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.)

Vegetables

Colorful experiment

A young steampunk woman prepares for a trip by packing her steamer trunk. Published in "Living the Photo Artistic Life," Issue No. 95, Jan 2023, p. 54, Issuu.com. Image Sources: Overlay from Caroline Julia Moore; Woman's Face from JerzyGorecki on Pixabay; Woman's Figure from rjranum on Deviant Art; Cat from Angeleses on Pixabay; Ribbon from pngwing.com; Bokeh brush from Kirk Nelson

Busy Garden-Ant

2016

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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.

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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.

Butterfly,

Used: Photoshop, Filter Forge

Digiart by Caltha palustris

A photo of a beautiful Tulip, digitally modified to produce this impressionistic-looking image.

Begging Eyes,

used: Cat: own photo, _ArtensoftPhotoMosaicWizard, Photoshop, Filter Forge

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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A photo of a red Rose, altered with a variety of digital filters to produce this "artistic" image.

Achiltibuie and Ben More Coigach from Polbain: evening light

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

www.karlwilliamsphotography.co.uk

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

Universe... such a vast place. Laws of the Universe are perfect, there is no anomalies, everything works! The most logical answer would be that an intelligent mind constructed Universe... or maybe, a God? Now they tell us there is infinite number of universes... can you fathom that?! Only in our galaxy there is many stars as there is grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth, and there is the same number of galaxies in our Universe... and again, in each of that galaxy you have that many stars, and that each star is the solar system with who knows how many habitable planets! Mind blowing... isn't it?

And then someone tells me we are the only intelligent species in the Universe... arrogant, isn't it? The entire Universe just for people... sure! Just as the Earth once was the center of the Universe. :))) Human arrogance has no limits...

Thanks for watching!

A

HDR merge of 3 images of Nubble Lighthouse, then "lit up". Most processing done using NIK Collection products and final tweaking in LR6.

Truck in green

Photo taken and edited with iphone6, cam apps: ProCamera, postpro apps: NoirPhoto, Superimpose, IColoramaS, Lens Distortions, Stackables, Mextures, After Light, PhotoPower.

Twitter/IG/EyeEm/Tumblr: @adesantora

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

Amazing the colours you see by the roadside in gulleys and gutters during Autumn ... Worth getting soaked in the rain !

Textures are my own:

Rainbow

WaterAndReflections4

PavedWithGoldGrunge

DappledSunlightOnAWall

And can be found in my texture set

Leopard

As the sun rises, Doc is out tackling winter chores. Snow removal is one job that never ends - and a roof rake will rip your guts out in a heartbeat. He later switched to a ladder and shovel to complete the job. We are rooting for an early spring.

You just never know what's going to happen next - neither do I.

One of my personal favourites of the Opera house series, just to break it up a bit.

We spent the long weekend in Sydney to see The 'Vivid Sydney" light show this year.

What can I say! What a spectacular show.

If you have a chance to go, this is a must see event if you in or around Sydney at the time.

For more information see : www.vividsydney.com/

The projected images are constantly moving and it is quite a challenge to get it right.

Hope you enjoy.

Thanks for looking

Norbert

Show-time

About 30 percent of my photos can be re-rippled to the point where I finally like their abstract-worthiness (even the photos I absolutely hate, originally!). :D

I think I found a piece of one T1000 robot from Terminator. Tell me I won't have to regret it...

Je pense avoir trouvé un morceau provenant d'un robot T1000 de Terminator. Dites-moi que je n'aurai pas à le regretter...

Created for Kreative People Treat This 98.

Thanks to Lemon~art for use of her Autumn fruits for Treat This image. A copy is also posted in the first comment box below.

All other photographs and textures are my own. The textures used are:

BarkLichen1

StainedFabric1

GoldenLightTrails

Hello Girls,

Used: Pixabay 1298921_1280, Filter Forge - Photoshop

This is the very last fireweed blossom that was blooming outside of our cabin door. Now it is gone, leaving behind nothing but a naked red stalk. I'm glad I caught it before it vanished.