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“Stones are hollowed out by the constant dropping of water.” ~ Ovid
youtu.be/bAgGiwP8GUY - Frio Suite, "Like Walking on Water"
"Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong." ~ Lao Tzu
"Would this not be...Woman?" ~ Bob
Karen www.flickr.com/photos/47537995@N03/6886318853
Debbe www.flickr.com/photos/oldmanofthemountains/6874829811/in/...
Nick www.flickr.com/photos/zedzap/6878227541
Moni www.flickr.com/photos/monicaecebolinha/6886632331
Texture
Dyrk.Wyst - "Writing on the Wall" - wuestenhagen-imagery.photoshelter.com/ used four times
www.flickr.com/photos/dyrkwyst/sets/72157615288623830/ - Dyrk's free textures
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-hB1TzoG7M - Heeeeeyyyyyyy!
When the going gets tough, the tough turn to color.
Got no substance: go to color!
Got no vision: to color!!
Got no artistic thoughts: COLOR!!!
Drawin' a Blank?: Hitt`em....wid'....Color!!!!
Dazzle `em with light and mirror and colors and run off while they "be blinded." It work with the toes. :-)
They just too good Boss....they hard to follow.
Debbe
Karen
Nick
What goes on inside 3540? I know: but I don't tell.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO0R_QTnKzA - I Like it Like That!
Challenge #2 – Light Partner/BossBob - “Unseen” - a difficult concept/word to visualize. I had to wait for some sort of inspiration. (Note added 2/19 - 8:47 p.m.: There's a homeless guy under the stairs. Those are his shoes down there, and cigarette smoke wafting out from under those stairs. I'm talking about the "unseen" human beings that are homeless among us in this land of plenty.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfWEPu0w-7w - "Nowhere Man," Beatles
They are all around us. They are “Unseen” more by our desire, than by their true invisibility or lack of presence.
But....we see them - accidently; peripherally. View On Black
If we don't watch where we are going we often walk within inches of them. Startled, we look away, move away. We hope we don't get "the cooties" from them.
They get on our nerves. Mine too sometimes. They remind us of our fragility, our vulnerability, the unfair capriciousness of life that we may have, so far, managed to elude; evade.
That all of our plans could…..despite our very, very best efforts…simply disappear; like a whiff of cigarette smoke in the breeze? To be replaced by "brokenness."
They unsettle us with their brokenness. Me too sometimes: but not as much as I’ve gotten older, wiser, more compassionate and grateful for the life I have.
Did they do something to deserve this? (Secretly, you hope so.)
Was it someone else’s doing? (Bad luck or choices, I guess.)
Did God do this to them? (Then they are beyond redemption.)
Was it no one’s doing? (This is the scary one as then Why? How? Might it happen to me?)
But, without an answer we don't have to see them, as we can just pick answer A, "they did this to themselves. I'm smarter than that." Or C: "but I'm a good person and, unlike them, God loves me."
Yes, it is difficult for us when the Unseen gets seen; when we see what looks to be garbage, but then recognize it as personal possessions. Difficult, even when seen in fleeting, passing-by glances.
We as a Nation could do better by them, for them, for ourselves, period. We have the resources. Do we have the compassion?
Or, the better they remain unseen. The less we have to think about it.
Until we become....unseen.
LightPartner 2.0 - www.flickr.com/photos/partneredwithlight/6904617003/in/ph...
A little shoreline bokeh dedicated to Phan Ly for a great testimonial she wrote me - thanks and HBW!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtE3e-z0Ro4&feature=related Bruno San Filippo Piano Textures
It's been months since I played around with those milkweed seeds; probably last October or so. OK, so here it is, last of February, and every now and then, from out of nowhere, one just comes floating through the house.
"La-de-dee, la-de-dah," it seems to sings as it drifts. (Or, Ob-bla-di, Ob-bla-dah) View On Black (worth a view I think)
Before it popped up, I was sitting around going..."I'm tapped out [creatively]. I ain't got no ideas for this Challenge, "Light."
I was staring, vacant-eyed, out of the kitchen window - it's sunny and 48 today - thinking "hummm, sunlight, moonlight, flashlight, firelight, starlight-starbrite-first-star-I-see-tonight, Bud Light, Hoplites, "I-Can't-Believe-Its-Not-Butter-LIGHT?"....(Note, It's already not Butter, what else can't it be to make it "light-er?" What else could they do to it to make it "less, butter-like, but still be able to use the word `butter'" in the name? Exactly what is it? Or, What isn't it?)....
Anyway, back to staring out of the window. I was sitting there, and guess what comes a`floatin' by? "Say Hello to my little frien'," Al Pacino as Toni Montana, "Scarface (1983).
So I took "light" as to be, "no-weight."
I call that, "saved by Ms. Serendipity." (I dated her, winner of the Ms Serendipity Beauty Pageant, 1969, back in my Kum-Bye-Ya hippie days. Thank you again O'Mystic One).
And, that is how this image got to be this image.
Y'know what? I'll bet I could sell this one at one of those art fairs in the summer. An 11x14 or 16x20, matted, or gallery wrapped, ready to go, for say $80 - $100. Especially if I have little glasses of red and white wine on hand to offer potential patrons as we "chat." I've got the gift of gab (Gabby Hayes), in case you hadn't noticed. :-)
Photographed on a napkin with soft, natural, window light. Would that be "lite-light," or "light-lite?"
Challenge #2 - RavenspiritImages (www.flickr.com/photos/oldmanofthemountains/6929884767/in/...) and Bossbob50
Texture: Flypaper Textures - "Zuriel Stone" - flypapertextures.blogspot.com/ "Summer Painterly Set"
Brushes:
Distressed Jewel - www.distressedtextures.net/
Skeletalmess - shadowhousecreations.blogspot.com/
This challenge fell to Karen: www.flickr.com/photos/47537995@N03/
It was her call: “everyday object(s) – no restrictions on the processing, just gotta’ be recognizable.” So, hint, hint, this is either an apple or a postcard.
Karen's entry: www.flickr.com/photos/47537995@N03/6325968399/in/contacts/
ZedZap's entry (Nick): www.flickr.com/photos/zedzap/6326070295/
Nick's Image #2 - www.flickr.com/photos/zedzap/6326252525/
youtu.be/RrJFrBtRdKo - Thievery Corporation
The apple was at work on my desk. I don’t know why it was there, how it got there, how long it had been there, or who gave it to me. Probably my co-workers. They eat healthy at my office (I do to for my 50-years of "Micky-Ds" upbringng, but not quite by todays youthful standards). Lots of 30-something, Green-Earthers who think they are going to live forever if they eat natural, organic foods.
Actually, One; it will just feel like forever; or Two; imagine their surprise when they find out they are still gonna’ die, and that refined sugar and saturated beef fat (like Prime Rib) actually promote long and healthy lives.
Apples are good for photographing, putting in pies with lots of sugar, cinnamon and flakey crust, or for throwing at each other in little, green apple fights. (They make an amazing “thonk” sound when they careen off your friend’s high-and-tight, crew-cut head. It’s even better if the apple comes apart at the seams as it does.) And, yeah, you bet - we always went for head shots, especially when it was against the rules. :-)
THONK! Splat! Boiiiing! “Owwwww. Shit. No blood. I’m ok.”
Dad: "What happened to you?"
Me: "I got hit in the head with an apple."
Dad: "An apple? What the hell...(pause...slight smile) How's the apple?"
Me: (puzzled pause) It didn't make it."
He asked the same question when (at age 10) I ran, inexplicably and head first, into the garage door. The door survived, "it made it," but the little, forehead-shaped dent in the wood is still there.
At the end of these fruit fights, we usually smelled all “tomatoey, grape-ish, cherry-ish or appley,” (whatever we were throwing) like some really cheap, mail-order cologne from a fourth world country.
Mom: "I smell apples. Is somebody baking? I'm not baking anything. Why do I smell apples?" (pause...sharply) Bobby!
Me: Huh!? Wha...?!
Mom: "Don't you, `Huh, Wha' me!, Robert!"
(Oh, hush now! Nobody was ever mortally wounded when ten-year-olds engaged in apple fights. No hospitalizations; just a little apple-sized lump or two, or maybe a bit of a shiner, sometimes.)
And Postcards. Who sends postcards? Why are we – of a certain age – so enamored with postcards? My grandkids look at them the same way they look at my vinyl LPs; like “what's the point, Gram’pa?” and go back to texting and downloading MP3s & 4s at the speed of light.
The last time I got a postcard it was from the IRS telling me I was getting audited. They knew – by my date of birth (1949) - I’d read an effing postcard with eagerness, joy and no damn suspicion (effing bastards) thinking it was from…hell if I know; nobody sends postcards anymore.
Except for today.
Tech Notes: Simple does it
1. One Kitchen table.
2. One, 75-Watt desk lamp with a black paper snoot (stuck on with scotch tape),
3. One, small AA flashlight for back light. (both around 3200 degrees Kelvin light temperature, or "Incandescent Bulb," on the camera's WB settings)
4. One, 11x14 inch piece of crepe paper for the seamless background the apple sat on.
5. One spray bottle with water in it.
6. Water drops and apple courtesy the good, green earth. :-)
New Texture (for me at least) by Skeletalmess: shadowhousecreations.blogspot.com/
1/8 Sheet
Arches 140#CP
Bill posted an orchid challenge (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lorus_maver/5461127055/) in the Watercolourist, Painting with Light group. I have been painting 'loose' flowers for a while, and thought I'd return to more traditional watercolor techniques to approach this very formal flower.
I tried scanning my painting on 2 different scanners, but the light bleached out the pale yellow, sky blue and magenta background -- but if you squint a bit, you can just about see the colors in this upload.
THANKS so much, Bill for the challenge - Wonderful fun!
We've another late night gardening class tonight -- vegetables -- my favorite topic! And a full-house and waiting list!
I took a long walk around the campus yesterday - already crocus are up, forsythia is a bright yellow, and our apricot trees (Prunus mume) are in FULL bloom -- yet the temps are in the 40s making spring seem more like a dream than the flowers may reveal ...
Hope your day is grand!
9" x 12"
Arches 140#CP
Ahhh.... home!! So GOOD to sleep in my own bed again, visit my droughted garden, wild kitties, and unpack my poor car! LOL Mike got home safely as well and is feeling pretty good --- Grateful hearts all around!
It's a working weekend for me with a field trip on Saturday, cooking today for a class on dehydration I'll be teaching next week, and catching up from my time away.
This painting was done before I left for Charleston -- I wanted to focus on the colors of the heather -- to intensify those as the center of interest - and so I didn't paint in the bench from the original photograph. Seeing the painting again this morning - I think the addition of the bench would join the two trees somehow so I might add it later on. Still, I really enjoyed playing with these colors and the challenge of having those compliments work without becoming mud.
We've a cold front moving in ... at least for the weekend. Temps won't reach 70F ... quite a change from summer highs that hovered near the 100s!
Hope your weekend is restive!
My last one for this challenge. A little softer and more gentle portrait.
Thank you so much for your comments and awards. They're much appreciated! xx
"The paths we take in this life, will not always be on the ground, nor grounded in reality." ~ Me
So, I guess that free's things up a bit on this life's journey, eh?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCjxZHGHL4Y&feature=related - Loreena McKennitt, "Night Ride Across the Caucasus"
First time I have attempted an image with no photo pieces of it being from me. Felt a bit like painting when I was a kid. I finally felt I've gained enough basic psd skills to attempt this without making a terrible mess of things. I'm sure I'll look back on this as somewhat amatuerish, but that is how one grows.
These challenges are marvelous. I love the pressure, the push, the excitement, the drive, the sharpening edge to the creative nerves. It is like being in art school again.
I didn't anticipate doing something like this image, but I've been drifting away from photo-realism for three or so years. I guess it was inevitable.
The guy with the umbrella on the Dragon's back....would be me. It is a comfortable, soothing yet exhilerating ride; scary at first, but then you settle in for the exquisite and expansive ride ahead.
I feel a bit like one of the "big kids" on the flickr block now. :-)
Challenge #23 - Dragon - Nick's Pick.
Nick: www.flickr.com/photos/zedzap/6769271759/
Karen: www.flickr.com/photos/47537995@N03/6769915435/
Debbe: www.flickr.com/photos/oldmanofthemountains/6771275459/
Challenging dreams are the ones that are worth it...
You don't have dreams to realize when everything is easy. Things just happen.
Dreams need us to believe in them.
I found the best dream ever to realize... the one in the name of love.
The one which makes you leave all what you know, to lose yourself in the exciting unknown.
I am, right know, making my dream come true.
And to make it true, I get my strength from one simple thing: happiness (you know... when you go to bed with a big smile on your face at the end of the day, and when you wake up... still smiling).
I have so many reasons to smile :)
Take care of your dreams, my dear Flickr friends...
Laura - living in Finland for one week now!
Iceland, with the amazing halenism - 2014
Karen got her 'Wind" Challenge image up first (shown below). It just sorta' blew me out. Smokin' good and creative. This is OK, but it ain't Vintage. Maybe some music later. And, this is along Lake Michigan in Chicago. It was extremely windy. 12-foot waves don't come without a roarin' wind, blowin' (up to 60 mph) straight down the Lake, Nor'east to Sow'west.
The Police tried to chase everyone off the lakefront ("Dangerous waves"). Didn't work: too "once-in-a-lifetimey" for that. People will want to say, "yeah, I remember those; I was out in it." We don't get "boomers" like this but once a decade or so. Boomers: the waves pull back from shore, almost creating a vacuum. It sounds like a giant deeply inhaling his breath. Then there's a rushing sound as the water rushes in towards flat concrete abutment. There is this "whooomp," "boom," "splash," "hisssssssssssss" as water spray is carried inland on the wind.
It....is...heavenly.
I've been chasing these up and down our lakefront on Nor'easters since I was 16 and could get Dad's car and drive to meet them and "accidently" get in their way.
And, yes, you get wet. But if you are facing north, the waves march towards you down the shoreline. You can see them coming. You try to get as many shots as you can until you hear the "Whooomp, boom" to your right.
Then you turn as quickly as you can away from the lake, hunch over and jam the camera into your belly, under your coat. The "hisssssssssss" and spray will wash your back: sometimes with a delicate, little mist, sometimes with goo-gobs of water. Do this for as long as you can take it; then one or two shots more. Finally, you will yell out "shit! enough!" and make a dripping-wet, penguin-walk scamper for the car.
You will have a juicy backside and booty for the ride home. It feels icky-poo, yet oddly familiar at once (Diaper flashbacks?). :-)) The heater is usually runnin' full blast. But, there will be a slight, Cheshire Cat smile on your face as you drive. That's what you do when you know you "got a good shot."
Should Dad sit in this seat before it dries, well, one can expect another expression altogether.
Challenge courtesy RavenSpiritImages.
Karen and Nick's images are pictured below in first comment section.
Textures -
Pareerica: www.flickr.com/photos/8078381@N03/
Skeletalmess: www.flickr.com/photos/skeletalmess/
Dyrk.Wyst: www.flickr.com/photos/dyrkwyst/
Kerstin Frank: www.flickr.com/photos/kerstinfrank-design/6629417329/in/p...
Saturday Self-Challenge: Photograph something that is "round" and use a square aspect ratio (1:1)
Pour jouer à la pétanque
To play the Pétanque game
These mettalic bowls are used to play Pétanque, which is "the" national French sport, especially in the South of France; Starting from the same place, the game consits for the participants in placing the bowls as close as possible to the goal which is a small wooden ball. These metallic balls are big enough to be adapted to the size of a hand. Hope my explanations are clear enough !!!!
the challenge is to post a photo of yourself wearing nothing...
-no eyelashes, no makeup, etc...
and ofc NO! editing in Photoshop :P have fun
ps.: luna <3
:copyright: Leanne Boulton, All Rights Reserved
Street candid taken in Glasgow, Scotland. It has to be said that the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow does have excellent disabled access and there are ramps either side of the main entrance. This does, however, make for quite an illustrative image though and one I simply had to capture.
Thank you, Alles Klaar, for nominating me! This shoot was loads of fun.. and maybe I went a bit overboard on the water brushes, BUT IT'S FOR A GOOD CAUSE!
I nominate: Nico Time, Anderian Sugarplum, and Nimoe Constantine (and sorry if you already did this -- just let me know and I'll nominate someone else).
For more info on why we are all doing this, follow this link: www.alsa.org/fight-als/ice-bucket-challenge.html
pride of Barbados, Lakeway, TX. Sony A6000 and Micro Nikkor 55/3.5. I have been trying for several weeks to make an acceptable composition of these beautiful but wiry flowers. Inspired by Mustang Koji, I decided to try out my trusty old Micro Nikkor 55/3.5 macro lens on my new Sony A6000. The focal length and close focus were just right to capture a single flower, f/16 to get enough of the flower in focus.
"I'm never sure what's coming next, but I'm an open minded person and I welcome any challenge."
Quote - Sarah Polley
Light is writing on the wall a secret message? ;-))
This image was made for the Kaleidospheres and Kaleifractals Group Challenge #35.
The picture and fractal used together for this Challenge came from Diana Thorold.
Link to the source images and Challenge thread:
www.flickr.com/groups/k-spheres_k-fractals/discuss/721576...
Created for the Award Tree challenge ~ Sweet Summer Art Gala ~
Best on black!
Please visit my Member Highlight Gallery in the Kreative People group
The challenge for this weeks Monday Photo Challenges and Thursday Retreads' was to photograph leaves...no matter what season you're in, capture a picture centered around a leafy theme.
Okay, girls I've got one!!!! He's headed for the hummingbird feeder to drink the nectar. Challenge met!
Explore - August 25, 2007
Bill's Challenge (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lorus_maver/3468205542/) was DEFINITELY a challenge. I decided to give this an impressionistic/abstract approach and leave out the complex detailing that made this even more difficult! LOL
It's going to be in the 90s again today, and already it's been a 'Monday'... my Internet server at home was down and there's a truckload of meetings ahead of me ...
Mercy ... at any rate -- have a great day -- I'm dashing yet again!
finaly i found all the places off the challenge yeahhhh, here part 2 ,tomorrow i will upload part 3 and Friday part 4 ....
>Shock of the New Challenge # 62.0
~ SOTN ~ Seriously, Selfies ~
www.flickr.com/groups/shockofthenew/discuss/7215770119109...
All artwork, including me, by me :-)
Song by Timbuk3
--- "Hey, but where do you go !!! The game is not over yet !! "
----"it's enough! This match is too long, I'm tired and I'm hungry, I'm going home! "
---"But the King will kill you !! "
---"No, I do not think, I did win him a lot of matches, can not do without me! I need a month off, goodbye !"
Created for Artistic Manipulation
Group's MIXMASTER CHALLENGE - Chef: jaci XIII
Here are the ingredients:
~ You must include an image of a city and ...
~ Elements from a chess set (board and/or pieces) and ...
~ A drop shadow or silhouette and ...
~ And an image from outer space (such as a planet) but ...
~ You may NOT use the color red (orange and pink are okay as long as they're clearly not red).
Image created with not my images, the tower is the tower of Pisa, Tuscany, Italy, famous because it hangs from one side. All images are in the public domain, some are taken by Pixabay, other do not remember.
PS For those who wish to know how it ended the story,
I want to hearten the many of you who have feared for the horse's fate.
The King took another horse to replace his favorite who sent on vacation for a month:))
At this point he has created a precedent, so he had to send on vacation also his second horse,:)
Conclusion, all lived happily ever after ......
Thank you for stopping by....
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The Challenge this week was odd numbers, it was an awful wet English week but I took this from my front door, it is an old water tower now converted into flats (apartments), I could just see the odd number of windows and almost through to the other side! thought it looked better in mono! and I didn't get it quite lined up!
My thanks to all who visit and comment.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1Nh5mY9Mww&feature=related - bird songs
Challenge #10 - My challenge was grungy (concept/word - toilet), we changed over to this one. Vintage Findings gave me some tips and techniques to go higher key, desat color, but with a one-color kicker. Then it clicked. I did some grapes on the table real fast, and I had this birdhouse that was a really non-spectacular shot. I processed them back to back and I like both. So, up they go.
I push at my friends...."show me something, teach me something, I can't do this, I can't do that, I wanna do like this." And, i send them images from flickr as illustrations.
I kinda' get a burning brain sensation when I'm learning new stuff. HOWEVER, I CANNOT learn from books or reading. I need a real. live human being to SHOW me something - in real time - then I've learned it. So, she and I sat on the phone, computers in front of us, and worked on stuff and talked.
Vintage helped immensely. Another tool in the belt...:-)
Hey! Where did my borders go? I've kinda' lost my borders
textures by Web Textures: www.webtexture.net/textures/10-scratched-surfaces-textures/
Vintage: www.flickr.com/photos/47537995@N03/6448622727/in/photostream
Zedzap: www.flickr.com/photos/zedzap/6448730295/in/photostream
Raven: www.flickr.com/photos/oldmanofthemountains/6449551197/in/...
1st PK challenge i joined ahehheheh sana MANALO ahahaha!
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Original photo by Sir Boggs Dichoson | PostProcess by Me
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PK BASIC Post Processing Challenge # 26 MerLion Park
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