Midsommar sunset

How a friend and me experienced midsommar in sweden. Could be worse, I guess. :) In fact, it was one of the most interesting vacations I had until now. The picture was taken on a peninsula named Femöre, located on the east coast near Oxelösund which, in turn, is roughly 80 kilometres away from Stockholm.

Lychnobite

A lychnobite is someone who is active during the night and sleeps by day. This totally applies to one of my main characters who's shown on this little painting-thing I did some time ago. I really liked the simulated bokeh and decided to leave it as rough as it is.

Celerrime mountain range

A little late-night something from my brainchild fictional world. It's a view that has been there since 1998 but I never gave it a halfway decent picture. So, here's a part of the Celerrime mountain range located in the region Ljatar. The runway on the lower right belongs to the airbase on which two of my main characters learn how to fly. "Celerrime" is the latin superlative of the word "celer", which means "fast". The mountains got their name because of the steep cliffs located farther east. They're not on the picture, but they get their own sooner or later.

If Gaepora rode his Loftwing...

...it needed to carry quite a weight. His Loftwing isn't shown in the game, but he implies that every inhabitant of Skyloft is bonded with one - so I gave him one that (hopefully) fits his style and also resembles the noble bird that carries the statue during the Wing Ceremony. Skyward Sword fanart, just because :)

Elegy of emptiness

How the world looked when I went home yesterday: An endless sea of fog, lit by a lonely row of lights in the middle of nowhere. My train flew by and it felt like that moment could have been the end of the world, forever lost in all-consuming emptiness. Quick Photoshop sketch with Steve Henifin's The Gift of Forever as soundtrack. :)

Together it tastes better

Another little something from the same vacation as in the post below. As soon as I spot insects, I can't help but stalk them until I get at least one halfway decent picture. It's a silver-washed Fritillary (German: Kaisermantel), sucking nectar while the fly seems to do the same.

I dream in infrared...

...said Queensrÿche, and they were right. While the elderly gentleman on the "5 fingers" viewing platform atop the Krippenstein (Austria) watches the Dachstein mountains in his native spectrum, the photo was taken in near infrared (>720 nm). Longer wavelengths of light (or electromagnetic radiation in general) become less susceptible to atmospheric scattering, which is why even very distant objects are clearly visible in the picture. The cell walls of plants highly reflect infrared radiation while chlorophyll behaves completely transparent. Subsequently, vegetation appears really bright (up to blinding white) on infrared photographs.