It all started when a co-worker came back from lunch with a dead Dragonfly. When she looked at it's little face she saw a Chinese Dragonfly, I suppose the China Olympics might have inspired that thought. So here below is a closeup of the little face and from this perspective it looks more like the face of a sea lion pup.
Then as I was shooting pictures of it for her, since it was an extremely colorful and beautiful creature, I took a few closeups of various parts of it's body just to catch all of the beauty that I could. The first close-up was over exposed but gave way to a different image of it than I had expected. I took it into photoshop and added the black background. I love the patterns in it's wings which was what I was really shooing for in this shot.
However the next less exposed image started me on a little journey that was quite fun. Look closely at it's body and then compare it to the next image where I have isolated or cropped out a certain part.
Can you see where the image came from? This is when I saw something that I had least expected and that was an image in the likeness of Hopper from Pixar's movie "A Bug's Life". Can you see him? Yes it isn't exact but that was the character I thought of as I looked closely at whet I had isolated.
So I decided to go one step further and kind of isolated the likeness of Hopper from the image. It is just a portion of his face but it made me wonder if artist's don't often get their inspiration from looking at things just a little bit differently than the rest of us.
Now obviously this isn't really Hopper and I am not saying that it is, and you may not even see the likeness that I do, but as I photographed that beautiful Dragonfly I least expected to find something like this.
Then as I was shooting pictures of it for her, since it was an extremely colorful and beautiful creature, I took a few closeups of various parts of it's body just to catch all of the beauty that I could. The first close-up was over exposed but gave way to a different image of it than I had expected. I took it into photoshop and added the black background. I love the patterns in it's wings which was what I was really shooing for in this shot.
However the next less exposed image started me on a little journey that was quite fun. Look closely at it's body and then compare it to the next image where I have isolated or cropped out a certain part.
Can you see where the image came from? This is when I saw something that I had least expected and that was an image in the likeness of Hopper from Pixar's movie "A Bug's Life". Can you see him? Yes it isn't exact but that was the character I thought of as I looked closely at whet I had isolated.
So I decided to go one step further and kind of isolated the likeness of Hopper from the image. It is just a portion of his face but it made me wonder if artist's don't often get their inspiration from looking at things just a little bit differently than the rest of us.
Now obviously this isn't really Hopper and I am not saying that it is, and you may not even see the likeness that I do, but as I photographed that beautiful Dragonfly I least expected to find something like this.
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That was quite a journey. Thanks for sharing. Fun to see things from an artist's eye!
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