Beautiful windy day, we got to Marblehead Neck just in time to see the finish of the sailboat races.

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L to R. Monica, Karina, Kaley, Willa, and Caroline

After all these years, I have come across a method of enlarging a digitally sampled photo that still looks good over quite a range of enlarging. I can zoom in on this shot to fill a 20 inch monitor with only a slight (really slight) edge blockiness creeping in. I used Genuine Fractals 6, a fractal program that links with Photoshop Elements 7 for the Mac... (Should work just as well on a PC.) I am surprised and delighted.

The use of fractals for image processing is something new under the sun. It seems to violate every rule I knew and hated. I wonder how this ties in with information theory via Shannon. If you have a good and easy book you would recommend, let me know.

IMG_9335 - Enlarged with Fractals

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Photography by Ismael Barrera.

Model: Efren Alvarez

This was taken in the lava fields in Oregon. This was shot at around 4PM. The night time was produced by high shutter speed and lit with Alien bee strobes. The blue that You see was carefully painted on.

Quantizing large swaths of color channels (RGB) then restoring grayscale value (HSB). A glitch that is also a visualization.

Glitched and statistically processed images of a beach on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in the Cape Cod National Seashore.

Frieda and Margot have long since passed. So has Jacques. All things must pass.

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One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind

(I'll be watching you)

Uncredited ghostwriter, Neil Armstrong, Gordon Sumner

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Montage of two photos taken before the dawn of time and stylized endlessly until today when its time to stop.

Having More Fun With Mr. Doob and Frames in Ribbet...;)) I've added one frame within another. Inow see that I did them in the wrong order...;))

It's too too much, but it's fun to explore effects...

This modifies a photo of the colorful autumn (in winter) foliage on trees along Sabino Canyon's Stream. It's a Riparian Habitat in the midst of the dry Sonoran Desert...

IMG_5705 Ribbet Mr. Doob's Hypnotic Effect

This church worshipped all things pink.

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Took this shot from my car while waiting at a red light

Photo: iPhone 5 Selfie indoors with warm light.

Processing Tools: 1. Apple iPhoto 2. Ribbit Sandbox

Hypnotique Effect created by Mr Doob

Rays 2 Settings: Normal: Offsets 610x770

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A fractal distortion field involving a lovely symbolic tesselated fractal woman's gaze...

Maurice Cornelius Escher, draftsman extradinaire, raised the essential question of how does one really represent higher dimensions, three and four specifically, on a two dimensional plane. He made use of tessellation, the filling or tiling of a plane with various shaped patterns, as a visual tool to change the perceived dimensionality of space itself.

On the other hand - pun intended - Benoit Mandelbrot computer scientist discovered objects with non-integer, fractional dimensionality! And, we suddenly see tessellation playing a key role in visual representation of certain Mandelbrot sets. -

We may ask, what is the real question? "Hands On" symbolizes the uncertainty of how we view dimensionality. Is it reasonable to work in a Physics of only finite integer dimensionality? One wonders, One may ponder - Is there a way to apply these concepts to Cosmology as well? How about Elementary Particle Physics?

And, another layer of uncertainty suddenly or spontaneously appears!!... Definitely a question for brilliant French Metaphysical Philosophers of Science to address... Most likely, they already have...;))

Self similarity crops up in many current analyses of physical objects such as coastlines and of biological forms... The length of a coastline is a function of the amount or level of detail you permit in the measurement process. Similarly, the branching of a tree follows fractal rules and is self similar no matter which scale you use to view it....

I hope everyone will find this as interesting as I do...

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Maurice Cornelis Escher, extradinaire dessinateur, a soulevé la question essentielle de savoir comment peut-on vraiment représenter les dimensions supérieures, trois et quatre précisément, sur un plan bidimensionnel. Il fait usage de la tessellation, le remplissage ou le carrelage d'un avion avec divers motifs en forme, comme un outil visuel pour changer la dimensionnalité de l'espace perçu lui-même.

D'autre part - jeu de mots - chercheur Benoit Mandelbrot a découvert l'ordinateur des objets avec des non-entier, dimensionnalité fractionnaire! Et, soudain nous voir jouer tessellation un rôle clé dans la représentation visuelle de certains ensembles de Mandelbrot. -

Nous pouvons nous demander, quelle est la vraie question? «Hands On» symbolise l'incertitude de notre façon de voir la dimensionnalité. Est-il raisonnable de travailler dans une physique de la dimensionnalité entiers seulement finie? On se demande, on peut s'interroger - Yat-il un moyen d'appliquer ces concepts à la cosmologie ainsi? Que diriez-Physique des particules élémentaires?

Et, une autre couche d'incertitude soudainement ou spontanément, apparaît !!... Certainement une question pour brillants philosophes français métaphysiques de la science à l'adresse ... Très probablement, ils ont déjà ...;))

Similitude des cultures auto dans de nombreuses analyses actuelles des objets physiques tels que les côtes et des formes biologiques ... La longueur d'un littoral est une fonction de la quantité ou le niveau de détail vous autorisez dans le processus de mesure. De même, le branchement d'un arbre suit des règles fractales et est auto-similaires, peu importe où vous utilisez l'échelle pour la voir ....

J'espère que tout le monde va trouver ce aussi intéressant que je ne ...

Experiment in color quantization and sorting.

Interrupted pixel sorting, quick sort algorithm.

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I've traveled and unwound my own truth

I've laid my head on the rock of youth

I've trusted and then broken my own word

Just to keep me free in this mad, mad world

*It could happen to you so think for yourself*

© Catch my fall - Billy Idol, 1983

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Inside a fancy Jordan's furniture store where they had a colorful water fountain display, and the background colors are a combination of 5 photos of the colorful water. The woman's head was a large sculpture in a beautiful garden outside an art museum. The effect of putting her in the background lights came out better than I ever hoped.

In Memory of "Shrödinger's Cat"

A fractal distortion of Chic's Flickr photos containing the Quantum Mechanical Physics Phase Space Tag "Miss Schroedinger"

It is a beautiful fall season here in New England, and in my never ending quest to photopaint my images I am submitting this effort. Looks better large.

This power generation station needed a jolt of solar color and saturation power.

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So one more time we'll dim the lights and ring the curtain up

And play again, like all the times before

But far behind the music you can almost hear the sounds

Of laughter, like the waves upon the shores, of infinity...

© 1976 ❦ Al Stewart ❦ One stage before ❦

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Late one November day I photographed this scene, but there was a lake and dark trees that distracted from the image here. I had to do a lot of cropping and processing to bring the colors back out.

This farm harvested sea grass that was sold in health food stores.

A view toward the South Bay from Mount Tamalpais, with some postprocessing to remove most of the haze in the air. In the distance, one can see San Jose (55 miles / 90 km away) and, just barely the Lick Observatory at the summit of Mount Hamilton (65 miles / 105 km away). For the latter, you'll probably have to zoom into the full-resolution version of the picture.

A version of this photo without annotations is here.

Many years ago aliens visited a hot Earth and planted the seed of life. Fortunately, I was nearby with my camera to capture this historic event.

“The First Lady of Classical Guitar”

It was an immense pleasure to meet Liona Boyd at “Taste of the Danforth”. What a wonderful surprise, what a wonderful talent, what a wonderful lady.

I’m sure I speak for everyone when I say; “welcome home Liona, we’ve missed you”.

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... and smooth as monumental alabaster.

Shakespeare, Othello, act 5, scene 2

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taken with Camera360, a camera app on my google phone Android G1. Edited with Android photo editing app Picsay Pro.

From a photograph of Russian engineers in hazmat suits sampling potentially radioactive soil.

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Like a queen in days of old, in a remote village we had been summoned to for our Mensa bi-annual general assembly, the rays of the late March Sun fell through the windows of the backroom of an old blue collar café, on the worn-out black and cream chequered floor.

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I made 10 variations of this picture starting with the image as photographed and wound up with this Photoshopped version. I was very tempted to post the original picture, but in keeping with efforts to improve on reality this is the one I uploaded. Maybe I'm misguided, and maybe nature is as good as it gets....

This picture stands on its own, but maybe later I'll add a pretty girl or a unicorn - whichever I photograph first.

Allan Gardens Conservatory

Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

thanks for all the fun in flickr'land.

The marching band took a wrong turn off the parade route and were never seen again.

The birds have been rather territorial lately.....

It was at an eagle festival, but the lecture was on owls. It was inside, and there was a lot of grain to my photo. Couldn't get rid of it so I went with the flow.