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My nephew is a painter, a mural artist primarily and has been telling me about the exceptional pieces he has been generating using AI. So I stuck a tiny toe into the water without much success.
Yes, I have a subscription to MidJourney but am not proficient enough to produce anything yet.
After seeing what is happening on flickr, I am both interested and terrified and wondering what the future holds for photography, especially as it applies to art.
I decided to follow the photostream of a photographer here who has made the leap from 100% photography to 100% AI over about 10 months. The images he produces are creatively and technically jaw-dropping. Ditto for another photographer I follow who appears to have made the transition as well.
My photography would never stand up against these images as wall art. Would anyone's?
Of course it immediately brings up the issue of disclosure. For one of these photographers, it is 100% disclosed as AI. The other does not disclose and simply calls it "art". So, are there elements that are real with his photographs with the rest being partially enhanced by AI? Only the photographer knows.
I am returning to flickr after a hiatus and there are many changes. Is the responsibility of the photographer to disclose AI images outlined somewhere.. or are there no standards?
For the record (and my own personal disclosure standards) this image is partially AI. I took the photo of the red columbine at a local lake. The bee was added by using generative fill in Photoshop.
The implications are staggering and way beyond a flickr post, but the camera companies have to be reeling. Will photography only be used for journalism in the future.. if even that?
What is your take on this whole new realm?
Long exposure autumn waterfall from Ricketts Glen State Park near Benton, Pennsylvania (USA).
This photo is offered under a standard Creative Commons License - Attribution 3.0 Unported. It gives you a lot of freedom to use my work commercially as long as you credit and link back to this image on my Flickr page.
Flickr resolution: 1200 x 1800 px
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Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Toute-Prudence, Col de Iseran, Savoie, Auvernia-Ródano-Alpes, France.
La capilla Notre-Dame-de-Toute-Prudence es una capilla católica situada en el Col de l'Iseran, en el municipio de Bonneval-sur-Arc, a aproximadamente 2.770 m sobre el nivel del mar1.
Nace cerca de la carretera que pasa por el puerto de montaña más alto de Francia, para conectar los valles de Maurienne y Tarentaise.
Fue construido poco después de la apertura de la carretera inaugurada por el Presidente de la República Albert Lebrun el 10 de julio de 1937, por iniciativa del obispo de Maurienne, Mons. Auguste Grumel. Su proyecto había sido apoyado por el Papa Pío XI, que había practicado el montañismo.
Terminado en 1939, fue construido según los planos del arquitecto saboyano Maurice Novarina y de la empresa que había trazado la carretera. El edificio es de piedra local y el tejado de pizarra. Las dos estatuas de la Virgen son del escultor Edgar Delvaux.
La financiación se logró mediante suscripciones y donaciones privadas, incluida la del Vaticano. La bendición de la capilla por parte del obispo tuvo lugar el 20 de agosto de 1939.
Tiene la etiqueta “Patrimonio del siglo XX”.
The Notre-Dame-de-Toute-Prudence chapel is a Catholic chapel located on the Col de l'Iseran, in the municipality of Bonneval-sur-Arc, approximately 2,770 m above sea level1.
It begins near the road that passes through the highest mountain pass in France, to connect the Maurienne and Tarentaise valleys.
It was built shortly after the opening of the road inaugurated by the President of the Republic Albert Lebrun on July 10, 1937, at the initiative of the bishop of Maurienne, Mons. Auguste Grumel. His project had been supported by Pope Pius XI, who had practiced mountaineering.
Completed in 1939, it was built according to the plans of the Savoyard architect Maurice Novarina and the company that had laid out the road. The building is made of local stone and the roof is slate. The two statues of the Virgin are by the sculptor Edgar Delvaux.
Financing was achieved through subscriptions and private donations, including from the Vatican. The blessing of the chapel by the bishop took place on August 20, 1939.
It is labeled “20th Century Heritage”.
To be totally honest, to me, this is the best photo I have ever taken and still out of all the groups it is in, it has at very little reaction considering. Going through groups since the Flickr restrictions came into force, Im finding that the majority of photos are now just basic amateur snaps of holidays etc and the more competent photographers dont appear to be using groups anymore. I think Flickr is finished unless it puts things back as they were but anyway, its not going to survive. Im not prepared to spend 8 hours a day on this site trawling through photos or adding more friends that I cant keep up with so its groups or nothing for me! I Wont be left with any option but to leave.
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View across the estuary at dusk, towards Dublin Airport and the town of Malahide in the distance. I dont think I have ever seen anything more beautiful. Isnt nature just astounding!!
" Near Oranmore in the county Galway,
One pleasent evening in the month of May,
I spied a maiden, she was fair and handsome.
And her beauty fair stole my breath away "
" She worn no jewels or costly diamonds "
" No paint or powder no none at all "
" But she wore a bonnet with a ribbon on it,"
" And round her shoulders was a Galway shawl "
P@t.
Just to say that I think the new group add restrictions being imposed on all of us by Flickr are appalling.
I have protested to them in the strongest possible terms.
I will withdraw my subscription if the decision isnt reverted.
P@t..
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Miscellaneous shots from recent trips to London... 4 posts.
St. Johns school in Wapping, founded in 1695 with Girls and Boys segregated - long before the term "gender neutral" was ever thought of! A lot of Wapping has recently been redeveloped so it was pleasing to find a few buildings being preserved and showing things as they used to be...
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I have reprocessed my recent image of The Heart Nebula IC1805 to commemorate Valentine’s Day. For the Hubble Palette image this time I have used the naturally colored stars from the RGB (Color) image. The process involved making the Hubble Palette images starless and then inserting the stars.
I'm very humbled that this image was selected by Steve Astromag's AmateurAstrophotographyEzine on Instagram as Image Of The Day
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Sprawling across almost 200 light-years, emission nebula IC 1805 is a mix of glowing interstellar gas and dark dust clouds. Derived from its Valentine's-Day-approved shape, its nickname is the Heart Nebula. About 7,500 light-years away in the Perseus spiral arm of our galaxy, stars were born in IC 1805. In fact, near the cosmic heart's center are the massive hot stars of a newborn star cluster also known as Melotte 15, about 1.5 million years young. A little ironically, the Heart Nebula is located in the constellation of the mythical Queen of Aethiopia (Cassiopeia). This deep view of the region around the Heart Nebula spans about two degrees on the sky or about four times the diameter of the Full Moon.
I also made a video from the 4 images I used showing the fade from Hubble Palette and Hubble Palette Starless to Color to Color Starless.It can be viewed here:
on my Facebook page www.facebook.com/terry.hancock.715/videos/10158039268083210/
on my Instagram page www.instagram.com/p/B8iS1DBB1Zf/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Captured from Grand Mesa Observatory’s system 1 the Takahashi FSQ 130 (available on our subscriptions) using a QHY367C full frame One Shot Color CMOS camera with Chroma Narrowband Filters.
In this Hubble Palette version the H-Alpha is mapped to green, SII is mapped to red and OIII is mapped to the blue channel. While the colors in this image are not the true colors, the narrowband filters used in the making of this Hubble Palette image reveal much more of the hidden gasses not visible in a broadband image.
Captured over 5 nights in October 2019 for a total acquisition time of 31.8 hours.
Technical Details
Captured and processed by: Terry Hancock
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado
October 3, 5, 6, 8, 10th 2019
RGB 590 min 59 x 600 sec
HA 270 min 18 x 900 sec
OIII 210 min 14 x 900 sec
SII 840 min 56 x 900 sec
Narrowband Filters by Chroma "5nm"
Camera: QHY367C
Gain 2850, Offset 76 with Dark Frames no Flat.
Optics: Walter Holloway's Takahashi FSQ 130 APO Refractor @ F5
EQ Mount: Paramount ME
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6
Pre Processing in Pixinsight
Post Processed in Photoshop CC
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Recently restored Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Subscription Club Car no. 2454 is seen on the end of the Whippany Railway Museum's excursion train on May 19, 2024, during the museum's 175th Anniversary of the CNJ event. Originally built by Barney & Smith in 1912 as open platform subscription car 484, the car was converted to a vestibule-equipped multiple unit (MU) trailer in the 1930s by American Car & Foundry. It was one of only five MU subscription cars built for the railroad, and operated on a service between Hoboken and Gladstone catering to the wealthy members of the club. Notably the car was the only Lackawanna MU to ever receive air conditioning, and was the lead car on multiple farewell runs for these cars, including the very last NJ Transit train that used the Lackawanna MUs in 1984. Car 2454 was acquired by the United Railway Historical Society of NJ, which began restoration of it in 2014. Exterior restoration was completed by 2018 and the car was moved to Whippany in 2019, where interior restoration would take place, coming to completion in 2021.
Information importante pour toutes demandes d'abonnements :
Je constate depuis quelques semaines une recrudescence de demandes par mail Yahoo d'abonnés présentant sur leur site des photos visibles par tous soit vulgaires ou soit de violence. Désormais, je les bloquerai systématiquement sans les prévenir au préalable et je les signalerai à l'Administration Flickr.
Important information for all subscription requests:
I notice in recent weeks an increase of requests by email Yahoo subscribers with pictures on their site visible to everyone is either vulgar or violence. Now I bloquerai systematically without warning them first and I will post them to Flickr Administration.
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Thanks for your visits, comments, awards, invitations and favorites.
Mixed media photomanipulation combining a sunset scene near the city of Saint Helier in the UK Channel Island of Jersey, and a vintage themed abstract acrylic texture.
Special thanks to artist Lara Mukahirn for hand painting the acrylic texture elements as a personal commission, and granting me permission to publish this resulting image.
This photo is offered under a standard Creative Commons License - Attribution 3.0 Unported. It gives you a lot of freedom to use my work commercially as long as you credit and link back to this image on my Flickr page.
Flickr resolution: 1800 x 1200 px
Also available for download at 5000 x 3333 px on my Patreon page, an ever-growing collection of high res images for one low monthly subscription fee. You can find this specific photo at the following post:
Two views of Comet C/2017 T2 PANSTARRS from Grand Mesa Observatory 6/19/2020.
Comet C/2017 T2 PANSTARRS Captured using data from Grand Mesa Observatory's System 1 the Takahashi FSQ 130 (available on our subscriptions) using the QHY367 Pro C full frame One Shot Color CMOS camera. Captured on the 19th June 2020 for a total acquisition time of 1.5 hours.
This field also contains 6 galaxies from the NGC catalogue; NGC 4088 intermediate spiral galaxy estimated 51 million light years distant, NGC 4187 elliptical galaxy estimated 340 million light years distant, NGC 4157 near edge on barred spiral galaxy estimated 55 million light years distant, NGC 4100 spiral galaxy estimated 67 million light years distant, NGC 4085 barred spiral galaxy estimated 60 million light years distant, NGC 4026 lenticular galaxy estimated 50 million light years distant, and 303 distant galaxies from the PGC catalogue.
View in High Resolution:
Technical Details Captured and processed by: Tom Masterson and Terry Hancock
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado
Date of Capture June 19th 2020 RGB 90 min 30 x 180 sec
Camera: QHY367 Pro C Gain 2850, Offset 76 with Dark, Bias and Flat Frames
Optics: Walter Holloway's Takahashi FSQ 130 APO Refractor @ F5
EQ Mount: Paramount ME Image
Acquisition software Maxim DL6
Pre Processing in Pixinsight and Deep Sky Stacker Post Processing in Photoshop CC
Comet C/2017 T2 PANSTARRS Captured using data from Grand Mesa Observatory's system 2 the new William Optics FLT 156mm F7.8 APO Refractor (available on our subscriptions) using the QHY367 Pro C full frame One Shot Color CMOS camera. Captured on the 19th June 2020 for a total acquisition time of 1.5 hours. grandmesaobservatory.com/equipment
This field also contains 2 galaxies from the NGC catalogue; NGC 4088 intermediate spiral galaxy estimated 51 million light years distant, NGC 4085 barred spiral galaxy estimated 60 million light years distant, and 92 distant galaxies from the PGC catalogue.
View in High Resolution
Technical Details Captured and processed by: Tom Masterson and Terry Hancock
Location: GrandMesaObservatory.com Purdy Mesa, Colorado
Date of Capture June 19th 2020 RGB 90 min 30 x 180 sec
Camera: QHY367 Pro C Gain 2850, Offset 76 with Dark, Bias and Flat Frames
Optics: William Optics FLT 156mm F7.8 APO Refractor
EQ Mount: Paramount ME
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL6 Pre Processing in Pixinsight and Deep Sky Stacker Post Processing in Photoshop CC
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The Grade II* Listed Ellis Windmill on Mill Road in Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
At one time nine windmills stood along the west face of Mill Road over the steep slopes of the Lincoln Edge, these days only Ellis Windmill which was built in 1798 remains. There are documentary references to mills along the road from the early 16th century.
Tower mill of 3 floors with 4 sails, ogee domed wooden cap and fantail. Construction of brick painted black. Door on ground level. Horizontally sliding square windows with stone sills and segmental arches.
The first recorded owner of Ellis’ Mill was a wealthy landowner named Anthony Meres. It went through a succession of owners until December 1894 when John Ellis bought the mill for £250. He died in 1920, but his wife and son successively retained ownership until 1973. The mill was still in working order in 1940, but lost its sails in 1941, when Frank Ellis was the miller.
The Mill remained fully operational until it fell into receivership in 1973 and in 1974 a fire destroyed all of the remaining woodwork. In 1977 the Lincoln Civic Trust acquired the mill and began its reconstruction, led by Chris Salisbury, millwright.
A cap mechanism was acquired from ‘Subscription Mill’ in Sturton-by-Stow and the stones and drives from ‘Eno’s Mill’ at Toynton-all-Saints and the sails and fantail were made by Thompson and Co from Alford. The reconstruction was completed in 1980 and milling began again in 1981. Lincolnshire County Council took it over in 1995.
The brick foundations of an ancillary building in the north-east part of the site were recorded in 2006, along with a short length of brick wall and a stone wall or foundation immediately north of the mill. Ellis Mill remains a working mill producing flour and is open to the public on Saturday afternoons.
Information gained from www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/ellis-mill/46233.article
Captured using the QHY367C Full Frame CMOS camera and Takahashi 130FSQ (System 1) November subscription data from GrandMesaObservatory.com in Purdy Mesa, Western Colorado. In tradition with my style I decided to collect 5 minute exposures for this target in an effort to go as deep as possible and capture the very faint nebulosity and dust surrounding M45, many distant and faint galaxies of the PGC catalogue and more are also visible but better viewed in the annotated view of this image. View on YouTube youtu.be/ZxjoBmX9Op0
Total Integration time 5.9 hours
Image capture details
Dates: November 6th 2018
Color 355 min, 71 x 300 sec
Camera: QHY367C
Offset 76, Gain 2850 Calibrated with flat, Dark & Bias
Optics: System 1, Holloway Takahashi FSQ130 APO Refractor grandmesaobservatory.com/equipment/
Filters by Chroma (Narrowband are 5nm)
Image Acquisition software Maxim DL5
Pre Processed in Pixinsight
Post Processed in Photoshop
The setup I used is System 1 and one of 3 telescopes currently available through Grand Mesa Observatory’s Subscription services grandmesaobservatory.com/equipment/
An earlier images of M45 here: www.flickr.com/photos/terryhancock/32816913754/in/datepos...
Among the closest star clusters is M45, colloquially known as the "Seven Sisters". Due to its close proximity (a mere 440 light-years), and population of extremely hot and luminous stars, it can be easily seen with the naked eye near the constellation of Taurus. The number of visible stars in this open cluster can quickly tell an astronomer how dark a location is on a night of observation. Up to fourteen of the more than one thousand stars in M45 can be seen with the unaided eye.
The bright blue clouds surrounding the stars forms a reflection nebula known as the Maia Nebula. The enormous cloud of dust reflects the light from the hot young stars and was once assumed to be the remnants of the young stars' births, but is now known to be the serendipitous interaction of this unrelated dusty region being illuminated by the open cluster of stars passing through its interstellar neighborhood.
Built in 1813 by a local farmer to mill grain, this mill has 3 floors and was built to a Lincolnshire style. It has 4 sails and an Ogee cap with an 8 bladed fantail.
There are 3 sets of mill stones, 2 of which are wind driven and 1 set which are driven from an external engine.
In 1884 the mill was extended and gained an extra floor.
The windmill has continued to work from the day it was built up to present day.
Built in 1813 by a local farmer to mill grain, this mill has 3 floors and was built to a Lincolnshire style. It has 4 sails and an Ogee cap with an 8 bladed fantail.
There are 3 sets of mill stones, 2 of which are wind driven and 1 set which are driven from an external engine.
In 1884 the mill was extended and gained an extra floor.
The windmill has continued to work from the day it was built up to present day.
The Letterform Archive's "Subscription to Mischief" exhibition features a beautifully curated collection of ephemera from the dawn of graffiti zines in the 1990's.
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Belle Tout lighthouse, showing, in the cliff edge, a section through the ditch of the surrounding Iron Age Enclosure. I probably took the photo—which is an old scan from a slide—around the turn of the millennium. East Sussex, UK.
With the aid of public subscription, this private house was pulled whole from the cliff edge in 1999.