Celebrity Spotting in Smoke Photography

When I was done with this picture, I thought this looked like a movie poster for some sci-fi movie starring Arnold Schwarzenneger as the astronaut/alien hero, and two Bond girls... I never stop being amazed at what can be discovered in smoke...

What do you see in the smoke?

I usually post my pictures to some photography forums, and when I posted this picture, I asked people what they see in it.. I love how people see different things and sometimes they make me see angles on my pictures that I hadn't noticed before.

Here are some of the responses I received, let's see if you can see it all.. or let me know if you see something else!

• I see a horse on the right, but I can't decipher anything immediately besides that.



• I think i see a dog or some other four legged creature in the third pic.



• in the last pic i see a snake (on the right) and some like of little dog on the left



• I see a green haired ghoul with a red violin in outstretched arms.



• I see a blue squid like creature eating a pink shrimp like creature. Or I see and alien, presenting a new born to his family.Or I see a prehistoric creature with no arms or torso (just a head with legs) punting a pink creature. There are so many possibilities.



• I see a screenshot from the movie the Lion King where a monkey holds the new born Simba up high for all others in the pack to see....



• Mother with child :-)



• I see an alien holdig a very large rat.

Smoke Photography & archeology

Maybe this title isn't that relevant, but sometimes it feels like digging and digging, until you finally stumble on something... some delicate handling and cleaning before the piece is ready to be shown... This time it looks like I discovered some ancient duck-like animal. Or is it an X-ray of a dog?

I think I'm almost done with the raw materials I have, so I may be shooting some more smoke soon...

Very Abstract Smoke Photography

As I didn't have much time to take new pictures, I'm still editing some of my smoke pictures and I can tell you, it is quite addictive.

Using the mirroring technique as mentioned in my previous post, I came up with this very abstract picture. It almost looks like a drawing or digital art I think, and most people will probably not think this is actually based on a photograph of smoke patterns (unless they have read my previous posts before).

What do you think, is this too abstract for photography? Or would you even think this is photography?

Just to give you an idea, I'm also posting the original shot, with no editing done at all.