image_manipulation, photos on Flickr

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no image manipulation and other hacks.straight from the camera to flickr.

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model: edward ochoa, photographer: todd lindberg

Doxford Park (Doxy) a condemned council estate. by NightSnapper

The condemned council estate in the north east of England called Doxford Park, known locally as Doxy.

This estate is so big its going to take 15 years from beginning to end to knock down and build up again, and they are already 7 years in.

Despite the pictures and the way it looks, this really is a nice place, i love this place, and if i had my way i would stop them knocking this place down and build it back up again just the way it was.

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Anybody who wants to see my Youtube video made of unseen still photos can click on the link.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp78_nv4Kfw

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**** Disclaimer ****

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I love long exposures, everything to do with night time, the dark, sunrise and sunset.

I like to take pictures mainly at night , sometimes during the day and in dull and fading light and I will sometimes display the time and date the picture was taken too.

I tend to take pictures of Light trails, Motorway traffic, Street lights, Buildings, Landscapes, Bokeh, Night bokeh and Hexagonal Night Bokeh in and around the North East of England.

All of my pictures are 100% natural and untouched in every way without ever been Photo shopped or altered or messed about with in anyway whatsoever, No multi layered photography, No HDR's and No image manipulation of any kind, all of my pictures look just the way they did when I saw them at the time of taking and I'm VERY PROUD of that.

I don't do any photo processing at all, I don't even own any photo software.

All of my starbursts are all 100% natural without using any filters or anything else, as is all my bokeh, night bokeh and hexagonal night bokeh, its all natural, no funny gimmicks at all.

I don't do anything with my pictures apart from take them and then upload them , 99.99999% of my pictures don't even get cropped , they are all 100% natural and untouched and then uploaded.

All of my pictures are copy right, © All rights reserved, you MAY NOT use any of my pictures without my written consent, you also MAY NOT change, alter, adjust or rearrange my pictures in anyway what so ever.

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Naruto & Goliath II by gehmflor

Red by LornaMcHardy

Dahlia 'Bishop of Llandaff'

Clipping Service India by Mahbub Alam

Clipping Service India (CSI) is an online offshore graphic design studio providing clipping path, Photoshop masking, image manipulation, image retouching, Color Correction, drop shadow, Reflection shadow, Multiple clipping path, raster to vector, Website image optimization, all types of photo editing service and best quality guarantee. (Quality First). So Clipping Service India waiting for your free trail and judge. www.clippingserviceindia.com/

johnflick1 by john coxon

GORDON HAS LOST IT ? NICE ONE SUN

How ironic , under the headline “Gordon has lost it” to see the tarty redhead Sun

( owned /controlled by an OZ self-appointed multi-media magnate not renowned for his socialism) reporting it’s own divorce after a 12 year relationship with current PM, Gordon Brown and it’s new affair with gory same-old-story-Tory , “Hi! Call me” Dave Cameron!

UK Politics , it seems to me , has lost a sense of any principal and increasingly relies on image manipulation and media appeal. Sensationalist headlines and especially vote grabbing “kiss and tell” revelations that titillate but also propel the awful into celebrity, (anything to boost it’s own circulation figures.) is the Sun’s M.O. so an ideal platform for Dave who like the paper is short on substance and long on shallow appeal. “Newspaper’s don’t win elections- it is down to “the people” Gordon retorted today and in reality it boils down to the lesser of two evils. I have no political affiliation but feel rather sorry for Gordon as I believe he has more personal integrity than the opposition leader. It’s a bit like sympathy for the older man who lost out through an affair with the young pretender.

Ironic too that the Sun newspaper is the self-appointed voice of the people for the mythical traditional English working class sector of the population- mythical because not owning the means of production , Marx’s definition of the social category, applies to the majority of the UK population. The UK is not a democracy , a minority own the wealth and are reluctant to share it. Tory has always been synonymous with protecting self interest and no amount of hair dye and makeup is going to undo that fundamental.

I enjoyed a wonderful weekend recently, photographing at Tatton Park with triathletes using the 1000 acre estate as a sporting play ground. What appals as you enjoy such places is the knowledge that this was formerly the lavish stately home and grounds , the property of a wealthy land owning family sustained on the backs of a slave class that toiled all hours and were treated like dirt.

This image is copyright and cannot be used in any way or form without my written consent. It cannot be added to groups or used in blogs and a link to my website or credit to me as the photographer does not justify use of my image and is not permitted.

Headless by Paul Austin

Photo retouching image manipulation example

Long ago and far away by Jer*ry

Alternate processing on the one next below. Better, in my book.

It's redundant, but I'll play the caption one more time ...

This goes back about 45 years and 9 or 10 thousand miles away from my current place of sojourn.

It still makes me wonder: was this thing an intentional creation or serendipitous? I don't know. Reminded me of Dada sculpture or paintings, to a degree.

red dawn by bill doyle

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