In some ways, I sorta think this looks like a 1970s era Have a Nice Day badge on an acid trip, or as rendered by one of those psychedelic concert poster artists for a Grateful Dead concert, but not quite.
In some other ways, I’d like to call this a portrait of Leto II on his wedding day, saying his vows to the gentle Hwi, but that is also not quite, perhaps.
So it’s just Helios, I guess.
It’s the tip of a fairy light bulb, looking down the bulb towards the base, in case you were wondering.
D7000. Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 AI, reversed, on 100mm extension. ISO100, 3 seconds (AP mode), f/8, -1EV. And for the first time in a long time, the only processing to this was removing about a dozen dust spots (and whatever Aperture’s RAW converter did to it…) in Aperture.
