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Day 263

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Merrin really liked those wings, so this is for my beautiful best friend and wife!

I had questions about the display on the opera house.

So just a bit of information about this lightshow, it is a 15 min. looping cycle of moving pictures, a bit like a movie projected onto the sails.

This is what makes it so tricky to get a decent shot of it, exposures can't be longer than half a second anything longer gets blurry. Not your normal long exposure!

Vivid Sydney will continue for another 2 weeks

More info here: www.vividsydney.com/

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Norbert

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Camera in motion, capturing three lights in a candelabra. Lights, shadows, and blurs in the image were subsequently modified in Lightroom, Irfanview, and NIK software, producing a mix of electric and painterly effects.

The sun sets directly at the end of the Venice Pier on the winter solstice when this was taken. HDR from 3 exposures organized in Lightroom, tonemapped in Dynamic Photo HDR and edited with Topaz in photoshop.

From a recent trip to the Tucson Botanical Gardens, processed in GIMP and G'MIC.

Flying Umbrellas,

used: Filter Forge, Photoshop, Pixabay

Playing Guitar,

used Filter Forge, Pixabay, Photoshop

Eventually it runs out.

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African green mamba...

Having some digital fun with stock images. The shot of the green mamba was taken in Jan 2014 during a reptile exhibit at the RBG.

Throughout my city, on parking lots and in community centres, you'll find huge piles of snow that have been cleared from the streets. My guess is that this "mountain" is 15-20' feet tall. Being that it's Sliders Sunday, I added a few filters, then saturated the colours. Happy Sliders Sunday! HSS!

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Lovely view

2011

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NOTE: All works featured here are completely original creations. None are made with the assistance of any form of AI technology in any fashion whatsoever.

The idea for this abstract nature image formed while manipulating another image posted earlier today (spider www.flickr.com/photos/vivid_dreams/37443059864/in/datepos...). This is a small cropped section from the lower center right of the image.

The cropped image was rotated 180 degrees, converted to monochrome which was then inverted to the negative look, pushed the contrast for better blacks and cleaned up any white spots.

It's a mystery to me.

homeless-844213_created_using_Artensoft_Photo_Collage_Maker, Pixabay, Photoshop

I went outside and found the ugliest dying weed we have and photographed it from the top down. I used our colorful groundcover as a backdrop, and took the whole thing into TS. Tada! Now the ugly old thing looks kinda spiffy.

(I think the name of this ugly plant is - "Labrador Lousewort." It even has an ugly name to go with it. LOL)

From cold ground,

A grave

The Breath of Spring

Warms the air

Draws colours,

Life unfurls,

Rising from Winter sleep

Created for Award Tree Challenge 129 ~ Pastel Palette, also

SOTN Challenge 39 Shock Woman

Texture: FrostedBlossom2 is my own and is available from My Texture Set

Sit back from your screen to view

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Twins in sunshine,

Used: Pixabay 511884 - Photoshop - Filter Forge

The hardy people that choose to live in bush Alaska often have to become like MacGyver, and at any given moment, jerry-rig anything that has broken. That is the reason you see a lot of what the average person would call "junk" - laying around outside of a remote cabin or home. You can't just jump in a car and go to the local hardware store, as it may be a couple of hundred miles away. (As it is in the case of this homesteader.)

On the other hand - what do you do with an old car or large home appliance that has quit working when you live off grid? There are a lot of puzzles like the ones I have mentioned, that have to be solved when living remotely. What would you do?

*(Notice the old truck parked down in the right hand corner of the photo? Old vehicles always capture my attention.)

Achiltibuie and Ben More Coigach from Polbain: evening light

This was the view from the cottage we stayed in at Easter.

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A variation on a previous image ...

The hidden faces,

Used: Filter Forge, Pixabay, Photoshop

A collage inspired by the scrapbooks that our great grand parents kept for storing photos, pressed flowers, theatre programs, and other memorabilia ...

Created for the theme challenge Nostalgia in the Handheld Art Group.

I created the background layers, composed the colllage, blended the different elements and textures, and to added the handwritten script in PicsArt and iColorama on my iPad.

I tweaked the colour and made the "grungey" border from some of my textures in Photoshop Elements 13 for Mac.

All the photographs, background layers, and textures are my own, with the exception of the "human" elements which are free non-attributable images from Pixabay

Published in Living the Photo Artistic Life," Issue No. 93, Nov 2022, Featured Artist, Cover and Pgs. 31-35, issuu.com. Image Sources:Water Background from anton-darius-Qbn7_Nqs8WA-unsplash; House from jean-wimmerlin-eB6D0Wks7jA-unsplash; Carp from PublicDomainPictures on Pixabay; Fish from Petco; Brush from Nucly; Woman from electricsorcere on Deviant Art; Plant from pngwing.com; Fractal from Dieter_G on Pixabay; Fractal from astronomiseme on Deviant Art; Branch from SatyaPrem on Pixabay; Light Beam brush from SS; Bubbles brush from millertimemsu on Deviant Art;

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People in the far north are a very self sufficient bunch - right down to being able to launch and retrieve their boats in the mighty Yukon River with out help - or even with the aid of a boat ramp. This young man looked like he had learned this technique from a very young age. He flawlessly positioned the boat on the submerged trailer - jumped in the water and then into his truck, and drove home with his catch of the day. HSS!

*( Posted for Sliders Sunday Group - "Processed to the Max". )

Original photographs over-processed in PS and Studio Artist 4. It's not subtle but it is what it is.

Not enough room for dancing

Created for the Treat This 61 Challenge in the Kreative People group.

With thanks to Abstractartangel77 for the source image. A small copy is posted below

Texture HintofPurple is my own

PRESS L

music : Bass Communion/ghost on the magnetic tape

My award from you is a word or few, not a flashing/dancing/jumping or singing copy/paste item.

Those comments waste my time and will be erased

The use of this photo is allowed only with written authorization of Svante Oldenburg

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