As always was a pleasure to visit and enjoy the geishas company. I was lucky because their events are when I'm working, so yesterday I couldn't lose the chance.

Here with the lovely Toshiha. I think this time I drank too much sake.

Domo arigato!

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My friend sent me these pictures in an email, called Things That Make dogs Bite People ha ha

“live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.”

~ eileen caddy

I couldn't let Sunday pass without sharing the fun with Photoshop's Generative Fill I had today. I used Generative Fill to dismiss several logs on the right side of the basalt cliff where the falls drop, added some interest to the foreground water and as the coup de grace, added two figures jumping into the falls on the left. Generative fill works pretty well for inanimate objects but it's ability to do people is a spectacular failure! Those people are pretty scary; they're good for Halloween decor. They are too large as well as the falls drop is 43 feet.

I was inspired to add the jumpers because I read this fall is popular on social media as a place to film your friends jumping into the plunge pool. If you are curious about the number of logs removed, go look at the photo I posted looking down at the falls, three frames back.

Happy Slider Sunday!

Painting by Leo & Nanna K

After a week when temperatures across the UK have hovered above a sweltering 30C/85F, I found myself longing for the chill and fog of early spring, and revisited a shot which I captured at the centre of Richmond Park in early April. On many mornings I'd hoped for calm conditions that would bring heavier fog, and before this particular sunrise the low wind speed and near-freezing temperature near the Pen Ponds created fog so dense that, for a couple of hours, visibility dropped to about 20 metres. As the sun finally crept above the woodland and created various shades of orange and pink on the horizon, I came across the bare branches of an oak tree, and next to it the remains of a broken tree trunk, part of which now lay on the ground. Something about this scene captivated me, so I stopped to capture it.

The image is a blend of seven bracketed exposures, and proved to be a fun editing project because of the contrast between intense foggy light around the sun and deep shadows covering the trees and foreground. I began by blending my exposures using luminosity masks, bringing up visibility of the tree trunks while toning down brightness around the sun. I then refined my own masks in order to select and intensify the fog in the background. This was achieved by duplicating the blue channel in the Channels Panel and using a Levels adjustment to increase the channel's contrast between Darks and Midtones, effectively removing the trees and grass from the selection. After extracting the highlights around the sun using a selection from my Brights luminosity masks, I was left with a selection of just the foggy background, where I blended in my brightest exposures using a combination of linear and reflective gradient masks.

Colour-grading the image was very straightforward, as the mixture of early-morning blues across the landscape and intense warm tones in the sky only needed a little emphasis. Using Colour Balance adjustments with Apply Image as a layer mask, I gave the midtones and shadows a colder finish, and targeted the brighter area around the sun to increase the reds and magentas in the highlights. Setting two low-opacity Colour Lookup adjustments to Soft Light, I then used the Foggy Night preset for the foreground and the Soft Warming preset for the sky.

Using Nik's Colour Efex Pro, I brought out a little of the tree trunks' texture using the Detail Extractor filter, and at the same time softened the detail in the sky using the Sunlight filter, which helped to bring out the hazy glow across the scene when I'd captured it. While I thought that viewers' eyes would gravitate to the sun emerging between the tree's branches, the tree and the trunks among the fog were what drew me to the scene, and I felt it was important to try to emphasise their weathered texture and, ultimately, their "character". There was something hopeful about the colour spreading across the horizon as the sun rose, but at the same time something poignant about a scene that seemed to tell a story of nature's brutality and illustrate how certain things, once broken, can't easily be healed or repaired.

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Thanks to Mary for the great idea!!!!!!

Lovington, New Mexico

Lake Michigan

St. Jean Strasbourg

Kahn loves rolling around on his back under the flax.

Daily Dog Challenge: Just For Fun

Yay! Made it to the end.

Went for Zip today for Z.

Hope you’ve enjoyed all my photos for this challenge, will now have to think about next years ones.

Thank you for all you wonderful comments and friendship this past month.

That is my picket fence he is leaning against....

waitin'

hangin'

chillin'

havin' som fun!

the fauxlaroid care of Skeletal Mess

well not so much fun. This was using a Pixabay template ... my vision has gotten so bad that this was too hard.

🎶🎶🎶

I come home in the morning light

My mother says when you gonna live your life right

Oh mother dear we're not the fortunate ones

And girls they want to have fun

Oh girls just want to have fun

The phone rings in the middle of the night

My father yells what you gonna do with your life

Oh daddy dear you know you're still number one

But girls they want to have fun

Oh girls just want to have

That's all they really want

Some fun

When the working day is done

Girls - they want to have fun

Oh girls just want to have fun

Some boys take a beautiful girl

And hide her away from the rest of the world

I want to be the one to walk in the sun

Oh girls they want to have fun

Oh girls just want to have

That's all they really want

Some fun

When the working day is done

Girls - they want to have fun

Oh girls just want to have fun,

They want to have fun,

They want to have fun...

*yeahh... this girl had much fun!! :P

**poses made by me and phitphanatic ... :)) poor guy!!

Visit this location at The Trace in Second Life

"I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells".

Dr Suess

You can't buy happiness but you can buy a boat and have both!

Created for The Award Tree

Pink Grunge Challenge

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Background by Pixabay

Pink Girl by cherrybomb-81 - DeviantArt

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This is done by plugging in a photo to a template provided by www.photofunia.com

Being alone doesn't mean lonely and having no fun ... Sometimes it feels good to be alone and do what you want, when you want and give yourself space, you agree ?

Just another night in my back yard. Tonite this duck decided to put on a show. They are constantly landing, playing, feeding, and teaching their young to survive. This time of the evening is always entertaining!

Salem, Virginia

Hippo Fun.

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Macro Mondays. Pasta

My fun take on Pasta

I used orecchiette, farfalle, rotelle, spaghetti, and tiny rotelle pasta to make this little picture.

I still have paint and super glue on my hands, probably until next week.

coming home from a disastrous bike ride, some fun is due 😁

Fun day at seaside, Casablanca, Morocco.

Photoshop editing and blend from Wombo

pictures.

I used some great prompts from: AI ART Legends

Having some fun with the red Mountains!

Winter Fun

his Sado & her Maso 💕

Taken on the streets in Toronto near the Little Italy neighborhood....loved the colors here, looked like someone def had some fun with paint.. :-)

Taken in Toronto, Canada

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Happy Smile on Saturday everyone!

Telling a story in 4 Finn we’ve had since he was 7 weeks old acquired his dad a year ago

FUN

Dai monti pallidi ai giorni nostri..

Val di Funes. Giro ad anello delle Malghe ai piedi delle Odle

From the pale mountains to the present day ... Val di Funes. Loop tour of the Malghe at the foot of the Odle

Thank you for your comments.

Spherical puzzles - colorful fun spheres to build shapes with

This photo, taken 15+ years ago was miserably blurred (yet shared here because of the city character and emotion captured).

Now with today's software capabilities I tried to bring it to decent quality and feel it's worth (re)posting?