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Imagen creativa. Tratamiento digital sobre base fotográfica propia. Gracias de antemano por vuestros comentarios, award, favoritos, invitaciones a grupo y la elección para galerías; perdonad que quizás no pueda responder individualmente. Todos los derechos reservados.
Dedicated to my great friend Harsubagh who is now offline and unable to post but the pictures of him are wonderful. A great artist with whom I have the pleasure of working and collaborating. Fusion of images owned by him with others of mine
Fusión imagénes Harsubagh + seguicollar
Harsubagh:
www.flickr.com/photos/-writingtree-/16818844754/in/album-...
Base fotográfica: seguicollar: No publicado/ Not published
Be sure to visit his fascinating gallery!!
Another from the archive...a fully bloomed Calendula flower..taken at Ballarat Botanical Garden.
Hope you like listening to Dionne Warwick singing " What The World Needs Now "
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cW8Alo_5uI
Many thanks for your visit, comments, invites and favs...it is always appreciated...
Happy Friday
One of the old windows I came across.
Although it was falling apart, it had some colour left on it.
Also I had the bonus of the birds sitting there.
C R E D I T S
Body
Body Applier
[theSkinnery] - REBORN Body Addon @ Mainstore
Lingerie
Lapointe & Bastchild - Swear Teese PVC Lingerie @ FaMESHed X
Hair
Vanity Hair - -Twenty @ FaMESHed X
As Hairbase I used the LeLUTKA.EvoX.Hairbase.028 (f)
Heels
[Gos] Boutique - Rock Chic Mules @ FaMESHed X
Gag
Ama - Roll for Initiative : D10 @ FaMESHed X
Butterfly Cross
Violetility - Butterfly Cross @ FaMESHed X
Who needs sunny weather when you can get such a sky instead.
Looking over Uxavatn to Skjaldbreiður. Geographically already in the Highlands although still accessible with a 2WD.
I found this old house in Northumberland County, Virginia. It looks like the second floor porch has fallen off and it is missing a few boards and windows. It needs a little paint and some landscaping. Other than that though, it seems fine!
Cleo's Flickr friends know that she always needs a good reason for physical activity and treats ARE a good reason. She found the treats bag in the kitchen, carried it into the garden (probably because she didn't want me to see what she was doing) and used her claws to open the bag. Cleo can indeed be very determined if she has a goal. :)
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
Mahatma Gandhi
The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Socrates
When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.
Shirley Chisholm
Thank you for your kind visit. Have a wonderful and beautiful day! ❤️❤️❤️
A woman walked down to the shore of the green space with her dog, off leash. The dog proceeded to run out after this egret, causing it to relocate. She tried calling it back, but it would have nothing to do with her. She needs to use that leash, as required by law!!! First comment is moments before, as the dog charges...
Happy Truck Thursday! - A wonderful old Chevy seen at the September 2019 Morris Il Crruise Night. Three exposure HDR processed with Nik HDR Efex Pro 2
Taken on a beach walk on Sunday, it was cold, damp and freezing and this couple were the only other people who were braving the conditions. I enjoyed the walk ...bracing is the word that springs to mind though :-)
Just occasionally I get tempted to join in, but I always resist. If you use other social media and photography is your thing, chances are you get adverts from editing software providers, regardless of the fact that you're already a paying customer, telling you all about the latest sky replacement tools and the facility to squeeze as many real life unicorns as you can sensibly into your images. I can't help but stop and read the comments sometimes, and am always intrigued by the ones who profess to be completely against editing of any type whatsoever. Among them I'll find the sage counsel of the genius who states there's no need at all, because they always take their photographs correctly in the first place. Do they never get dust spots on their sensors or specks on their lenses? They're obviously far cleverer than I am, so I don't ask them how they manage to avoid low light noise with the ISO rammed up to twenty gazillion, or how they pull back the shadows and drop the highlights, or how they reduce the saturation that cameras often seem to add of their own accord. I'm still not sure how they manage to get a shot looking reasonably in focus throughout the scene at longer focal lengths either. But it seems they can. I just can't be dealing with the plaudits from one side and the vaguely focussed vitriol from the other, as they accuse me of adding too many unicorns under my replacement sky. The conversation is often heated as responses get shorter and shorter, often just reduced to a couple of short words, one of which is unrepeatable. I often wonder whether the "Be Kind" movement needs to intervene at such moments. So I scroll past and look at other peoples' photos instead, with and without unicorns. I tend to prefer the ones without the unicorns, but that's just me. When Topaz put up an advert for their wares, the posturing gets even more intense, even over the utility suite programmes that are only there to enhance file sizes for heavy crops and reduce noise or sharpen blurs.
So yes I admit it. I've never been tempted by the replacement sky option, and I'm studiously avoiding the new "add unicorn" button in Photoshop, but I do edit my raw files. Call me Mr Manipulator if you like, but if such luminaries as Mads, Nigel, Gavin and all the rest of them do, then why on earth wouldn't I? And until cameras are able to see what the human eye does instead of averaging everything out, I don't think there's any other option when you shoot into those big dynamic range scenes. Mostly I blunder through, slowly accumulating half an idea of what I'm supposed to be doing, and gradually I'm getting the hang of how it all works - often with the help of those YouTube gurus who've unknowingly dragged me through the process. Maybe I've learned about two percent of what Photoshop does now. The other ninety-eight could take several lifetimes.
But here's the thing - this shot, taken at sunset on that blustery bluff above Hay on Wye has been barely touched. All I did was crop it to this aspect ratio and slightly twiddle the white balance before frowning briefly and concluding nothing further was needed. Not even a unicorn or two. Those hazy hilly layers before the setting sun spoke for themselves, or so I felt.
What about you? Unicorns or not unicorns? Nobody judges you here.
"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul."
*John Muir*
I'm pretty sure this is a Golden Eagle.
... just like this flower needs light!
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Many photographers gravitate exclusively to steam, being drawn by the living machines that breathe smoke and steam. Others gravitate toward “regular service” common carrier trains, using derogatory terms like “tea kettles” and “fake trains” to dismiss steam operations. Strasburg’s status as America’s oldest, continuously-operating carrier is often forgotten, falling through the cracks between the two camps. In the past several decades, Strasburg has built their freight business significantly, and usually needs a run to the NS interchange at Leamon Place before the tourist trains commence. Here the other side of Strasburg is seen returning, shortly after leaving Leamon Place.
You would expect that nine in the morning would have the Spotted Towhee bright and chipper, but it looked very much like it needed its breakfast coffee...NOW!
Here, I think, is a central Jewish insight, which Christian theology has too often obscured: God asks, God invites, God needs our participation in the indwelling drama of love. We encounter that same flash of incarnate presence in Etty Hillesum. The realization of God’s own hope for the worlds, what Jesus calls the reign of God, hinges on our inner receptiveness, our fiat, our participation…
… She smiles, for though they have bound her, she cannot be a prisoner. Not that she is strong, or clever, but simply that she does not understand imprisonment.
-Christopher Pramuk, At Play in Creation
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This is the best definition of liturgy that I have read…the unbound source…a push from the heart…spilling outward…
-rc