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Created for the Artistic Manipulation Group's MIXMASTER CHALLENGE #50
CHEF seguicollar wants us to glimpse what's on the other side of the exit ... or is it an entrance??
➤ You must create a scene which includes a portal, defined as “a door, gate, or entrance, especially one of imposing appearance".
➤ Include a single living being in the scene.
➤ Arabesque patterns must appear in the composition. See HERE for more on arabesques.
➤ Your image must also include at least one, featured, geometric shape.
➤ NO PLANTS, including trees, flowers, grass, etc.
Credits: All images are mine except giraffes via Pixabay and arabesque pattern via pngwing.com.
The Brilliant Color of Nature -TMI contest April 2019
glitter ✨ in the air ✨PiNK (Live @ the 52nd Grammy Awards
BiG THANKS to EVERYONE for your personal comments and also your support from selected groups.
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Created for the WPC Week 481
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Premade Background, My Own
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Hearts ~Freebie.
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Arpoador - uma praia e uma formação rochosa entre as praias de Ipanema e a praia do Diabo. Um mirante natural, bastante frequentado, principalmente na hora do pôr-do-sol.
Arpoador - a beach and a rock formation between the beaches of Ipanema and Devil's beach. A natural lookout, quite frequented, especially at sunset.
Arpoador, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
June's Explore Takeover theme: Travel Photography
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Photo 14 p. 21
We went up into the mountains,into the wilderness for the day,yesterday. To get there one has to drive through the tribal trust lands,and there i had to stop for this delightful serene pond with ducks+geese.
COLORS IN NATURE - GLOW!!~JANUARY Challange
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Created for Faestock Challenge 154 - Elsa 16
Castle background by KarinClaessonArt - deviantArt
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Foreground by Sisterslaughter165 - deviantArt
Birds by Roy3D = deviantArt
A candid photograph of two women discussing their photographs taken at Opus 40. Saugerties, Ulster Co., New York.
Created for Shades of Autumn challenge (2020)
(Winner - 2nd pl) Tied
Model, purchased from DS.
Room, Siberian cub and Lantern purchased from Renderosity.
Window (link lost)
Texture - Autumn bokeh dreams, mine.
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Entered in the Flickr Social April 2023 EXPLORE TakeOver #EarthDay
And in the Oct. 2023 EXPLORE TakeOver... #Macro
Surprise!
Believe it or not, my lovebird couple Blu and Luce gave birth to two more children last September 17 and 18 2022 !
The previous ones were born just 5 months before, on April 16 and 18 this same year. The new little ones are almost identical: the female (here to the right) is a pale pistachio and the male (to the left) is electric green with a deep plum red head and breast.
Here, they were less than 3 weeks old and the photo is rather exceptional as it's one of the very first photos I took of them just out of their nest. They were very sleepy after having had their baby food :-) and their plumage not at all completed.
In this super macro, shot with my potent Fujinon lenses, they just have a beginning of feathers, the rest is a fluffy puff of thin plumes that will fall in the next few weeks to be replaced by their whole plumage.
They are the fruit of the deep love of Blu and Luce, an amazing couple, truly love birds who are full of continuous cares and attentions for each other and they kiss, caress, comb and even feed one another with devotion.
And... Guess what, she is beginning to be nervous because, probably, she wants her nest again, maybe for a new brood!
Supermacro shot with hyperzoom Fujinon lenses, in-door on a bed of little wild daisies, soft spot applied.
Ref.F:\parr. e insep. ultime\Nuova nidiata Luce e Blu...\Greens DSCF6993 ok VM XL DEF (shot on Oct. 7 2022, Fujifilm X-S1)
Entered in the Flickr Social Nov. 2022 EXPLORE TakeOver #Animals
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Taken from film HELP (1965).
Here I stand head in hand
Turn my face to the wall
If she's gone I can't go on
Feeling two foot small
Everywhere people stare
Each and every day
I can see them laugh at me
And I hear them say
Hey you've got to hide your love away
Hey you've got to hide your love away
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Entered in the Award Tree Challenge 181.0 ~ Music Works ~
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1st place winner alice 240
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Contest -- Black and White Photography
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3rd Place , Beautiful Capture Group themed contest , ' Movement ' , June 2011 .
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Tennouzu Isle Station, Higashi Shinagawa Shinagawa-ku Tokyo
discusses asking the Little People for help to get the Mythical Dragon Egg back from the Rock Monsters....
Not all Dragons are happy about asking the Little People to help, historically they have hunted Dragons.
The Princess Sara Quest....
The story along with photos are here:
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Photos of Princess Sara's Quest are in the album....
EXPLORE Worthy, Challenge 97 - COLORFUL (2018 Art)
"COLOR CRAZE" - Shock of the New Challenge # 59
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Alien Worlds Challenge - February 2018
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texture by logotip www.flickr.com/photos/34123770@N05/3222354636/in/pool-tex...
The Worlds Of Bathallion - The Orange Moons by Daniel Arrhakis (2024)
With the music : "Against the World" from the Audiomachine Industry release REQUIEM
The Worlds of the Solar System of Bathallion, the star that dominates the entire quadrant of Aghnor.
A system governed by strange gravitational forces with trajectories that almost intersect in a game of electromagnetic attraction and repulsion as if it were a game of billiards of planetary dimensions...
Work made for the challenge :
- Parallel Worlds Challenge - Ends June 9 of 2024 - LINK HERE
discussion prés de l'église un dimanche matin dans la petite ville de Carhuaz qui se trouve dans la vallée de Huaylas dans le département d'Ancash situé entre la Cordillera Blanca et la Cordillera Negra. Un endroit pittoresque et authentique, ...
Created for Down Under Challenge ~ March 2024
Thanks to cootiepie 11 for beautiful butterfly Queen
All work done in Photoshop 2024
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Thank you very much for your comments and faves, regretfully, I am finding it increasingly difficult to reply to your comments, because of my very limited time on the internet, due to constant power interruptions in South Africa. I do read and appreciate every one of them, however! Thanks again!!
Conversation at the camera store, choosing the right camera. Not much of an interest to me as an analog user, they mostly sells digitals. I was then invited to take some shots of models with analog later.
Voigtlander R3M, Voigtlander Nokton Classic 40mm F1.4, Fujifilm Super Neopan 1600(Courtesy of HIRO), Home-Development, Kodak Tmax, 1/4th@ 4 1/2Min., Ilford Rapidfix 1/4 6 Min.
... still on the right track, but sometimes I wish XTi would be equipped with rear view mirror
Flickriver ... www.flickriver.com/photos/januszbc/popular-interesting/
Created for 2nd MMM Challenge
Source image with thanks to AlicePopkorn
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Grazie a Skeletalmess
per le textures!!
Shot with Lensbaby 56 manual lens.
***There is no AI in this image ***
All manipulations were created in Photoshop.
Texture and Photo Studio Text Overlay by French Kiss/Bliss/Orchid., and Vintage frame.
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New! Challenge 243.0 ~ Art With Text. ~ The Award Tree ~
Created for Rubys Wax Lyrical Challenge 39
There's a fog along the horizon, A strange glow in the sky
@ Ganges (France)
Objectif/Lense : Tamron SP AF 17-50 mm f/2.8 XR Di
post-traitement : Capture One 4 / Photoshop CS2 / DxO FilmPack
Voir où cette photo à été prise / See where this picture was taken. [?]
ODC JUST A LITTLE ( TWISTING ) 26th April - 2nd May
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inspired by Feininger, Gleizes, Swanzy et al
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All my life I have been fascinated with fantasy literature and movies. From DandD through to Magic the Gathering, I have always had a love for the fantastical and magical. I guess I find the made up worlds of imaginations preferable to our own reality. But sometimes, the worlds of the mind cross over into the world of the real ( how can it not, most worlds are based, in part on what their authors see around them).
I had a discussion today with a follower and he raised the question in my mind of what is MY style. I guess my influences are the magical tales of deep green forests far far away and misty woods inhabited by all sorts of strange and wonderful beings.
This iamge reminds me of the scene in LOTR where the Ents gather to discuss how to deal with Saruman and his Goblin armies laying waste to their forests for their own fires and war machines. I hope you like it.
The community board meeting took place in order to discuss the proposed mosque to be built next to ground zero. While the project is usually referred to as the “mosque at ground zero”, the project’s official name is the Cordoba Initiative. The Imam and the developers were in attendance to present the project, and many politicians (or rather their representatives) were on hand, along with many of those in favor or opposed.
First spoke the elected officials, who—in the typical New York political elitist fashion— slandered and insulted their opposition. Councilwoman Margaret Chin spoke before a single opponent of the mosque ever came up to the microphone to state their position, but that didn’t stop her from accusing those against it of “bigotry”.
And while Margaret Chin chose to offend the opposition to the mosque (most of whom present were families of 9-11 victims and first responders) in person, other local figures sent their cronies. A representative of Scott Stringer, President of the Borough of Manhattan, handed out a letter to everyone prior to the meeting in which he refers to the mosque as a “multi-faith community and cultural center” and claims that this “center has been the subject of bigoted attacks that contain a strain of religious and racial hatred more extreme than anything we have seen in NYC for some time.” I guess an attempt to kill hundreds of New Yorkers and tourists at Times Square by an Islamist Faisal Shahzad less than a month prior was not extreme enough for Stringer and, instead of jihadism, Stringer seems to have identified the enemy as a TEA Party leader whom he rips apart throughout this unsolicited letter. While the TEA Party’s opposition is referred to as a “bigoted agenda”, the mosque itself is referred to as a “vibrant and world-class facility in NYC which will promote tolerance and pluralism”. Of course he fails to provide any example of mosques in NYC or in the world that have EVER promoted tolerance or pluralism, but perhaps he didn’t think that any attendee would dare question his superior judgment in the matter. Please be sure to read his disgusting letter
After the political cronies spoke, Feisal Abdul Rauf', the Imam in charge of this “community center” was given time to present his proposal. He started his speech with “for many years I’ve had a dream…” (I wonder what Dr. King would have thought of a ‘grand wizard’ proposing to build a “community center” at the site of the bombed 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama). The Imam also claimed that this “community center” would promote multi-culturalism; he was so sure of it that his speech was sprinkled throughout with that deceiving phrase. But his presentation brought with it an unexpected turning point. Not because of anything he planned to share with us in his carefully prepared PC jargoned speech, but because of a question by one of the board members who wanted to know if the proposed “community center” would hold prayer. The Imam said “yes”, to which the board member replied, “then it is a house of worship, not a community center”.
Without any objection to that by the Imam or speakers that followed, the term “community center” began to very gradually disappear. But don’t think that anyone’s opinion actually changed as a result. The supporters of the project “formerly” known as a “community center” still believed that it was somehow related to diversity and that it would in no way be an insult to those who died due to Islamist ideology, nor would it serve as a monument of jihadist victory.
But neither the councilwoman nor the Imam were the most offensive or distasteful of the proponents of the mosque. Daisy Khan of the American Society for Muslim Advancement, who also happens to be Imam’s wife, blew their insults and lies out of the water. (I don’t recall her being introduced as Rauf’s wife at the meeting, but I can’t be sure.) She lectured and she yelled – yes, yelled – at the families of victims, the first responders, and her fellow New Yorkers. She yelled that she is “tired of bearing the cross [and will do so] no longer” because apparently she and the Muslim community were the real victims of the 9-11 attacks—not the families who lost their loved ones, not the cities that lost their monuments, and not the country that lost its feeling of security.
Without a single mosque destroyed and with very few anti-Muslim incidents, hearing from this woman about her supposed victimization in that auditorium was absolutely sickening. It didn’t help when for weeks after (and prior) she dominated the time on television appearing calm and together and claiming among other nonsense – I kid you not – that the reason they chose the ground zero site to build a mosque is to provide a “blow to the extremists”. I’m sure radical Muslims would just hate it if New York built a mosque on the ground where American buildings were destroyed and thousands of Americans were murdered by jihadists … right? READ HER RIDICULOUS QUOTE AGAIN. Now listen to it for yourself from the horse’s mouth because I wouldn’t have believed it either. (starts at 1:10) www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7WbTv_gsx4&playnext_from=TL&...
Other supporters of the mosque included two priests and a rabbi (no, it isn’t a start to a joke – although I wish it was) of the leftist “co-exist” variety all of whom supported the mosque. And while there were some clergy present that (judging by applause and reactions) opposed the mosque, they did not come up to the microphone. The supporting clergy seemed to have gone to the same rhetoric school as the Imam, using terms like “multi-culturalism”, “tolerance”, “community relations and understanding”, and other jargon that had no actual relevance to the topic.
There was also a Caucasian woman with a baby who introduced herself as someone who had converted to Islam … in 2006, if I’m not mistaken. She lied about how difficult it is to find information and resources on Islam in NY. I say she lied not only because there are hundreds of mosques in the 5 boroughs, but also because as a recent convert she is a prime example of someone who was able to find and act on this information. Of course, she didn’t specify why ground zero is a better location than any other for this apparently “valuable to the city” information about the religion all 911 hijackers belonged to.
Now that I have gone on and on about the supporters of the mosque (aka “community center”) and the temple’s money changers, let me talk about the opponents of a mosque being build at ground zero ... Not a single one of them opposed a mosque being built; the prevailing request was simply “build it somewhere else”.
First opponent to speak was the celebrated publisher, editor, and columnist Pamela Geller. She was the one to point out what Cordoba means to the Muslim world. Cordoba is a city in Spain that was the first major city to fall to Muslim conquerors and become an Islamic caliphate and a symbol of Islamic conquest of the West. She also called the mosque “a shrine to the very ideology that inspired 9-11”. Sure seems a lot more plausible than Daisy’s explanation for why the mosque has to overlook ground zero.
A gentleman who lost his brother in WTC and represents the largest ‘families of victims of 9-11’ groups introduced some of those present who lost loved ones at ground zero. He protested the lectures and the labels that were bestowed on these families for their “legitimate, legal opposition to this Muslim ‘multi-cultural center’”. He pointed out that while there is proposed building of this mosque at ground zero, the committees have refused to allow monuments to the tragedy of 9-11, including the WTC sphere which was heavily damaged during the terrorist attack and has become an iconic symbol of the tragedy. At this time the sphere is temporarily housed at Battery Park. “If we should honor multi-culturalism and diversity at ground zero, we should honor and remember victims of 9-11,” he concluded.
Tim Brown, a former NYC firefighter who lost dozens of his friends and colleagues, fellow first responders, to the jihadist terrorist attack, has been a tireless voice for memories of victims and their loved ones. He questioned where the money for the mosque was coming from. He had received “5 different answers on 5 different occasions from them”, which included my favorite “we don’t have to tell you, talk to our lawyers”, as well as “three different organizations, but [the Imam] refused to name them” and “from American taxpayers”. Mr. Brown also pointed out that Cordoba Initiative has been very deceiving in other ways, such as removing the word “mosque” from their web site despite the fact that they explicitly wrote initially that there will be a mosque at the top of the building (overlooking ground zero).
Questions were also raised about the Imam Rauf, his public statements, and his pro-Sharia stance as described in his publications and interviews. His travels to countries that openly support terrorism and forced Islamization of the West were also questioned and may indicate where funding from the mosque could be coming from.
Follow up note: Listening to the Imam Rauf speak to various news organizations in the days following the meeting, he offered even more non-specific answers to where the money comes from, such as it comes from people who “want to see peace between Muslims and non-Muslims”. Again, nice politically savvy keywords… but no actual answer to a rather direct question he obviously knows the answer to. Trying to hide something, Faisal Abdul?
One of the many victim’s families present was a woman with a photo of her son who was murdered by the Islamic terrorists. She didn’t yell like Daisy, the Imam’s wife, and she did not dish out insults like Congresswoman Chin. Her voice trembled as she mentioned her son’s name and held his photo towards the committee, “this is my son”, she said, “this is firefighter George Kane.” She held back tears as she spoke. She said that “the location [of the mosque] is insensitive to families. It is also insensitive to the voiceless victims the possibility that anyone who supports Islamic extremism could walk on graves of the victims … [it is] an outrage.”
Another woman spoke with a similar shaking voice about her 23-year-old son who “was murdered on September 11th”. She also wasn’t a bigot, but wanted to know “why are you suggesting that it be two blocks from ground zero?”
Mrs. Kane and the others who spoke through tears and with photos of their murdered children in their trembling hands, made me think of what they were being asked to do. Nine years later, they were being asked to “move on” or “heal”, as mosque supporters were suggesting. I can’t even begin to imagine what that ignorant request could do to an eternally grieving mother.
A sweet elderly couple’s last conversation with their son was via cell phone while he was on a hijacked plane… just before he was murdered. They mentioned that there were 20 mosques that located around the area where they lived, and that they would be ok with another one being built close to them, but they also asked for “understanding and sensitivity” when it comes to building one near ground zero.
Yet from the comments of NYC politicians and supporters of the mosque, we know that understanding and sensitivity will not be shown to the victims’ families nor reflect the wishes of voting New Yorkers. They will instead be shown to others who are apparently deemed more – not even equally but more – crucial to the future of NYC and the memories of those who perished in the terrorist attacks.
Here are a few youtube links on regarding this meeting:
Pamela Geller's full 2 minute speech from the meeting
a firefighter and first responder Tim Brown speaks A MUST SEE
Created with Midjourney AI engine. PP work in Topaz Sudio2 Detailed Architecture filters.
waves in silky blue, skies in red velvet, moon in yellow satin, boulders in gray charcoal
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Entered in Kreative People Group’s Challenge
April 2024 contest- Water Art
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Second place: #23 Stormy Sea Scape isteeves
created for: Photoshop Conteat Week 585
Original photo by: Rubyblossom
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created for: Kreative People challenge 140
Original photo by: Skagitrenee
texture by Carlos Arana
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My attempt at painting A painting The Slaughters Country Inn, in Lower Slaughter, Gloucestershire, England, using Photoshop!
"Click here" Oil Painting! ............. Your turn to have a go; if you have Photoshop CS3, or later!
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Lower Slaughter is a village in the English county of Gloucestershire, located in the Cotswold district, 4 miles (6.4 km) south west of the town of Stow-on-the-Wold. The village is built on both banks of the River Eye, which also flows through Upper Slaughter. At the west end of the village there is a 19th-century water mill with an undershot waterwheel and a chimney for additional steam power. There is a ford where the river widens in the village and several small stone footbridges join the two sides of the community. While the mill is built of red brick most of the 16th and 17th century homes in the village use Cotswold sandstone and are adorned with mullioned windows and often with other embellishments such as projecting gables. Records exist showing that Lower Slaughter has been inhabited for over 1000 years. The Domesday Book entry has the village name as “Sclostre”. It further notes that in 1066 and 1086 that the manor was in the sheriff's hands. Lower Slaughter Manor, a Grade-II listed 17th-century house, was granted to Sir George Whitmore in 1611 and remained in his family until 1964. The 13th century Anglican parish church is dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin. Much of the current structure was built in 1866; however, the spire and peal of six bells was recently restored. In May 2013 it was reported in the national news that the Parish Council were fiercely opposed to the presence of an icebox tricycle selling ice creams for seven days a week, six months of the year, citing that the trading times were excessive, increased footfall would prevent the grass from growing and that children could climb on the trike and fall into the nearby river.
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The Slaughters Country Inn is privately owned and offers a relaxed ambience, a style that is sympathetically balanced between the original features of a 17th Century building and contemporary design. The blend of old and new creates the perfect retreat in a beautiful country location
Here is my thirteenth build for my Iron Builder round against Letranger Absurde.
The special part is that killing "pithfork".