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Cosmic Photo prompt.

On By dalecooper57In photography5 Comments

For your prompt on The Cosmic Photo Challenge this week, I’m returning to a favourite subject, since they have begun to look rather lovely again recently; In the trees.

I hope you enjoy your time seeking out some arboreal delights for Monday’s post, 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: Faces.

On By dalecooper57In editing and effects, photography18 Comments

On Friday, for this week’s optical adventure on The Cosmic Photo Challenge, I asked you to consider the prompt; Faces.

I experimented with interesting ways of using the panoramic feature on my phone’s camera, giving some rather unusual results.

Each of these was taken using a single exposure.

Do you have anything less nightmare-inducing to share with us?

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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 photography2 Comments

On The Cosmic Photo Challenge this week, I’d like you to show us something which is inspired by the prompt; Faces.

I will leave you to interpret that in whatever way you choose, 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: Public art.

On By dalecooper57In arts, nature photography, photography6 Comments

For your mission on The Cosmic Photo Challenge this week, I asked you to go in search of; Public art.

I gambled on the weather being nice on Sunday and was rewarded, after a drizzly start, with glorious sunshine in which to once again explore Broomhill Sculpture Gardens.

You may remember previous posts from this fantastical, artistical, woodland wonderland, to which I love to periodically return, watching it evolve. I can’t possibly fit all the photos I took yesterday in this post, so watch out for the full set on another blog not too far away, coming soon.

How did your art safari go at the weekend? Show us the results and share the love, it’s easy when you know how…

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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 photography2 Comments

It’s a rather grey Saturday morning and, as I wait to see if the weather is going to improve, I’ll give you your prompt for The Cosmic Photo Challenge which this week is; Public art.

Now, I don’t have a specific idea in mind just yet, but I was telling someone about Damien Hirst’s Verity statue in Ilfracombe the other day when the idea for a theme occurred to me. I think most of us have access to municipal art and sculpture these days, (murals, statues, mosaics, street art, etc) so it would be interesting to see what local examples of publicly displayed art you have round your way.

Good luck with your weekend photographic homework, I’ll be back for a show and tell with the whole class on Monday, have a good couple of days off.

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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: Three views from one spot.

On By dalecooper57In editing and effects, nature photography, photography14 Comments

Welcome to an Easter bank holiday edition of The Cosmic Photo Challenge, this week themed around my last minute prompt idea; Three views from one spot.

I chose to climb one particular hill overlooking Barnstaple to take my trio of pictures, as it currently has a bright yellow coating of rapeseed flowers. In fact I took two sets while I was up there, the first three of which make up one composite image.

This complete 360° view is created by carefully overlapping three panoramic shots, taken in different directions from the same vantage point.

The second set of three were taken further up the track towards that phone mast in the distance, once again all captured while standing on one spot.

Hmm, I wonder what happens when you take a panoramic shot vertically…

Was three the magic number for you this week? Let’s see what you came up with.

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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 photography3 Comments

Oops, the holiday has already made me forget what day it is and I’m once again late to give you your inspiration for The Cosmic Photo Challenge this week, my apologies.

Ok then, over the Easter weekend I’d like you to provide us with images which illustrate the theme; Three views from one spot.

How’s that for a spur of the moment idea?

So, all you have to do for this week’s prompt is to take three different photos while standing (sitting, kneeling, crouching, lying, etc) in one particular place, giving you the full 360° field of view from your observation point to choose from.

I think this could be an interesting experiment in imagination and creativity, so get your photographic thinking caps on and see what you can come up with over the holiday break.

Have fun doing whatever you have planned for the next couple of days and I’ll see you all soon.

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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: On the shore.

On By dalecooper57In nature photography, photography17 Comments

On The Cosmic Photo Challenge this week, I asked you to capture your images; On the shore.

After over 20 years living in North Devon, I finally made my first trip to a hidden Victorian gem, Tunnel Beaches in Ilfracombe.

Accessed by an unassuming white tunnel entrance just a few minutes walk from the high street, these beaches were opened in the early 1800s with the two naturally separated coves enabling ladies and gentlemen to bathe with their modesty intact. The gentlemen’s beach was in use for a wedding yesterday, so I took a stroll around the rugged landscape of the ladies beach and made a video tour, accompanied by an extract from a recently composed piece of appropriately watery ambient electronica*.

Where did your search for the water’s edge take you at the weekend? Let’s have a look at your pictures…

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*{Should you wish to experience the full version of this new track, along with it’s own, strangely mesmerizing video, you can do so HERE}

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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 photography5 Comments

This week on The Cosmic Photo Challenge, I’m going to place my trust in the weather and try to capture some more photos; On the shore.

I will add the same caveat to this as I did the last time we had a similar theme, by saying that for the purpose of the prompt, “shore” refers to the ocean, lakes, ponds, pools, rivers, streams, lagoons or even puddles if you so wish.

Just as long as your pictures are somehow related to the edge of a body of water, that’s all they need to qualify for the challenge.

Have a lovely weekend, cross your fingers for good weather and we’ll all meet back here on Monday, cheers.

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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: In bloom.

On By dalecooper57In nature photography, photography23 Comments

This week’s prompt for The Cosmic Photo Challenge was an optimistic one for some of you, I know, due to all that pesky geography and those inconsiderate local seasons, for which I can only apologise. ;~}

But for those of us fortunate enough to be entering the beginning of the end of the beginning of Spring, a lot of the world is at last; In bloom.

I returned once more to Marwood Hill Gardens just outside Barnstaple (and you can see my full collection of photos HERE); where their internationally renowned camellia collection was still in spectacular flower, along with magnolias and rhododendrons, under-planted with swathes of daffodils, anemones and hellebores.

So, what’s bursting forth in your part of the world at the moment? Time to let the rest of us see what you have for show and tell…

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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.