Day two in my essential elements series: hydrogen. Hydrogen is the lightest, most elementary element: sort of the lego brick from which every other atom is built. It is also the most abundant, 75% of the total of all stuff* in the universe, and is the power source of the sun, when combined with oxygen it is humble H2O. Sunlight, water, 75% of existence. You don’t get more essential than that.
Hydrogen
After yesterday’s clean, structured design, I wanted to do some practice in blend modes in photoshop. This was quite time consuming as I was experimenting with lots of layers and effects. It was in part an attempt to see if I could produce something in the style of James White, and in particular, this image. Overall, for a preliminary effort I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out, although with more time there could definitely be more subtlety in the layering/blending.
Note for science-inclined, and those who are interested: the pink/red colour is the colour of the most prominent emission line of hydrogen H II. This is why on pictures of galaxies and nebulae you often see these shades, huge clouds of hydrogen emitting light of this colour. Even if you aren’t science inclined, it’s worth taking a look at the public domain images from NASA and ESA, like this stunning picture of the Orion Nebula taken by the Hubble space telescope:
The Orion Nebula
Original, and more, here.
*disclaimer: not including dark matter, it’s 75% of the elemental matter.
This is fantastic. Besides being great images, I love how you’ve stuck with a theme. I’m going to try and set a theme for myself for February, if I get that far!
I’ve bookmarked you to check out your future daily designs.