created photos on Flickr

Created by Portuguese artivist Bordalo II. The Sumatran Tiger sculpture is made entirely from trash collected all over Singapore and measures 10m long and 7m tall.

CAROUSEL HORSE by Visual Images1

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created with Microsoft Bing Image Creator

Last ride by Paul Cowie

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Created for: Surrealart challenge "Apocalypse"

331. Reflections by Ken Barker

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Created for Art Week Gallery - Urban geometries

Thanks to Lemon~art for the following source:

www.flickr.com/photos/lemonart/51525401803/in/photostream/

Thanks to Pexels for the following:

www.pexels.com/photo/wide-road-with-street-lights-3289156/

Thanks to Lenabem-Anna J. for the following texture

www.flickr.com/photos/lenabem-anna/50923685873/in/datepos...

Paint Shop Pro, Paint, FF

Double Trouble by Beth Rosengard

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Created for Vivid Imagination's "Vivid Mirrors" challenge and for Hypothetical's "Face it" challenge.

the reading room by flubs ♥

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created with the sims 4 =)

Cosmos dream by Marie-Thérèse

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Created for 105th MMM Challenge

Source image with thanks to rubyblossom

Texture Soft Watercolor

Clematis by Deb's Artography

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Created with Dream Wombo and Procreate

Thank you for taking your time to view, fave, comment and invite!

Daybreak by Karen Kleis

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Created for The Blind Pig Speakeasy Challenge 30 - Muted Moods: www.flickr.com/groups/photopigs/discuss/72157650158054599/

Texture and photo are my own.

Little red sailboat by Guido Bianchi

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created by dji camera

Our brain creates beauty by Sandro Steinhuber

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The beauty here arises from the interplay of perfectly normal physical and biological processes:

Sunlight is scattered by the moist morning air. Tiny water droplets in the mist primarily deflect the short-wavelength components of the light, while warm, yellow-gold light remains dominant. This creates the soft rays and the warm color palette. At the same time, leaves, grass, and water absorb and reflect light differently, creating contrasts and depth.

Our brains perceive this as "beautiful" because they have an evolutionarily positive response to patterns such as smooth transitions, natural symmetries, and color harmonies—for millions of years, these signaled safe, life-friendly environments.

In short: Physics shapes the light, biology shapes the landscape, and our brains create beauty from it.

Unser Gehirn schafft Schönheit

Die Schönheit entsteht hier aus dem Zusammenspiel ganz normaler physikalischer und biologischer Prozesse:

Das Sonnenlicht wird durch die feuchte Morgenluft gestreut. Winzige Wassertröpfchen im Nebel lenken vor allem die kurzwelligen Anteile des Lichts um, während warmes, gelb-goldenes Licht dominanter bleibt. Dadurch entstehen die weichen Strahlen und die warme Farbpalette. Gleichzeitig absorbieren und reflektieren Blätter, Gras und Wasser Licht unterschiedlich, was Kontraste und Tiefe erzeugt.

Unser Gehirn empfindet das als „schön“, weil es auf Muster wie sanfte Übergänge, natürliche Symmetrien und Farbharmonien evolutionär positiv reagiert – sie signalisierten über Millionen Jahre hinweg sichere, lebensfreundliche Umgebungen.

Kurz gesagt: Physik formt das Licht, Biologie formt die Landschaft, und unser Gehirn macht daraus Schönheit.

Friends by skagitrenee

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Created for TMI's May contest: Farm Animals

www.flickr.com/groups/impressionists/discuss/721577140521...

Thanks to Mark Peters for this source:

www.flickr.com/photos/28267496@N00/4971945403

Chicks from PD

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Photo shop and Nature ARTISTS:

Multi Group Contest/ Gallery Directory

New contests on the 1st and 15th

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The Happy Dalmatian by Trish Mayo

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Created by TomBobNYC and yes, he's in front of a FDNY Fire House

Sitting Bull in H.R. Giger Style by Andy Kobel

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Created by artificial intelligence

trees by Jos Mecklenfeld

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Created with RNI Films app. Preset 'Ilford Delta 100 HC'

Frozen Sunlight by Deb's Artography

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Created with Dream Wombo and Procreate

HEAVEN ON EARTH by Visual Images1

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Created by Wombo. Personally, I'd call this Paradise.

Where the Tiny People Live by Deb's Artography

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Created with Dream Wombo, an input image and Procreate

The Buzz in the Blooms by Karen Kleis

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Created for TMI: Your Art and Nature April Contest: Daisy Like Petals: www.flickr.com/groups/impressionists/

Thanks to everyone for all your awards, group invites, kind comments and favorites! Very much appreciated!

late summer by edie q

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Created with Ultra Fractal

When the Wind Spirit Dances Among the Clouds by cootiepie11

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Created in DDG Text 2 Dream using its "Artistic" Ai model.

I used Deb's beautiful texture below as the source:

www.flickr.com/photos/debful/52765416079/in/faves-5788981...

Prompt: When the Wind Spirit Dances among the clouds, in the style of Catherine Abel.

Filters: PS Beta 2023 and Topaz Gigapixel.

Some hand painting.

Thanks for your visit, faves, and kind comments.

sheep 🐑 by Jos Mecklenfeld

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Created with RNI Films app. Preset 'Ilford HP5'

dark forest 🌳 by Jos Mecklenfeld

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Created with RNI Films app. Preset 'Kodak Ektar 100'

Legend of the Christmas Tree by ksblack99

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Created for : Challenge 196 Legend of the Christmas

AI generated in Gemini with additional work in Luminar Neo

less than an inch by E B

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Created for Macro Mondays of 26 February, theme less then an inch.

not fully happy with the result.

veldbloemen by Jos Mecklenfeld

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Created with RNI Films app. Preset 'Fuji Velvia 100F'

Egg-citing Colors by Deb's Artography

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Created with Dream Wombo

rainbow julia by edie q

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Created on my cell phone with an Android app called fractview

Three (and more) Views of the Indispensible Scissors by Beth Rosengard

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Created for Award Tree's Challenge: Art Tools and Materials.

THE Geese by hana1080

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Created for Tim Noonan contest Hypothetical Awards

much better on black.

218 Tea for two. by Ken Barker

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Created for Mixmaster Challenge 84

MIXMASTER CHALLENGE #84

CHEF seguicollar takes us back to the garden ...

➤ The scene must be set in a garden of any style and/or technique (except realism) such as surrealism, cubism, expressionism, watercolor, pointillism, abstraction, etc. ...

➤ The image must feature a human being as the main character ...

➤ Plus some other human or animal figure – whether real, in spirit, or in essence – to keep them company ...

➤ And it must contain at least one piece of porcelain.

➤ The scene must NOT be at night.

Created with Paint/Paint Shop Pro/Filter Forge with help from ddg AI and NightCafe AI

Art Week Gallery theme show some action

Round and Round by Beth Rosengard

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Created for the "Art Carousels and Fairs Challenge."

Credits: carousel and border from GraphicStock; horses from Pixabay.

mosaic of wings - Flügelmosaik by ArtundUnart

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