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I thought it was time for a small photomanipulation :)
OMG! The third Explore #1 on June 11th!! Thank you guys!!!
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Peter Ludwig (°Berlin 1902-11-18 ✞Horhausen 1983-09-30) achatite mask. Achatite was a material made of ground stone and wood, and a binder. From a product range of more than 300 models in the early 1960's, production quotas of Achatite wall masks dwindled steadily from that point on. By the late 1970's, it was discontinued. Sic transit gloria mundi.
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I spent days working on the background starting with a picture of the moon and eventually coming up with this. Don't ask how - it seemed to take on a life of it's own. But it lacked perspective and a point of view, and a little bit of reality usually works. This is my way of getting closer to nature.
The picture was framed well, but it needed to be stylized to make it more interesting. It lost some of its reality, but in my opinion gained some character.
It was the dead of winter and the rhododendrons were waiting it out along with the rest of us. My photo of them was very green. But why wait for summer colors when there is Photoshop?
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Sundown of a perfect September day in Ostend, at the Belgian coast, back from an outing at sea to the giant windmills, some 30 miles out.
There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move
But I can't hear what you're saying
© Roger Waters/David Gilmour
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"The tanks are full, O mighty Wez, and it's all yours !"
('Toadie' and 'Wez' by N2 Toys / 'Last of the V8 Interceptors' by AUTOart)
Diorama by RK
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Enamored young couple dancing on Brussels' Grand'Place, July 11 2013, day of the Belgian Flemish community.
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“It is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream--alone."
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Part 1
"They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares."
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Part 3
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The book's last line, "Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus" translates as: "the rose of old remains only in its name; we possess naked names." The general sense, as Eco pointed out, was that from the beauty of the past, now disappeared, we hold only the name.
© 1980 The name of the rose ❦ Umberto Eco
On est bien peu de choses et mon amie la rose est morte ce matin
La lune cette nuit, a veillé mon amie
Moi en rêve j'ai vu, éblouissant les nuits
Son âme qui dansait bien au-delà des nues et qui me souriait
Croit celui qui peut croire
Moi, j'ai besoin d'espoir, sinon je ne suis rien
Ou bien si peu de choses, c'est mon amie la rose qui m'l'a dit hier matin.
© 1964 Cécile Caulier pour Françoise Hardy
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"You have defied me ! You will know the vengeance of The Lord Humungus ! I promise you: nobody ... nobody gets out of here alive !"
('Humungus' by N2 Toys)
Artifacts in an already degraded image are the result of interrupted sorting, Fast Fourier Transforms and a median filter that behaves more like a cellular automaton than a denoising tool. That's the technique—you can invent the narrative yourself.
Took another trip in the wayback machine to the time of the last dinosaurs, and here's a photo to prove it.
Last of the series, "Dissolving Geometries", for now. Here we come to the point where Nature's irregular, non-Euclidean geometries have become the dominant form. A new, fractal geometry comes to the fore in a mandalic, quadratic harmony, hinting at the classical form but using it only as a framework to elaborate itself upon. New matrices for non-linear consciousness. Happy Summer Solstice !!!
PS. I realized today ( June 21st ) that it's been a year now that I started processing my photographs, taking them into the realms of Surrealism, Abstraction and Psychedelia. It's been quite the year of trial and lots of error, surprise, learning and revelation. I would like to thank the many people who've encouraged me and cheered me on. There are so many of you. I would particularly like to acknowledge and thank Annette LeDuff, Ira Dick, Steve Nicholson, Paul Boudreau, Sir Paul of Ewing, Tim Noonan, Greg Lawler, Mel Cabeen, Joyce Brown, Nick Zotovich, Donna ('z Magical .. ), Joe Vance, Beth Rosengard, Natasha Hanna, Xandra M, Darla, Zone Patcher, Tom ( It's My Party ), Mandy ( Tarot Woman ) and Rob Goldstein, in rough chronological order. When I first started on Flickr I was stone-cold terrified seeing everyone's incredible work. It made me determined to up my game as much as I could. It has been to my great benefit to be in the company of so many truly GREAT artists! I'll use this piece as my celebration of a year of processed images.
June 20, 2013. ToR
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Black Creek Pioneer Village
Toronto, Ontario. Canada.
"Black Creek Pioneer Village is a unique experience, it’s like stepping back in time to relive the days of the early settlers, pioneers from distant lands who journeyed to the new world to make this their home".
It all seemed so simple then, everything seemed so different. Just mingling with the village folk gave me a good idea of everyday life two hundred years ago.
On this day, it was a re-enactment of the year 1812, a period of tension between two neighbouring countries, each ready to wage battle in order to reign supreme. The authentically re-created settlement was filled with people dressed in periodic garb, colourful uniforms of red, white and gold. There were marching bands and soldiers in the square. I saw ladies parading along the way and shopkeepers offering their wares. There were Town Hall meetings, children playing and farmers with horse drawn wagons bringing their goods to market.
What a great day to get out and snapp off a few. It was my intention to capture images of people in an original pioneer setting. I looked for figures, costumes, colours. I looked for smiling faces, interesting faces, faces that reflected that period in time. To view the set, pls follow the link below.
If you haven’t been, I would suggest you put it on your agenda for things to do and places to visit. Black Creek Pioneer Village is a unique adventure destination for the whole family and an experience you won’t soon forget.
…the rest is history.
Village People Set; www.dropbox.com/sh/vgvdhqil145m2e3/X1-zIu8jMQ
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In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
℗ December 8, 1915 © John McCrae
November 12, 2014. Bozar's architecture sets the perfect stage for a dramatic World War I fresco fittingly depicting Ypres, where John wrote the poem. The day after Armistice, Poppy Day, Veterans Day, Remembrance Day, the move toward the inescapable fate of nations rushes forward. "To you from failing hands we throw the torch; be yours to hold it high."
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The clouds were just right and the trees were colorful, but I under exposed the photo and it was way too dark. When I brightened it up there was too much grain and noise and the effect was lost. So I played with the image off and on for days until I came up with this, the 15th different version. Along the way I gained the moon, got the tree colors to somewhat show up, and the lighting seemed better. Next time I'll learn to properly expose the shot in the first place.....maybe.
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He looked at the scenery through the bars of the wrought iron gate, perplexed. Dusk was setting in, and he realized that the light of some of the stars that tentatively made their appearance on the sky tapestry, was billions of years old. He suddenly shook with vertigo, like standing on the edge of a cliff, not unlike the feeling of confused helplessness that crept up on him when a song he hadn't heard for tens of thousands of years unexpectedly burst through on the airwaves. Suddenly, he was very hungry. I wonder what's for dinner, he thought.
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Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say...
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After the storm the waves were awesome but standing up in my tiny boat to take this shot was even more so. Unfortunately, neither the boat nor I was ever seen again. This photo is all that's left.
I'm not Your Regular Rubber Doll
(and yes ... i know I should remove one of the two :-( somehow this time i was not able to decide though )
I took a nice normal picture of a nice normal building, and changed it 5 times until it wasn't nice and normal anymore. If you think this is manipulated take a look at the companion image "Building At You for the 30th Time" which has 25 more manipulations. When will I ever learn?
The path led through some trees into a large shaded meddow. Very nice, but not very photogenic. On the way back the sun was warmly shining from the other side.
A study in color quantization using a series of scaled FFTs to filter out color detail, and later restore it as value (grayscale) information.
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Into my loneliness comes --
The sound of a flute in dim groves that haunt the uttermost hills.
Even from the brave river they reach to the edge of the wilderness.
And I behold Pan.
Aleister Crowley, Liber VII (1907)
Soir sur l'étang/Vijver in Avondlicht, by Pierre Abattucci [1871-1942], a painting part of the collection of the Ixelles Museum, Brussels, Belgium.
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I've recently joined a group that shares postprocessing Before and After images.
I'm hoping to learn something :-)
This is my sixth Before/After.
Canon Powershot SX10is
Photoshop Elements 9
f5.7; 1/100/ ISO 80.
Cropped
Selections made of the bird & perch - work done using levels & dodge&burn.
Background selected using the selection brush at 50%.
Gausian blur filter applied at 70%.
Eraser tool used to take bring some ripples back into the foreground at about 10%.
If I remember right!
I'm aiming for natural looking nature images :-)
Created with GlitchSort, the application I wrote to create most of my glitch art, now available for Processing 2.0.
We were in a hotel lobby and my daughter saw this chandlier, and knowing what I do to photos challenged me to photograph it. This is version #10.
Walking in World's End seems like out of another century. I'm very pleased with this photo which, I think, captures the feel of the place.
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It doesn't matter when
It may rain or it may shine
Blurry memories of us
Come back from time to time
It doesn't matter when
It may rain or it may shine
But you will always be here
Stored inside my mind
© 2003 ❦ Sparks ❦ Röyksopp ❦
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A wide-field Narrowband HOO Palette (R=Ha, G=OIII, B=OIII) mosaic of a portion of the the huge Vela Supernova Remnant (also known as Vela XYZ; Gum 16; SNR G263.9-03.3; 1E 0840.0-4430; RE J083854-430902).
The Vela Supernova Remnant is in the Southern constellation Vela. Its source (a Type II Supernova) exploded approximately 11,000–12,300 years ago, at a distance of about 800 light-years away. The association of the Vela Supernova Remnant with the Vela Pulsar, is direct observational evidence of Supernovae form Neutron stars. The Vela Supernova Remnant includes NGC 2736, and it also overlaps with the Puppis Supernova Remnant. Both the Puppis and Vela Remnants are among the largest and brightest features in the X-ray sky.
Elements are made at different stages in a star's life-cycle, and spread through the Universe in Supernova explosions. “The Nitrogen in our DNA, the Calcium in our teeth, the Iron in our blood, the Carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.” ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos.
About this image:
This mosaic was photographed over a month, during several sessions. Deep Sky Objects like this is always a challenge, as it is time-consuming and pushes the limits of my Telescope gear. It's rewarding when you have to work hard for an image, and wide-field mosaics are always fun to image and process. This is an example of how interesting very faint but large wide-field Deep Sky Objects can be.
Technical Info:
4 Panel wide-field Mosaic.
Lights/Subs total integration time: 32 hours.
24 x 600 sec. 7nm Hydrogen-Alpha (Ha) per panel.
24 x 600 sec. 6.5nm Doubly Ionized Oxygen (OIII) per panel.
William Optics Star 71mm f/4.9 Imaging APO Refractor.
Sensor cooled to -20°C on my QHY163M.
Calibration frames: Bias, Darks and Flats.
SGP Mosaic and Framing Wizard.
PlaneWave PlateSolve 2 via SGP.
Pre-Processing and Linear workflow in PixInsight,
and finished in Photoshop.
Astrometry Info:
Center RA, Dec: 127.504, -44.923
Center RA, hms: 08h 30m 00.880s
Center Dec, dms: -44° 55' 23.969"
Size: 3.43 x 2.08 deg
Radius: 2.006 deg
Pixel scale: 7.73 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: Up is 301 degrees E of N
Martin Heigan
"No ! No more talk ! We go in ! We kill ! Kill ! We kill 'em ! They kill us, we kill them ! Kill 'em ! Kill 'em ! Kill ! Kill !"
('Wez' and 'The Golden Youth' by N2 Toys)
A Hydrogen-Alpha (Hα) study of IC 434, a bright emission nebula in the constellation Orion. The Horsehead Nebula (also known as Barnard 33) is a dark nebula silhouetted against IC 434.
The red glow originates from Hydrogen gas predominantly behind the nebula, ionized by the nearby bright star Sigma Orionis. Magnetic fields channel the gases leaving the nebula into streams, shown as streaks in the background glow. A glowing strip of hydrogen gas marks the edge of the massive cloud.
The background story:
I was fortunate enough to get a little bit of precious Telescope imaging time at an Observatory with the kind of Astrophotography gear that I can only dream about. We decided that the name of the Observatory and gear would remain secret, as it is of no importance for my personal research.
There was not enough time to do justice to a spectacular exotic Deep Sky Object (DSO), so I decided to do a practical test of a very well-known DSO (for purposes of comparison in the little time I had).
I chose to image in 3nm Hydrogen-Alpha Narrowband (at the wavelength of 656.3 nm). I did star removal during image processing, as I was interested in the detail that one could capture in the Hydrogen emission of the nebula (in a relatively short amount of time, in near perfect weather conditions with great equipment).
Martin
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I took a nice normal picture of a nice normal building, and changed it 30 times until it wasn't nice and normal anymore. Please see my previous image "Building At you - Take 5" to see what it looked like 25 versions before. This is what I've been doing instead of watching the Olympics. No medals for this picture unless one is given for the massively changing an image without appreciately making it better.
Photographer: Heiko Potthoff
image editing: by me
... second image from a series wich i completely processed. For those who are interested, next i post an "before / after".
The trees came out pretty good, but the sun shining through was way over exposed. I spent a lot of time trying to refine the sunshine into something more more pleasing.
Dwarf Galaxy NGC 3738 undergoing massive star formation in Ursa Major captured in near-infrared and visible light by the Hubble Space Telescope
Filters Used:
Hydrogen Alpha: ACS/WFC - F658N (Narrowband)
Red: ACS/WFC - F814W (Infrared)
Green: ACS/WFC - F606W (Yellow)
Blue: UVIS/WFC3 - F438W (Blue)
Data Sourced from HST Proposals 12546, 9892, and 13364
Credit: NASA/ESA/STScI || Hypatia Alexandria