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The atmosphere is thick and gasous, a newly born sun wrought from the cosmic elements casts an eerie light upon the surface of an equally new earth as amino acids seethe and churn to bring forth the cry of a new life, which echos through the primordial stillness as that of a ships bell on a dark and misty sea in the gloom of a moonless night. Could our world have looked like this eons ago or have we all but forgotton to consider the beginning of all things.
Very beautiful photos Ken and I just love your decription of an ancient world from long ago. I think these would make wonderful giant poster prints for a livingroom (I don`t know what my wife would think ) I like how certain things are in focus and the rest is sorta like abstract. The last one even looks like it has a hazy hot moonlit night look (even with a hazy moon) 
. What are those things in the third picture???? 
) I like how certain things are in focus and the rest is sorta like abstract. The last one even looks like it has a hazy hot moonlit night look (even with a hazy moon) . What are those things in the third picture???? Take Nothing but Pictures--Leave Nothing but Footprints.
Doug Breda
Doug Breda
Those are Southern Strap lichens there Doug and by the way those little pin looking things you asked about that were on the bracket fungi? Well those are lichens too, I found out. "Pin Lichens." 
Yes the photographs do have a hazy and dim moonlight look to them. That is because they were shot using a fluorescent light over the top of my little terrarium and that hazy moon in the third image, was just luck, that is the reflection of the light off the glass fishbowl, no flash was used in taking these images.
Yes the photographs do have a hazy and dim moonlight look to them. That is because they were shot using a fluorescent light over the top of my little terrarium and that hazy moon in the third image, was just luck, that is the reflection of the light off the glass fishbowl, no flash was used in taking these images. -
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Thanks Roy , I am going to have to fess up a little here though. These images did not or were not planned out to appear such as they are. I orignially wanted a few images from my tiny fishbowl terrarium and thought I could shoot through the clear rounded glass. As it turned out of course the glass is not optically perfect and has many stress lines and such running through it from where it was blown, that is what gives the DOF its murky look. The table on which the terrarium sits has a dull gray surface, that along with the fluorescent light being reflected back and the non-use of a flash gives the pale impressionistic light of a primeval world in its very infancy or so we would imagine. 
There are aslo a few insects in there, along with a spider or two , all of which were not planned to be part of the ecosystem originally, however, there is a small garden snail that I added to the system and it would have been nice,now that I think of it, to have had it make an appearance on the horizon of one of the images or even better one of the small spiders. If by chance I cease to post any more images, it could only mean that "from the soup," velociraptors have come on the scene and my terrarium has entered into the Jurrasic Period.
, I am going to have to fess up a little here though. These images did not or were not planned out to appear such as they are. I orignially wanted a few images from my tiny fishbowl terrarium and thought I could shoot through the clear rounded glass. As it turned out of course the glass is not optically perfect and has many stress lines and such running through it from where it was blown, that is what gives the DOF its murky look. The table on which the terrarium sits has a dull gray surface, that along with the fluorescent light being reflected back and the non-use of a flash gives the pale impressionistic light of a primeval world in its very infancy or so we would imagine. There are aslo a few insects in there, along with a spider or two
, all of which were not planned to be part of the ecosystem originally, however, there is a small garden snail that I added to the system and it would have been nice,now that I think of it, to have had it make an appearance on the horizon of one of the images or even better one of the small spiders. If by chance I cease to post any more images, it could only mean that "from the soup," velociraptors have come on the scene and my terrarium has entered into the Jurrasic Period.