Huntington Beach State Park, Murrells Inlet, South Carolina

Queen Mary Falls

Grand Marais, Minnesota

A Feather in the Breeze

#sliderssunday

The berlin cube cloudified and kaleidoscoped for Sliders Sunday. Composite made of two images taken there in mid July. The first image is a capture I took standing right next to the cube's facade and pointing the camera straight up. In Photoshop, I copied the layer with the original image, flipped the new layer horizontally, and cross-faded it with the first layer by using the blending mode "Overlay" at 75 % opacity. 100 % would have resulted in a punchier look on the right side, but I rather liked the softness and that it somehow looks as if the cube would slowly dissolve into or merge with the clouds. The next step was to replace the sky above the cube(s). For that I used a small part of the very first image I'd taken at the cube; I was just about to compose the image in the viewfinder when I noticed the bird, and decided to skip the composing part in favour of the bird ;-) (Birds, just like photographers, love the new berlin cube. There was a constant coming and going on the cube's roof, and it seems that, while not even all new tenants have moved in, yet, the cube's roof has already been occupied by the bird population that lives in the Hauptbahnhof area.) Next, I gently HDRified the finished composite in Aurora, then went into ON1 where I added some sunbeams to the upper sky part of the image, and added a soft glow for an extra airy look.

Happy Sliders Sunday, Everyone, have a nice and safe new week ahead!

Kleine Spiegel-Spielerei vom "berlin cube" für den Sliders Sunday. Dieses Bild ist zusammengesetzt aus zwei verschiedenen Fotos, die ich dort Mitte Juli gemacht habe. Für Foto Nr. 1 hatte ich fast an der Fassade des Cubes gelehnt und die Kamera direkt nach oben gerichtet. Dieses Foto habe ich in Photoshop auf einer kopierten Ebene einfach horizontal gespiegelt und mit dem darunter liegenden Originalbild bei 75 % Deckkraft ineinanderkopiert. Danach habe ich den Himmel über "den Cubes" ersetzt, und zwar mit einem kleinen Teil des allerersten Fotos, das ich dort gemacht hatte. Ich war gerade dabei gewesen, eine gute Position zu finden, um den Cube möglichst sauber ausgerichtet fotografieren zu können, bemerkte dann aber den Vogel und beschloss, das saubere Ausrichten zugunsten des Vogels auf das nächste Foto zu verschieben ;-) Überhaupt ist der neue Cube schon sehr beliebt bei den Vögeln, die rund um den Berliner Hauptbahnhof leben. Während längst noch nicht alle Mieter in den Cube eingezogen sind, hat die Vogel-Gang vom Hauptbahnhof bereits das gesamte Dach in Beschlag genommen ;-) Bearbeitungstechnisch habe ich das fertig zusammengesetzte Bild erst in Aurora sanft HDRisiert und dann, in ON1, dem oberen Teil ein paar Sonnenstrahlen und zum Abschluss dem gesamten Foto ein leichtes Leuchten verpasst, um den luftig-leichten Look zu betonen.

Ich wünsche Euch einen guten Start in die neue Woche, bleibt gesund, liebe Flickr-Freunde :-)

Digital image created using #midjourney and #ON1photoRaw

Beach Concoctions

花無百日紅

Walking the Hood.

Digital image created using #midjourney and #ON1photoRaw

AAA Batteries

For Smile on Saturday, processing in ON1

Morning Ray of Aten

one of the photos taken at the Sony day out is owl just having a wee sit down wanting for the show to start.

HMBT!

"Can you imagine that first glimpse? What Gertrude Stein is saying, strip away all memory, all presumption and see this rose, smell it, touch it, taste it if you will and if you are very lucky listen carefully and hear each petal move....and this first time, this first experience is and is and is and is." Lisa Perry on Quora.

Paicines

A city trip in 2017.

Natural White

Midnight Polka Dots

And Away Go the Bubbles Down the Drain

Thanks for your comments and faves, they are truly appreciated.

Thanks for your comments and faves, they are truly appreciated.

Digital image created using #midjourney and #ON1photoRaw

Grand Marais, Minnesota

This was taken in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico a couple of years ago. I don't have a strong telephoto lens, so for shots like this I end up needing to crop a lot. The photo had a plain blue sky behind the bird, so in the spirit of Sliders Sunday I added a texture from ON1 Photo Raw. Happy Sliders Sunday. HSS!

And Happy Mothers Day!!

Thanks as always to everyone who stops by to view, fave, and comment on my photos - it is much appreciated.

Fish Silhouettes

Rainy Day Cairns, Australia

Two Plum Blossoms

Bicycle chain. Less than 1 1/2 inches. Square format. Photograped above a T-shirt background placed on the pavement.

Patent Award No. 5,607,873

Taken near Rossendale.

These are the grave plots for the Nuns from a local Convent.

These trees trunks are a favourite of mine to photograph as well on my daily shanks mare (in case you have never heard that term it means walking) travels. I have photographed them several times.

Processed in Lightroom Classic.

I import all my photos in ON1 Photo Raw 2022 and will sometimes use the presets in it but today I decided to process in Lightroom.

I appreciate all the visits to my little space here on Flickr and although I may not get to respond to your comments be assured that I read them and I appreciate them.

Bryce Canyon

"Round and round we go..."

Rhine River Musings

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Flowers in town

Donaueschingen

Late February

Farmer's Market Reopens

San Luis Obispo