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Photo taken in my Sullivan's Gulch neighborhood for Happy Truck Thursday. HTT everyone!
And Color my world daily-blue
The original picture from Adobe Stock was less kinky.
The passage to black and white, plus the increased contrast, added to the grungy look made this a little more ... coquin as we say in french ... LOL
Dirty Work is from The Rolling Stones
The title is from a sign that used to hang in my friend's bathroom in the '80s. I need to work on this concept again, we need floating bubbles, a back brush and not in the kitchen sink. I noticed how dirty the dinos were the other day when editing my images and decided they needed a bath. I actually just threw them in the dishwasher but it gave me the idea for this image.
Unaware that someone was clicking away with a camera, oh that would be Hilt, oh and earlier I once said 'bolox to work in progress shots just paint! Hypocrite maybe? It's done and I'm sharing anyhow!!
This mural in Keene, NH is by mural artist Barry Faulkner who died in Keene at the age of 85. It is a 'work in progress' mural with the artist drawing himself working on a mural depicting the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It was really cool to see this in person.
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A bit further west, after meeting with the eastbound train, I caught this train carrying MoW equipment. I don't know what kind of move it was doing since when I caught up to them, they were going in reverse to pick up the conductor. That gave me time to position myself and take this shot!
Wouldn't it be nice if I could turn my back on work as easily as this? It would be nicer still if I could face work like this!
A single SD50 brings a work train west through Shiplock Park in Richmond. The 8610 is a former Seaboard engine, but looks right at home here on the old C&O.
The Natural History Museum in London is, to my eyes, the most beautiful building in the UK. This is worth viewing large on black.
This pic made it into Explore on 6 July 2009.
Dormer window.
Every morning, while staying in this rented cottage, I’d wake up and look at these patterns of light coming through the blinds onto the ceiling: pretty patterns - tonal gradients and interlocking shapes.
You’ve seen another image of the window before from a previous visit (see flic.kr/p/259EUfK ), but that was a much more romantic shot rather than this geometric minimalism.
So later one day I went back, shut the blinds again, and shot dozens of images - I discovered it’s challenging to compose this sort of shot. You need to find the right viewpoint and create enough space around it.
The thought was that it might make an interesting abstract. And I think that worked out about right. I’ll publish a monochrome version today (along with a gradient-mapped retinal challenger).
I also imagined that if I threw the image at a mirror filter it would produce an interesting result. That didn’t work out. The best I could get was little more than what looked like the tiles in a rather dingy bathroom… Ah well: learning took place.
My next attempt was to build an image by flipping, merging and blending. That eventually yielded something interesting and it’s the one I have posted on the Sliders Sunday group today.
All the colour was generated from the photograph, though at the end the result was a little grainy and had a discordant yellow cast in parts. So I strengthened the colours by steepening the ramps on the A and B channels in LAB mode and then tweaking the B channel (blue-yellow) to get rid of the yellow cast.
The final tweak was to use a Bilateral blur filter. This is an edge-preserving blur filter (which sounds like a contradiction in terms!) and is very useful for getting rid of noise (like the graininess here) or producing painterly effects.
I'll post a link to the in-camera version in the first comment so that you can see how far we came here :)
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image! Happy Sliders Sunday :)
[Handheld in muted daylight from window.
Processed in Affinity from the in-camera jpeg.
Duplicated original image layer; flipped horizontal and merged back to first layer with Lighten blend mode at 100% opacity.
Merged result to new layer. Flipped vertically and blend back to the original Difference/100%. This gave us the final symmetric result.
Merged result again to new layer as before and merged this back with the underlying layers ussing Screen/100% to increase contrast.
Merged result to new layer and blended back with Negation/100% increasing contrast in a different way.
Bilateral blur to remove noise and smooth colours.
Curves adjustment in LAB mode to strengthen colours and remove yellow cast in some areas (see text).]