“We are made of star stuff” – the late great Carl Sagan. We are indeed. The very molecules of our body are traceable to the beginning of our galaxy, we are atomically connected to the universe. Very cool is it not. Bringing me to this image:
A few weeks ago I had a sleepless night. I watched Watchmen and Contact (remarkably good but book is better) and I created a planet in Photoshop, the above composite. I borrowed the Earth from NASA. I added a foreground from Death Valley, an orange dusk light and mountain from Namibia and sprinkled it with the stars from Very Large Array (where most of Contact takes place) in New Mexico and created the grossly scientifically inaccurate ‘Star Stuff’. Unfortunately it probably will be the closest I will ever get to witnessing the Earth as a pale blue dot from space.
“The sky calls to us
If we do not destroy ourselves
We will one day venture to the stars” – Carl Sagan
13 Comments on “Star stuff”
You have wicked PS skills. That looks awesome. Would make a brilliant wallpaper.
Thanks C! Good idea, perhaps I should create a few wallpaper sized versions
now thats a pretty cool result form watching those 2 movies on a sleeples night. Nice creation !
Cheers Adrian, I am finding it very fun to create images like this, putting together elements from other images.
Sweet mate….looks way cool!
Thanks mate 🙂
Nice one Flemming! Ever read any Robert Heinlein?
Thanks Tim, no I haven’t, I really should get around to that!
Heinleins wrote Starship Troopers and is probably the keenest observer of the somewhat inhuman and militaristic undertone in space exploration.
However I think his Stranger in a Strange Land will be right up your alley 🙂
Wild Stuff Flemming, looks great!
Thanks Dan !
amazing man, really amazing work. you got the result you were chacing perfectly in my opinion. and don’t give up yet, they will need a photographer to accompany the first people to mars. and as the traveling nomad Flembot you would obviously be their first choice! 😀
I should think I would be the first one they call yes, thanks mate!