“BOIS DE ROSE, v9, Edit I” — Cosmetic-Art Still Life Photography

Title: “BOIS DE ROSE, v9, Edit I”.

Creation Year: v9, Edit I = 2024.

Subject: Cosmetic-Art; Still Life.

Technical: Digital Photography with painterly texture.

Tags:

#lipsticks, #boisderose, #stilllifephotography, #macro, #tabletop, #red, #gold, #NawfalJohnson, #cosmeticsart, #digitalphotography, #conceptual,

Hell Spawn Egg, No. 2, Edit G

Title: Hell Spawn Egg, No. 2, Edit G.

Year: 2023.
Series Title: DIGITAL PAINTINGS.
Series Year(s): 2023 (On-going).
Medium: Egg.
Style/Technique: Macro Photography & Digital Illustration.

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https://www.saatchiart.com/print/Digital-Hell-Spawn-Egg-No-2-Edit-G/326658/11200693/view

Tags:
#abstract, #Abstraction, #alienwater, #oherworld, #egg, #hellspawn, #ocean, #art, #artwork, #spiky, #orange, #sciencefiction, #chaos, #digital, #experimental, #manipulated, #NawfalJohnson, #order, #painterly, #paintingtexture, #photography, #reimagining, #macro, #stilllife,

Used by Salties

Title: “Used by Salties”.
Creation Year: 2023.

Salticidae, are the Family of ‘Jumping Spiders’. I call them the ‘Super Spiders’! By far, these are my favourite of all tiny critters. They tether themselves to a line of silk as they make nearly impossible jumps to quickly (blink of an eye quick) capture their prey. The silk-tether is so that they don’t accidentally fall to the ground and perhaps injure themselves. “Their large anterior eyes…are adapted to detailed, three-dimensional vision for purposes of estimating the range, direction, and nature of potential prey, permitting the spider to direct its attacking leaps with great precision.” (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_spider.)

*You can buy prints of this artwork at this link:
https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Photography-Used-by-Salties/326658/11003911/view

Tags:

#art, #painterly, #photography, #Salty, #Salticidae, #JumpingSpider, #macro, #closeup, #NawfalJohnson, #spider,

The King’s Crown with Surface Tension, High-Speed Still Life Drip Photography

Title: The King’s Crown with Surface Tension.

Subject: Still Life; Macro; High-Speed; Splash.

Category: Macro Photography.

#stilllife, #macro, #highspeed, #splash, #drip, #NawfalJohnson, #pink, #black, #surfacetension, #Physics, #water, #ripples,

MOVING HOUSE AT NIGHT, v3

Title: MOVING HOUSE AT NIGHT, v3.

Year: 2023.
Series Title: DIGITAL PAINTINGS.
Series Year(s): 2023 (On-going).

About this Ant Photograph:

This is a digital photographic manipulation art piece of an ant photograph I created at nighttime.

I was looking for insects to photograph, for some reason. I guess I like to see what tiny creatures are prowling about at nighttime. I saw a long, continuous line of black ants hauling what appeared to be ant pupae–silk cocoons that enclose young ants. Each of the ants were carrying one of these, so I assume the ant colony was moving house at nighttime.

I wanted to isolate a single ant with pupa. Of course, I had to use a macro lens, and I also needed to use an off-camera flash to provide a touch of fill flash (camera-right and above the subject).

The ant was moving fast so I had to pre-focus at a spot in the frame where I wanted to capture the tiny beast.

Can you imagine the strength that an ant must have to carry an object that may be equal its own weight (or maybe more) and to do this incredible feat over long distances (distant for an ant).

Ants are very interesting, and sometimes shocking to me. One time, on the other side of the island, I was slowly driving along a remote road looking for things to photograph, and right in front of me, out of one side of the jungle, and then going across the road in a straight line, and then back into the jungle on the other side of the road, was a caravan of HUGE ANTS–I couldn’t believe how huge these black ants were (‘huge’ means maybe 1 inch in length).

I didn’t want to get too close without being able to identify exactly what species they were–some ant species are quite dangerous. The Semut Api (Fire Ants, Genus Solenopsis) and Semut Selangor (Selangor Ant or Ipoh Ant, also known as ‘arboreal bicolored ant’: the species, Tetraponera rufonigra — from the family, Formicidae) are dangerous and have very painful bites. Nevertheless, I had no idea what these big ants were, so I kept my distance and watched them. Maybe these were a group of Bullet Ants (Paraponera clavata), or Dinoponera quadriceps (an ant in the subfamily Ponerinae), because they were so big for ants. However, these two species are not native to Malaysia, unless, by accident some got transported here and grew into a colony. You never know exactly what exists out there in the jungle–there are probably species of ants that have not been identified yet. All that I know for sure is that it was a big ant species.

Malaysia is home to probably the most suicidal ant in the world: Colobopsis saundersi.

Its defensive behaviours include self-destruction by autothysis, a term coined by Maschwitz and Maschwitz (1974). Two oversized, poison-filled mandibular glands run the entire length of the ant’s body. When combat takes a turn for the worse, the worker ant violently contracts its abdominal muscles to rupture its gaster at the intersegmental fold, which also bursts the mandibular glands, thereby spraying a sticky secretion in all directions from the anterior region of its head…[it] can immobilize all nearby victims. (Source: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colobopsis_saundersi)

Wow! I got sidetracked with exp|0ding suicidal ants. Let us get back to my big-ant story–this incident happened in the pre-digital days. I took a couple shots with colour film, but the results were not good, and the negatives have since gone missing, or were damaged and I discarded them long ago. Too bad I didn’t have digital camera technology back then (around 1995 or thereabouts).

☆ You can buy fine art prints and gallery quality canvas of the Digital Paintings artworks, at this link:
https://www.imagekind.com/artists/nawfalnur/DIGITAL-PAINTINGS/fine-art-prints

Tags:

#NawfalJohnson, #art, #paintingtexture, #digital, #manipulated, #experimental, #reimagining, #PHOTOGRAPHY, #Penang, #Malaysia, #nature, #natural, #abstraction, #botanical, #order, #Green, #Neem, #Leaf, #Leaves, #blackant, #Ant, #Nighttime, #Painters, #Macro, #Closeup,

Black Bee Head Detail, v3

Title: Black Bee Head Detail, v3.
Year: 2023.
Series Title: DIGITAL PAINTINGS.
Series Year(s): 2023 (On-going).

☆ You can buy fine art prints and gallery quality canvas of the Digital Paintings artworks, at this link:
https://www.imagekind.com/artists/nawfalnur/DIGITAL-PAINTINGS/fine-art-prints

Series Description:
This series is one of only three of my many series [I currently have 113 Photography Series] where I use some sort of digital painting software to transform my photographs into digital paintings, or I apply some sort of painting texture to my photos. In this series, I incorporate the use of digital painting software only if I believe that the use of this technology, will help me communicate the visual interpretation of the scene, in a way that suits my aesthetic vision in a different light from the original photo. The digital technology available allows artists and photographers more latitude to reimagine their art pieces in alternative visualizations…so why not.

Tags:

#NawfalJohnson, #art, #paintingtexture, #digital, #manipulated, #experimental, #reimagining, #PHOTOGRAPHY, #headshot, #bigeyes, #Asian, #brown, #Penang, #insect, #Malaysia, #nature, #natural, #abstraction, #macro, #closeup, #green, #bees, #red, #portrait,

Day-3 Iritis, Edit D

Title: Day-3 Iritis, Edit D.
Year: 2023.
Series Title: DIGITAL PAINTINGS.
Series Year(s): 2023 (On-going).


IRITIS: What is it?

“Iritis (i-RYE-tis) is swelling and irritation (inflammation) in the colored ring around your eye’s pupil (iris). Another name for iritis is anterior uveitis. The uvea is the middle layer of the eye between the retina and the white part of the eye. The iris is located in the front portion (anterior) of the uvea. Iritis is the most common type of uveitis. Uveitis is inflammation of part of or all of the uvea, and it is a very painful eye disease to experience–I know firsthand. The cause is often unknown. However, it can result from an underlying condition, such as with people who suffer from the arthritic/degenerative joint disease, Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS), who may also suffer with chronic Iritis. If untreated, iritis could lead to glaucoma or vision loss.

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Tags:

#NawfalJohnson, #art, #paintingtexture, #digital, #manipulated, #experimental, #reimagining, #PHOTOGRAPHY, #bloodshot, #bigeyes, #brown, #Penang, #iritis, #Malaysia, #nature, #natural, #abstraction, #macro, #closeup, #greeniris, #eye, #red, #anterioruveitis, #eyedisease,

Bee Wing on Orange

Title: Bee Wing on Orange.
Year: 2023.
Series Title: DIGITAL PAINTINGS.
Series Year(s): 2023 (On-going).

☆ You can buy fine art prints and gallery quality canvas of the Digital Paintings artworks, at this link:
https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Photography-Bee-Wing-on-Orange/326658/10851047/view

Series Description:
This series is one of only three of my many series [I currently have 113 Photography Series] where I use some sort of digital painting software to transform my photographs into digital paintings, or I apply some sort of painting texture to my photos. In this series, I incorporate the use of digital painting software only if I believe that the use of this technology, will help me communicate the visual interpretation of the scene, in a way that suits my aesthetic vision in a different light from the original photo. The digital technology available allows artists and photographers more latitude to reimagine their art pieces in alternative visualizations…so why not.

Tags:
#NawfalJohnson, #art, #paintingtexture, #digital, #manipulated, #experimental, #reimagining, #PHOTOGRAPHY, #tangled, #chaotic, #Asian, #brown, #Penang, #trees, #Malaysia, #nature, #natural, #abstraction, #Flower, #ethereal, #macro, #closeup, #orange, #beewing, #insect, #wing,

CANNON BALL TREE FLOWER AND BEES, No2, Edit C

Title: CANNON BALL TREE FLOWER AND BEES, No2, Edit C.
Year: 2023.
Series Title: DIGITAL PAINTINGS.
Series Year(s): 2023 (On-going).

☆ You can buy fine art prints and gallery quality canvas of the Digital Paintings artworks, at this link:
https://www.imagekind.com/artists/nawfalnur/DIGITAL-PAINTINGS/fine-art-prints

Series Description:
This series is one of only three of my many series [I currently have 113 Photography Series] where I use some sort of digital painting software to transform my photographs into digital paintings, or I apply some sort of painting texture to my photos. In this series, I incorporate the use of digital painting software only if I believe that the use of this technology, will help me communicate the visual interpretation of the scene, in a way that suits my aesthetic vision in a different light from the original photo. The digital technology available allows artists and photographers more latitude to reimagine their art pieces in alternative visualizations…so why not.

Tags:

#NawfalJohnson, #art, #paintingtexture, #digital, #manipulated, #experimental, #reimagining, #PHOTOGRAPHY, #tangled, #chaotic, #Asian, #brown, #Penang, #trees, #Malaysia, #nature, #natural, #abstraction, #Flower, #ethereal, #macro, #closeup, #green, #fern, #leaves, #leaf, #cannonballtree, #flower, #bees, #red,

AMAZING LEAVES, No2, Edit C

Title: AMAZING LEAVES, No2, Edit C.
Year: 2023.
Series Title: DIGITAL PAINTINGS.
Series Year(s): 2023 (On-going).

☆ You can buy fine art prints and gallery quality canvas of the Digital Paintings artworks, at this link:
https://www.imagekind.com/artists/nawfalnur/DIGITAL-PAINTINGS/fine-art-prints

Series Description:
This series is one of only three of my many series [I currently have 113 Photography Series] where I use some sort of digital painting software to transform my photographs into digital paintings, or I apply some sort of painting texture to my photos. In this series, I incorporate the use of digital painting software only if I believe that the use of this technology, will help me communicate the visual interpretation of the scene, in a way that suits my aesthetic vision in a different light from the original photo. The digital technology available allows artists and photographers more latitude to reimagine their art pieces in alternative visualizations…so why not.

Tags:

#NawfalJohnson, #art, #paintingtexture, #digital, #manipulated, #experimental, #reimagining, #PHOTOGRAPHY, #tangled, #chaotic, #Asian, #brown, #Penang, #trees, #Malaysia, #nature, #natural, #abstraction, #Flower, #ethereal, #macro, #closeup, #green, #fern, #leaves, #leaf,

Fern Portrait, v1, Edit I

Title: Fern Portrait, v1, Edit I.
Year: 2023.
Series Title: DIGITAL PAINTINGS.
Series Year(s): 2023 (On-going).

☆ You can buy fine art prints and gallery quality canvas of the Digital Paintings artworks, at this link:
https://www.imagekind.com/artists/nawfalnur/DIGITAL-PAINTINGS/fine-art-prints

Series Description:
This series is one of only three of my many series [I currently have 113 Photography Series] where I use some sort of digital painting software to transform my photographs into digital paintings, or I apply some sort of painting texture to my photos. In this series, I incorporate the use of digital painting software only if I believe that the use of this technology, will help me communicate the visual interpretation of the scene, in a way that suits my aesthetic vision in a different light from the original photo. The digital technology available allows artists and photographers more latitude to reimagine their art pieces in alternative visualizations…so why not.

Tags:

#NawfalJohnson, #art, #paintingtexture, #digital, #manipulated, #experimental, #reimagining, #PHOTOGRAPHY, #tangled, #chaotic, #Asian, #brown, #Penang, #trees, #Malaysia, #nature, #natural, #abstraction, #Flower, #ethereal, #macro, #closeup, #green, #fern,

Bird of Paradise, Edit G

Title: Bird of Paradise, Edit G.
Year: 2023.
Series Title: DIGITAL PAINTINGS.
Series Year(s): 2023 (On-going).

☆ You can buy fine art prints and gallery quality canvas of the Digital Paintings artworks, at this link:
https://www.imagekind.com/artists/nawfalnur/DIGITAL-PAINTINGS/fine-art-prints

Series Description:
This series is one of only three of my many series [I currently have 113 Photography Series] where I use some sort of digital painting software to transform my photographs into digital paintings, or I apply some sort of painting texture to my photos. In this series, I incorporate the use of digital painting software only if I believe that the use of this technology, will help me communicate the visual interpretation of the scene, in a way that suits my aesthetic vision in a different light from the original photo. The digital technology available allows artists and photographers more latitude to reimagine their art pieces in alternative visualizations…so why not.

Tags:

#NawfalJohnson, #art, #paintingtexture, #digital, #manipulated, #experimental, #reimagining, #PHOTOGRAPHY, #tangled, #chaotic, #Asian, #brown, #red, #yellow, #blue, #Penang, #trees, #Malaysia, #nature, #natural, #abstraction, #Flower, #ethereal, #macro, #closeup, #birdofparadise,

Flowers & Clouds No.3, Edit G

Title: Flowers & Clouds No.3, Edit G.
Year: 2023.
Series Title: DIGITAL PAINTINGS.
Series Year(s): 2023 (On-going).

☆ You can buy fine art prints and gallery quality canvas of the Digital Paintings artworks, at this link:
https://www.imagekind.com/artists/nawfalnur/DIGITAL-PAINTINGS/fine-art-prints

Series Description:
This series is one of only three of my many series [I currently have 113 Photography Series] where I use some sort of digital painting software to transform my photographs into digital paintings, or I apply some sort of painting texture to my photos. In this series, I incorporate the use of digital painting software only if I believe that the use of this technology, will help me communicate the visual interpretation of the scene, in a way that suits my aesthetic vision in a different light from the original photo. The digital technology available allows artists and photographers more latitude to reimagine their art pieces in alternative visualizations…so why not.

Tags:

#NawfalJohnson, #art, #paintingtexture, #digital, #manipulated, #experimental, #reimagining, #PHOTOGRAPHY, #tangled, #chaotic, #Asian, #brown, #red, #yellow, #blue, #Penang, #trees, #Malaysia, #nature, #natural, #abstraction, #Flower, #ethereal, #macro, #closeup,