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If An Alien Landed
If an alien were to land in my family room early on the right morning, he would make a few observations, sprint to his flying saucer, return to his home, and report that earthlings are nuts and the best course of action is to stay away.
What the alien would see that would generate this response is me, having just rolled out of bed, looking all disheveled, standing behind a black box on three legs connected to a long barrel-like object pointing at something in a glass box of water. The alien would barely be able to make out this scene because it would be very early in the morning and the only available light would be my small, shielded Maglite flashlight, also pointed at that something in the glass box of water.
The flashlight would give off just enough spill light to illuminate me, arms extended, each hand connected to the black box by a wire.… More:
Color-Free Coral
On Nov. 9, Lissa Mann wrote a blog titled Coral Form: Revisited 1 in which she offered new black-and-white images as a follow-up to a previous post. Her objective was to remove the color so we could better appreciate the shapes and textures of the animals we keep. That article inspired me.
While my usual photographic approach is to help viewers appreciate the shape and texture of corals, I tend to put more emphasis on the beautiful colors contained in the coral tissue and fish scales and fins. Until I read Lissa’s article, it never occurred to me to… More:
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Tagged black and white, Coral, Dendrophyllia, Favia, Photography, Trikentrion flabelliforme, Wellsophyllia
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