Monsters and showers

First we made these mind maps with idea's for the topic of 'underwater'

I got the two subjects 'Monsters' and 'Showers' to look at for this project. Here is some of the basic stuff I've found:



Showers:

Just by searching 'showers' in google images you get mostly images of showers in bathrooms and stuff along those lines. For example this image:

Even though this isn't what I'm looking for, I like this image because the colour effects the water very subtly and gives it a coloured hue. I also like the fact it has more than one colour light which makes the reflections on the water interesting and varied.










http://technabob.com/blog/2009/05/24/rio-led-rgb-shower-head-disco/


I then decided to search 'meteor shower' instead which got me far more interesting pictures.

I like this image because of the contrast between the dark sky and the bright meteor. I also like the blue hues of the image









http://www.lugaluda.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/meteor-shower-august-2010.jpg

I like this image a lot because of the colours and the way the meteor has a tail













http://www.usposttoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Perseid-Meteor-Shower.jpg

I really like this image because of the vast amount of meteor's, it looks amazing














http://www.jepara.net/wp-content/uploads/images/perseid-meteor-shower-2010.jpg

I don't know what the Northern lights have to do with
meteor showers but I love the way this looks, its very dramatic and has beautiful colours.









http://science.nasa.gov/media/medialibrary/2000/08/14/ast14aug_1_resources/hershman1.jpg

I love the trails coming from the meteors in this picture, they're very effective.














http://www.annesimone.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/break-meteor-shower-tonight.jpg



Monsters


Unfortunatly most of the images that come up when you search are from Monster Vs. Aliens and Monsters inc. Therefore I decided to search 'sea monsters' instead





I like this image of a 'monster' because it's already from a underwater environment and it looks creepy and scary. These things are usually found in the deep sea and some of them even glow in the dark to attract  prey.






http://www.weirdthings.org.uk/35-weird-bizarre-real-life-sea-monster-creatures-most-amazing-gallery/

This is my favourite image from searching, its a picture of a 'Ningen',a strange humanoid creature that many Japanese fishermen working in the Antarctic claim to have spotted. The work Ningen actually means human, and that's what makes this 'monster' seem so creepy, the fact it looks so human.





http://forgetomori.com/2007/criptozoology/ningen-a-bizarre-japanese-cryptid/



This research has helped me come up with idea's for my underwater piece, I really like all the pictures of meteors and the image's of the northern lights, I think it'd be really interesting to have a picture set in the deep sea with a northern lights and meteor showers of its own.

As for monsters I really like the idea of strange deep sea creatures that look really human. It could be like a hidden civilization under the sea.