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New City Neon.

 

New! Challenge 2.0 - It's Textual**

It’s Textual Challenge - Vivid Imagination

 

Smoke Photo Art.

 

So I have to thank flickr for one thing....giving me inspiration for perhaps my last smoke art piece here. Since I have a pro subscription for nearly another year, perhaps something will change that will bring me back here, but it's not looking very promising. To all of my flickr friends, contacts, acquaintance, and passsers-by, I thank you for your views, comments, invites, and general sense of welcoming over the years.

 

This pic is accompanied by the following tune - to be sung to the music of "Candle in the Wind", with all due respect to Sir Elton John, and very little respect for the new flickr design team.

 

Goodbye old friend, Flick

Though I barely knew you at all

You once had the grace to hold yourself

While those around you crawled

But the yahoo's crawled out of the woodwork

And they whispered into your brain

They dressed you up like Facebook

And they made you change your game

 

chorus

And it seems to me you lived your life

Like a candle in the wind

Never knowing who to cling to

When the rain set in

And I would have liked to have known you

But I was just a "pro"

Your candle flickr'ed out long before

Your legend had to go

 

Being on top was tough

The toughest role you ever played

The "photographers" created a superstar

And pain was the price they paid

Even when you died

Oh the press still hounded you

All the bloggers had to say

Was all about Marissa's ineptitude.

 

[repeat chorus]

 

Goodbye old friend, Flick

Though I barely knew you at all

You once had the grace to hold yourself

While those around you crawled

Goodbye old friend Flick

From the old "pro" in a very long line

Who sees you as something more than ad space

More than just our little place to shine.

 

[repeat chorus]

     

Photography vs Photoshopography.

 

There's been a debate for as long as I can remember over whether a photograph is considered a "work of art" strictly on the attributes of it's own creation (composed entirely in camera via settings and available light), or if digital manipulation (Photoshop) is an acceptable tool in enhancing an image to where the artist originally envisioned it, AS the picture was taken.

 

Consider the shot above. It's pixels were massaged, it's levels and curves adjusted, it's layers duplicated and processed. What you see is the end result. It is this version that I choose to present to you, and how I feel it best represents the scene as I first saw it in my head - snapping a shot in my car at a street light on a rainy afternoon.

 

This is the original: www.spacecatdesign.com/pstankertruck.JPG

 

Is the version I posted a cheat, a fake, an embellishment on the truth? If I had posted the original would it catch your eye as much as this? Does my Photoshop wizardry turn it into art, or can it ONLY be considered such if it was a "perfect" shot right out of the camera?

 

I've seen thousands of shots here by wonderful photographers that leave me in awe - taken with digital cams, 35mms, Holgas, and medium formats. Many are as you see them. Others are altered drastically. In my mind, I really don't care how a shot is produced. It's YOUR vision, and I respect and accept it. If it affects me, if it floors me, if it makes me laugh or cry or just amuses me, then I feel it's served it's purpose.

 

Of course, the photographic purist would scoff at any form of digital enhancement. The magic is born from the capabilities of the equipment AND the person utilizing it. Anything else is considered sacrilege! And on the other hand, the magician with a laptop and enough gear to run NASA can keystroke a masterpiece of color, light, and shape on their lunch break.

 

Which one is art to you?

 

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For the month of February (2005), I am posting a link to a different "Flickr friend" each day. It may be a person you already know, or a completely new discovery, but it's someone whose work and vision I feel you might really enjoy.

 

I call it the "Flickr Daily Photog Pickr," and today's pick is The Mexican : www.flickr.com/photos/raul/

 

Enjoy!

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Go here to read more, and see the first pick made: www.flickr.com/photos/drp/4186888/

If you stand real still, the wild rabbits will hop right up and smell your shoes. That's exactly what this little fella did. It's a good thing I had a short lens, or I would have never captured this image.

Day 322

 

Explored. Peaked at #339.

It's Happening at the Center of the Universe- Set 99.011

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

So, yeah, I'll throw this ripple filter at almost every photo I take. I save every version and every result because I never had that freedom (or available artwork storage space) in any other art medium before. I think I've reached the point where I see something and just photograph it, regardless of whether or not it's visually appealing at the time, simply because I think I might be able to make something interesting-looking later on.

Swingtime

Used: Photoshop - Pixabay - Filter Forge

 

Collie,

Used Pixabay, Studio Artist, Photoshop, Filter Forge

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

Image Sources: Background from dikaseva-zvf7cZ0PC20-unsplash; Space vehicle from Mysticsartdesign on Pixabay; Desert landscape from juli-kosolapova-4PE3X9eKsu4-unsplash; Sandstorm from amazingsdj on Pixabay; Background from casey-horner-mPnxwQBtUZE-unsplash; Water from Alexandra_Koch on Pixabay; Water from StockSnap on Pixabay; Sphere from arijit-anand-tGg0xXGMsEg-unsplash; Aircraft from anaterate on Pixabay; Rons brushes; Nucly brushes; Moon from Pexels on Pixabay; Pamukkale from Hansuan_Fabregas on Pixabay; Spaceship from Parker_West on Pixabay; Cave from fradellafra on Pixabay; Rocks from pngwing.com; Stalagtites from Kingcornz on Pixabay; Mars Rover from WikiImages on Pixabay; Hubblesite.org; Sticker from Cafe Press; Klingon sticker from Startrek.com;

- You’re just an empty cage girl

if you kill the bird. - Tori Amos

 

I must remember to embrace myself

and love myself more, so others may love me too.

 

----Walkin' down this rocky road

wonderin' where my life is leading

rollin' on, till the bitter end

 

Now I'm on my feet again

better things are bound to happen

all my dues surely must be paid

 

Many miles and many tears ---

Bad Company

 

This one comes close to some things I've been attempting.

Dream:Gazing upon stars on a beautiful night at the middle of the ocean.

 

Tone:Blue

 

Please have a larger view.

 

Thanks for your kind visit and comments :)

 

Best wishes,Rhivu

Awaiting for spring to bring us flowers.

Ecological art / My garden,art intervention & digital manipulation

 

Es probable que algunas de las personas que tienen la amabilidad de vistar mi portafolios de arte y fotografía se hagan pertinentes preguntas sobre la forma "comos y porqués "que toman mi expresion creativa .

Que podría decir aparte de que elegí un camino que bifurca y que es de naturaleza experimental que elegí hace décadas el mestizaje del infinito espacio que la creatividad ofrece.

Las alteraciones, las técnicas combinadas, el acercarme y el alejarme a formas expresivas tradicionales que bifurcan subitamente en la contemporaneidad que nos toco vivir . Una realidad

por cierto y sin ofensa siempre a la prisas de todo consumir rápido . difícil elección la mía cuando un proyecto en el que me envuelvo puede durar décadas ...

Asi este de las palmeras lo empece a mediados de los a;os 90, pero es llegando a (hacia principios de 2001) Liverpool de Sydney no de Inglaterra que en el jardin había dos palmeras así que en una de ellas empece una de mis caras miméticas( aspecto este de tranformaciones e imgenes naturales que me interesa desde mi infancia) y después con los años pasando se convirtieron en variadas caras con multiples narrativas en sus miradas,variables -miméticas a contar un dia u otro .

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Artist interventions / Mimetic Series -Palm trees -2001-09

One of the palm trees in my garden plays the almost infinite mystery of transformation and natural mimetic or accompanied by my creativity; A little always out of time and place!

A project halfway between the ephemeral and the permanent or rather semi-permanent since the faces when leaving the trunk of the palm tree are reintegrated into other interventions in the garden and occasionally in other different spaces. Of course, they end up disaggregating, so maybe some of these faces don't even have a photograph. I don't ask myself why I wouldn't know how to answer, except that in my philosophy the processes have their importance and are located in a time that is not linear, neither functional.

 

Ecoart installation / intervention - Collection

Imagined interior view of an interstellar fluid tanker, based on the seed image "Metrofoliage 6."

Manipulated in KaleidaCam and Snapseed, originals in comments

 

via Instagram instagr.am/p/CRpMzwIhdnq/

Only one week until Thanksgiving!

 

(Had a little fun with Wombo as a baseline for this image, and then added my own touches.)

Our kids ditched us last night, so Pam and I went to Detroit for dinner and pictures. This is one of the ones I took. Pretty much straight out of camera. Some slight adjustments here and there for contrast, etc.

 

Might I recommend you view this one large?

 

Day 166

Middletown, Rhode Island as seen from the Cliff Walk in Newport, R.I.

Original: www.flickr.com/photos/dionepsoc/52766920593/in/datetaken-...

 

For Sliders Sunday

Post processed to the max

Port Meadow has been grazing land for cattle and horses for 4,000 years. and has never been ploughed in this time. It was originally granted to the Freemen of Oxford in return for fighting against the Danes. Read more information about Port Meadow here

 

Created for the Art Museion Contest 14 ~ Rustic

World

 

Also submitted to Also submitted to Challenge 32 - Urban Nature - The Blind Pig Speakeasy

 

Textures are my own:

 

FrostyDawn1

MeadowBokeh1

www.flickr.com/groups/1683736@N21/?added=1

Digitalmania

Friday 28 June - SOMETHING BEGINNING WITH (C)

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ai/gimp/pixlr

2021

 

*Original photograph by Natalia Arias, part of her "Femininity Beyond Archetypes" exhibition.

 

More artwork at: www.permiandesigns.com/

 

Instagram: www.instagram.com/permiandesigns/

Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/permiandesigns.bsky.social

 

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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