{"id":3662,"date":"2016-07-01T01:13:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T01:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=3662"},"modified":"2016-07-01T01:13:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T01:13:40","slug":"illuminated-portraits-of-live-portuguese-man-o-war-captured-by-aaron-ansarov-colossal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/01\/illuminated-portraits-of-live-portuguese-man-o-war-captured-by-aaron-ansarov-colossal\/","title":{"rendered":"Illuminated Portraits of Live Portuguese Man o\u2019 War Captured by Aaron Ansarov | Colossal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2016\/06\/illuminated-portraits-of-live-portuguese-man-o-wars-captured-by-aaron-ansarov\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Ansarov_01.jpg?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2016\/06\/illuminated-portraits-of-live-portuguese-man-o-wars-captured-by-aaron-ansarov\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Ansarov_03.jpg?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2016\/06\/illuminated-portraits-of-live-portuguese-man-o-wars-captured-by-aaron-ansarov\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Ansarov_06.jpg?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An ex-military photographer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ansarov.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Ansarov<\/a> retired from the Navy in 2007, transforming his skills to create commercial work for magazines and focus on his own practice. Fascinated with marine life since his days growing up in Central Florida, his series\u00a0\u201cZooids,\u201d focuses on detailed images of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Portuguese_man_o%27_war\" target=\"_blank\">Portuguese Man o\u2019 War<\/a>. Ansarov photographs the creatures on a homemade light table while alive, then immediately releases them back into the wild where they were found.<\/p>\n<p>Once shot and the Man o\u2019 War are returned, each image receives minimal manipulation, as Ansarov makes only slight adjustments to the photograph\u2019s exposure, contrast, and vibrancy to highlight the vivid details of each venomous <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Siphonophorae\" target=\"_blank\">siphonophore<\/a>. The completed works are otherworldly,\u00a0appearing like alien illustrations rather than portraits, with deep blues, purples, and pinks unfurling in every direction.\u00a0You can see more of Ansarov\u2019s illuminated images on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ansarovstudios\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ansarovstudios\/\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>.\u00a0(via<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fubiz.net\/2016\/06\/27\/amazing-detailed-pictures-of-a-portuguese-man-of-war-jellyfish\/?utm_source=feedly&amp;utm_medium=webfeeds\" target=\"_blank\">Fubiz<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2016\/06\/illuminated-portraits-of-live-portuguese-man-o-wars-captured-by-aaron-ansarov\/\">Illuminated Portraits of Live Portuguese Man o\u2019 War Captured by Aaron Ansarov | Colossal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ex-military photographer, Aaron Ansarov retired from the Navy in 2007, transforming his skills to create commercial work for magazines and focus on his own practice. Fascinated with marine life since his days growing up in Central Florida, his series\u00a0\u201cZooids,\u201d focuses on detailed images of\u00a0Portuguese Man o\u2019 War. Ansarov photographs the creatures on a homemade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-X4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3666,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662\/revisions\/3666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}