A couple of nights ago Matt (of Disenchanted Photography ) and I spent a couple of hours in his garage with the intention of experimenting with lighting and off camera flash. / We actually ended up shooting smoke trails for four hours and had a ball! / The experimentation with flash position, ISO and shutter speeds was very beneficial and I got alot out of the shoot! :D / / Check out this journal / / / / Art Folders… / / Entire Portfolio / Born From This Earth – Series / Hearts At War / Vehicular works / Architecture / Travel / B&W Photography / Transitional Industrial Utopian Series / Abstract / Models and Fashion Photography
Incense / Making Incense sticks, on the roadside near Hue,Vietnam.
I popped into a natural health store in Napa, California and happened to have my camera handy. I stumbled on this wide array of incense sticks and chose to shoot them for a texture and color play. I kind of liked the way it came out…a bit compartmentalized—but still rather cool to see it this way, yes?
A couple of nights ago Matt (of Disenchanted Photography ) and I spent a couple of hours in his garage with the intention of experimenting with lighting and off camera flash. / We actually ended up shooting smoke trails for four hours and had a ball! / The experimentation with flash position, ISO and shutter speeds was very beneficial and I got alot out of the shoot! :D / / Check out this journal / / / / Art Folders… / / Entire Portfolio / Born From This Earth – Series / Hearts At War / Vehicular works / Architecture / Travel / B&W Photography / Transitional Industrial Utopian Series / Abstract / Models and Fashion Photography
This was taken at Wat Phnom in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on the last day of Khmer New Year. The wat was abuzz with activity that day. She was with a number of people (probably family) and she quickly poked her head out of the main sanctuary to fan out the joss sticks that she had just lit. She then proceeded to separate them out to the people that were with her and they continued to the many shrines on the surrounding the main sanctuary. I last saw them leaving a few joss sticks at the shrine of Madame Penh and then pouring water on their heads as a sign of cleansing.
Captured at the Bendigo Asian History Museum with a Sony Alpha 100 using a 78 – 300mm. / Art Folders… / / Entire Portfolio / Born From This Earth – Series / Hearts At War / Vehicular works / Architecture / Travel / B&W Photography / Transitional Industrial Utopian Series / Abstract / Models and Fashion Photography
Hands giving out energy light.
“Desabandhascittasya Dharana The mind has reached the ability to be directed (dharana) when the direction towards a chosen object is possible in spite of many other potential objects within the reach of the individual.” Yoga Sutra 3.1 / Translated by T.K. V. Desikachar
Burning incenses not only for the sweet smell it produces, also a sign of bleessing by washing the smoke over you to cleanse your spirit before enter the temple
Close up of incense smoke plume
The day was getting a bit boring so I decided to pull out the flash and incense sticks…
A couple of nights ago Matt (of Disenchanted Photography ) and I spent a couple of hours i…
A couple of nights ago Matt (of Disenchanted Photography ) and I spent a couple of hours in his garage with the intention of experimenting with lighting and off camera flash. / We actually ended up shooting smoke trails for four hours and had a ball! / The experimentation with flash position, ISO and shutter speeds was very beneficial and I got alot out of the shoot. / / The first (mainly black) images that I’m showing here are pretty much off the stick. / They have been converted into jpeg via Lightroom and have had the blackness darkened, a little noise reduction, contrasted and thats it. / I’ve even left the little specks of dust and flying embers on the images! / / / / / / / / / / / / / / Here are some that Matt has used his post proc skills on… / Matt has the “clear gif” setting on, so I could not copy in the larger images… / / / / / / / / / / / / I must admit after spending just a short amount of time on post prod myself I personally found an artful beauty in these type of images simply by converting them to monotone and tweaking the contrast. / / / / / / / / / / ...and to finish off, those of you who know me well know that lately I’ve been hypothetically looking for Aliens… Well I think I found one… / / / / Peace and Hugs! :D
Severina
This is an incense burner that I bought on Koh Kred island; a small man-made island just outside of Bangkok, Thailand. It is home to the Mon community, known to be skilled potters. The island is small enough that you can go around on foot in about a couple of hours (no cars are allowed). The guide told us to walk so that the water was always to our left so that we would not lose our way. I of course realized at one point that the water was to my right … typical! In trying to find my way back, I stumbled upon this building that had pottery work as far as the eye could see. As I was taking photos, a woman grabbed my arm and lead me in to a row of four men who were spinning pottery … my own private showing!
From the Sandlewood forest scents of Heaven
Vessel releasing vapor. Photo based illustation.
RedBubble is a great place to find art, design, photos and writing from over 80,000 talented people.
On stunning greeting cards, awesome t-shirts or beautiful prints to hang on your walls.
It’s really simple. If you’re not happy with your purchase for any reason, we’ll fix it.
Since February 2007 we’ve shipped over 243,200 items to more than 70 countries around the world.
Sign up for your free account, upload your work, join some groups and share your creative genius with the world.