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The female Blue-throated Starfrontlet looks quite different from the male www.flickr.com/photos/luminouscompositions/51868699155/in... with a cinnamon throat area and pinkish underparts. This bird was at the Observatorio de Colibries, a private sanctuary at higher elevation east of Bogota that is an excellent place to observe a good number of hummingbird species as well as other members of the local avifauna.
Created in DDG Text 2 Dream using its "Artistic" Ai model.
Filters: PS Beta 2023, Topaz Sharpen Ai, Topaz Studio.
Some hand painting and PS Beta Regenerative Fill.
The woman is a Dream by Wombo work.
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When I begun to process this exposure bracketing, I thought that I knew what I wanted to attain. I was perfectly wrong. Indeed, these RAW files kept a few secret bits of beauty which I was not aware of when I selected them for processing – and they changed the course of the journey I had foreordained.
I was in a gloomy mood, for both personal and general concerns, and the RAWs looked rather duller than the average – taken: they appeared to accurately mirror the state of my soul. At worst, I would have wasted some hours of pointless procesing work before deciding to look for something better. Nobody would have known. However things were to contradict my expectations. I got some good news (a rarity in those tough days) about the health conditions of my brother and my “adopted brother-in-law” (i.e. my brother’s brother-in-law); on the other hand, Darktable – that wonderful software – gifted me with a few unanticipated treasures. My thoughts were growing more and more positive and the processing of this bracketing were proceeding accordingly: a hidden beauty was unfolding before me, my own persisting unawareness of it notwithstanding. At last I found myself with a picture that had apparently self-processed itself*, while I was busy exploring uncharted thoughts that kept emerging along the way
* Admittedly a bizarre phenomenon, which Maurits Cornelius Escher would have loved – think of his Drawing hands.
I would avoid to nag you about this incredibly wonderful location: you can take a look at my album Silent banks, the complete collection of the photos I have taken there; the attached narratives are rich in information about the place, if you are curious enough.
This location is especially renowned for its legendary morning mists, but only a thin layer of milky mist floated above the water that morning. On top of the hill in the distance, beyond the river, lays the sanctuary of the Madonna della Rocca ( = Madonna of the Rock), already brushed by the first light pouring from the Eastern horizon.
I have obtained this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-1.7/0/+1.7 EV] by luminosity masks in the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal exposure" shot), then, as usual, I added some final touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4.
I tried the inverted RGB blue channel technique described by Boris Hajdukovic as a possible final contribution to the processing. While this technique (which, its imposing name notwithstanding, is pretty simple to implement) often holds interesting results in full daylight landscapes, its effects on a low-light capture (e.g. a sunrise) are utterly unpredictable, so at the end of my workflow I often give it a try to ascertain its possibilities. In this picture I have exploited this technique in a very frugal, yet effective, way – just some touches where needed.
RAW files has been processed with Darktable. Denoising with DFine 2 and the Gimp (denoised and original images blended by lightness).
A manipulation converted to a digital painting. Many thanks to Lenabem-Anna J. for her generous sharing of THIS image:
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In you and I, there's a new land
Angels in flight
{Wonk uoy naht noitceffa erom deen I}
My Sanctuary, my Sanctuary, yeah
Where fears and lies melt away...
Music will tie
{Wonk uoy naht noitceffa erom deen I}
What's left of me, what's left of me
{Snwod dna spu ynam os}
My heart's a battleground
{Snoitome eurt deen I}
{Wonk uoy naht noitceffa erom deen I}
{Snoitome eurt deen I}
You show me how to see
That nothing is whole and
Nothing is broken...
Wilson's Promontory is a magnificent National Park in Victoria that is a sanctuary for sea birds and fishes of all kinds.
Thunderstruck | NiNi Music + ZuiKo
Journey to Yanagi no Ogawa
Texture by Lenabem-Anna J. Texture - 164
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Outfit: TSC Battle Samurai V2 (Aesthetic BENTO)
Posed using A&M: Sword dance 1 - dance animation (Bento)
Kilkenny, Ireland.
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Compare this replica to the real one that I showcased on our Thailand road trip in the last album.
The Phanom Rung Stone Sanctuary is located in Buri Ram Province, on an extinct volcano. Built in accordance with Hinduism beliefs of the Shiva sect, the sanctuary had been constructed and used as a religious center for years. The construction presumably began around the 10th century A.D. and finished within the 13th century A.D. When King Jayavarman VII adopted Mahayana Buddhism, the function of the Hindu sanctuary had been changed to serve as a Mahayana monastery.
The site is approached from the east along the first three-leveled platforms leading to the first passage. Then there is a causeway lined with blunted stone pillars in parallel rows. The path of stone uprights then leads to the Naga Bridge. Far on the northern side of the cross-shaped passage is a laterite pavilion or Phlabphla called the Elephant Shelter. At the end of the bridge is a terraced staircase with 5 landings leading up to the sanctuary. Beyond the bridge is a vast platform which has a passage that will lead to the Naga Bridge, right in front of the central gate of the gallery. The gate is the first entrance which will direct travellers to the inner courtyard of the prasat, by crossing another Naga Bridge that connects the gate with the main prang.
The most important part, the main prang, is situated right at the center of the inner courtyard of the sanctuary. The building has a rectangular shape with re-entrant angles at the corners. The square mondop was built adjacent to the main prang. The architectural designs that were carved on the prang such as the posts at the door frame, pillars on the walls, lintels, porticos and pediments, depict designs of flora, leaves, hermits, gods and goddesses and characters from religious myths: Vishnu (Narai) resting on Ananta, the Naga king and Shiva dancing, for example.
The decorations found on the lintels and frontal pediments of the main prang help indicate the age of the main building together with the staircase and the Naga Bridge; they are believed to have been constructed around the 12th century A.D.
On the grounds of the inner courtyard, southwest of the main prang is a small prang with no roof. From the evidence of the style of art found on the carvings, pediments and lintels, itis understood that the minor prang was built before the main prang, around the 11th century A.D.
There’re remains of the brick base of the prang were also discovered lying on the northeast of the main prang and dated back to the 10th century A.D. Another structuremade of laterite stands on the southeast of the main prang and dated to the 13th century A.D. The laterite structure is contemporary to the building which is known as Rong Chang Phueak (the Elephant Shelter).
Shot of an island bird sanctuary taken on a boat in Iceland. I was surrounded by bird expert photography enthusiasts that had telephoto X 1 million zoom lens. I didn’t have that type of lens, so I got this shot instead.
Ringheiligtum Pömmelte, erbaut 2.500-2.300 v. Chr.
diente als Kultstätte und Begräbnisort
built 2.500-2.300 BCE where people came together to worship and bury the dead
Durham Cathedral The knocker on the Cathedral’s northern door, known as the Sanctuary Knocker, played an important part in the Cathedral’s history. Those who ‘had committed a great offence,’ such as murder in self-defence or breaking out of prison, could rap the knocker, and would be given 37 days of sanctuary within which they could try to reconcile with their enemies or plan their escape. -
I spent a good part of the day checking out the migrants at the Quintana Neotropical Bird Sanctuary and wow there were lots of them around. However, when the light was getting low at the back drip, I decided to run over to Brazoria NWR to take advantage of the beautiful light. With the water as high as it is there weren’t a whole lot of great opportunities but this young Yellow-crowned Night Heron was just begging to be photographed. I decided to see how much of the frame I could fill with the bird’s head. This shot is uncropped and even at f/11 the DOF is REALLY thin. Makes me appreciate all those macro photographers a little more.
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Nyctanassa violacea