For this week on K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge I asked you all to Showcase yourself and give us some of your greatest hits to inspire our collective creativity.
I chose to follow my own suggestions; I searched through the last twelve of months of photos to see what jumped out at me; picked another shot which I’ve always been really pleased with and added a few others that fall broadly into the “mucking about” category.
The image from this year that caught my eye wasn’t a hugely spectacular or technically complicated one, but the composition is nicely balanced and it’s a great shot of Audrey from one of our cycling/photography outings in the summer.
I have taken a lot photos of birds in flight, capturing action shots of gulls and ducks feeding at our local wildfowl reserve, which is where I took this second picture a few years ago and it’s one I am still rather proud of.
Which brings us to a more adventurous form of the photographic art; my experiments with digital editing and manipulation from over the years.
Try not to have nightmares…
K’lee’s selection is bound to be simply the best and is now HERE for your perusal.
But now we’d love to see what you have cherry picked from your archives for us.
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To get involved with the challenge, post a photo to your blog on Monday, (or just, you know, whenever) add a pingback to this post (or to K’lee’s) and don’t forget to tag your post #CosPhoChal.
Alternatively, add a link to your blog in the comments of either mine or K’lee’s post and we’ll come and check out your entry.
Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages or whatever other post production techniques you fancy are permitted, (in fact, they’re actively encouraged!) so get creative and turn your photos into artworks for the Cosmic Photo Challenge.
#CosPhoChal
Your editing is off the chain, dude…
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Thanks, man
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Looking at some of these makes me think of an acid trip (not that I’ve ever had one), especially the one with all the eyes. You continue to amaze me.
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Hahaha, well, having had more than a few myself, I’d say you’re right. ;~}
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I am really impressed, the ones of Audrey are lovely, and the bird too. The special effects ones are quite spectacular 💜💜
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Thank you, Willow, I do get rather carried away with editing sometimes. ;~}
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Absolutely brilliant 💜
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I like the wingspan on the bird (gull) arching over the brown vegetation. I also like how you presented the decorations on both sides of Audrey’s face in one photograph.
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Thanks, Frank, I like that one of Audrey’s face paint too.
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Some of your pics really seem like nightmares (artistic ones, though).
I’m not very good with animals in the wild, I lack the patience and to some extent the equipment. Therefore I am really chuffed when I do capture the odd bird or other animal. Playing around with the result is fun: https://picturesimperfectblog.wordpress.com/2019/12/09/17945/
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Thank you. I have no equipment other than my phone, it’s mostly right place, right time.
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The circular eyes in front of the tree branches makes me think of a creature in a sci fi show. Now I’m trying work out what show.
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Noyhing very exciting from me. In the end I went with a review of 4 decades of taking photos:
https://davidmsphotoblog.com/2019/12/09/cosmic-photo-challenge-showcase-yourself/
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Great, I wish I could do that!
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What is it you’d like to be able to do?
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To edit pictures and create pieces of art like this.
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Thank you. It isn’t as difficult as it may seem. Most of them are made “manually” with a lot of fingertip erasing and careful placement, as opposed to using fancy software. Lots of patience, basically. ;~}
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Thanks! It is the patience, I guess….
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