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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.
Marie Lou and her friend talk while walking back through a flower field before night fall
Friend : Did you ever wondered what we are for ?
Marie Lou : Hmmm... ?
Friend : Yeah, I mean why do we exist, why does anything exist in the first place...
Marie Lou : I don't know... All I know is that we have to fulfill our goals and dreams about what we currently know about the world
Friend : Totally, to go forward in our world, we need to accomplish goal, but are they real ? Or are we just a bit of imaginary ?
Marie Lou : I think we are all imaginary, our minds, our reality, our perception, nothing could be real. All locked behinf the curtain of stimulus of mind
Friend : Right...
Marie Lou : *sigh* Don't be troubled (Marie Lou smiled gently), let just our false reality be replaced by our dreams
Friend : (smile back at Marie Lou) Yeah, maybe one day we will figure it out
Marie Lou : That would be great ! Or at least I hope so. Do you wish to look at the stars with me ?
Friend : You bet !
The two friends lying down in the flower bed, staring at the night sky discussing about daily activities and theories before falling asleep under the slight summer breeze.
What does it mean to you?
For me, it is heaven touching earth or man's striving for oneness with the Infinite!
Happy New Year, flickr friends!
Created for KP Treat This # 339
Thanks to Brillianthues for starter image
All work done in Photoshop 2024 and DDT2D
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Big, beautiful and bold, the colors in the streaming aurora were a little surprising but very welcome.
Better lens this time, very reliable standby Sigma 1:18 14mm.
I was more than happy to undertake a 4 am stint to capture this image of Corfe Castle with a Milky Way backdrop. The level of light pollution from the village was far less than I expected. Montage of two exposures for the sky and for the f/g which was pretty dark. Passing cars did light it up but not to my liking so it was 4min @ ISO 1600. As well as a bright passing satellite I might have caught a stray Lyrid meteor.
My thanks to Tony Cowburn, Dorset 'Star Chasers' forum on Facebook for the inspiration for this shot.
Celestial V70 from the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron finished in sixth for line honours in a time of 2 days 16 hours, 14 minutes and 34 seconds.
A minimalistic cosmic alignment, representing the sun, a planet, and its moon in perfect harmony. The bold orange background enhances the orbital composition, creating a celestial balance with simple elements. A tribute to the beauty of planetary motion and new beginnings.
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