Author: dalecooper57

dalecooper57 may or may not necessarily be my real name, although I couldn't swear to it. An aging hippy living in Devon, I do all this stuff (and I do mean everything - blog, animation, music, photography, the lot) on my lovely smartphone because I started like that, and now I'm too stubborn to get a computer. I don't have a theme, because I don't see why I'd want to talk about the same thing all the time, so why only write about one thing? So if you like eclecticism, humour, nonsense, opinionated ranting, and occasionally educational stuff, you've come to the right place. Any and all feedback is welcome, both positive and negative, on the content, style and overall look of the blog. You keep following me, I'll keep telling you stuff, ok? Cheers, dalecooper57

Cosmic Photo prompt.

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For this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge I’d like you to capture images for another round of; Three shots from one spot.

If you haven’t played this game before, it’s very simple; all you have to do this week is take three photos (or sets of three if you like) while standing in the same place, or at least in the same location.

So you have an unlimited range of subject matter, you just have to know where to stand.

Have a great weekend, see you on Monday.

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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.

Tag your posts with  #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, 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.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Music on film.

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It’s a trawl through the archives this week on The Cosmic Photo Challenge, after a bout of festival nostalgia inspired me to set the prompt as; Music on film.

Here’s a small selection of the many images of musical folk I’ve captured over the years.

Where did your musical muse lead you at the weekend?

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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.

Tag your posts with  #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, 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.

Cosmic Photo prompt.

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Hello, sorry I’m late, but here I am to give you your latest mission on The Cosmic Photo Challenge.

This week I’ve been hearing a lot about Glastonbury on the radio and it has given me a bad case of music festival withdrawal. So while I search for a local event to attend this summer, I will content myself with revisiting previous communal terpsichorean experiences.

To this end, I’m setting the theme for Monday’s challenge as; Music on film.

Now, if this requires you to rifle through your archives to find something apposite, be my guest, that’s exactly what I’ll be doing. But obviously, if you do happen upon some new musical imagery, don’t hesitate to snap it up.

Have a great weekend, see y’all soon.

*****

To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.

Tag your posts with  #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, 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.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Summer views.

On By dalecooper57In nature photography, photography11 Comments

Well, didn’t that weekend go by quickly?

Anyway, since we’re all here and it’s apparently Monday again, let’s get on with The Cosmic Photo Challenge and have a look at your; Summer views.

As it turned out, the weather was just starting to change as I went out taking pictures yesterday morning (there was a thunder storm later), but it is summer and these were the views I had as I walked along the river from Fremington Quay.

Where did your photographic wanderings take you for the challenge this week..?

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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.

Tag your posts with  #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, 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.

Cosmic Photo prompt.

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Happy Friday, everyone, I’m here to give a bit of direction in this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge, by providing you with the simple prompt; Summer views.

Fingers crossed the good weather continues, hope you all have a great weekend.

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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.

Tag your posts with  #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, 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.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: The great wide open.

On By dalecooper57In editing and effects, nature photography, photography15 Comments

I thought the weather was turning against me at the weekend and getting out into The great wide open might have been more of a Cosmic Photo Challenge than usual, but yesterday the sun returned after a foggy start at the local vineyard.

By one o’clock it was roasting hot and I drove up to the wind farm on top of the river valley, where panoramas really are the only way to do the view justice. I was rather pleased with capturing four moving turbines in a single long exposure shot, plus I caught a couple of nice reflections.

Where in the great outdoors did you seek inspiration at the weekend..?

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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.

Tag your posts with  #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, 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.

Cosmic Photo prompt.

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Fingers crossed the weather stays nice this weekend, because The Cosmic Photo Challenge is going out into; The great wide open.

Sometimes it’s nice to get out where you can see the whole sky for a change, really feel the space around you, which is the feeling I’d like your images to evoke for Monday’s post.

Have a great weekend, enjoy the great outdoors.

*****

To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.

Tag your posts with  #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, 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.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Fun in the sun.

On By dalecooper57In editing and effects, photography12 Comments

Good day to you, wherever you may be, I hope you managed to have Fun in the sun at the weekend, to give you material for The Cosmic Photo Challenge today.

I took a walk around the local funfair, which has been in town for a couple of weeks, to try some experiments with long exposure pictures of the various spinning and undulating rides.

Also, because music is never far away from my weekend itinerary, I used a timelapse video of the fairground to provide a visual accompaniment to one of yesterday’s peculiar sonic adventures.

Now let’s have a look at your fun weekend…

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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.

Tag your posts with  #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, 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.

Cosmic Photo prompt.

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Happy Friday, everyone, it’s time once again for your prompt in the direction of The Cosmic Photo Challenge.

This week we’re going out looking for; Fun in the sun.

However your camera eye sees that is fine by me and I look forward to checking out the results on Monday.

Have a great weekend. Later, gators.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: I’ll see you in the trees.

On By dalecooper57In arts, editing and effects, nature photography, photography18 Comments

Hello there, welcome to this week’s special bank holiday Monday multimedia bonus edition of The Cosmic Photo Challenge, which today is inspired by the prompt; I’ll see you in the trees.

Our run of extraordinarily fine weather in the UK continued right through the weekend, so early yesterday morning I took tranquil walk around Venn Quarry Woods in the already warm summer sunshine.

You, too can enjoy a moment of peace and quiet in this woodland wonderland, complete with relaxing birdsong, via the embedded Instagram player below.

*BONUS CONTENT*

I had quite a musical weekend (what with the release of my new album of original material), including making this glitchy electronica audio-visual piece, incorporating the birds of Venn Quarry Woods on vocals.

I’m sure you have some tree-mendous photos to fit the bill, so why not join in, it couldn’t be easier…

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To get involved with the challenge; check out the Cosmic Photo Prompt each Friday, then post a photo (or photos) on your blog the following Monday, with a pingback link to my Monday post.

Tag your posts with  #CosPhoChal.

Any and all effects, editing, Photoshop, Instagram, morphing, collages, animation, gifs, 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.