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38 posts with the tag digital
David Bentley
digital
Having settled after the surprise, we now needed to deal with the reality. Get closer, take what measurements we could, maybe some manual star sightings I suggested but the navigator just laughed at
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David Bentley
digital
Do you ever have one of those days when things, well, don’t turn out as planned? The sort where you wake up twenty minutes late and for the rest of the day you play catch-up? Where the traffic lights
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David Bentley
digital
The Imperium Presidency came with great honour, as well as great responsibility. That is self evident, I hear your unsaid thoughts, but as your tour guide and historian, I suggest there is more than
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David Bentley
digital
Life on Mars was always a bit of an oxymoron. Primitive. Ancient. Not very H.G. Wells at all. So the early settlers became miners for more than one reason. The hollow magma tubes became underground s
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David Bentley
digital
The golden hour is special, the pre-sunset glow after a burning hot day adding vivid colour to the monochromatic sand and rocks. If only we knew the direction to the nearest oasis. Technique: #digit
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David Bentley
digital
It’s good to know which way to go. ———————————————————— Technique: #digital Theme: #abstract Highlight colour: #white Series:
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David Bentley
digital
After my holidays, dragging family around many of the architectural wonders of the modern world, I’m an engineer after all, my next assignment is literally off the planet. I’m an infrastructure recyc
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David Bentley
digital
I knew from a young age that I would probably end up in space. My earliest memories are playing rocket games with my father, and a house full of space books. Plus I was interested. Dinosaurs and supe
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David Bentley
digital
When he was eleven, Simon started writing and drawing in a notebook. Not regularly. Just every now and then when the wind blew strongly enough to get his attention. So many questions, so few answers
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David Bentley
digital
The seed cones lay in the winter sun, slowly bleaching from brown to white. The pixies came out at night, with their little paint brushes and added a touch of pale blue, their favourite colour; and t
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David Bentley
digital
Space is unusual. Full of surprises. Mostly in the imagination of science fiction writers that made anything possible. It can also be scary. Solar storms, dust clouds, exploding stars. Let me tell y
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David Bentley
digital
What, I thought, am I looking at? Am I dreaming? Is this real? The image in front of me is desert like, but not quite right. What do I remember? A camel comes to mind - the desert is not a place for
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David Bentley
digital
“We are closer now, and have some altitude; the sun is higher in the sky. The shadows have gone, there is no industry. The shapes are still geometric, but not of a city as such. Abandoned perhaps, mi
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David Bentley
digital
One of the benefits of the high view is being able to look down. What do we see? A map? A game? Land use? With overlapping interests? It’s all a question of perspective. Technique: #digital Theme: #a
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David Bentley
digital
Firework pinwheels spin so fast you cannot see them. Galaxies of the same name spin so slowly you’ll need thousands of lifetimes to see any movement. It’s all just flashes of colour. Technique: #digi
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David Bentley
digital
Io is intensely volcanically active due to tidal forces from Jupiter and its neighboring moons, with Sulfur and Sulfur dioxide abundant on the surface. Lightly coloured from orbit, on the surface it’
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David Bentley
digital
“We’re approaching a binary star system, at her satanic majesty’s request, 2000 light years from home. Time to check the readouts. Whoa there, Gomper! They should look like a rainbow, not a distant c
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David Bentley
digital
“A Dyson Sphere doesn’t quite capture what is happening. It’s ancient and corroded, but not uniformly, tarnished but not rusty, for rust needs an electrolyte and an oxidiser, and none are present. We
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David Bentley
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“The fire came quickly, we took to our canoes for the safety of the lake. The yellow red flames reflected briefly on the water, together with the last of the green, revealing the ghostly outline of s
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David Bentley
digital
“At the end of the day, as the light fades, if you look just right, and you’re quick, you’ll see the day spirits rise for the evening, leaving the shadows of the night.” Technique: #digital Theme: #
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David Bentley
digital
“The bubble universe theory challenges our understanding of the universe and our place within it, suggesting an infinite array of possibilities beyond what we can currently observe.” Technique: #dig
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David Bentley
digital
In a three dimensional world, we nominate time as the fourth. It’s all our little brains can make manage. But what if time itself is multi-dimensional? Here’s the science: The three-time-dimensions t
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David Bentley
digital
“When the storm approaches at the eve of the day, it brings its friend, foreboding. With darkness, the mind is free to imagine, the wind thrashing the tree as if to free it from sprites, that dance,
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David Bentley
digital
“What do you see here? A tropical underwater getaway, a pillar of coral (so don’t forget the snorkel and fins)? No, sorry to disappoint. If trees could tell you what they see they would say this is a
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David Bentley
digital
“As the rings of Saturn turn endlessly, catching the hues of the surface gas cloud bands and the diffracting sunlight, the double flash of a ship emerging from a worm hole is sighted. What spices do
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David Bentley
digital
In the Southern Hemisphere July is winter. On the east coast it is often cool and dry, westerly adiabatic winds losing their moisture rather than bringing cold rain. Blue sky days. In the southern h
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David Bentley
digital
“Despina, a minor sea god, lies close to Neptune and is in a losing battle to remain intact. That may free up its mineral wealth, but not quickly enough as planetary time scales are too slow for the
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David Bentley
digital
“It’s perfectly still on the water and the tessellated ice wall catches the white light of early morning. The melting ice has created geometrical shapes.” Technique: #digital Theme: #landscape #horiz
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David Bentley
digital
“It’s snow season, as the storm clears not everything is clear and sharp. With low visibility one gets more of an impression. Better clean the goggles.” “Oh no! It’s not any better! “ Technique: #d
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David Bentley
digital
Mercury, closest to the sun, was always expected to be sunburnt, cracked and full of surprises. Early Mariner flybys did not dispel this line of thinking, returned data suggesting a moon like surface
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David Bentley
digital
“It could be a game of Tetris but it’s not. We’re rebuilding from the inside!” Technique: #digital Theme: #abstract Highlight colour:#orange Series:
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David Bentley
digital
The title is a juxtaposed line from Paul Simon’s classic “the sound of silence”. It seemed appropriate for this image. Technique: #digital Theme: #abstract Highlight colour: #black #pink Series:
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David Bentley
digital
The ginkgo is an ancient tree species with unusual leaves. Come Autumn they go yellow, and fall off, lying pretty on the ground. If you have astigmatism, or squint a little, the patterns and colours
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David Bentley
digital
“In the dark the column stands out, white against the yellow black of the chamber. Why is it so? Where is the light coming from? Above, or below, left or right, inside or out? It’s a puzzle.” #digita
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David Bentley
digital
“While the pharaohs may not have been into town planning, they had a pretty good idea of where their pyramids were going to go. With a 30 year lead time this was no project to procrastinate over! Fi
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David Bentley
digital
“On an alien, unexplored planet with unfamiliar skies signs of life may be difficult to find. But what is that in the distance? It’s dark, but something is ahead. Those shapes, rising out of the blac
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David Bentley
digital
“The camera lens has been abraded during landing, captures a brief moment of colour before the Sun bathes everything in violent white light.” #digital #landscape #pink #space
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David Bentley
digital
The Crepe Myrtles are at their autumnal best, an explosion of colour catching the morning sun. #digital #abstract #red
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