FanArt: Gateway of the Ancients 3: Flight to another world

I don't know why, but I get a feeling of movement here, an effect I've always liked. I'm a bit of a Star Gate SG-1 fan myself so this is a nice image, and I like the way you did it. The airplane is cool too. There could be some great stories to go along with that.

Steven P. Love replies: "Thank you. I'm glad you liked it. I created the gate effects by taking a photo of water pouring from my kitchen faucet into a glass bowl. I took the photo at a high shutter speed which froze the bubble action. I then created a cut-out of the bubbles and manipulated it for the effect. The hardest part was getting that phosphorescent look of the wormhole event horizon. I had to digitally paint that over the photo of the bubbles."

oooh, now that is impressive, and you are so inventive with not only your usage of everyday photographic images, but the ability to capture moving water and use to such a fantastic effect, and then the resulting combination into such a compelling image - superb work! I like how you have included an everyday sort of aircraft rather than what one would expect, some sort of stellar space travelling machine, that really brings the whole image out of the to be expected and gives the feeling that perhaps, just perhaps stargates could indeed really exist and become part of this everyday life - maXine

Steven P. Love replies: "Thank you. The gate effect were indeed the hardest part. I wanted this one to be an improvement over the last one. After all what good is a sequel if it does not exceed the previous version. Thanks again."

So cool, the bubble actually looks like its moving. And the whole background is completely awesome too.

Steven P. Love replies: "Thank you.
The Gate effects was actually the hardest part."