Shock of the New Challenge # 71.0

~ SOTN ~ B&W Shock ~

Picture taken in Sarzeau (Brittany,France)

Better on Black

The nocturnal creatures have withdrawn to their daytime resting places while their light loving counterparts are waking up and beginning their day. Processed in Photoshop.

Treat This #18 in the Kreative People group:

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Source image - my own, which you can see in the first comment box below or here:

www.flickr.com/photos/abstractartangel77/11981703643/

Hummingbird is from the Creative Commons:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Colibri-thalassinus-001-edit.jpg

Thanks to hipea for the Butterfly snippets:

www.flickr.com/photos/63562807@N07/11089803044/

photomanipulation

Inspired by Alan Walden!

Created for ...

... the TMI challenge In the Style of ... plsanders97, A. Walden & Hal Halli

... the TMI January contest WINTER BRANCHES

... the Award Tree challenge "Trees in Winter."

Created for the Kreative People August 2022 Contest: Dancing (Third entry)

From my own stock photograph

Corel Paint Shop Pro 2022

Paint

DDG

Thanks to TeMari 09. www.flickr.com/photos/34053291@N05/4725939336/in/album-72...

Thanks to Pexels for the following:

Apple: pexels-toni-cuenca-616837

Wheat www.pexels.com/photo/agriculture-arable-barley-blur-265216/

Woman www.pexels.com/photo/portrait-of-woman-1029572/

Thanks to Pexels for the following

Woman www.pexels.com/photo/woman-standing-while-wearing-pink-ja...

Thanks to all for your comments, favorites and group invites! So very much appreciated!

Created for Mystic Challenge Group's Mystery Clock Challenge: www.flickr.com/groups/challenges_community_group/discuss/...

Created with DDG Text 2 using the following photo.

Created for the Art Week Gallery theme “Vivid Faces”

Thanks to Pexels for the following:

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Background – stock photo

DDG/Paint shop Pro/paint

Thanks to : www.flickr.com/photos/pss/3309408487/

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San Francisco dream cityscape

art prints StacyYoungArt.com

Created for ~ The Award Tree ~ Challenge 223.0 Red Yellow Blue

3 stock photos + DDG/paint/paint shop pro

photomanipulation

Created with the help of DDG AI

Paint/Paint Shop Pro 2022/Filter Forge

Stock photos

Treat This 54 in the Kreative People group:

www.flickr.com/groups/1752359@N21/discuss/72157649229282431/

Signs & Portents Contest -The Dark Side of the Light

www.flickr.com/groups/thedarksideofthelight/discuss/72157...;

Source image - my own, which you can see in the first comment box below or here:

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The KP group August 2021 Contest The theme is PEOPLE

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rlart

org photographs are my own.

Thanks to Pexels for these images

woman www.pexels.com/photo/woman-lying-on-white-bed-9374651/

sunflower www.pexels.com/photo/yellow-and-brown-sunflower-field-und...

Earth www.pexels.com/photo/earth-wallpaper-41953/

Cottage: Own stock photo

Trees: Creative commons

Flowers: Own stock/creative commons

Processed with Paint/Paint shop Pro/DDG/Filter Forge

Art Week Gallery theme Spring mood

re-processed

Created for Art week gallery on the theme "Art portraits"

Creative commons/DDG

Thanks to : www.flickr.com/photos/joshsommers/sets/72157594515046947/

“My very first setting”

Thanks to brillianthues for the following sources

297 source 1 slabs www.flickr.com/photos/brillianthues/52250175357/in/dateta...

297 source 2 lady www.flickr.com/photos/brillianthues/52251163058/in/dateta...

www.flickr.com/photos/brillianthues/52212533262/in/dateta...

Thanks to Library of Congress for the following

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Thanks to Pexels for the following

house Christianne www.pexels.com/photo/blue-and-gray-wooden-house-with-flag...

Camera: Thanks to: www.publicdomainpictures.net/pictures/170000/velka/old-ca...

Own stock photos

Corel Paint Shop Pro 2022

Paint

Several different photos of mine treated to look like flowers

Environmental Enhancement Study. No AI.

Treat This 350 Kreative People:

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thanks to xandram for the source photo below and here:

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This is a pure photomanipulation - absolutely no AI was involved.

The original photo of a local pub interior I took on New Year's Day can be seen in the first comment box below.

Kreative People "Interiors" Contest - January 2026

www.flickr.com/groups/1752359@N21/discuss/72157721924471643/

Hello everyone. I literally have not been creating much of anything since I was last active here. Trying now to reignite the creative spark. Looking forward to catching up with you all soon.

Thanks to all for your comments, favorites and group invites! So very much appreciated!

I can't stay with dark thoughts. Back to optimism :-)

Source: Coastal Currents Arts Festival 2019. Drew Copus street art

Thanks for all the favorites, comments, group invites and awards! Much appreciated!

Created for Challenge 215.0 ~ Wet Work ~ The Award Tree ~! From my stock photos only

"Light at the end of the tunnel"

Thanks to abstractartangel77 for these sources

www.flickr.com/photos/abstractartangel77/51973886217/

www.flickr.com/photos/abstractartangel77/51975177424/

KP Treat this

Corel Paint Shop Pro 2022

Paint and paint 3D

Cerne Abbas, Portesham, and Moreton, Dorset.

Created for ~

"TRIPTYCHS" ~~ Award Tree August 2020 Contest~