{"id":40725,"date":"2011-10-23T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/star-light-people-bright-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2011-10-23T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T15:45:00","slug":"star-light-people-bright-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/star-light-people-bright-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Star Light, People Bright | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love unusual photographs. Sure, the advent of digital imagery has made it a lot easier folks to play with photographs, manipulate them, make them surprise or delight us. But as someone who used to spend many, many hours in the darkroom when I was in high school, I still have an affinity for just being old-fashioned clever<\/em>.<\/p>

That’s why I really like a lot of the shots taken by French photographer Christopher Hibbert, who is clearly very clever indeed. Check out this photo, called \"Field Walk\"<\/a> — which he created without software manipulation!<\/p>

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How cool is that? You can tell from the stars this is a time exposure, and while the shutter was open he used flashlights to create the human figures. I don’t want to read too much into the photo, but I like the way it ties the light from the stars in with the figures made from light. After all, as Carl Sagan loved to say — correctly — we are star stuff.<\/p>

This image is part of a collection on Google+ by Christopher called Light is Life<\/a>, and I highly recommend checking it out. G+ is really attracting a lot of great photographers, since they can post their work in good resolution and can discuss the sets as well. I’m following quite a few now, especially since so many also work in astrophotography. <\/p>

I’ll note I post things on G+ that don’t fit the blog here, or are too long for Twitter. Follow me there if you’re interested<\/a>.<\/p>

Tip o’ the lens cap to Robert Scoble on Google+<\/a>. Image credit: Christopher Hibbert, used by permission.<\/em><\/p>

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