(Composing from parts of three images, an inserted element, a texture (partial) and painted around in it a bit.)

Frühling im Dorf

(Composing aus Teilen dreier Bilder, einem eingefügten Element, einer Textur (partiell) und ein bisschen darin herumgemalt. 😊)

Hypericum (Rose of Sharon). Taken locally.

Composing

It feels like forever since I've been on Flickr and have missed all of you. I feel like I am finally on the road to recovery. It will take some time for me to get back to commenting on everyone's images - so you may just get faves for a bit. So happy to be back!

.....without love is like a tree without fruit

Stephen King

Composing

Ein Leben...

.....ohne Liebe ist wie ein Baum ohne Früchte

Stephen King

Composing

Composing

**Feel free to zoom in to view this**

created for: Photoshop Contest week 841

Original photo by: Jaci XIV

Thanks to Jaci for the use of her source image.

www.flickr.com/photos/181719773@N05/51262722026/in/datepo...

Butterfly and ladybug photo shapes are my own photography. Filters are from Photoshop.

Thanks everyone for your views, comments, awards, invites and faves.

exposure row

Pay attention to the little one in the world,

this makes the life richer and more contented

Carl Hilty

Shot at Backdrop Cove

Amidst the great variability, in terms of colors and shapes, of blooms presented by orchids of the Dendrobium genus, those species belonging to the Callista section stand out, characterized by their showy inflorescences in the form of leafy bunches, with petals, sepals and lips in varied shades. Dendrobium chrysotoxum is a beautiful representative of this botanical section, known for its abundant blooms, composed of yellow petals and sepals, which contrast with the lip in an incredible shade of yolk orange.

The flowers are highly fragrant of honey and are short lived.

Chardonneret élégant mâle (Carduelis carduelis), Neuchâtel,

Suisse.

Le chardonneret élégant vole d'une plante à l'autre pour s’alimenter, ont peut souvent le voir la tête en bas, en train d'extraire les graines des chardons. Son vol est fait de courtes ondulations.

Le chardonneret élégant a un régime presque exclusivement granivore. Seuls les petits sont nourris avec des insectes. Ses aliments de prédilection sont les graines de chardons et de composées, également de bouleaux et d'aulnes.

Composing

Every person is like a moon: he has a dark side which he shows to nobody.

Mark Twain

Mond über dem Berg

Composing

Jeder Mensch ist wie ein Mond: er hat eine dunkle Seite, die er niemandem zeigt.

Mark Twain

Black-capped chickadee

Birds Hill Provincial Park

Manitoba,Canada

Composé en collaboration avec www.flickr.com/photos/143634367@N03/52059567653/in/datepo...

youtu.be/5c_rUBH52C4

Composing

Dismiss me for some time and like to thank me Rather warmly for your attention to my profile

You to all a good light to the photograph

Endlich Sommer

Verabschiede mich für einige Zeit und möchte mich recht Herzlich für euere Aufmerksamkeit zu meinem Profil bedanken

Euch allen ein gutes Licht zur Fotografie

it’s orderly, confined, it’s within bounds, you can comprehend it :-)

Aaron Siskind

HBW!! Kindness Matters!

columbine, j c raulston arboretum, ncsu, raleigh, north carolina

~Aristotle

I wasn't around much during the weekend....I guess I've a lot of catching up to do...Hope you all had a great weekend!

Don't let the blues get you down.....Happy Monday!! :)

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Lyrics by Jones 2.0, Fearless Soul | Music Composed by Patrick Rundblad

Transcript – “I AM ME” Official Music Video – Fearless Soul

I AM ME.

I’ll never pretend to be another.

I will never want to BE another.

I will not change who I am just to fit in.

I AM ME.

I am not perfect… but I’m working on myself… working to become the best version of myself.

I’m not putting on a mask no more

The true me can’t stay hidden

I’m not putting on a show no more

I’m not gonna act to fit in

Yeah I might not be perfect

but I’m working on my best version

I’m on my way

Yes I’m on my way

If I have to I’ll walk alone

Being myself is all that I know

Want me to change to fit in?

I won’t.

I am me.

I can’t pretend to be what I’m not

In my own way I know I am strong

I am free to do what I want

I am me.

If I have to I’ll walk alone

Being myself is all that I know

Want me to change to fit in?

I won’t.

I am me.

I can’t pretend to be what I’m not

In my own way I know I am strong

I am free to do what I want

I am me.

Yes I am

I am me

I’m not putting on a mask no more

I’ve got my own life to live

There’s so much more I can give

I walk my own path

I won’t pretend to be another

Never want to be another

Won’t apologize for being me

That’s all I can be.

Yeah I might not be perfect

But I’m working on my best version

I’m on my way

Yeah I’m on my way

If I have to I’ll walk alone

Being myself is all that I know

Want me to change to fit in?

I won’t.

I am me.

I can’t pretend to be what I’m not

In my own way I know I am strong

I am free to do what I want

I am me.

Yeah I might not be perfect

But I’m working on my best version!

I’m on my way.

I’m on my way!

If I have to I’ll walk alone

Being myself is all that I know

Want me to change to fit in? I won’t.

I am me

I can’t pretend to be what I’m not

in my own way I know I am strong

I am free to do what I want

I am me

Yes I am

Yes I am me

Evenos est une commune atypique composée de trois hameaux très différents, Nèbre - le vieil Evenos et son château médiéval, Le hameau du Broussan et le hameau de Sainte-Anne d’Evenos qui s’est développé plus récemment sur le tracé de la RN8.

Lors d’un voyage, la célèbre écrivaine Georges SAND évoque, dans son agenda journal intitulé « Voyage dit du Midi » rédigé en 1861, la cité d’Evenos ainsi que ses alentours. Elle dresse un éloge des paysages nébrosiens et de sa citadelle médiévale édifiée au sommet du Piton. Les Grès de Sainte Anne furent également cités « C’est une double et triple coulée de rochers de grès friable, qui se dissout en beau sable blanc ».

Située à l’Ouest du département du VAR, en région Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur, cette commune attire de nombreux touristes amoureux des vieilles pierres, des promenades en pleine nature et des bonheurs olfactifs et gustatifs qu’offre la Provence.

Elle est membre de la Communauté d’agglomération Sud-Sainte-Baume et du Parc Naturel Régional de la Sainte-Baume.

Venez découvrir Evenos et son terroir, ancré dans l’Histoire et dans une nature préservée, entre Méditerranée et vignobles de Bandol.

During the visit, along with my photo friend, we was working on composing still life. Here is one of the results.

Texture: Karen Burns, Filter : Topaz, Brushes: my own.

Many thanks to all fine Flickr friends for kind visit, comments and fav. :)

13-05-2023: turbulent sky in the evening.

After years of suffering, finally the ghost/temporary lake of Cerknica (it is a karstic lake as better specified in many photos of the past) returns to cover, over the long term, a vast surface of its large basin, which measures 40km2 and can be covered with water almost totally, something that hasn't happened since March 2018, roughly.

In these cases it becomes, by far, the largest lake in Slovenija (up to almost 4x Lake Bohinj), although with a low average depth, mainly between 0.5 and 2m, facilitating rich vegetation and aquatic fauna composed of still water fish (the biggest are Carp, Chub, Tench and Pike) and a large variety of amphibians.

The lake is also rich in poultry fauna, in particular storks and gray herons, and many migrant species.

Unfortunately in 2022, for the first time in its history (those who follow my photostream probably remember it, with "my area" shots inserted in strictly chronological order), the drying up of all the not embanked large part (the embanked part represents just 0.1% of the entire lake basin and was in any case reduced by 90%), caused an incalculable death of fish, while a significant part of amphibians survived by digging deep burrows in the mud.

This is just to say that you can't have "the wine bottle full and be drunk", as people would like expecting to be in the shade of lush vegetation wanting sun for 365 days a year.

It is ONLY thanks to my beloved "bad weather" that a healthy and flourishing nature can be appreciated.

I composed this scene very close to the cabin I photographed in the last image. I felt that the scene needed some more drama, as the lines directly seem to lead into the fog and into the unknown. Picture taken at about 2000m asl. Praxmar 2019.

www.frankwohlfeil.com

Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France

Inside the Horizon, Artwork by Olafur Eliasson

"Like a giant kaleidoscope, Eliasson's work is composed of forty-three prism-shaped columns of varying widths, which are placed along the walkway in the Grotto around the pool. The columns are illuminated from the inside. Two of the sides are covered with mirrors and the third is covered in a yellow blown-glass mosaic. Visitors are invited to walk amongst them, activating an endless interplay of reflections."

olafureliasson.net/archive/artwork/WEK108826/inside-the-h...

Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France.

www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr/fr

My homepage

www.novowyr.com

Composing in Luminar4

Composing

Quand la nature compose

youtu.be/pD9zp18Zp_8

Composing Wernerwald Cuxhaven

Composing aus eigenem Foto und mehreren freien KI Lexica Art Stock Bildern.

Hand mit Schlüssel : Pixabay ...thanks

#sliderssunday

The berlin cube cloudified and kaleidoscoped for Sliders Sunday. Composite made of two images taken there in mid July. The first image is a capture I took standing right next to the cube's facade and pointing the camera straight up. In Photoshop, I copied the layer with the original image, flipped the new layer horizontally, and cross-faded it with the first layer by using the blending mode "Overlay" at 75 % opacity. 100 % would have resulted in a punchier look on the right side, but I rather liked the softness and that it somehow looks as if the cube would slowly dissolve into or merge with the clouds. The next step was to replace the sky above the cube(s). For that I used a small part of the very first image I'd taken at the cube; I was just about to compose the image in the viewfinder when I noticed the bird, and decided to skip the composing part in favour of the bird ;-) (Birds, just like photographers, love the new berlin cube. There was a constant coming and going on the cube's roof, and it seems that, while not even all new tenants have moved in, yet, the cube's roof has already been occupied by the bird population that lives in the Hauptbahnhof area.) Next, I gently HDRified the finished composite in Aurora, then went into ON1 where I added some sunbeams to the upper sky part of the image, and added a soft glow for an extra airy look.

Happy Sliders Sunday, Everyone, have a nice and safe new week ahead!

Kleine Spiegel-Spielerei vom "berlin cube" für den Sliders Sunday. Dieses Bild ist zusammengesetzt aus zwei verschiedenen Fotos, die ich dort Mitte Juli gemacht habe. Für Foto Nr. 1 hatte ich fast an der Fassade des Cubes gelehnt und die Kamera direkt nach oben gerichtet. Dieses Foto habe ich in Photoshop auf einer kopierten Ebene einfach horizontal gespiegelt und mit dem darunter liegenden Originalbild bei 75 % Deckkraft ineinanderkopiert. Danach habe ich den Himmel über "den Cubes" ersetzt, und zwar mit einem kleinen Teil des allerersten Fotos, das ich dort gemacht hatte. Ich war gerade dabei gewesen, eine gute Position zu finden, um den Cube möglichst sauber ausgerichtet fotografieren zu können, bemerkte dann aber den Vogel und beschloss, das saubere Ausrichten zugunsten des Vogels auf das nächste Foto zu verschieben ;-) Überhaupt ist der neue Cube schon sehr beliebt bei den Vögeln, die rund um den Berliner Hauptbahnhof leben. Während längst noch nicht alle Mieter in den Cube eingezogen sind, hat die Vogel-Gang vom Hauptbahnhof bereits das gesamte Dach in Beschlag genommen ;-) Bearbeitungstechnisch habe ich das fertig zusammengesetzte Bild erst in Aurora sanft HDRisiert und dann, in ON1, dem oberen Teil ein paar Sonnenstrahlen und zum Abschluss dem gesamten Foto ein leichtes Leuchten verpasst, um den luftig-leichten Look zu betonen.

Ich wünsche Euch einen guten Start in die neue Woche, bleibt gesund, liebe Flickr-Freunde :-)

"My fathers were wise.

Who carved intricate flowers

on samurai swords."

-Vangelis "The Tao Of Love"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXRmy0dhZVE

Photo taken at:

Black Sand Inlet, Tsushima Island

youtu.be/gYEWEn0INuU

Composé grâce à Reface et une photo personnelle.

Composing eigen und Stockfotos-

david-becker-V862kywlKkw-unsplash

habib-dadkhah-PnzHQlzsSDk-

ludovic-charlet-CGWK6k2RduY- vielen Dank

and harvest time in the Minden area. The perfect moment for composing my favourite Summer classic theme

taken from mount Orlando, Gaeta, Italy

Pedra da Gávea is a monolithic mountain in Tijuca Forest, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Composed of granite and gneiss, its elevation is 844 metres (2,769 ft), making it one of the highest mountains in the world that ends directly in the ocean. Trails on the mountain were opened up by the local farming population in the early 1800s; today, the site is under the administration of the Tijuca National Park.

The mountain's name translates as Rock of the Topsail, and was given to it during the expedition of Captain Gaspar de Lemos, begun in 1501, and in which the Rio de Janeiro bay (today Guanabara Bay, but after which the city was named) also received its name. The mountain, one of the first in Brazil to be named in Portuguese, was named by the expedition's sailors, who compared its silhouette to that of the shape of a topsail of a carrack upon sighting it on January 1, 1502. That name in turn came to be given to the Gávea area of the city of Rio de Janeiro.

Differential weathering on one side of the rock has created what is described as a stylized human face. Markings on another face of the rock have been described as an inscription. Geologists and scientists are nearly in agreement that the "inscription" is the result of erosion and that the "face" is a product of pareidolia. Furthermore, the consensus of archaeologists and scholars in Brazil is that the mountain should not be viewed as an archaeological site.

La façade semble être composée d'une multitude d'oriels semi-octogonaux (13 pour chacun des 4 premiers étages et 9 pour le dernier), donnant au monument son cachet unique. La face intérieure à l'arrière du bâtiment se compose de pièces utilitaires avec des piliers, des couloirs et une décoration minimale jusqu'en haut. Les pièces sont de simples salles de marbres de différentes couleurs, égayées par des panneaux incrustés ou de la dorure, tandis que des fontaines ornent le centre de la cour. Les deux étages supérieurs sont accessibles par des plans inclinés.

L'entrée au palais des vents du côté du palais du maharadja se fait par une porte réservée à la suite royale à partir d'une grande cour (aujourd'hui cours du Musée archéologique), bordée de bâtiments à étages sur trois côtés, le palais des vents étant à l'est.

Le palais des vents est construit en grès rouge et rose sable, en harmonie avec le décor des autres monuments de la ville rose, surnom donné à Jaipur. Son style architectural est l'une des illustrations de la fusion des architectures rajput (hindoue) et de l'architecture moghole (islamique). Le style rajput est illustré par les dais bombés, les piliers cannelés, le lotus et les motifs floraux, le style islamique est représenté par le travail de la pierre incrustée, par les jalis et les arches

Photographer scanning the new Singapore stadium on where to get good shot

Singapore

cho-me.com

This is to the Brexiteers and to the "Wallbuilders"in the USA,because its the same Spirit.

The Sound of Silence-Disturbed

www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Dg-g7t2l4

a Vision,

realized with a Image from Pixabay.

I composed this image while traveling through south Saskatchewan Province in Canada. The prairies: big skies; clear horizons; entrancing colours; deep thoughts and limitless possibilities.