Queen of Hearts and Gemini

Here are some of my latest smoke pictures.. The technique is still the same as the one described in my earlier posts, in short: smoke picture, mirroring, erasing excess smoke, selective colouring. For more detailed information, check my earlier posts.


For 'Queen of Hearts' I first intended to only use the heart shape.. but when working on it, I thought the other smoke looked like hair and that's how I 'discovered' the queen of hearts...

The other picture is called Gemini, for obvious reasons I guess..


Let me know what you think..

What do you see in the smoke?

I usually post my pictures to some photography forums, and when I posted this picture, I asked people what they see in it.. I love how people see different things and sometimes they make me see angles on my pictures that I hadn't noticed before.

Here are some of the responses I received, let's see if you can see it all.. or let me know if you see something else!

• I see a horse on the right, but I can't decipher anything immediately besides that.



• I think i see a dog or some other four legged creature in the third pic.



• in the last pic i see a snake (on the right) and some like of little dog on the left



• I see a green haired ghoul with a red violin in outstretched arms.



• I see a blue squid like creature eating a pink shrimp like creature. Or I see and alien, presenting a new born to his family.Or I see a prehistoric creature with no arms or torso (just a head with legs) punting a pink creature. There are so many possibilities.



• I see a screenshot from the movie the Lion King where a monkey holds the new born Simba up high for all others in the pack to see....



• Mother with child :-)



• I see an alien holdig a very large rat.

My Smoke Pictures featured in SNAP magazine

A couple of my pictures have been featured in the May issue of SNAP magazine, with an article about me. My first publication in the press!

You can download the lite version of the magazine, or buy the full version here

Smoke Photography & archeology

Maybe this title isn't that relevant, but sometimes it feels like digging and digging, until you finally stumble on something... some delicate handling and cleaning before the piece is ready to be shown... This time it looks like I discovered some ancient duck-like animal. Or is it an X-ray of a dog?

I think I'm almost done with the raw materials I have, so I may be shooting some more smoke soon...