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The Buddha Mongolian by Daniel Arrhakis (2020)
With the music : Green Tara Mantra - Dao Xiaojuan 绿度母心咒 - 玉恩明玛
Work made for the challenge :
*The Buddha In Art Challenge - May/June 2020 - Mystic Challenge Group - LINK HERE
Composition made with stock images and images of mine, all elements modified for this work. Textured layered techniques, art collage and digital painting processes.
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DALL-E (stylized as DALL·E) and DALL-E 2 are machine learning models developed by OpenAI to generate digital images from natural language descriptions. DALL-E was revealed by OpenAI in a blog post in January 2021, and uses a version of GPT-3, modified to generate images. In April 2022, OpenAI announced DALL-E 2, a successor designed to generate more realistic images at higher resolutions that "can combine concepts, attributes, and styles" - Wikipedia
HOLY GADUNKA! Once a common rahi, now mutated and enhanced by the Mask of Life, can the Toa Mahri defeat this powered up bottom-dweller?!
-PRISONERS OF THE PIT-
26 x 4-minute ISO 1600 auto-guided exposures.
Modified EOS 600D & Revelation 12" f/4 Newtonian reflector telescope.
Frames stacked in Deep Sky Stacker software. Result post-processed to increase contrast, reduce noise, adjust overall colour balance and reduce colour gradients caused by light pollution. I also used Starnet++ to temporarily remove the stars during processing (as otherwise they dominate after stretching the contrast).
January 2025 new moon and dark skies of northern Arizona.
Canon R6 modified for astrophotography by removing the infraRed filter, allow more of the red, hydrogen wavelength of light to be captured. 27mm @ISO 3200, F4.0, 120 sec exposures tracked with Star Adventurer. 42 minutes of total exposure in the final image.
The Imperial Pod Racer
I recently saw a concept for a Tie Racer on instagram. It was cool but essentially it was just 2 massive cylindrical engines stuck to the side of a Tie Fighter. So I decided to take this to it’s natural conclusion. What would an Imperial Pod Racer look like?
The idea was to take the aesthetics of a Tie Fighter, split it up and re-design it for the racing circuit. I figured that with all the resources the empire has they would make something a lot more polished and refined than the junkyard efforts we see in the movie. They’d also use one of their signature designs for it. The centre part of the ‘pod’ is a heavily modified mid-section from a Tie Fighter by Jerac.
The rest of my modified space sets. Sorry for the many uploads today, but I didn't feel like waiting days to post these pictures. I have a lot of more interesting MOCs waiting for their turn ^^
So I spot this unit and I'm getting a photo of this, in Barr Lake area there's no over night parking..
I painted his arms, gave him a modified cape, and made custom daggers for him. Comments appreciated :)
The rest of my modified space sets. Sorry for the many uploads today, but I didn't feel like waiting days to post these pictures. I have a lot of more interesting MOCs waiting for their turn ^^
Another lightly modified frame by SuspendedAnimation. The Thermal Energy Rifle has been equipped with a canister style power source, rather than tethered directly to the frame. Although this limits the ability for uninterrupted firing, it allows the weapon to be carried by most frames.
This photo is shot with a modified lens. I removed one of the glasses inside and turned the rear glass 180 degr. The picture has a bit of sharpness in the center and a very strange affect on the sides and the corners.
Modified cups and canals from the Roc de la Femnas. Typical neolithic/chalcolithic cups and canals can be seen in the foreground with other formations behind. It seems that these have been 'added to' in recent years and that the roundness of edges and forms have been squared. There is a vague mention in a paper in the "Cahiers d'archéologie Aveyronnaise" No22 of a shepherd with metal tools perhaps effecting the shape of elements from a date prior to 1935.
Square holes can be seen inside of the Dolmen de Menga and squared elements exist for the Stonehenge construction. Square holes exist inside and around some of the late neolithic 'boat havens' (hypogée) of Fontvieilles. Squared holes tend to imply modern hardened metal tools, but if a site was in continuous use into the bronze age (copper is just not very hard) or even the iron age, then there is a chance that the elements are old and from the original cultural chronology. Some softer stones may also work into square edges with stone tools (Sardinian examples of stone work). In short, even if the scenario of a local shepherd, or recent stone mason is the dominant 'raison d'etre' for most squared elements, the sight of squared elements should not induce automatic responses.
AJ
This is an interesting section cropped from one of my recent shots.
Single Exposure
Camera: Modified Nikon D3100
Exposure 120 sec
Aperture f/2.2
Focal Length 50 mm
ISO Speed 400
Shot in Lutsen, MN with zero light pollution.
Thanks for viewing.
The rest of my modified space sets. Sorry for the many uploads today, but I didn't feel like waiting days to post these pictures. I have a lot of more interesting MOCs waiting for their turn ^^
in over 35 years of my aviation career, no time was as much fun as working at Air Atlantique, with their diverse fleet. Xray Charlie is my favourite, I spent many hours on this aircraft, carrying everything from explosives that were forbidden, and required special CAA exemptions, to Neil Young's, or the London Philharmonic's equipment on tour.
The image here shows the original paint scheme, the next photo along shows how it was modified, not to my taste...