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The New York Times Ethicist recently published a "ruling" on the ethics of AI generative art. He was responding to a person who wanted to use an Etsy image but was concerned the seller was profiting off the work of artists used to train generative AI. The Ethicist pointed out that artists have always stood on the shoulders of other artists, an argument that resonates with me. The image you see here is not simply the result of prompting an image in Midjourney because I made quite a few changes to it in Kira, using the Stable Diffusion plugin and using my digital painting skills and tools (like rearranging the chickens, recreating the woman in the distance, giving the man a hat etc.). But my influence on the image goes deeper. I used Midjourney's personalize parameter to generate images that reflect my aesthetic, color choices, brush work, level of detail and so on. The training was simple. I was given four thousand sets of widely diverse images and told to choose one of them. In other words, this is my unconscious "style." Unconscious because I did not deliberately tell Midjourney everything I prefer when I am painting. And in the act of grabbing from the gush of images this personalization parameter produced, I chose this image. Probably because I have re-discovered NC Wyeth who is famous for his illustrations of the old childhood novel "Treasure Island." He influences how I use illustration to tell stories. And Edward Hopper influences the mood of my work. And Norman Rockwell. Did Rockwell absorb NC Wyeth? I think so. Caravaggio gives my work its lighting. And perhaps NC Wyeth's son Andrew suffused my work. He taught me how to pay attention to the world immediately around me. And perhaps to some degree hundreds of more artists famous and obscure seen in museums, art workshops, videos and Internet images. In fact I have produced over 800 images of the Ravensway world using this amazing productive power of AI. A world that has storytelling power.
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The lesser flamingo (Phoenicoparrus minor) is a species of flamingo occurring in sub-Saharan Africa, with another population in India. Birds are occasionally reported from further north, but these are generally considered vagrants. It was moved from the genus Phoeniconaias to Phoenicoparrus in 2014.
The lesser flamingo is the smallest species of flamingo, though it is a tall and large bird by most standards. The species can weigh from 1.2 to 2.7 kg (2.6 to 6.0 lb). The standing height is around 80 to 90 cm (31 to 35 in). The total length (from beak to tail) and wingspan are in the same range of measurements, from 90 to 105 cm (35 to 41 in). Most of the plumage is pinkish white. The clearest difference between this species and the greater flamingo, the only other Old World species of flamingo, is the much more extensive black on the bill. Size is less helpful unless the species are together, since the sexes of each species also differ in height.
The lesser flamingo may be the most numerous species of flamingo, with a population that (at its peak) probably numbered up to two million individual birds. This species feeds primarily on Spirulina, algae which grow only in very alkaline lakes. Presence of flamingo groups near water bodies is indication of sodic alkaline water which is not suitable for irrigation use. Although blue-green in colour, the algae contain the photosynthetic pigments that give the birds their pink colour. Their deep bill is specialised for filtering tiny food items.
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Lake Amboseli is located in the Nyiri Desert (also called Taru or Nyika Desert ) that stretches along southern border of Kenya and Tanzania. The name ‘lake’ is a bit of a misnomer as for most of the year all it is is a massive flat desert pan with no water in it, except after extended rains, when it becomes an alkaline lake.
A simple image from sunrise this morning. Just great to be out early - not too cold and a beautiful still morning on the beach.
Published on N°1 of 5x5 Magazine March 2012
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Published in Popular Photography Magazine in 2008. Taken with my Canon 30D and a Sigma 14mm f/2.8 lens.
Published in Photography Week (Issue 146 July 3rd 2015)
A frosy Nottinghamshire morning.
Thank you for the amazing support!!!
I had a longer than usual visit there last Sunday--I seemed to be the only one there, despite the better-than-predicted weather.
WINTER WONDERLAND
Heavy frost turned much of the Prairies into a picture postcard last month. This photo was taken near Deerwood, Man.
The bright green seaweed growing on this rock shelf would hav been a major focal point if the sunrise hadn't stolen the show.
An amazing sunrise at Bungan Beach / Mona Vale Headland.
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This photo is here at the instigation of Doddy, who persuaded me to publish it.. :)
Thank you dear Doddy! :D
map: Craggy Island - A wee bit of Ireland, Mathair
flickr group: Flickr: www.flickr.com/groups/14739969@N25/
tune: youtu.be/rqUnNUYsf24
English translation:
At ours on the North
In Bělsky forest mammoth roamed,
When you don't salt them they are tasteless,
You wouldn't believe how much work it takes to
conserve trunk on the sour way.
Hole of the world in every way,
I don't give a fuck what you think,
Don't talk because I get pissed
That's how we live on north.
Winds are blowing from every direction,
When we don't have butter we eat Hera,
Always two meters from troubles,
That's how we live here.
Na na na...
Everywhere around the world there are mobile phones,
At ours don't even ray grows,
dogs eat sprout of horsetail,
Every family have ten children.
Hole of the world in every way,
I don't give a fuck about what you think,
Don't talk because I get pissed
That's how we live on north.
Winds are blowing from every direction,
When we don't have butter we eat Hera,
Always two meters from troubles,
That's how we live here.
Na na na...
In the city centre next to the statue of T. G. Masaryk,
from the earth water spurt like on Iceland,
little ones, big ones, fat ones, thin ones, all different race,
Everybody here is washing their hair for free.
Hole of the world in every way,
I don't give a fuck what you think,
Don't talk because I get pissed
That's how we live on the north.
Winds are blowing from every direction,
When we don't have butter we eat Hera,
Always two meters from troubles,
That's how we live here.
Na na na...
From Karolina, you can see Europe,
Under Radhošť you can meet even apes,
After salary, it is very wild here
Prague too far away and God too high up.
Hole of the world in every way,
I don't give a fuck what you think,
Don't talk because I get pissed
That's how we live on the north.
Winds are blowing from every direction,
When we don't have butter we eat Hera,
Always two meters from troubles,
That's how we live here.
Na na na...
Author's comments:
Most of the words in this song are slang :)
I not sure how to translate "berou mě mory" but I think it's something like "get angry" or "get pissed"
"Hera" is vegetable fat which we use mainly for baking.
Karolina is an area near the centre of Ostrava.
Bělsky Forest is a city part of Ostrava-Jih.
Radhošť is a mountain in Moravian-Silesian Beskydy.
translator: hanasmachova
Suspended Animation Classic #327
Originally published April 2, 1995 (#14)
(Dates are approximate)
Judge Dredd, Nexus, Star Wars
By Michael Vance
Judge for yourself.
In a world of corruption, immorality, and violence, he is absolute, unbending LAW. He is judge, jury, and executioner embodied in one hulking man, Judge Joe Dredd.
The quickest way to court death is to throw yourself on the mercy of this court.
Not another grim, dark, and violent vigilante comic book!?!?
Yes and no.
In this world, a murdered President, a corrupt Chief Judge, and his jackbooted thugs – the Ministry of Fear – have perverted the Law they’ve sworn to serve. Computers sentence perpetrators who are shuttled to “Iso blocks”, jails that few ever leave.
And the bad buys win while Dredd naps … for fifty years or so.
Then, Mega-City One becomes a radioactive wasteland, and Dredd promptly kills, sorta, his papa and a whole bunch of rioters.
If it still sounds like more yes than no, persevere. You haven’t met the mime judges yet.
“Judge Dredd” is down, dirty, and … funny?
It is dark, grim, and violent satire of dark, grim, violence. Dredd’s tongue is so firmly stuck in cheek that it near pokes yer eye out.
If that’s not enough, plotting is tight, characterization is abundant, and there’s enough twists on clichés to keep readers hopping.
If that’s also not enough, the art is better than drab and seems to improve each issue. There’s also big guns, bombs, bullets, and clenched teeth!
And if that’s not enough, at least you’ll learn an important lesson.
Judge not lest ye be judged.
Hey! I have a tongue to!
“Judge Dredd” #s 10-12/$1.95 & 25 pages each from DC Comics/words: Andrew Helfer; art: Doug Selogy and others/available in comics shops and by mail.
Also recommended, “Judge Dredd: Legends of the Law”.
MINIVIEW: “Nexus – The Wages of Sin”. Science-fiction, superheroes, satire and slapstick, it remains one of the best romps in comic books.
MINIVIEW TO: “Star Wars – Droids Special”. R2D2 and Threepio in great robotic fun for hardcore fans and young readers.
Compilation of the Krautrock label Ohr, published in 1971. 2 LPs, both good, particularly the second one, which has mostly instrumental tracks that are unusually experimental and long for a compilation. Some of them, however, have been cut shorter. Well, they had to make some compromise, I guess. Annexus Quam is gigantic.
I have another Ohr compilation, called Ohrenschmaus, with similar music. But I don't like its cover so I won't post it on Flickr.
Gatefold cover designed by Helmut Friz. Later a CD with a very similar cover became available, but it's not as good as this one.
Birthcontrol: Stop Little Lady - 7:16
Floh de Cologne: He, Hallo Stift - 1:21
Floh de Cologne: Die Luft gehört denen, die sie atmen - 1:46
Floh de Cologne: Wir werden immer mehr - 2:24
Embryo: You Don't Know what's Happening - 4:43
Witthüser & Westrupp: Orienta - 7:35
Amon Düül: Love Is Peace - 7:10
Paul & Limpe Fuchs Anima-Sound: How to Dream - You - 4:00
Annexus Quam: Seite 1 A - 4:10
Ash Ra Tempel: Amboss (Ausschnitt) - 8:50
Tangerine Dream: Fly and Collision of Comas Sola (Ausschnitt) - 7:15
Guru Guru: Electric Junk - 10:58
Xhol: Breit (Ausschnitt) - 7:15
Limbus: Heiku - 2:00
A sudden rush of light across the Grosse river as the sun breaks through the patchy cloud.
I was in the process of packing up and making my way back up the river bank when the light broke through. One mad rush back down to the shoreline to set up and catch the light before it faded.
30 seconds later and it was gone again.
I love the peeling-paint Howard Red/Yellow/Purple Line station benches, which are still hanging on as the station is being drastically remodeled. Seen on Chicagoist.
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Nada personal, es solo que no le veo el sentido a ese tipo de comportamientos. A cambio te animo a que me critiques sin piedad, pero con respeto, mi trabajo, porque solo así puedo seguir avanzando como fotógrafo. Gracias!
A small channel encrusted with sea life.
Very low tide at Tamamrama / Mackenzie Bay allowed access to the rockshelf.
Wheatfield.
Midsummer:
the blue of the sky stretches
from horizon to horizon,
fading from intense cerulean overhead,
to a gentle haze closest to the plain’s edge.
The wheat field gleams
golden in the noon light,
vast as a prairie,
the ears heavy,
bending
under their own productivity.
That was then.
Now,
in early spring, there is still snow in the north,
the pristine whiteness mired in mud,
and blood,
churned by tanks, craters, artillery,
pits blown apparently randomly,
deep and water-logged,
recalling the almost forgotten horrors
of Ypres and Passchendaele.
The woodlands give little cover,
the trees split, twigs scattered.
No birds sing.
No seeds have been planted.
The only yield will be that of death
and destruction…
yet still the flag flutters
optimistically,
hopefully,
heroically,
echoing the blue and yellow,
of sky and land:
the colours of peace.
Published in reach poetry 284 June 2022
Voted 2nd of the month by readers.
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PLEASE
• Do not post animated gifs or pictures in your comments. Especially the "awards". These will simply be deleted and the poster blocked. Unless it's an interesting other picture, for comparison or reference.
• No invitations to groups where one must comment and/or invite and/or give award and no group icon without any comment. These will simply be deleted and the poster blocked.
Nothing personal here, I simply don't see the usefulness of such actions. On the other hand I encourage you to critic my work as I believe that is the best way to improve my photography. Thank you!
POR FAVOR
-No pongas gifs animados, logos o premios (awards) en tu comentario. A no ser que la imagen que incluyas esté para compararla con la mía o para ilustrar un punto de vista borraré esos comentarios y bloquearé al que lo pone.
-No me envíes invitaciones a grupos donde exista la obligación de comentar o premiar fotos, ni a aquellos donde existe un comentario preformateado con el logo del grupo. Borraré esos comentarios y bloquearé al que lo pone.
Nada personal, es solo que no le veo el sentido a ese tipo de comportamientos. A cambio te animo a que me critiques sin piedad, pero con respeto, mi trabajo, porque solo así puedo seguir avanzando como fotógrafo. Gracias!
This and the first photo below were published in the sports section of today's West Hawaii Today newspaper.
My byline follows...
BILL ADAMS | SPECIAL TO WEST HAWAII TODAY
The Waveriders' Kawailani Stanley connects for a single during the bottom of the second inning of Friday's softball game against Konawaena at Kealakehe High School.
Freshwater Headland.
The wedge shaped rocks and the resulting wedge shaped bits of water appealed to my sense of geometry.
Found three oldies stashed away in my basement - full disclosure, there are many more down there...
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, first published in 1877...
The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney first published in 1881...
and
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery first published in 1908...
Thanks to Kim Klassen and Distressed Textures for the textures used; and to Fuzzimo.com for the Polaroid frame.
121 in 2021
#12 - Book first published in 1921 or earlier
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Published in photo magazine DNG Nº 125 | ENERO 2017
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A year ago, I published our first collaborative photo. Here we go again. We have changed, but not the fact that I love this woman and work with her wonderful being.
Thank you Giselle Chauveau ♥
Special thanks to Alicja Keys. :D
youtu.be/ImJ-1cxsYrM she inspires me every damn time
The sanstone cliffs of Sydney feel insignificant against the endless ocean and under the tumultuous skies
The Textron AirLand Scorpion prototype.
I had an article about this odd bird published in Scandinavia's aviation magazine. This photo was chosen for the cover.
On my journey home from Scotland last month i stopped off in a lay-by to show my kids the "Milky Way". i decided to try some night sky photography, as i took this a train passed... A little noisy so more practice is needed.
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