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This looks a little bit painterly, but it just a photo (that I took) with some very normal photo program enhancements such as bright, contrast, crop, saturation.
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When I first started to load it tonight on Flickr, I thought I had it upside down, but it isn't. I liked the look of the little hanging down feathery things.
Let it load for a couple of extra seconds that you normally would to let it come into focus.
This is weird (October 17, 2019) I got an invitation to join Favorites: 5 group, but when I got to this page, it was already in a whole bunch of Explore, Unexplored; Favorites: 10 etc. groups and an album and tags. Either I made a mistake over 2 years ago, and put it in groups it didn't yet qualify for, or it had 10 and somehow 2 people quit or got banned from Flickr or something. Strange! Anyway, I removed it from all the 10 fave type things I could determine, and I'm starting over at 5.
Within a few hours after typing the above paragraph, everything was not only at 10 but up to 13. Something was screwball, but I don't know what. I'm putting back in the appropriate *10* groups.
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Having trouble figuring out who is who? See the picture right before this one, and though it is also *artsy*, they are more recognizable, and I will label enough for you to see what is going on with them.
"My thin white border is not so much a frame as a defense against Flickr's all dark background"
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This shot is pretty straightforward of these three *cute* weeds. The shot right after this one is the same three but with my *almost secret* artistic technique on it. I like them both, my images that is, not necessarily weeds in the yard.
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Being a bit of a Nature-obsessive I like to celebrate the Equinoxes and Solstices, often by watching the sun rise if I can. So here I was at the beach this morning, it was so beautifully quiet and peaceful, the best part of the day.
I've been thinking about how well photos can go with other things, for example many people (myself included) like to write a few (!) words to go with their photos. Several of my Flickr friends post music too, which I find interesting and often thought provoking. I wanted to try and post a photo with sound- not music, but the sound that was there at the time, and who doesn't love the sound of gentle waves on a shingle beach at sunrise?
I didn't want a 'moving video' panning across a view, what I've tried to create is a static picture with sound and only the movement of the waves. I tried to hold my phone still (and straight!), and have hopefully captured the peace and tranquillity of the morning. The picture isn't very sharp so you can even close your eyes while looking at this one!
The Equinox is a time of perfect balance between light and dark, a tiny moment of stillness in the ever-turning wheel of the year. A moment to stop. But if you can't manage all that, a large Friday Night glass (or bottle) of something nice will do fine to celebrate instead :)
Have a great Equinox evening everyone :))
The *Soul* of this one is that I used to detest that little tree. It was pathetically small, ugly and scrawny, almost sickly looking most of the time. He was nearly always in the way of a sunset shot I wanted to take, or really pretty clouds. I was tempted to cut him down, but it was a National Wildlife Refuge, and I thought the penalty for *vandalism* might be horrible. So I just got annoyed many items, and finally one day, sort of a photographic Epiphany, I came to terms with him. I named him Scrawny and named the hill Scrawny Tree Hill, and started really enjoying him in many of my shots, like a little friend. Ironically, he has more leaves here than most of the time I saw him. They were small, sparse, and not very healthy looking, but I think he got a little better looking as I accepted him.
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"SOOC means Straight Out Of Camera ~ no post processing"
The original image I took was in March of 2014. This surreal image I made from it was done July 31, 2016. This is painterly now, but was a very real barn and fence and gates with lovely trees and grasses on a beautiful day.
I was going to say something like "Old Barn on Drugs" as a title, but decided I will use that type of title again some day, but for now it is kind of trite. Then I thought of a facetious one, "Not Exactly Poltergeists" and decided I don't know enough about Poltergeists to know what I am talking about. Lastly I decided that the painterly, surreal effects I used, made it look to me like they were all waving goodbye. So, there you have it!
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I did two versions of this shot. The huge cloud with dramatic looking lining looks sort of fake, but it isn't.
"My thin white border is not so much a frame as a defense against Flickr's all dark background"
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For Dave C., the following tells about the *soul* of this image.
Actually I made this painting from an incredibly blurry shot of me holding my granddaughter's hand in front of a photo-shoot site for the movie Zootopia. Before I throw away a photo, sometimes I like to dink around with it and have some fun and make it artsy.
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This image is of the poor Autumn trees ~ so very confused as to their roles in this seasonal dance.
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"My thin white border is not so much a frame as a defense against Flickr's all dark background"
Aquarell painterly effect on my photo.
Scio is pronounced like a *Sigh* of Relief and then *Oh*, like Oh, what a pretty creek.
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Not artsy or painterly, but pretty cute, eh?
"My thin white border is not so much a frame as a defense against Flickr's all dark background"
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We’re here visiting obsession. I’m not sure I’ll be able to play today as I don’t have anything I’m obsessive over. Nope.
It was a Oscar de La Renta scarf next to 2 cups of pens, one of them a hot pink marking pen still writing well since June 1997. I did some light marker technique, watercolor, adjustment, cropping and a skosh of bibbity-bobbity-boo. Light marker technique on a photo post-processing program has nothing to do with the hot pink marker I mentioned.
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This shot is more ordinary. Of the last two I have submitted earlier this month (May 2018), one was inverted/negative and one was HDR. I think each of the variations has some good points.
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I think I might have obsessive–compulsive disorder towards Ewoks as I keep torturing them on my photographs, making them look mean and bad.
Don't know if I was forced to sleep with lots of teddybears when I was a baby or it's the pain of seeing Ewoks wasting stormtroopers in ROTJ, when I was just 12 y.o. That could leave a mark.
o.O
Anyway, here's Lumat, smoking hot under Vader's feet.
PS
In fact, I've been playing with saber effect and its rounded tip.
The yellow strips are like one might see on a flat surface like a parking lot, but they are on a concrete wall (vertical) probably to give warning about not bumping into the wall.
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Because he lives right on top of his hill (Scrawny Tree Hill to be exact) he is very vulnerable to wind and storm.
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For the ABCs & 123s group ~ Q is for Queen Anne's Lace
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This was shot on October 18, 2010 but I did a lot of post processing today, August 10, 2016. I had to do some serious photographic archeology to find it in my computer.
This started life as my photo of a real sunrise coming up over the Coburg Hills in the Willamette Valley of Western Oregon. There were many trees with fog / mist sort of meandering through them.
Best viewed no bigger than a postage stamp. Then you can't see my mistakes. (grin)
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"My thin white border is not so much a frame as a defense against Flickr's all dark background"
"My work has obsessively questioned otherness, contemporary migrations, uprootedness, belonging, hybridity, social issues and the effects of War. Often self portraits, going from the Me series to the Tree (which represents me), it is always directly inspired by my hybrid life, my multiple imperfect identities and the social work I have been doing since the mid 90s with delinquent youngsters, street children, migrants and asylum seekers. I believe art can only be a strategy of resistance."
For ABCs and 123s group, *Q* is for Quintessential as this is a quintessential white picket fence with pink roses.
This photo was taken at sunrise but not of the sunrise.
"My thin white border is not so much a frame as a defense against Flickr's all dark background"
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This is in honor of his 44th birthday, today, September 13, 2015.. He was just 2½ years old in this photo. I posted this photo on Flickr 10 years ago, but I don't think that once every decade is too often.
This is a real child in a real mailbox, when we had just installed it. I went outside to take a photo of it, and got the brilliant idea to stick him in there. We had just moved to Oregon.
For the Small Town America (pool), I don't know what the population of Veneta, Oregon was in 1974, but I think it was such a small town that for a fire department, they had six midgets with a WaterPik®.
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For Dave C. and other Flickr friends, I think the *soul of this photo is his obvious glee at being in the mailbox, and that he will be 50 years this year (2021) and we all still enjoy the picture.
This is a painterly effect on a real photo of Bluefish & Greenfish. They were real brother kittens at Heartland Humane Society in Corvallis, Oregon in about 2009.
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The river you see falling is the McKenzie River, which has formed at Clear Lake farther up the hill, but the name of the falls is Sahalie. That basically means 2 sections or parts, split, or divided in the Chinook Language. However some articles I read said it means Heaven. Go figure.
I know I have posted pictures of this waterfall many times, but I love it, and today is Waterfall Wednesday, and this particular photo is one I haven't ever posted before.
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