The original sunset, by Tom Burnett.
Tom’s current screen saver displays every single one of his pictures. The images shown here made me think, “Wish I could post them on CatRutgers4art.” Fact is, of course I can! And Guest Spot was born.
Guest Spot will be a monthly-or-so feature, expanding the dialogue on art and artists. By the way, did you catch the anagram? Spot. Post. I love words (and am betting you do too).
Here’s the good word from Mr. Burnett: “The original photo was taken at sunset, overlooking the Shenandoah Valley. I imagined that different life forms may perceive light waves differently than we do and sought to simulate those portals of perception, thus exploring the many possibilities of how a sunset is actually experienced depending on who or what is perceiving it. It’s also fun just to mess around with Photoshop and find a happy place to stop.” Enjoy the view.
All images in this post are by Tom Burnett © 2011.
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Lizards and eagles are two of the creatures Tom had in mind. And, yes, they do see things differently. Check out “Do Birds and Reptiles have better vision than us?” at Yahoo! Answers, http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100805143215AAXNJzk
“It is true that we are blind to many wavelengths of light.” Find out more, from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, aka NASA, at http://science.hq.nasa.gov/kids/imagers/ems/visible.html
After looking through the earlier post Smell This, Please I’m wondering if scents have an element to them that can be perceived visually. Must do some research on this. I’m imagining that certain parts of the unseen light spectrum can interact with scent signals to create it’s own visual variation though I could be totally of base about this.
To be continued….
I think you’re on to something, Tom!! Look forward to finding out what you discover; searching synesthesia could be a good place to start.
this is a nice little article. Thanks for sharing.
A comment- you should put somewhere on it (if you can, I wouldnt know how)so someone can share the article with someone else (a forward or something)
Hi, Samm! Thanks for the comment and the prompt.
The sharing button has been activated; you can click on it for email, print, Facebook, Digg, Reddit, Twitter, Stumbleupon … not that I know how to use all those myself, but the options are now available. ^_^