Lake Louise, Alaska in autumn.

Posted for "sliders sundays" - "processed to the max" HSS!

After losing some sleep because of the time change, I needed something to wake me up. So I took the park's garden to Topaz Studio 2 where I added an abstract filter, plus I increased the vibrancy and saturation of the colours. Let's hear it for Sliders Sunday! HSS!

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These are tiny pink flowers of a flowering shrub, made pinker by adding one of Topaz Studio's smudge filters for Sliders Sunday. HSS!

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Daffodils, a sure sign of spring! Just for fun, I tried out a stained glass effect in Topaz Studio 2 for Sliders Sunday. HSS!

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The sun was rising to the east - the moon was setting to the south, and fog was rolling in over my backyard. That is how the first day of spring greeted me this morning.

Wishing everyone a very Happy Spring season.

Posted for Sliders Sunday - "Processed to the MAX"

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The original image from which an abstract version was posted a year ago.

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For Sliders Sunday, I edited the delicate blossom with an effect in Topaz Studio 2, plus added the vignette. I hope you enjoy! HSS!

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March winds, and alpenglow on the mountains, light up my backyard in the early morning hours.

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Just tap on your keyboard's right arrow to see this image without "snow." As you can see, I managed to keep my camera warm and dry while producing this image. :D The original photo was taken during the heat of summer.

To create the snow effect, I used a technique taught by Unmesh Dinda of PixImperfect fame (his videos on Photoshop are simply amazing). My attempt turned out better than I expected. You can see his masking technique illustrated at www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeWcNsw-KRw. (He doesn't demonstrate how to create the snow effect, but it equally applies.) I also darkened the image and painted the tops of the railings and posts white to simulate frost and snow.

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Even the road to our remote landfill looks pretty in winter, when the trees are cloaked in hoar frost.

I captured this image mid-morning. The sun sits low on the southern horizon most of the day now, creating very long shadows that all point north.

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Alaska is deep in snow, and that is all I see in the weather forecast for the next couple of weeks.

Most remote cabins are reachable by snowmachine in the winter, but too much snow makes it difficult for even the toughest Alaskans to get to them now. I hope the snow melts slowly come breakup. If not, we will all float away.

The outside temperature at our cabin this morning is eight degrees above zero, and cloudy - and it looks pretty much like you see in this photo.

Created from blossoms photographed some years ago. This year such pleasures are not possible. So I'm glad I've kept so many photographs!

Place marker for Artistic Manipulation Group

Added to the TMI April Contest - Images Of Spring

All photographs and textures are my own

Wish you all safe and well!

Every day around lunchtime - a half dozen spruce grouse come to our feeders for lunch. With a cantankerous cow moose around, we only have one feeder hung very high in the trees so she can't get at it. The disappointed grouse are now having to sit in the trees and eat plain old spruce needles. They look a little disgruntled, and this one shot me a nasty look when I pointed my camera lens his way.

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Time Flies!

For over 100 years, this clock has been capturing time.

For Smile on Saturday

Theme: Capture the Time

(spin filter in photoshop)

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Vintage children's toys

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Digital manipulation of a macro flower photo, enhancing color, contrast, edges, and detail, while adding a subtle painterly effect. Cropped to square format. A wild geranium, I think.

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Photo taken by Ron Profeta. Post-processed by myself, with his permission of course. Thanks Ron!

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Special thanks to AG!

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The tulip was already splashy, so I couldn't help but add effects and saturate the colours in Topaz Studio 2. Happy Sliders Sunday! HSS!

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EXPLORE Worthy, Challenge 88 - COLORFUL Things (Art from 2017)

I took the peonies and ferns to Topaz Studio 2 for Sliders Sunday. Once there, I edited the scene with a few varied filters and slight colour modification. Happy Sliders Sunday! HSS!

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Mushrooms that usually appear in autumn have sprouted all around our cabin in the middle of summer. It is most likely due to the long snowy winter and rainy spring. This tiny mushroom was surrounded by green clover - but I wanted to see him as he should appear in fall - so here is the transformation after a little manipulation on my part.

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Physical & digital manipulation by D#27

After I photographed these brightly coloured coneflowers, I couldn't help but add an effect (Renoir) in Topaz Studio 2 for Sliders Sunday. HSS!

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"Portrait of a girl" (1879) by Mary Cassatt was used for this creation.

"Portrait de fillette", une huile sur toile de 1879 par Mary Cassatt a été utilisée pour cette création.

“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”

― Émile Zola.

Los Angeles. Califonria.

A gray whale waves farewell with its tail, signalling the beginning of a deep dive along the coastline of the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska.

(Altered Reallity - The whale was photographed 30 minutes later with only the ocean as a background... it would have been so much more scenic if it had been seen here!)