Art cigarette smoke

Within three months, German photographer Thomas Herbrich took more than 100,000 pictures of cigarette smoke to capture the most beautiful shapes that remind us of various images, silhouettes, and things. Watch artistic cigarette smoke by Thomas Herbrich.

15 PHOTOS

1. Thomas Herbrich as a photographer has long been known in the world for his creative and unusual works. (Photo: Thomas Herbrich).

2. As the author of these pictures wrote about himself: “My motto is: surprise yourself and your audience. (In that order). " And he does it very well. (Photo: Thomas Herbrich).

3. A series of photographs entitled "Smoke" or "Smoke" shows that even out of nothing you can make an unusual and interesting project. (Photo: Thomas Herbrich).

4. As a rule, in our life we rarely pay attention to such things, and the author of a series of these pictures wanted to show what fantastic and unreal forms tobacco smoke can take. (Photo: Thomas Herbrich).

5. It's interesting how easily our brain finds, in seemingly ordinary puffs of smoke, different silhouettes, human faces, animals, or rolls of paper. (Photo: Thomas Herbrich).

6. This psychological phenomenon even has its own scientific name - pareidolia or pareidolic illusion. (Photo: Thomas Herbrich).

7. Pareidolia is when a person perceives vague and unintelligible visual images based on the details of a real object as something distinct and definite. The most common illusory images are probably various shapes in the clouds. (Photo: Thomas Herbrich).

8. The photographer writes about his works like this: “it is spectacular, interesting and always a little mysterious”. (Photo: Thomas Herbrich).

9. With his pictures, the photographer wants to surprise the viewer and make him smile because he believes that the viewer's attention should be rewarded. (Photo: Thomas Herbrich).

10. Thomas Herbrich was not always a photographer. In his life, there was a period of passion for video filming and cinema. He made space effects for Roland Emmerich's fantasy film The Noah's Ark Principle. (Photo: Thomas Herbrich).

11. Experience in the film industry quickly sobered Thomas, he no longer wanted to be a little cog in the car of the film business, so he returned to photography. (Photo: Thomas Herbrich).

12. From his experience in cinema, according to Thomas, he learned the principles of creating photographs: they should be grandiose, exciting, and mysterious. (Photo: Thomas Herbrich).

13. You can get acquainted with the very interesting works of Thomas Herbrich on his website: herbrich.com. (Photo: Thomas Herbrich).

14. "Smoke". (Photo: Thomas Herbrich).

15. "Smoke". (Photo: Thomas Herbrich).