Cosmos Theme - Kristina Smith

So I have 3 photos, I'm not exactly sure which one to choose ..


If anyone could let me know which of the 3 they do/don't like I'd appreciate it !

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1)  Here's my train of thought for this one : Cosmos->universe->stars->(then I was at a    cemetery last weekend and it reminded me of stars and the universe)->cemetery


This photo is a composite of 14 photos that I put together, because this was a giant tree .
Not sure if it really fits the theme though .

2)  Idea: space age / futuristic leader portrait .

3)  crazy (kind of creepy) alien / space creature caught in the light / the unknown / an unknown creature .

Thanks ! 

-Kristi

Katii Capern - Theme #4 - Cosmos

Hellooo everybody :) So, I am aware of what THE cosmos is, haha, but I decided to take a different interpretation. I went to a lovely little bar with lots of mood & ambience and ordered some cosmopolitans. (In the process of this photoshoot, I discovered that cosmos are delicious.) These are NOT edited a great deal, but I wanted to get the photos up here and hopefully get some thoughts on which picture would be more successful, the redness (very red light in there), etc.! Thanks!

-Katii C

Theme #4: Cosmos - Alycia Kosonic

Played around to try and make something futuristic/spacey. Ended up being really abstract but I am pretty happy with it! Let me know what you think :)

Rebecca Turner - Cosmos

I remember trying to take a picture of a moon a couple of years ago. Such a white blob of a disaster. So this time around I thought about cosmic life in terms of the "unknown", aka, extraterrestrials. Something about the pale skin and red lip, the blankness in the stare, made me feel like this was unearthly.

So here ya go. Pretty sure I'm better off just using one image, but let me know what you think.

Cosmos - Locrin Stewart

Hey class!

So this'll take a wee bit of explanation. Otherwise it makes no sense what-so-ever.

I looked up Cosmos for alternate meaning on the web-o-web, trying to find something interesting. I discovered that the Greek mathematician, inventor, astronomer etcetera etcetera, Archimedes wrote in an essay titled The Sand Reckoner that he estimated the size of the cosmos to be no more than 10^14 stadia, a stadia being (approximately) 184.9 metres, which is approximately two light years in today's measurements (just shy of 20 trillion kilometres for anyone counting). I looked at this and decided to illustrate it in a somewhat abstract sense. The two spotlights represent the two light years he hypothesized, while the ruler in the middle addresses the unit of measure (vaguely, albeit, it's hard to capture 184.9 metres). The black space represents the unknown in the universe, both in Archimedes time, and in our own.
So there, it's somewhat silly, but also kind of interesting, to me at least. I might do a reshoot and try to get the numbers on the ruler, but I also kind of like it as an abstract concept as well, given that it is not precise and serves as more of a representation than anything else. I've also got ones where the lights are farther apart, but I kind of like the closeness found here, to me it speaks of the fact that people used to think the universe was so tiny, and even now understanding the true scale of it is terrifying.

Feedback, as always, would be appreciated.

Paul Swanson - Cosmos

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