The already intense light and scorching heat of this sunrise is depicted here through the use of two combined images (b&w and color).

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The glacier fed Chickaloon River, surrounded by the colorful autumn foliage, looks especially pretty this time of the year.

Newel Post overlay

Created for Treat This 72 Kreative People Group

Thank you skagitrenee for the use your of lovely crocus photograph. A small copy is posted below

The texture layerPetalsAndLeaves3 is my own and is available to use at myMy Texture Set

Trying out a vintage look

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Few people know where I captured this image - and I'll never tell - because the river is teeming with fish!

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Cranes in sunrise

The plane is a flying B-25 bomber which I turned into a silhouette and then dropped as a shadow.

I got the idea after observing the behavior of geese toward anything other than being chased on foot. The choice of plane stemmed purely out of a personal interest in vintage airplanes. All other birds and animals do react to the level of sound and/or looming, moving shadows from above.

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We still have two feet of snow on the ground - but beneath all of that snow - I can hear the wildflowers stirring.

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Tweaked twist on the downtown bunch of buildings along University Street in Seattle.

Photo Art

Let sleeping dogs lie.

Adams, Tennessee

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My chives have gone to seed - but they sure look pretty.

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A redo of a project from my archive with improved editing skills – originally done in 2013. The current Flickr x LEGO® Build and Capture photo contest inspired me to dig into my archive for my source files and rework/repost.

A digital manipulation of an image of my youngest son, Henry (who was 12 at time). Henry developed a beautifully creative and analytical mind which is due in part (I am convinced) to his near life-long interest in Lego brick building. He has two older brothers who were also Lego builders (and five and seven years older), thus he got a VERY early start. This photoshop project fits his personality perfectly - he was quite serious about his Lego builds back in the day.

Henry is now 20 years old and a sophomore at college with a double major in Biochemistry and English/Literature. A beautiful mind indeed.

Now that he is a part-timer in our household, I miss him a great deal in general, but also miss him as the most cooperative photography model of my three sons.

"Texture wrapping" edits via the displace filter in Photoshop.

The Ceremonial start of The Iditarod Sled Dog Race will kick off in Anchorage at 10:00 AM on March 4th this year. The following day the restart will take place in Willow Alaska. The “restart” is considered to be the true start of the race, with mushers racing off into the surrounding wilderness and heading for Nome.

This year has the smallest number of mushers ever entered in the race. There are only 33 competitors, and has none of the well known names we have followed over the years. Notably absent this year are: Mitch and Dallas Seavey, Jeff King, and Martin Buser – just to name a few. In 2008 we had 96 mushers take on the grueling 1,000 mile run to Nome – but citing the cost of feed, fuel, and supplies - fewer mushers can afford to enter the race. Plus there is a diminishing interest in the race and very few corporate sponsors willing to participate.

Gone are the good old days when the “race” was essentially a three-week camping trip through the wilderness among friends. The inaugural Iditarod in 1973 took 20 days for the winner, (Dick Wilmarth) to arrive in Nome. Now, the fastest mushers arrive under the Burled Arch on Front Street in mere eight or nine days. It’s sad – but I never thought I would see Alaska’s Iditarod Race come to an end.

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Shock of the New Challenge # 56.0

~ SOTN ~ B&W ~ Monochrome ~

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With sub-zero temperatures predicted for the next couple of weeks - I am waiting for the day that our boreal forest welcomes spring flowers. Until then, I'll see them in my dreams.

...added to this locked in ice composition are the shard of ice and goose reflections.

With subzero temperatures just outside of my cabin door this morning - I thought it might be a good time to play with Wombo and other photo software, to create the serenity of a cold Alaskan night.

Wishing everyone a peaceful week ahead.

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