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I like this picture, the seemingly endless corridor through a strange, devastated place. no much manipulation on that one (except for some color/contrast stuff and a little grain tuning to make it look "harder"). to me, it provides a strange sort of "aesthetics" somewhere between industrial architecture and corrosion of concrete/steel structures...

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Had this one in once before but managed to delete it some how, thought i would put it back in cannot remember what camera i used.

 

But i manipulated the pic as it looks more interesting this way .

Life Reflects DfP2023

AI & Manipulation

British clocks will revert to Greenwich Mean Time when they go back an hour this week

This year, the clocks will go back an hour on Sunday, 27 October.

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My first photo manipulation .. Let your imagination run wild

 

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This is a Challenge in a newly formed Group, It is the Down Under Challenge 2022. We are small but growing and you are welcome to join us if you are into Photo Manipulation. The main idea here is to have fun with Challenges and one Challenge will be posted once per week on Friday (in Australia). Take a look HERE

Only Challenge entries can be posted to this Group.

This week's Challenge was Animals Wild or Zoo

This same Mushroom has appeared in photographs immediately before these on Flickr. These two images have a link below to Selva Pascuala a prehistoric archaeological site in Spain that has fungoid rock art on the cave walls. This Mushroom on Wallace’s Cave in Scotland in not prehistoric, nor of the psychotropic variety proposed depicted in Spain. One rather base link might be the growing medium. Is the breath of visitors enough to provide the material on the cave to support growth of such a large mushroom? There are prehistoric carvings near The Wallace Cave and it has me wondering on modern and ancient fungiculture that relies on a substrate to feed the growth. Maybe cave paintings display the nomadic seasonal hunt and the potential to cultivate from wild beast and wild growths through tended patches a harvest off the right animal dung that would host the correct fungi?

 

It seems very likely that hunter gatherers would see growths on dung and degenerating wood and see the potential for collecting the correct medium to continue mycelium and such root like structures to have harvestable growths close to hand. The current Mushroom as seen in the photographs I do not propose as a Prehistoric continuation. I just think of past and contemporary cave users providing breath and other fungi food and maybe here in Wallace’s Cave that hosts a renewed and redressed bed of rushes that someone may also be tending this wonderful growth rooted upon fertile medium in a crack in the cave. The white budding fungi spheroids seem to show a near water fall of growth in the well shaded semi dark of the small cave.

 

Much less visited than Rosslyn Chapel on the opposite Western Bank of The North Esk river you will find The Wallace Cave. There are several Wallace Caves in Scotland. There is only one Wallace Cave in Roslin Glen. There are also caves under Hawthornden Castle. If you are going to Rosslyn Chapel I hope that you have a great visit and if you have a chance do walk in the Roslin Glen. The Castle and the Chapel retain the older name of Rosslyn and the contemporary village has the newer name of Roslin.

 

In the pictures uploaded to Flickr immediately before these two those two both the Focused and Focusless Fabulous Fungi a Miraculous Magical Mushroom were a joint effort. I managed in Manual Focus to capture an impressionistic rendering and a photographic view of the same rather large mushroom. My lighting expert is not on Flickr so I cannot link them locally and I do not have permission to link them further afield. He is a great companion to share a historically important cave with. Our focus on photography led us to moths and small gnats and large spiders with varying fungi and moss and lichen. The clean air just 8 miles from Edinburgh enables some fantastic growths that increase in quantity and size as you move further away from the city into more vibrant landscapes that support such greater growth. The size and vitality of the Mushroom was so unexpected that I have labelled it fabulous, miraculous and magical as it certainly appeared that way being the only such branching out extended growth from the rock face with roots nestled in a shallow crack.

 

The cave shows many pick marks from it having being extended and masoned sections where door and fittings have been fitted and broken away. The valley side opposite Rosslyn Chapel and Castle has a path way and viewing platforms cut into the cliff sides. The cave itself is not too large and the Mushroom as focus of attention and camera here looks quite unlikely to be natural and also at the same time possible so. It does appear like something brought in affixed and maybe even tended. There is a bed of rushes in the cave, changed annually and often dressed into the form of a sleeping figure. This Both Focused and Focusless Fabulous Fungi a Miraculous Magical Mushroom that proudly proclaims itself present and potent whilst discreetly declining any casual further investigation beyond speculation such as I have delivered here.

 

There is a legend of a Black Hen, don’t say Pullet, that is noted as confusing treasure seekers and grail hunters by digging holes to false terrain the site and to fill in half dug holes for when seekers return to complete their excavations and further still through special skill to carefully indicate the better and best grounds to explore through careful talon and beak soil manipulation. There are further tails of either this Black Hen, or of another such similar still don’t say Pullet, Black Hen, maybe there is just the one, or possibly there are a pair of magical soil shrouders at work? The other hen story relates to a treasure hidden under a stair. The exact stair can be correctly deduced in a manner not fully revealed within the story. Any stair testing and excavating can and will lead to the Black Hen II, this time the truth will not out*, moving the treasure when the excavators are in the right area and also the hen will bamboozle the grail hunters with special Holy Hen Acts that will confuse, strain, enrage and bring chaos to order and the ‘BH II’ wonder guard will clear up after the said chaos and restore all to proper order til the right, maybe even righteous, approach of the mythic legendary treasure grail hunter seekers who are destined to step on the right step at the right time in the right manner possibly with the left foot.

 

Please only read good humour and faithful following in my words above. I have followed signs to Rosslyn Chapel and parked when there were just a few spaces next to the old barn and byre. I have wandered in the beauty of the landscape and listened to the stories and here share some quickly to say that this is a place of beauty and of mystery, both of folly and of faith with a river bend bringing out rock inscribed from thousands of years ago to natural and extended caves, with castles and chapels, formerly and currently hosting services and battles til a part of the past seems to have been deeply woven here such that we choose to look at it again and again making pilgrimage and enacting rampage all engaged through marvellous mysteries and eldritch histories far beyond our fascination and into our fine fashioned fulgent fabricated fantasies.**

 

*Black Hen I also assured that the truth would not out, Black Hen II is not a fully fledged sequel as of course it could be one Hen, not a Pullet, successfully stealth working both grounds and stairs.

 

**Please do not test the Hen, or Hens, not Pullets, as you could be destroying a beautiful and historial protected place that is best left none Hen tested and none destroyed. Age, atmosphere and our antecedents have done more than enough destruction and also they had with them those that fought to give enough preservation and conservation too.

  

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A Cave In Spain Contains the Earliest Known Depictions of Mushrooms by Brian Akers

www.mushroomthejournal.com/a-cave-in-spain-contains-the-e...

 

Welcome to Rosslyn Chapel

www.rosslynchapel.com/

 

Hawthornden Castle

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthornden_Castle

 

Alexander Nasmyth - Hawthornden Castle, near Edinburgh - Google Art Project

artsandculture.google.com/asset/hawthornden-castle-near-e...

 

Hawthornden Foundation Hawthornden Castle

www.hawthornden.org/hawthornden-castle

 

Hawthornden Foundation

www.hawthornden.org/

 

Wallace's Cave, cave and rock carvings SM6825

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ROSLIN GLEN AND HAWTHORNDEN CASTLE GDL00327

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Roslin Glen

Rosslyn Chapel Trust is responsible for the conservation and care of part of the picturesque landscape known as Roslin Glen, which is adjacent to Rosslyn Castle and Rosslyn Chapel.

www.rosslynchapel.com/about/roslin-glen/

 

Roslin Glen Country Park

www.midlothian.gov.uk/directory_record/171/roslin_glen_co...

 

Roslin Glen Country Park

www.rosslynchapel.com/about/roslin-glen/

 

Wallace's Cave, cave and rock carvings

canmore.org.uk/site/51808/wallaces-cave

 

Archaeology Notes

canmore.org.uk/event/712032

 

Roslin Glen And Hawthornden Castle

Date of Inclusion: 31/03/2001

1:20,000Map Scale:

Council: Midlothian

Designation Reference: GDL00327

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ROSLIN GLEN AND HAWTHORNDEN CASTLE

GDL00327

portal-beta.historicenvironment.scot/apex/f?p=1505:300:::...

 

Gorton House Rock Carving(S) (Post Medieval)(Possible)

canmore.org.uk/site/51807/gorton-house

 

they're coming to get me...

He's my keeper.

 

(I love that intense look he's got!)

bon anniversaire lune

This one began as globes so given it a more abstract look....

 

Thanks for having a look at this one......appreciated.......best bigger....hope you're having a Great Weekend

Playing with manipulations of the snow falling and thought this looked kind of cool. You can see the snow blowing across the lens.

   

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Another ripple filter manipulation of a photo of a blue wall to help cool your photon-bleached eyes!

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This bird has a broken upper beak but, from what I saw, had no problem scooping up food from the feeders with his lower beak.

 

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A rippled digital manipulation of all that remained of my stolen truck. Still not sure if this qualifies as a silver lining, . . ./

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler...

Original photos are released under Creative Commons CC0 and come from free stock images. (pixabay.com/)

 

Les photos originales sont publiées sous la licence Creative Commons CC0 et proviennent d'une banque d'images. (pixabay.com/)

  

Original

Model: Alyssa

I've been wanting to go back and re-edit this for quite a while, and yesterday I found the perfect excuse when my Business Photography teacher told me I should enter my elements series in a contest. When I first edited the photo it was before I knew enough to save a psd of the composited image before I merged, so I went back and re-converted the RAW's and re-expanded.

I'm really happy with the re-edit! It's a lot cleaner. I realized that part of the reason the first edit was so rough looking was becasue I had a longer shutter speed while shooting and didn't hold the camera still enough for some of the shots, so some areas still aren't, and won't be, perfect but it's a whole lot better! I also wanted to do some manipulation on the dress so that she didn't look like her body was a triangle, as it is in the original. And I wanted the water jug and water to be a lot more clear than they were. I included a close up so you can see that better. (seriously compare this close up shot to the one I included on the original. It's soooo much better). I also did a B/W version!

So nice to actually see and feel like I've improved!!

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Layering experiment, take one

'I was born secular,

And inconsolable.

I heard that he walked, he walked the earth.

God goes where he wants.

And who knows where he is not.

Not in me.'

-Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins 'Born Secular'

The Cracked House - Photo-Manipulation

 

I'm looking forward to next week's trip to Jordan with Conor MacNeill & Michael Murphy. A nice, crisp winter frost has blanketed Northern England. Although it makes a pretty photo, I'm looking forward to some heat.

 

Until then, I've continued my adventures in surreal photo-manipulations with today's image, The Cracked House.

 

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Sphere-filtered abstract sidewalk sculpture simply because I was feeling like an orange-y upload.

Digital manipulation of a photo of a stack of banquet tables.

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