Sunlight adds an inner glow to the bubbles of the Water Cube on a cold winter day.

The canvas panels of Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West

Project developed in collaboration with Iosif Sebastian Karacioni

Falcate Orangetip - male

Anthocharis midea

These are tough butterflies to get pictures of - they rarely stop moving, and even when they do, their small size and birght white still make it a challenge.

Sturdy and delicate, the

bougainvillea seem like paper lanterns.

This one is my favorite of the batch.

Part of a quick little set of experiments using long exposures in a dark room exposed to colorful light sources (leds on computers and optical mouse laser light).

Project developed in collaboration with Iosif Sebastian Karacioni

Stirfry vegetables shredded by my new toy from Lakeland. And no, they still don't pay me for all the publicity I give them!

www.lakeland.co.uk/15277/Spirelli

Oxidized sterling silver recycled custom chain links with many hand wired 5mm faceted labradorite and turquoise rondels on vintage brass head pins.

もっとアップで…　これかな？

I liked the way the backlighting allows you to see the markings on the top side of the wings.

Part of a hat/coat stand as guessed by 'Mike' with credit also to fhuell. See comments below for wider views.

A leaf in a puddle.

Chicago, Illinois

Cook County

LARGE

A slightly different processing from me. I originally planned to not do any processing, then I wanted to do selective color on the flag, then I went with this. I guess it is desaturated selective color. This is one of those shots that's been done a lot, and I always tend to like it. The first time I saw it and it really grabbed my attention was a shot THE real Ryan Myers did. Then the first or second time I shot with Ward/Dustin he got a shot of a flag that I had struggled in vain to shoot for about ten minutes.

MSR & newly deboxed NP (with Simply Lilac scalp). Now they are pastel-haired sisters too. Both wearing Chuthings. Just had a hair wash here.

Kyoungbok Palace, Seoul, Korea

There it is.

There's something nice about the keys from that angle. I like the translucency and the bevel to them. I wonder though, if it would have been possible to make the tops smaller thus leaving a larger space between keys. It would still accomodate the OLED frame, and make keys feel more fitting. My guess would be that it was considered, but introduced distortion problems.

Sunlight is shining through this leaf, giving it an appearance beiing translucent.

seen in Shitaya, Tokyo

I'm not sure about these odd lashes I have drawn on her faceplate ...

DETAIL

Material Mastery Exhibition

Chad Fonfara

Kearney, NE

Wind-borne

Glass, bronze

I didn't want to replicate a specific plant or insect form, but create something that looked both familiar and otherworldly—multivalent forms that don't have a singular identity. The viewer must decide: "What is it? Where does it come from? Was something growing in it? What is its story?" Glass allows me to play with conflicting fragility and heaviness, and its relationship to light with glass's varying opaqueness, translucency, transparency. I also enjoy negating the material: trying to make it look like it is not obviously glass, but an entity unto itself.

Strobist: One SB26 at 1/16th above and slightly behind subject against the white background. Small contrast mods in post.

From the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library in New Haven.

These images are all about playing with translucency. The leaf has been placed on a piece of glass put between two tressles. A soft box is used to illuminate the leaf from below, with metering for the light, not the leaf.

I have had a lot of fun with these and will now try a few different scenarios.

Translucent leaf, green leaf, nature, vegetation, green, natural, leaf

A completely lucky shot!

Nore Barn Woods, Emsworth

Globe and Mail translucent ads in a bus shelter, August 2004

A continuation of the translucents project.

seen in Higashi Nippori, Tokyo