Isn't space photography just beautiful?
It takes a lot of equipment and is something I'm not really going to be able to do myself so being able to dive into a whole host of images taken by the Hubble Telescope is a fantastic way for me to reference different galaxy formations in space as inspiration for my glass vortex pendants and marbles.
If you have a particular interest in space photography or would like to be able to find the images for your own artwork esa's Hubble telescope site is the place for all types of open source space photography.
The graceful, winding arms of the majestic spiral galaxy M51 (NGC 5194) appear like a grand spiral staircase sweeping through space. They are actually long lanes of stars and gas laced with dust.
What I see is trails of red dichroic to represent the lanes of stars within the whirlpool, maybe even a little mica powder, all highlighted with a yellow (or perhaps milky white) aura. Translating what I see into glass isn't always as simple though as I know that dichroic doesn't show up as vibrantly when used with lighter colours so I would have to back any dichroic with a darker colour before adding a lighter to create the aura.
Examples of glass vortexes.
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Image Credit: NASA ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI), and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
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Your work is breathtakingly beautiful. You definitely are great at photographing it...glass is always tricky.
Thank you,it's taken a few years to get right that's for sure. I'm not very good at other types of photography though and especially terrible if it's not with a macro lens.
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