Sailing by sir20

Nubes caminando

by sir20 for menorca-sir20

In a dense Sequoia forest where the darkness is broken by only a single solarbeam, a Caihong curiously inspects a Kalligrammatid, seeing a face not unlike its own staring back from the strange insect's transparent wings.

A bit of an experimental piece. Although kalligrammatids superficially look like butterflies, these Jurassic insects are in fact lacewings, entirely unrelated to butterflies! One of the differences this implies is that their gorgeously patterned wings were in fact transparent. This gave me the idea to use some extreme backlighting to really show them off, as well as the gloriously iridescent Caihong's feathers. This watercolour, for which I gratefully used this fantastic guide to restoring Kalligrammatids, features Affinigramma myrioneura; Kallihemerobius almacellus, aciedentatus, and feroculus; Kalligramma circularia, and the Maniraptoran-mimic Kalligramma brachyrhyncha.

Iceland (III) by valyeszter

Today’s petunia has captured the light.

Tournefeuille, composition entre nature et urbanisation

Tournefeuille,  nature and urbanistion composition

by sir20 for feuilletourne-sir20

Backlighting    -   Carlos Morago

Spanish, b.1954 -

Oil on wood panel, 50 × 70 cm.

c. 2024

Playing around with gels, back lighting, and dry ice. Haunted Rochelle seemed like the ideal candidate!

There are a few things I'd do differently on this shoot if I did it again. For one thing, the gel would be less obvious if it was in the other orientation. More dry ice with hotter water would give me better effects there. And be sure to click through the images - tumblr is showing them all horizontal, but one is vertical.

All in all, though, I'm pretty pleased. Will definitely play more with these effects in the future.

Guard birds by sir20

Palma y cielo de fuego

by sir20 for menorca-sir20

Backlit Horses on the Marshes