After Man - DPChallenge Forums

12/02/2011 11:23:20 AM · #1

After Man
What sort of creatures will evolution give rise to long after man is gone? Show us the wild, beautiful or bizarre.

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Discuss.

I'm thinking lots of alien or techy type portraits. Anyone else thinking that?

pixelpig

Sony Alpha a55

Sony DT 1.8/50mm SAM

12/02/2011 11:28:18 AM · #2

After Man, there will still be cockroaches. And they will look the same, only lots bigger.

Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III

12/02/2011 11:30:05 AM · #3

If I was home and not in the middle of the end of semester work, I would put a lot more effort into this. I am not sure I will have time to enter this one. Unfortunately. Mainly because it looks fun. Lol.

Yo_Spiff

Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO

12/02/2011 11:31:24 AM · #4

Cyborgs. The only way humans will be able to survive at all, is by enclosing themselves in metallic protective shells and morphing into a new hybrid lifeform. Kinda like giant cockroaches, actually.

12/02/2011 11:33:18 AM · #5

Originally posted by pixelpig:

After Man, there will still be cockroaches. And they will look the same, only lots bigger.

agreed!

12/02/2011 11:34:01 AM · #6

Originally posted by Yo_Spiff:

Cyborgs. The only way humans will be able to survive at all, is by enclosing themselves in metallic protective shells and morphing into a new hybrid lifeform. Kinda like giant cockroaches, actually.

Maybe you should re-shoot this?

Lol!!

12/02/2011 11:39:02 AM · #7

he can't he's too skinny now WOOOO HOOOOOO!

Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II

12/02/2011 11:41:51 AM · #8

He can be Barney from Flinstones!

Lol.

*chuckles*

snaffles

Nikon D7100

12/02/2011 11:48:04 AM · #9

Haha he looks like an ex-bf from a long long loooonnng time ago!!! :-)

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12/02/2011 11:48:14 AM · #10

that would be kinda funny haha

mefnj

Nikon D7100

12/02/2011 03:03:34 PM · #11

Originally posted by Yo_Spiff:

more like Daleks from Dr. Who

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mycelium

Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

12/02/2011 03:14:25 PM · #12

elsapo

GeneralE

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12/02/2011 03:20:53 PM · #13

There was an excellent example of this in an old (circa 1970's) MAD Magazine ...

kirbic

Canon EOS R5

Canon RF 24-70 f2.8 L IS

12/02/2011 04:07:27 PM · #14

Originally posted by mefnj:

more like Daleks from Dr. Who

Ex...term...in...ate!

Spork99

Canon EOS M6 Mk II

Canon EF-M 22mm STM Lens

12/02/2011 04:12:46 PM · #15

I've discovered time travel...therefore my existence will be outside and independent of time I will always exist...

kirbic

Canon EOS R5

Canon RF 24-70 f2.8 L IS

12/02/2011 04:17:04 PM · #16

I'll go the Cyborg hypothesis one further. It could be the machines. Shades of The matrix.
Actually, the two above ideas are, IMO, less likely than an even stranger future. We are poised to become the one organism that will truly disconnect itself from evolution and adapt through conscious decision-making. We will change our own genome to suit our desires. It's already begun.
Now, that said, the break with evolution is even deeper than it seems. For eons, we have simply been vehicles for propagation of our genes. Taking control of our genomes turns this on its head. No longer will we be at the mercy of our genes. If a gene displeases us, we will simply delete it.
To me, the prospect of our having the ability to re-engineer ourselves is both incredible and incredibly frightening.

Bear_Music

Samsung Galaxy S21, S21+, S21 Ultra

Sony 24-70mm F4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

12/02/2011 04:38:01 PM · #17

It's weird that everyone's going all anthropomorphic on this one, and some people are even positing what mankind might evolve INTO. I read the challenge as "what will take over when there are no more men?" And I immediately think "Insects!", I think giant hive-creature-type organisms, I think mutant cockroaches. I think "Global warming! Sea levels eliminate land! Waterworld!" and THAT makes me think "Sharks! Intelligent sharks! Dolphin philosophers! Whale Buddhas!"

But of course, the way our rules work I can't DO any of that waterworld stuff 'cuz I have no way to shoot original sharks and dolphins and whales, bummer.

I do like the idea of machine intelligence taking over, but I don't actually think it will happen, for all that I love SF forever and ever. I think nature will triumph in the end.

R.

Yo_Spiff

Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark III

Olympus 12-100mm f/4.0 M.Zuiko ED IS PRO

12/02/2011 04:49:45 PM · #18

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

But of course, the way our rules work I can't DO any of that waterworld stuff 'cuz I have no way to shoot original sharks and dolphins and whales, bummer.

It's an expert editing challenge. You could photograph them at an aquarium and PP them together with whatever else.

kirbic

Canon EOS R5

Canon RF 24-70 f2.8 L IS

12/02/2011 05:46:05 PM · #19

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

I do like the idea of machine intelligence taking over, but I don't actually think it will happen, for all that I love SF forever and ever. I think nature will triumph in the end.

R.

Ah, but that the line between "organic creature" and "machine" is a widely blurred one. I'm not talking about cyborgs, mind you, but about the fact that machines can be built from organic materials, to self-assemble according to a code... well, you get the picture. Conversely, at a microscopic level *we* are highly complex machines, or rather, colonies of symbiotic and/or competitive machine-entities.
Although it seems far-fetched, and we will not likely see it in our lifetime, we will gain the ability to design micro-meter-size self-replicating devices (would these be machines or living entities, and would they evolve?) from the ground up.

snaffles

Nikon D7100

Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II

12/02/2011 06:04:27 PM · #20

Bear, the facts are indisputable: once humanity is wiped out, Nature will triumph. Thank gawd for that.

Message edited by author 2011-12-02 18:04:41.

CNovack

Canon EOS-600D/T3i Rebel

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS

12/02/2011 06:13:28 PM · #21

Interesting - I saw the headline and instantly thought of Dougal Dixon's book After Man: A Zoology of the Future

He provides diagrams, dna etc. etc. of what possible routes species could go and provides pictures....the creepest that gave me the creeps when I first read it many years ago : The Nightstalker

Bear_Music

Samsung Galaxy S21, S21+, S21 Ultra

Sony 24-70mm F4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

12/02/2011 06:17:35 PM · #22

Originally posted by Yo_Spiff:

Originally posted by Bear_Music:
But of course, the way our rules work I can't DO any of that waterworld stuff 'cuz I have no way to shoot original sharks and dolphins and whales, bummer.

It's an expert editing challenge. You could photograph them at an aquarium and PP them together with whatever else.

Yeah, except we don't HAVE that here, I'd have to go up to Boston for a decent aquarium and that ain't gonna happen...

R.