Images often rely upon angular perspective to convey a sense of depth within the constraints of a two-dimensional surface. Here, however, the perspective is implied by a duality of focus and tonal range: the bubbles' sharpness and clarity pull them towards the "surface", while blurriness and shading render the less-defined orbital neighbors as somewhat distant.
These visual cues rely upon the brain's predetermined rules for spatial interpretation.
Thus this photograph demands the solving of a puzzle: what is the reality here? Are these objects minuscule -- pockets of an unknown gas swimming in a largely transparent bath of some sort? Are they hovering? Rising? Moving in coordination or chaotic, unrelated paths?
Or is this submission that of a system exoplanets, inhabitants of a far off corner of a parallel Universe, a few of which possibly home to alien photographers?
That this presentation was taken with my 100mm Macro lens argues against the latter proposition. In fact, the largest of these globules is perhaps the size of a BB.
Orbitals, #1861
© 2010 James W. Murray, all rights reserved.
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Details: October 16, 2010; Canon 20D; f/4 @ 1/200 sec; —2/3 EV; ISO 400; 100mm.
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