Simply fire, hot, light, and impalpable, in a fireplace.

[update: this photo had participated at Photo Friday in 04-01-05 ‘Hot’ challenge as link n.508]

It was taken with 1/1000 seconds of exposure and ISO-400 to fix the plasma motion and capture the maximum of color.
This picture wasn’t graphically manipulated.

Why one have to resist temptation to take a picture of a flower? It seems that macrophotography was invented just to capture pollen grains in a picture!

[update: this photo had participated at Photo Friday in 25-11-05 ‘Yellow’ challenge as link n.866]

Focal length was 17mm in Macro mode and so you can see some little yellow pollen grains on white petals. The peculiar light in the photo is due to the moment, during the afternoon of few days ago, when this photo was taken and when the sky was without a cloud and the sun was low on the horizon. It’s important to be able to wait a better light.

Daisy’s scientific name is Bellis perennis, that means always beautiful in latin. In the language of the flowers to present the small B. perennis means: I will think of you. (source thais.it)

To celebrate the upgrading to a new wp release (1.5) and the consequent theme changing, I have the pleasure to publish the following picture taken in the first springlike sunny day of this year.

[update: this photo had participated at Photo Friday in 04-01-05 ‘Worn’ challenge as link n.636]

The image of the tree was taken as a silhouette shooting the photo with the sun light behind the subject. It’s important to underexpose the tree to eliminate any detail in the figure and showing only a clear dark shadow. To realize this I have set time exposure to 1/1000 seconds, f/4.7, and an ISO speed rating of 50.

Have you ever seen a whole drops family? There are the fat father, the mother followed by the little sons. Note the reflection of the tap on the drops surfaces.

[update: this photo had participated at Photo Friday in 03-25-05 ‘Tiny’ challenge as link n.549]
[update: this photo is participating at Photo Friday in 03-25-05 ‘Imperfection’ challenge as link n.550]

This picture was taken with an exposure of 1/1000 sec, a focal lenght of 17 mm (Macro), F/8,3, white balance tungsten (I was in a bathroom with a simple light bulb of about 3000 K).

Physically the picture show the motion of a group of water drops into a space-time deformed because of earth presence. Their trajectory is a geodesic.

Well, Macro-Rughy was nice, but take a picture of a stone of brazilian transparent quartz deep filled by laser light is much better! Here the result and the technical notes, equipment and procedure.

Note the path of principal laser ray (wavelenght 630-680 nm):

[update: this photo had participated at Photo Friday in 03-18-05 ‘Glow’ challenge as link n.473 ]

Some technical notes:

• Focal lenght: 17 mm
• F-Number: F/4,9
• Exposure: 8 seconds
• ISO: ISO-100

Equipment: a tripod (for mechanical stability), two sheets of paper (as background), a spot light, patience.

Procedure: first regulate F-Number and exposure in a dark room, then turn on a spot light to regulate the focus (it isn’t possibile for a camera to calibrate focus in the dark), finally turn off the light and press the shutter button.

Some granulation of image is perfectly natural first because of the lack of light, second for a little imperfection of quartz’s crystal. Anyway the result is beautiful, like one can see in this detail:

It seems a stellar field or is it my professional deviation?