Funny things happen with a simple sheet of white paper, a cigarette lighter endowed with a colored LED…and the fragile skin of an onion that should be eaten before it sprouts. Funny things happen with a simple sheet of white paper, a cigarette lighter endowed with a colored LED, the fragile skin of an onion that should be eaten before it sprouts. And a camera. The camera is what made all of the difference on the day I made this shot and other shots. There are lots of onion skin shots, this is the first of them. Well, actually it’s the second that I made, but the first that I’m posting. It’s a macro shot, as you can tell, with minimal postwork. In fact the only postwork is a bit of resizing for Renderosity. All other special effects are simply the end result of creative lighting: a desk lamp, a cigarette lighter with a white LED—funny how it reads as blue…and a sheet of white paper. I have multiple LED-endowed cigarette lighters; they come in handy when the urge to create strikes me. That happens quite often. Yesterday, it happened during a viewing Airplane!. Surely you’ve seen that movie…and no, I’m not calling you Shirley. The onion-skin (as well as the onion it came from) belongs to Corey. He hasn’t cooked with it yet. The white sheet of paper, largely invisible here, also belonged to Corey; there’s an upcoming 2D post involving the sheet of paper before this one in the stack. The vague insanity of a Zucker Brothers comedy (if it even made its way into this photo) is…well…it’s probably somewhere off screen, but present, nonetheless. As always, thank you for viewing, reading, and commenting, and I hope you’re all having a great week.