Electrifying Photos of Flowers Being Zapped by 80,000 Volts

Posted on July 30, 2012 by bahgheera

Robert Buelteman is a California photographer who developed his own technique for capturing images of plant life using high voltage electricity and optical fibers. Kirlian Photography is the use of electricity to transfer an image of coronal discharge onto film. Robert has applied that to various parts of plants and flowers to create astounding images that aren’t so much an image of a flower or plant as they are images of the feelings that plants can evoke. Very surreal, very original. Also, visit Mr. Buelteman’s website for his other work, which is every bit as fantastic.

Electrifying Photos of Flowers Being Zapped by 80,000 Volts.

Thierry Legault – Partial solar eclipse and transit of the Space Station from Oman

Posted on June 7, 2012 by bahgheera

Now this is just amazing. Astrophotography is one of my favorite things. Thierry Legault, a French engineer and photographer, managed to catch the ISS as it made it’s away in between the earth and Sun in January of 2011. The image is fantastic, almost sci-fi. Go to his homepage to see his other fine work, including the transit of Venus and the Hubble Space Telescope at the same time.

Thierry Legault – Partial solar eclipse and transit of the Space Station from Oman.

Terra Sacra Time Lapses

Posted on June 7, 2012 by bahgheera

Sean F. White is a photographer who has created an amazing time lapse video of various locations around the world. It’s about six minutes long and features locations such as the pyramids in Egypt, penguins in Antarctica, ancient trees in Africa and shots of the Milky Way out in the desert. There are many timelapse videos out there, especially on vimeo, but this one is just a cut above the rest.

Terra Sacra Time Lapses on Vimeo

WonderLand – Aimishboy Photography

Posted on December 28, 2011 by bahgheera

Incredible macro photography from Nadav Bagim, of Israel. He sets up miniature scenes on his kitchen table, adds an insect or two, and the results are nothing less than fantastic. The color that he manages to bring out in his photos is amazing in it’s own right, but add that to the nature of each scene he’s created and the way he’s managed to give personality to the subject of each photo, and you can see that there is something extra special here.

WonderLand – Aimishboy Photography.

Ft. Fisher, NC – Rocks and Sky

Posted on December 20, 2011 by bahgheera

Here I stand,
Once again,
On my tiny speck of dust.
Peering out of the blackness,
Looking at the lights,
With a heart full of wonder.
And just for an instant,
I perceive the Cosmos,
And I blow the stars away
Like dandelion seeds.

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Beached Whale on Carolina Beach.

Posted on December 8, 2011 by bahgheera

A small whale washed up on the beach here in Wilmington. It apparently is a Minke Whale. There is no cause of death at the moment, but officials from the local aquarium are picking up the carcass at some point to do a necropsy. The whale was torn up quite a bit, with a huge section of flesh torn out, most likely by sharks. In recent weeks a fairly large great white shark has been spotted, and also a sperm whale, off the southeastern North Carolina coast.

Technical details – I only used flash in one of the images seen here, it should be fairly obvious which one. The others were exposures of around thirty seconds or so, using moonlight and light coming from the boardwalk behind me. This enabled me to almost completely eliminate the yellow police tape and spectators walking around the whale, as well as giving a nice cool blue tone to the picture. I love shooting this way.

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A little light, a little luck.

Posted on October 8, 2011 by bahgheera

Here’s a shot of a bridge that I took deep in the mountains of Alum Rock in San Jose, CA. I just came across this sitting on my hard drive and realized I’d never really shared it with anyone. Now, this was taken with a Droid X, but it’s a pretty decent camera for a phone and the light was just amazing when I took this, so it turned out very well. Ethereal, almost like a painting. I wish I could duplicate this, but the technical ability to turn out pictures like this at will eludes me. One day…

Poor Mans Macro 2.0

Posted on March 8, 2011 by bahgheera

I wrote a few days ago about a method of using a standard lens for macro photography. I shared only a few photos that day, but there were many shots that turned out well. I thought about going through the whole set and picking and choosing which ones to share with you, but then I decided to just upload the whole batch, all 81 images. So without further adieu, here they are.

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And here are a few notable images that stood out to me.

Poor man’s macro

Posted on February 17, 2011 by bahgheera

Macro lenses are hard to come by if you’re on a shoestring budget. Luckily, there is a trick for us DSLR owners. Simply turn your lens around backwards. I experimented this evening with the technique, and got some surprising results while shooting a bouquet of roses that I gave to my wife on Valentines day. It took some experimenting to get just right – you must focus by moving closer to and farther from the subject, and the position of the focus ring, as well as the zoom, determines the focus distance. But once you get the hang of it, it’s fairly easy and makes for some fantastic results. The photos you see here are straight out of the camera, except for being resized.
Give it a shot, then leave a link to your result in the conmments!

Dark Sky in the Middle of the Day

Posted on February 17, 2011 by bahgheera

Today was such a nice day; the sun came out (it’s been rainy for weeks), the temperature rose (mid 70′s!), and I found myself with some time to do something creative. I haven’t had my camera out since before Christmas, so I came up with a little plan for myself. I’m going to try to take at least one picture a day. Hopefully there will be one interesting picture each day, but a picture there will be nonetheless. We’ll see how long I can stick with it. So for today’s photo, I went into the woods behind my house and started shooting in black and white. This is something I never do – I figure why not shoot in color, then convert to b&w in photoshop? But I realized I am shooting myself in the foot by trying to preserve the color – I can be more creative if I’m doing something different. Anyway, it occurred to me that the EOS 450D, when in RAW+JPG mode, captures the color in the raw anyway. Bonus!

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Electrifying Photos of Flowers Being Zapped by 80,000 Volts

Thierry Legault – Partial solar eclipse and transit of the Space Station from Oman

Terra Sacra Time Lapses

WonderLand – Aimishboy Photography

Ft. Fisher, NC – Rocks and Sky

Here I stand,
Once again,
On my tiny speck of dust.
Peering out of the blackness,
Looking at the lights,
With a heart full of wonder.
And just for an instant,
I perceive the Cosmos,
And I blow the stars away
Like dandelion seeds.

Beached Whale on Carolina Beach.

A little light, a little luck.

Poor Mans Macro 2.0

Poor man’s macro

Dark Sky in the Middle of the Day

Here I stand, Once again, On my tiny speck of dust. Peering out of the blackness, Looking at the lights, With a heart full of wonder. And just for an instant, I perceive the Cosmos, And I blow the stars away Like dandelion seeds.

Here I stand,
Once again,
On my tiny speck of dust.
Peering out of the blackness,
Looking at the lights,
With a heart full of wonder.
And just for an instant,
I perceive the Cosmos,
And I blow the stars away
Like dandelion seeds.