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Cosmic Photo prompt.

On By dalecooper57In photographyLeave a comment

Good morning, congratulations on making it to the end of another week, your prize is a prompt for The Cosmic Photo Challenge.

I’m taking a risk that the Cosmic weather jinx doesn’t intervene and I’m making this week’s theme; Sunrise/Sunset.

Choose one, choose both, it’s entirely up to you, depending on whether you are a morning or evening person.

Have a great weekend, I’ll see y’all on Monday.

*edit: due to a new work schedule and a very long day driving today, I have been under the impression it was Friday all day, so you all have an extra day’s snapping 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.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Art for art’s sake.

On By dalecooper57In arts, editing and effects, photography7 Comments

Good morning, welcome to The Cosmic Photo Challenge, on a day we’re all about; Art for art’s sake.

I was hoping to take some pictures in the museum at the weekend but it was closed, so I took a walk around town to see what random art I could find.

As it turned out, along with a great mural, I saw some very odd sculptures in a shop window, so I relocated them to the empty pannier market and made my own virtual exhibition.

But the strangest art project by far was my experiments with an AI video generator I found online, called Dream Machine.

The machine takes a single still photo and animates it in line with whatever written prompt you provide it to dream about.

Here are the three photos I gave it to play with…

…and these are the results, along with the words which prompted them:

“The Twin Peaks reunion wasn’t going quite as well as everyone hoped.”
“A giant, pink, carnivorous alien flower reaches down from the sky and searches for food.”
“David Lynch was impressed with how many new friends he made after adopting John Justice Wheeler’s style of striped knitwear.”

What artistic treasures did you unearth 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.

On By dalecooper57In photographyLeave a comment

Hello everyone, here’s your prompt for The Cosmic Photo Challenge, on the day that the English “summer” reverted to type with the traditional torrential rain.

It is, of course, up to you whether you venture outside to capture this week’s images, but I’m playing it safe by picking something I can do indoors. So we’ll go with a regular theme which always produces particularly interesting results; Art for art’s sake.

Fingers crossed the sun returns tomorrow, but whatever the weather, have a great weekend and I’ll catch y’all 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: A focal point.

On By dalecooper57In nature photography, photography15 Comments

This week on The Cosmic Photo Challenge we’re looking for something to draw the eye, with the prompt; A focal point.

I chose a mixture of striking individual subjects and the “vanishing points” of perspective found on roads, rivers and bridges.

What did you focus on over 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.

On By dalecooper57In photographyLeave a comment

Another week gone and another prompt on The Cosmic Photo Challenge is here to inspire your weekend.

Today I’d like you to think about; A focal point.

Capture something striking to draw the eye, maybe a distant figure to pique our interest, a light in the darkness, whatever you can find to make the focus of our attention.

Have a great weekend and I’ll be back to compare notes on Monday.

*****

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: Down in the grass.

On By dalecooper57In nature photography, photography15 Comments

Hello, welcome to a low down and deep green edition of The Cosmic Photo Challenge, this week themed around the prompt; Down in the grass.

*edit: please excuse the mysteriously early Sunday post, I was sure I’d scheduled it for Monday as usual.

It was yet another gloriously sunny weekend, making it almost impossible to take a bad picture. So; a variety of grasses and wild flowers with all their different seed heads against a beautiful clear blue sky; plus the neatly mown, dew covered grass of a golf course. By a lake. What’s not to like?

How did your photo grazing go over the weekend?

Come on, join in, it’s so easy…

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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.

On By dalecooper57In photographyLeave a comment

Hello, I hope life finds you well on this sunny Friday evening and you are ready for The Cosmic Photo Challenge to give you your homework.

This week we’re on ground level, because it’s all about getting; Down in the grass.

See what you can do with that and we’ll meet up again on Monday, 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: Morning has broken.

On By dalecooper57In nature photography, photography13 Comments

It’s the second bank holiday edition of The Cosmic Photo Challenge this month and today we’re inspired by the prompt; Morning has broken.

I captured most of my pictures on the country lanes outside the village of Landkey when I took Rhonda to work on Saturday morning. The last shot is from our garden, featuring the clay mushroom cap I made during the week, to sit on the stem of a frost damaged cordyline plant. 

What did you find on your early start 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.

On By dalecooper57In photographyLeave a comment

Hello, once again it’s time for the week’s prod in the direction of creativity, as The Cosmic Photo Challenge inspires you with the prompt; Morning has broken.

So let’s see how the day breaks round your way for Monday’s post.

Have a great weekend, see you 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: Waterways.

On By dalecooper57In nature photography, photography13 Comments

Hello there, I hope the weather was as good for you over the weekend as it was here, it was gorgeous out in the woods capturing images for The Cosmic Photo Challenge yesterday.

Our theme this week is; Waterways, very loosely referring to pretty much any body of water you can think of and I picked one of my favourite local riverside walks.

Trees casting dappled shade made it a pleasantly cool stroll and even though this branch of the river Yeo was at its lowest ebb in the heat, the slowly flowing waters produced some great reflections.

Where did your search for watery inspiration take you 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.