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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.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: More than the sum of its parts.

On By dalecooper57In photography12 Comments

Hello, welcome to Monday and this week’s edition of The Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Today is all about making an image which is; More than the sum of its parts.

I went for a walk in the sunshine yesterday and came across a cornfield.

Do you ever wonder what might be going on, in amongst all those tightly packed rows of plants…?

What did your weekend add up to?

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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, photography15 Comments

It’s Monday again and time to get creative for The Cosmic Photo Challenge, because this week’s theme is; Art for art’s sake.

I always enjoy a bit of mucking about, so I spent a couple of very pleasant, zen-like hours yesterday, making this single composite image.

Where did your artistic muse take 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.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Little and large.

On By dalecooper57In photography15 Comments

A new week brings a new Cosmic Photo Challenge and today’s theme is; Little and large.

As you’ll see from this post, I returned home to Sussex for a flying visit last week, where I found some large towers in the countryside and some very small sculptures on a friend’s mantlepiece.

How did your search for extremes of size develop?

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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 best of ’22.

On By dalecooper57In arts, editing and effects, photography11 Comments

Only two more prompts for The Cosmic Photo Challenge to go this year, so I thought it was time for us to review; The best of ’22.

So it’s time to blow our own trumpets, showcase our best bits, play favourites and glow with inner pride as we look back at some of the images we were especially pleased with over the last twelve months.

These could be photos you’ve already shared as part of the challenge, or maybe you’ve never taken part before and have hundreds to choose from!

Maybe you didn’t have room in previous challenges or you just have pictures from this year which deserve our attention, well then now’s your chance to shine.

My personal criteria for inclusion of my images in today’s post was more…esoteric, shall we say, in that mine were chosen as part of the creative process known technically as “mucking about”.

Here is my artistic representation of my photographic year, 2022

16 images were used to create this collage, how many can you spot?

What were your finest moments this year?

Come on, don’t be shy…

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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, photography15 Comments

This week on The Cosmic Photo Challenge we’re getting creative, with the theme; Art for art’s sake.

My avantgarde extravaganza was inspired by this fern fossil we found in a slab of sandstone in the garden.

I’d recently managed to remove a larger section of the top layer of stone, revealing more of the pristine patterns beneath and this photo became the basis for a composition made up of (I think) 19 separate images.

Where did your creative muse take 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.

The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Spooky.

On By dalecooper57In editing and effects, photography13 Comments

Happy Halloween from The Cosmic Photo Challenge, with this week’s pictures themed around the prompt; Spooky.

I didn’t have the opportunity to capture anything sinister, so I went for a walk in the rainy woods and messed about with the results in various unsettling ways.

See how many eldritch interlopers you can spot in these three enchanted images

How did your creative inspiration strike you over this all hallows 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: In the clouds.

On By dalecooper57In editing and effects, photography11 Comments

I set the theme of today’s Cosmic Photo Challenge on Friday, thinking it was just the right time of year for all sorts of attractive and interesting formations In the clouds, but it was not to be.

There wasn’t a cloud in the sky all day on Saturday and yesterday it was dull, grey and overcast.

So I did some mucking about instead.

Did you have any better luck capturing meteorological phenomenon 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.

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.