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Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice - Downsampled from ~20 MP, hotsampling! using SRWE; Photomode; OtisInf's camera tools; ReShade
Tag made interestingness on Oct 3, 2005... which just goes to show you how strange flickrites are -- thanks for liking my strategic blur.
Radisson, Peter St, Manchester
Having struggled with Elements 12 for god knows how many years and only upgrading to Photoshop CC late last year I thought it was about time that I tried to get to grips with it properly as most of my uploads follow the same tried and trusted process flow.
So one of my many 2018 New Year resolutions is to try new things and see where it takes me. I'm not tying myself down to a 365 or a 52 week project but will post images in the hope of some good tips from you all. So here's my first attempt... I don't know if this is colour popping or selective colouring but it was far easier than I thought although I'll have to go back to the videos and make notes as I've a memory like a sieve or is it a goldfish... see I've forgotten already!
About the picture, we were just on our way for coffee and cake when Mrs R spotted this pink taxi... that's a bit different! Out came the camera and no sooner had I taken the first shot the taxi driver spotted me and wound his window up and turned his back on me... must be shy I thought! I rushed off to catch up with Mrs R who was on a mission to find the biggest cake, but checking my framing in the rear screen I wasn't happy with the symmetry (you know me) so went back for another go. Oh boy, was that taxi driver unhappy with me... he got out of his cab, shouted something, waved his hand in an ungentlemanly manner and stormed off to the pavement - that's him on the left.
Well... if you want to go unnoticed... don't paint yer cab pink!
First thing you might of noticed was a fantastic maze that was hand drawn on the beach using a stick and a water bottle as a
measuring tool.
The rest is the "Strand" beach in Morro Bay, ca. on a September evening.
See comments for some more background info.
A build/figure a long time in the making. Longer than I think I realize. I’ve been brainstorming on how to make a good looking Swamp Thing that didn’t make use of a big fig base as I wanted him to be more scaled down than the monstrous stature that is a big fig. I feel like this is a good middle from a normal figure and a big fig. The build, with how the legs are posed, stands only a head above a normal figure, giving the build a menacing look. I have plans to use this base for future characters which will be fun to figure out.
On the rare occasions I get to photograph this view there is always something in the way! A couple of years ago it was a flock of Geese. This year - the big green thing!
Somehow this started as a picture of trees and wound up as a Bird Thing. I try to go where the image takes me and hopefully it works out. You don't want to see the one's that don't.
Selfie in an old abandoned water tower plinth. This is a structure which once supported a huge water tank as used in the age of steam.
Shot with a Sony 14mm G Master lens tilted way back towards the sky and a top tip for making yourself look considerably slimmer than in real life ;-)
I heard on the grapevine that there was a couple of otters in the local lake, so I thought I would go see..
Sadly they were nowhere to be seen, but I did manage to shoot this "Big Bird Thing...
Think I could get into this wildlife photography lark...
Brunch is my favourite meal. This one's brought to you from Portage Bay Café in Ballard, Seattle. Not sure if that's a permanent quote on their chalkboard, but it sure did delight me.
Is this thing representative of my life? Looking a bit like a jellyfish. Notoriously difficult to handle. There's a central core, quite hard and inaccessible. Who knows what's in there? And then there are some stringy bits that flop and dangle, hanging from it. It's not easy to know what they are for, or do. They lack direction, blowing in the wind, wetted by the rain, warmed by the sun. They are pointless.
And yet they make up this 'thing'. Weird looking. Strange. curious, Interesting? There's something about it. Does it have life? Alien life, perhaps?
I really have no idea.
Street art/sculpture in Funchal, Madeira
Took this one quite by accident while snorkeling off Eleuthera, Bahamas. Was having some trouble underwater and paused to fix the problem when the shutter snapped this photo.
I wish that without me your heart would break,
I wish that without me you'd be spending the rest of your nights awake.
I wish that without me you couldn't eat,
I wish I was the last thing on your mind before you went to sleep.
I couldn't decide which crop I liked the most, so there's a close-up and an uncropped version in comments!
School starts tomorrow and I'm sad because I loved this summer, I did a lot of cool things and met so many lovely people. I joined two flickr meet-ups and it was such a nice experience.
But I'm also happy to meet some people of my class again, and there's one person I really look forward to meet more often when school starts.. I'm tired, I feel like sleeping and lazying around all day. I hate this feeling, it's a negative one.
I'm going to Gill's now, we're gonna have a BBQ and laugh and dance and talk.. I haven't seen her in a while (not once during the vacation) and I miss her and her family so much.
Hope you all had a nice week!
xx
"Somebody in this camp ain't what he appears to be."
('Norris Creature' by McFarlane Toys / Movie Maniacs Series 3)
Diorama by RK
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather - John Ruskin
It's one thing to see interesting wildlife. For me, it's something else to see interesting wildlife behavior. Here, a curious little Alamosaurus decides to come in for an up-close look at me capturing the scene...
See the story behind this image, how I got the shot, and get free wallpaper from www.coloradocaptures.com/sauropods-at-play.
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Have You Ever Tried Light Painting A Dinosaur?
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5 Night Events in Moab in 2016
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I feel really bad about this one. I saw it across the street and tried to give it some treats, but it didn’t work. I then grabbed my long lens and saw how the bugger was in poor health (I’m feeding five cats from the hood but they all have homes and owners, and this one is truly a stray). Going to borrow my wife’s cat carrying cage and if I can get closer, I’ll bring him to a vet and pay for it. Can’t stand to see an animal suffer!
Part 2 of the comic train !
The Thing wagon !
Nikon D700
Nikkor 24-70mmf/2.8
Lightroom 3.2
Nik software HDR EFEX Pro
A trio of sequentially numbered ARR Geeps, 3005-3004-3003, are on the short end of their 12 hour day. Seen here climbing Potter Hill at sunset 10 miles from tying up and calling it a day.