above is showing that an alien bird is picking up a leaf.
Development of some aliens from an animal stage to a developed stage ( at tree of life) might take very long time or the expected development might not happen at all if some components don't come together.
The environment, the world they are in, might not be very rich for the development of the aliens, and/or biological development might head in a very different direction. Their "tree of life" might not have proper branches for a progressive development. The tree would be weak, like a tree in a desert.
For a chemical reaction, we have to have specific atoms. We need substances to create other substances. For reactions to happen, we have to have some conditions present at the place where the reaction should happen.
Already developed aliens would be the lucky ones, passing all hurdles. When we consider the existence of billions of stars, planets and a lot of different places within planets in our universe, the probability would be very hight to be lucky for some aliens.
Another issue is that we might not see any alien at all because of the distance between stars and galaxies. Non of us ( we and aliens ) might reach the very high development to create very high technology to fly that far ( the distance between galaxies getting more in each day, expanding universe ) before our universe collapse, before the black holes pull the galaxies, before the stars of the planets explode, before the artificial intelligence takes over ( AI doesn’t need to be conscious and alive, and doesn’t need to have feelings and emotions. it can survive on its own if it is programmed properly ), etc.
Al might be the biggest threat to humans and aliens, it could wipe out them very easily. The creation of very destructive Al is possible when we consider how much hatred there are in our world between nations, races and between the people with different religions.