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Just simple shot and convert to black & white. Don't know you like or not.
Sad Agus Photography©, Copyright 2014.
“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.”
Henry David Thoreau
EXPLORED - Thanks, all!! Took a roadtrip this weekend....our "inaugural" trip with a teardrop trailer that we built ourselves. (See below). One of the reasons we built it was to be able to take off on photo trips.
We found this little house....schoolhouse perhaps? outside Yreka, CA...incredibly wild sky...View On Black
3 image HDR +/- 2EV tonemapped in Photomatix.
Finished up in CS4 - adjusted curves
Used Nik Silver Efex to create the BW layer.
Thanks for all your comments and faves! I will catch up with each of your streams soon!
A low quality commercial postcard of two French colonial soldiers surrounded by trench raiders (handguns, knivers and wire cutters). The photo was heavely edited to make the postcard, the floor was simplified and an additional raider standing on the right was removed.
Found 1 KIA of the 3e Régiment de Marche de Tirailleurs Algériens listed on 18/08/1916 for Morville-sur-Seille : Lamri Ben Atia DJERIOU
According to the JMO of the unit :
17/08/1916 Handover in the Fôret de Facq sector of the 230e RI between 19:00 and 24:00.
18/08/1916 Casualties of the day : Prisoners : 2
The German soldiers of from a unit part of the "Garnison de Metz" but I can't find information of the composition of group. It doesn't seems to be an Armee or an Armeekorps but something else.
The back of an original version of this card might help for the identification : www.flickr.com/gp/juju1418/2M34r35Qk7
Thank to Hans it is confirmed with additional information :
"Feindl. Doppelposten gefangen in d. Nacht v. 17/18 VIII zwischen E. u. P. (ein Araber u. ein Neger)."
REF: 5-5-5
Lavender.
25 years ago or so I came across a photographer exhibiting some wonderful treescape pictures in the Forest of Dean Art Centre. They had been digitally processed to give a painterly effect and it was the first time I really came across the use of filters. (My reader will know that I am only 21 but time travel is a marvellous thing…)
Well that was the beginning of the end… or perhaps the end of the beginning.
He’d used some software called Buzz Simplify which algorithmically processed a digital image into blocks of similar colours, and processed the edges between blocks into lines. It was fabulous.
I eventually tracked it down to a one-man British company that had written the software and was selling the filter over the internet. So I bought it and started to play.
I upgraded a couple of times (keeping pace with Windows releases) having a great deal of fun.
And then disaster struck - the software stopped being updated.
Woe was I. Woe and thrice woe...
But eventually, after a year or two searching, it reappeared in the hands of an American outfit that I had never heard of before. They had bought the rights to it and had not only updated it but enhanced it with more adjustments and presets.
The US firm was Topaz Labs and the rebirthed filter was called Topaz Simplify. You can still find some of the original presets, called BuzSim.
And so started my love affair with Topaz and filters in general. On the slippery slope I also became enamoured with digital painting using Corel Painter and its predecessor, though in no way am I a fine artist.
The rest, as they say, is history, and a very pleasant one at that! They are so addictive…
This is for Sliders Sunday. It’s a picture of a lavender bed in my front garden from a few months ago (remember the summer?).
I’ll post a link to the original in the first comment so you can see how far we came.
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image! Happy Sliders Sunday :)
[Developed it in Capture One for colour variation.
Processed several times using Topaz Simplify; the various versions were blended with the original.
Cropped it then flipped it horizontally which gave a more attractive feel to the movement in the image.
Into Corel Painter for a gessoed canvas texture,
then it back into Affinity Photo for the frame and that was it!]
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings - Topaz Simplify of a 2800x2500 panorama, downsampled from a 4500p PTGui composite, SSAO, SweetFX 1.4, ENB bloom, CLENB palette, Witcher 2 Tweaker.
So yeah, I just had to give that thing a go myself. Procrastination is a bitch.
Original shot here. If you like this, go watch Burning North's simplified shots to see how it's properly done.
I've wanted to design a Stegosaurus for a while now, and even made a few attempts at it that didn't work out.
I dusted off the idea last month and, this time, things just fell into place. I scrapped my previous attempts and used my Pureland Stegosaurus as a jumping off point instead. You can still see that model embedded in the core of this one.
I also designed a slightly more complicated version that has three additional small plates, in order to make the model look more accurate.
Not exactly the same but very similar design by Hadi Tahir
www.flickr.com/photos/31897685@N06/12184993156
www.flickr.com/photos/31897685@N06/14936003997
And a complete family by unknown author (perhaps Yukihiko Matsuno ?) :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxgxIdbVwjo
Keiji Kitamura model seems very similar :
www.flickr.com/photos/62572859@N08/32541766425/in/photoli...
George Kokoris, a.k.a. Burning North was the first to introduce me to Topaz Simplify, a plugin suite for Photoshop. He reworked some of Dead End Thrills' shots, and was kind enough to do some of mine as well.
I'd like to use this one as a flickr backdrop, and use the fact that I'll have to host it in my own photostream to do that, to give the guy some more exposure. Check out his photostream.
The original of this simplified shot is here, for those interested.
Dense fog simplifies my view on such a day. There is a feeling of being 'cocooned' or swathed in a blanket of foam. #cy365 #captureyour365 #windowview Day242
Another dreary, stormy day made for bad conditions. I turned my attention to subjects right in front of me. Simplifying ended up being a good thing for me to do.
Please also visit:
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum.
This exotic seaside villa was built by hoteliers, Annie and Merton Russell-Cotes in 1901, as their home. Filled with their extraordinary collection of British paintings and sculptures, as well as souvenirs from their travels around the world. It is a unique Victorian survival in Bournemouth. The house and collection stand testimony to Annie and Merton’s love for each other and passion for collecting. On their deaths in 1921, they gave the house and its collections to the people of Bournemouth to enjoy forever.
russellcotes.com/digital-guide/
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This grand art gallery and museum stands in a premium spot atop the town’s East Cliff in a Grade II listed building in Art Nouveau style originally known as East Cliff Hall. It was built in 1897 as a commission by Merton Russell-Cotes, the owner of the neighbouring Royal Bath Hotel as a birthday present for his wife Annie and the first phase was completed in 1901.
Six years later Annie donated it and its contents to the town as a museum and Merton contributed his fine art collection and valuable keepsakes from his foreign travels. In return, the pair were made honorary freemen of the town. They continued adding to the collection and maintaining it until their deaths and in 1922 the Borough of Bournemouth assumed ownership, renaming it after the benefactors as the arts gallery and museum that is here today.
www.bournemouth.com/russell-cotes/
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The Russell-Cotes Museum is an art gallery and museum in Bournemouth. It is located on the top of the East Cliff, next to the Royal Bath Hotel.
In 1897, the architect John Frederick Fogerty was commissioned by Merton Russell-Cotes, then the owner of the Royal Bath Hotel, to build a house as a birthday present for his wife Annie. Originally called East Cliff Hall it was built in the northeast section of his hotel's garden. Built in the Art Nouveau style with interiors by John Thomas and his son Oliver. It was completed in its first form in 1901.
In 1907, Annie Russell-Cotes donated East Cliff Hall and its contents as a museum to the town of Bournemouth and Merton donated his fine art collection. In return they were made honorary freemen of the town. They continued living in part of the house and over the next ten years they paid for an extension to be built and made further donations including the freehold of the site. It was formally opened by Princess Beatrice in 1919. After their deaths the Borough of Bournemouth took over the running of East Cliff Hall and re-opened it as the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum on 10 March 1922. After Sir Merton's death, it was extended into his part of the house; a further extension was opened in 2000.
The house and the new annex display various items collected in the course of Sir Merton's foreign travels, especially to Japan, and paintings from his personal art collection. One room is the Sir Henry Irving Museum; Irving, a friend of the Russell-Cotes', had stayed in that room. When Irving died in 1905, this room was devoted to his memory. Items purchased at the sale of Irving's effects formed the basis of the Irving Museum and were displayed with memorabilia associated with his contemporaries such as Ellen Terry and Sarah Bernhardt.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell-Cotes_Art_Gallery_%26_Museum
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Russell-Cotes Museum, Russell Cotes Road, Bournemouth
Grade: II*
List Entry Number: 1108857
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28/05/2020
SZ 0990 19/169
RUSSELL-COTES ROAD (south side), Russell-Cotes Museum
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II* House museum and art gallery, formerly East Cliff Hall. 1894 by Bournemouth architect John Fogarty for Sir Merton and Lady Russell-Cotes: eastern picture gallery wing added 1918-1919 by H.E. Hawker; western gallery wing added 1990 by Bournemouth Council Architect's Department. Cement render. Tiled mansard roof with tall rendered chimney stacks and decorative cast iron balustrade; pyramidal roof flanked by conical roofs to southern bays. French villa style, on steep slope having single storey to road and three to garden.
Porch of 1907: bulbous windowless pavilion of staircase adjoining has glazed dome on domical leaded base. Garden front has central canted bay flanked by bowed bays with continuous copper hood above second floor windows and loggia to first floor (which follows the line of the bowed bays) approached by stone, balustraded imperial steps having a segmental arch giving access to stairs to first floor. Attached double height picture gallery rendered with rusticated pilasters and terracotta busts in modallions; cornice and balurstrade with urns. To left, two storey bowed conservatory; rendered ground floor with three round-arched openings and glazed first floor with shallow conicle roof. Attached three storey extension, known as The Display Space, in similar but simplified style to the house. Remarkable middle class aesthetic interior to house with rooms off of a large top-lit, double height, galleried hall with black and gold painted imperial stair.
Interior decoration by O. Thomas. Much stencilling, hand-painted ceilings and panels, tiles and gold lincrusta wallpaper; some good door furniture. Good stained glass to windows, screens and top lights. Hall with mosaic lined marble fountain and star painted ceiling with top light depicting phases of the sun and signs of the zodiac. Stair with stencilled dado and gold painted classical frieze below stained glass dome depicting bats and owls with clouds and stars; mosaic lyre pattern squinches with lunettes having painted figures in roundels. Dining room has painted peacock frieze on deep coving, brought forward on freestanding pink marble Cornithian columns which flank a round arched inglenook with Elizabethan style overmantle and grate with blue and white figure painted cheeks; flanked by stained glass windows. Fretwork screen to window bay. Morning room ceiling replaced following war damage and painted in contemporary theatrical trompe-l'oeil style by Anne Zinkeisen. French style drawing room has C18 Florentine doors, white and gold plaster ceiling, elaborate chimney piece and overmantle and fretwork screen to window bay. Upper rooms have various scenically painted ceilings and cornices. Scenes include Burmese, Japanese, pastoral and nautical. Lady Russell-Cote's boudoirs in Adam Revival style having a pink stencilled scheme incorporating cameo medallions and laure swags; good chimneypiece and overmantle; fretwork screen to window bay. Arabic style painted polygonal vestibule with stained glass dome leads to study having open screen, golden imitation Spanish leather wallpaper and painted coved cornice depicting pastoral bird scenes. Irving Room has painted medallions. Picture gallery top lit with patterned stained glass including a compass; Corinthian screen to gallery entrance and Corinthian doorcases with painted texts to openings form an enfilade. Tiled toilets and former bathroom with stencilled walls, tiled dado and painted panel depicting a peacock, a parrot and fruit. The Display Space has top lighting domes, one with stained glass depicting local landscapes by Sasha Ward; circular opening to second floor allows dome to be seen from first. Floors approached by spiral stair in glazed turret.
Lord and Lady Russell-Cotes made their money from the Royal Bath Hotel, Bournemouth. They travelled widely and collected extensively; the house was built both to accommodate the collection and entertain on a large scale. In 1908 they presented the house and contents to the Corporation of Bournemouth, though retaining their right to live their for their lifetime. By 1922 both had died and the house and gallery were opened to the public. It is particularly complete example of middle class aesthetic taste. The Display Space contains commissioned sculpture, stained glass and furniture by contemporary artists and designers, in the tradition of the original house.
Listing NGR: SZ0922290894
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