An exercise in contrast manipulation

2011

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A grackle father providing food to a juvenile grackle. The original photo was poorly focused, so I transformed it in Topaz Studio 2 into an expressionist rendering of the image. In explore 06-17-2024'

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I see the Rainbow,

Used: Pixabay, Filter Forge, Photoshop

Don't blame me. All I do is push the buttons.

Orchid by Acryl,

used Studi Artist, Photoshop

Posted for; Sliders Sunday--Post Processed to the MAX!

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... the overpowering sense of isolation felt and needed when faced with the loss of a loved one.

The silhouette is from an image dating back to 2015 of someone alone at the edge of a pier shrouded in fog and whom later on I found out she was grieving the sudden loss of a close friend.

As with all my work, all images used are my own.

2016

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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.)

Blending in a couple of images from the summer.

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Rose in watercolor

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...

By mid-September Doc and I remove our truck camper from the truck - winterize it - and put it under cover. Once that is done, it is time to put the two utility boxes back into the bed of the truck. Those boxes are heavy and bulky, and I worry about him wrestling them into place, with out smashing his fingers - but somehow he manages. How many other eighty six year old men do you know that could tackle those chores all alone?

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...

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Happy Mono Monday!

These shots were taken from Point of View on Mt. Washington, above Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. When Washington and Guyasuta met there was no Pittsburgh as it looks today from Point of View.

Point of View is a 2006 landmark public sculpture in bronze by James A. West; it sits in a parklet named for the work of art, Point of View Park, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The piece depicts George Washington and the Seneca leader Guyasuta, with their weapons down, in a face-to-face meeting in October 1770, when the two men met while Washington was in the area examining land for future settlement along the Ohio River.

The work weighs 750 lbs. and cost $130,000 for materials with charitable donations of land, pedestal and artist time.[1]

Point of View sits on the edge of Mt. Washington (Grandview Avenue at Sweetbriar Street) on the westernmost end of Grand View Scenic Byway Park and the Grand View Scenic Byway, a designated Pennsylvania scenic byway.

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

fixed blurriness with digital manipulation

Himrod Grapes artistic

Until this summer - I had never heard of, or enjoyed, a fruit called "Donut Peaches". When the "fruit man" arrived in town this summer - he handed out samples of this delightful peach - and now I am hooked. I find them to be sweeter and juicier than a regular peach, and I can't wait to get my hands on some more.

**(Donut peaches are distinguished by their shape, which is roughly rounded and squat with a dimpled center at the fruit's stem end. The fruit's skin has a velvety finish and is flushed with tones of ivory, rose and rouge. Within the fruit's core is its non-clinging, easy to remove pit. Its creamy, juicy-when-ripe flesh is low-acid with a candy-like sweetness and a melting quality. The sweetness is due to what is referred to as the honey gene, a dominant gene that is found in all Chinese peach varieties. Documentation of peaches was first recorded in Chinese writings during 1100 B.C.)

A remixed manipulation of an earlier photo modified using Topaz Studio 2.

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Saguaro arm photo taken at Wendy and Dean’s yesterday. I did mess with it a bit!

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So this is the final in the series of smoke photography from me combined in various cell slice stains from Elizabeth Normand of the Mark Zervis lab here at Brown. You'll probably see more of both but looking for new combos and looks.

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

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