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Created for Magnificent Manipulated Masterpieces 110th MMM Challenge
Source image Skulls and woman and also the black cat from myself:
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Treat This #207 Friday 26th October - Thursday 1st November
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I created this floral image using Photoshop Elements8.
Psalm 29
A psalm of David.
Ascribe to the LORD, you heavenly beings, ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.
Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness.
The voice of the LORD is over the waters; the God of glory thunders, the LORD thunders over the mighty waters.
The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is majestic.
The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; the LORD breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon. He makes Lebanon leap like a calf, Sirion like a young wild ox.
The voice of the LORD strikes with flashes of lightning.
The voice of the LORD shakes the desert; the LORD shakes the Desert of Kadesh.
The voice of the LORD twists the oaks and strips the forests bare.
And in his temple all cry, “Glory!”
The LORD sits enthroned over the flood; the LORD is enthroned as King forever.
The LORD gives strength to his people; the LORD blesses his people with peace.
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Created for HandHeld Art's July contest Summer Scenes with iColorama plus a little help from Photoshop.
I shot the photo a few years ago leaving Long Beach harbor on a whale watching boat. The photos of the shoreline were the best part of the trip. Barely saw one whale and started to get seasick as the boat bounced around waiting for the damn thing to resurface.
Riviera Beach is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States, which was incorporated September 29, 1922. Due to the location of its eastern boundary lies, it is also the easternmost municipality in the South Florida metropolitan area. The population was 29,884 at the 2000 census. As of 2004, the population was estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau to be 32,522.
Singer Island is located on the Atlantic coast of Palm Beach County, Florida in the South Florida metropolitan area. Most of it is in the city of Riviera Beach, but the town of Palm Beach Shores occupies its southern tip. Its latitude of is 26.784 N and its longitude is -80.037 W. The easternmost point of Florida is located there in Palm Beach Shores. Singer Island is actually a peninsula and not an island. Before the Palm Beach Inlet was created, it was connected to the island of Palm Beach to the south.
Named after Palm Beach developer Paris Singer, a son of Isaac Singer, the Singer Sewing Machine magnate, Singer Island has parks, marinas, hiking and bike paths, as well as 4.7 miles (7.6 km) of sparkling white sand beaches that has been considered one of the top five beaches in Palm Beach County.
In addition, Singer Island is located 3 miles (4.8 km) from North Palm Beach, 5.4 miles (8.7 km) from West Palm Beach, 5.4 miles (8.7 km) from Palm Beach Gardens, 6.2 miles (10.0 km) from Juno Beach, and 10.6 miles (17.1 km) from Jupiter.
It is said that Singer Island was originally purchased by Paris Singer as a gift for his mistress, who reportedly did not like it. Today it is a picturesque, upscale and pristine living place for thousands of condo owners. The tallest of these is the 42-story "Tiara", which was severely damaged by several hurricanes since 2004 and was still closed for repairs three years later. Residents moved back into the building in 2008.
Singer Island is home to professional golfer Michelle McGann, a longtime Singer Island resident. Singer Island was also home to rocker and E Street Band member Clarence Clemons.
Riviera Beach is predominantly an African American city and it is on the List of U.S. cities with African American majority populations. It is home to the Port of Palm Beach and a United States Coast Guard station, and has its own marina. Riviera Beach is home to Blue Heron Bridge, one of the country's top rated beach dive sites. In 2015, Riviera Beach renamed part of Old Dixie Highway that runs inside the city limits as President Barack Obama Highway.
Credit for the data above is given to the following websites:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riviera_Beach,_Florida
www.puravidadivers.com/dive-blue-heron-bridge-phil-foster...
Created for Rubys Treasure Challenge 66
Bucket with thanks to Rubyblossom
Texture Background with thanks to ~
Squirrel and background courtesy of Pixabay. Other texture by Topaz.
Tree in winter dress
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After all the color pieces have been added and the blob reheated, I used a huge tweezer to pull and twist the outer layer of glass into a series of streaks and swirls. Then the next step is to reheat and smooth things out. [more tomorrow]
Created for MacroMondays - Theme - Negative Space
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Isaiah 37:29 “Because you rage against me and the uproar you create has reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle between your lips, and I will lead you back the way you came.”
Joe Biden: “The affirmative task we have now is to actually create a New World Order.”
George H.W. Bush: “We have before us the opportunity to forge, for ourselves and for future generations, a New World Order.”
Henry Kissinger: “We are now facing a common challenge, and the challenge is now to build a World Order.”
I created this for my son's LinkedIn profile banner image. He lives in Spain but provides a service to local companies as an English copywriter.
So I promised to explain and give an overview of how I created this image if anybody was interested and I have had a few messages and a post below. So here goes:
I lit the pencil and droplets using two LED panels quite close to the subject. I set-up the pencil held in place with a clamp. Shot using a 100mm macro lens I had to shoot the pencil in two shots. This was due to needing to be close to get the resolution I needed and it also helped to achieve the floating look of the pencil in space.
All of the videos on this type of refraction droplet photography will tell you to use water and a syringe or to add some glycerine. I found that using a aloe vera clear gel allowed me to create larger droplets which is a big advantage especially with this shot where I was not able to get in ultra close.
The LED panel behind created the lighting for the flags which I positioned by hand as both flags were on small sticks. The Union Jack and Spanish Flags I shot separately and then I combined in processing.
Focus was quite critical as my depth of field was fairly limited as I was also shooting fairly wide. To get the right amount of light on the pencil I used my Profoto B10 and a snoot directly on to the pencil.
It was important to have the flags within the image to let the viewer know that this was indeed a refracted image in the 'water' droplet. I did try without the flags in the background but it was far less impactful. However, to stop the flags from competing with the droplets the flags needed to be out of focus.
I then further created separation from the droplets by adding during post processing a graduated blue. The image was created using a mainly blue palette.
I think that gives a reasonable overview any other questions just post below and I will get back to you.
no rules, no limitations, no boundaries it's like an art
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“Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.”
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Created for the
Art Week Gallery Group
~~~Poetic Autumn~~~
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Here are two of the add on packs, the Bee and 3 eyed Ghoul. I love both of these. Eventually I'll have enough parts to display all of them at once, instead of alternating. Well when the extra torso's I paid stupid money for arrive I will.
The wings sit well for both bee and dragon, the glasses slip a little on the bee, but if you push them into her hair, they're ok. No complaints at all other than those little nit picks. I love the details, like the dots in the bees eyes to look like compound eyes, and the third eye on the ghoul isn't just painted on, the shapes molded on like her regular eyes. Wigs just need a wash in cold water, condition, then I brushed through some anti frizz serum. The more you play with these wigs I've found, the less frizzy they get. The bee's I just washed, it was fine, needed nothing, triclops I hit with the flat iron on VERY low. Skeletons I straightened but it turned out crap, so reroot. I've ordered more of these dolls anyway so some I'll keep stock, the others I'll unleash whatever creative desires my heart holds!
Brilliant dolls, can't recommend them enough!
When God created man in His image, He created a measure; the human perception of the world corresponds to God's creative intention. Man by definition is a center, or "the center" in a given universe; not by accident, but in virtue of the very nature of Being, and this is why that which is large or small for man is large or small in the divine intention; man perceives things as they present themselves in the divine Intellect. And that is why the world of the indefinitely small, as well as the world of the indefinitely large, is as it were forbidden to man, who should not want to disproportionately enlarge the small or to disproportionately reduce the large. Man ought to feel that there is no advantage or happiness in such enterprises; and he would feel it if he had maintained a relationship with the Absolute, or if this relationship were sincere and sufficient. He, who is really at peace with God is free from all unhealthy curiosity, if one may say so; he lives, like a well-guarded child, in the blessed garden of a grace that does not forsake him; the Creator knows the best place for the creature, and He knows what is good for man.
In a certain sense, the world of atoms as well as that of galaxies is hostile to human beings, and comprises for them, in principle or potentially, a climate of alienation and terror. Some people will doubtless argue that "the man of our times" is an "adult," but this is pride, even satanism, for a normal man always keeps a childlike side, as all sacred Scriptures attest by their language; if such were not the case, childhood itself would not comprise a positive aspect. Of course, a mature man ought to be "adult," but he can be so otherwise than by plunging into forbidden abysses; the spiritual victory over illusion is a matter appreciably more serious than the insensitivityof the explorers of the inhuman.
There are two points to consider in created things, namely the empirical appearance and the mechanism; now the appearance manifests the divine intention, as we have stated above; the mechanism merely operates the mode of manifestation.
For example, in man's body the divine intention is expressed by its form, its deiformity, its symbolism and its beauty; the mechanism is its anatomy and vital functioning.
The modern mentality, having always a scientific and "iconoclastic" tendency, tends to overaccentuate the mechanism to the detriment of the creative intention, and does so on all levels, psychological as well as physical; the result is a jaded and "demystified" mentality that is no longer "impressed" by anything. By forgetting the divine intention - which nonetheless is apparent a priori - one ends in an emptiness devoid of all reference points and meaning, and in a mentality of nihilism and despair, if not of careless and brutal materialism. In the face of this deviation it is the child who is right when he believes that the blue sky above us is Paradise.
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Frithjof Schuon: Roots of the Human Condition
Created in Wombo Dream.
Filters: PSE21 and Topaz Studio.
Some hand painting.
Thanks for your visit, faves, and kind comments.
Golden Dahlia - For Tom
Thank you, Tom, for your testimonial and kind words about me. I think the highly photogenic Dahlia flower has created quite a fervor around here as so many of us love to capture its unique beauty...go see Tom's stream at TLPhotography66 if you are as crazy about this flower as we are. It is loaded with all kinds of gorgeous Dahlias!
Created for Digitalmania's "Edgar Allan Poe" challenge:
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Created in Adobe Photoshop.
Stocks from @mariuselsphotoartistry www.mariuselsphotoartistry.com/
& Adobe Stock images
Italy, pizza, “Portobello”, thin pizza with a golden brown crusty border, outside crunchy, inside soft, topped with pizza sauce, buffalo mozzarella & grated Appenzeller cheese, Portobello mushrooms, rosemary.
Italian Pizza should be baked at temperatures between 360°C - 575°F & 426°C - 800°F, best in a pizza wood-fired brick oven by placing them on the very hot oven stone floor. If the oven dome has the above mentioned baking temperature, the oven floor will typically be cooler than that temperature.
📌...This very tasty variant of the brown mushroom came from America via the Netherlands to Europe, also known as a “Grill-Mushroom”.
The Portobello becomes a giant mushroom thanks to a special cultivation method. The mushroom has a large cap measuring 6 to 12 cm in size with a small stalk. The fins on the underside of the hat are brown in colour & clearly visible. The flesh is brown & very firm good for grilling, without the stalk also for stuffing & baked in the oven, also great as a tempura etc. etc.
📌…. a little slice of Italian pizza history..............
Etymologically, the term “Picea or Piza” first appeared in the Neapolitan dialect around the year 1000 & meant something like "push, jolt" & thus probably referred to the hand movement when lifting the pizza with a pizza turning peel out of the oven.
Tomatoes were first introduced to Italy from South America in 1522. At first the tomato was believed by the poorer peasants to be poisonous, fortunately they farmers overcame their doubts about tomatoes in the 17th century & started adding it to the bread dough,…focaccia was created & became the "gran, gran, gran mother" of today's pizzas.
Mozzarella had become available in Italy after water buffalos were imported from India in the 7th century, but its popularity grew very slowly until the last half of the 18th century. Like the growing acceptance of tomatoes, mozzarella cheese was slowly gaining ground too. But the cheese & tomatoes did not meet on a pizza until 1889 when Don Raffaele Esposito, an Italian tavern owner developed a pizza featuring tomatoes, mozzarella cheese & basil, components bearing the colours of the Italian flag. He named it "Pizza Margherita", after the Queen of Italy, Margherita Teresa Giovanni.
Italy unified in 1861, King Umberto I & Queen Margherita visited Naples in 1889, legend has it that the traveling pair became bored with their steady diet of French haute cuisine & asked for an assortment of pizzas from the city’s Pizzeria Brandi.
In the late half of the 19th century, Italians migrated to North-America & with them their pizza bread recipe from Naples, replicating their trusty, crusty pizzas in New York & other American cities, relatively quickly, the flavours & aromas of pizza began to intrigue also non-Italians.
Beginning of the 20th century, Italian immigrants begun to open their own bakeries & were selling besides groceries as well pizza. The first documented United States pizzeria was Gennaro Lombardi’s, licensed to sell pizza in 1905 on Spring Street in Manhattan, a part known as “Little Italy” Lombardi’s, is still in operation today, however, no longer at its 1905 site, but has the same oven as it did originally. Pizza as we know & the world likes took the United States by storm before it became popular in its native Italy
Especially in the 50th, pizza’s popularity in the United States boomed & no longer seen as an Italian folkloric treat, it was increasingly identified as fast & fun food. Regional, decidedly non-Neapolitan variations emerged, eventually including California-gourmet pizzas topped with anything from barbecued chicken to smoked salmon.
Post-war pizza finally reached Italy & beyond their borders also influenced by the starting tourism. Like blue jeans, rock & roll, fast food etc. the Italians & the rest of the world picked up on pizza just because it was "Americano"…easy to eat, fast & tasty.
📍 …So actually pizza the way we like it is an "Italo-American" creation.
I personally like the pizza thin with a nice crunchy crust, fresh & hot with the particular flavour only a pizza right out of a pizza wood-fired brick oven has, sprinkled with a little oregano & a drizzle of Calabrian native olive oil, …but there is a pizza for each & everyone's age, taste & favours.
👉…One World one Dream,
🙏...Danke, Xièxie 谢谢, Thanks, Gracias, Merci, Grazie, Obrigado, Arigatô, Dhanyavad, Chokrane to you & over
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