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Flower bud reflects in gold teaspoon.

For Macro Mondays theme; "Reflection." HMM!

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With subzero temperatures just outside of my cabin door this morning - I thought it might be a good time to play with Wombo and other photo software, to create the serenity of a cold Alaskan night.

Wishing everyone a peaceful week ahead.

With sub-zero temperatures predicted for the next couple of weeks - I am waiting for the day that our boreal forest welcomes spring flowers. Until then, I'll see them in my dreams.

Photographed at Jordan Lake in Moncure, NC

Water, scattered tiles, and ripple are the digital manipulation filters I used on this shot of an alley graffiti mural in Seattle's Queen Anne neighborhood.

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Ruptured illusions, used: Pixabay 2981411 - Photoshop - Filter Forge

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An old fishing boat sits abandoned, and waits until the rusty salt air consumes him.

More details and textures by zooming

Plus de détails et de textures en zoomant.

The image of the leaves was taken on the surface of a creek devoid of any detail let alone a tree canopy... I thought I change that (The camera settings belong to the leaves only).

Lake Ontario, Canada...

To match the actual true colours of this freezing landscape, the colour tones were digitally corrected through layers of the same image at various density levels including monochrome.

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I am in need of a little color, so for the CMWD Saturday theme which is "Pink or Purple" - I had to go to my archives.

Outside we still do not have leaves or greenery of any kind. Tiny little shoots of grass are trying to poke their way up from the still cold earth. I am hoping that this mornings rain will help things to sprout, and that I can join the rest of you in capturing the beauty of spring.

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Revisited an old favorite image for some subtle digital manipulation touches.

March is a wonderful month in Alaska. You can just feel spring in the air, as the sun radiates its warmth, and the days lengthen. We no longer need to keep the wood stove stoked all day, thereby saving what is left of the precious woodpile, after a brutally cold winter.

It is this time of year, that most rural Alaskan's start scoping out the forest, for the trees that will be needed for next winters fuel.

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Crocus

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Ljubljana, Slovenia

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A redo of a project from my archive with improved editing skills – originally done in 2013. The current Flickr x LEGO® Build and Capture photo contest inspired me to dig into my archive for my source files and rework/repost.

A digital manipulation of an image of my youngest son, Henry (who was 12 at time). Henry developed a beautifully creative and analytical mind which is due in part (I am convinced) to his near life-long interest in Lego brick building. He has two older brothers who were also Lego builders (and five and seven years older), thus he got a VERY early start. This photoshop project fits his personality perfectly - he was quite serious about his Lego builds back in the day.

Henry is now 20 years old and a sophomore at college with a double major in Biochemistry and English/Literature. A beautiful mind indeed.

Now that he is a part-timer in our household, I miss him a great deal in general, but also miss him as the most cooperative photography model of my three sons.

"Texture wrapping" edits via the displace filter in Photoshop.

Live Visuals by H3ml0ck▼

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Pic by D#27

Created for the Kreative People July Challenge 41 - Summer Expo from a photo I found my archives when I was looking for something else all together;-)

The textures WrappingPaperBokeh1 and SandAndSea are my own.

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Few people know where I captured this image - and I'll never tell - because the river is teeming with fish!

*(Posted for Sliders Sunday - "processed to the MAX!")

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Mixed media