K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Time to start the week with K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge, although not in quite the same way I originally had in mind.

It looks like I might have spoken too soon when I set the prompt; A hint of Spring, because the snow returned in full force at the weekend, covering all the newly-bloomed Spring flowers in the garden and carried on right through until Sunday night.

The gnome house had a new roof and the daffodils looked a bit worse for wear…

…but I thought even their wilting blooms could add a suitable splash of colour to some artistic creations I made from the snow covered trees that overhang the garden.

After all that digital mucking about, I got absorbed in the creative process and ended up making several more, two of which appear here.

You’ll be able to see the rest over at Photo Sans Frontiers, and don’t forget to check out K’lee’s post HERE.

But now, were there any signs of Spring where you live?

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To get involved with the challenge, post a photo to your blog on Monday, 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

March 19, 2018 10

K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

A new week brings a new batch of pictures in K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge, this week with a prompt chosen by me; Man made meets Mother Nature.

I went looking for inspiration along the river, picking the imposing industrial forms of the electricity pylons as a theme and finding a few other examples of manufactured objects living, with greater or lesser success, in the wild:

Then I was struck by the artistic possibilities of the pylons’ geometric designs and made these two rather pretty composite images to round off today’s post.

You can see what treasures K’lee found for us, HERE, and they’re gorgeous

Now it’s your chance to flaunt it, so show us watcha got…

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To get involved with the challenge, post a photo to your blog on Monday, 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.

#CosPhoChal

November 13, 2017 7

Visible vibes.

Over the last week, I have once again been messing around with my music apps; Oscilab, the loop maker and sequencer on my phone, combined with a beta-test version of the Poweramp music player on my tablet, which includes a new “visualisation” feature.

This transforms any audio signal played through it into a complex and synchronised series of patterns which are unique to each sound, allowing you to “see” the music.

Like, far out, man.

Unfortunately there is no way to save the resulting psychedelic visual display, unless you get creative and improvise a little, of course.

So I built myself a studio in the airing cupboard; a black box with my tablet lying in the bottom of it and a sheet of glass on top with my phone on top of that.

Then, with my phone camera turned on, all I needed to do was line up my tablet in the video viewfinder, press play on the tablet and record on the camera, then close the door and wait for my latest musical creation to finish playing.

Once I have video of the unique patterns produced by my new tune, all that remains is for me to edit the video to the exact length of the audio track, (cutting out me turning on the tablet and removing any blank screen from the end) remove the sound from the raw video, dub the music back over the edited footage and; Voila! another masterpiece.

I’m not one for leaving an idea alone, once I’ve convinced myself of its brilliance, so I ended up making four new electronic soundscapes in the last few days, all with their own trippy visual accompaniment.

I’m posting one of the most melodic and chilled-out numbers here, which I’ve called The Glimmering, but you can also find it, along with all the rest of this week’s audio output (plus one earlier attempt) on my new page, Sound and vision: The Oscilab project, via that link or the drop-down menu at the top of the page.

I hope you enjoy the soothing tones of this adventure in electronic psychedelia and when you’ve sampled its peculiar delights, why not visit the new page for yourselves and check out the rest of my collection.

October 5, 2017 3

K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Apologies for the late post, I’m on holiday this week and had no reason to get up early.

But I haven’t been idle; I went for a bracing, autumnal walk in the park his morning, to capture some images for today’s edition of K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Photo Challenge, the theme of which is; Autumn.