Hello and a happy 2022 to you all, I hope your celebrations haven’t left you too fragile this morning and that you’re ready for a new round of The Cosmic Photo Challenge.
I’m going to make it an easy one for our first post-festivities prompt and give us plenty of room for creative manoeuvre with the theme; Starting afresh.
See you on Monday for the unveiling of the start of another year’s worth of fabulous photos. Enjoy the rest of your break, stay safe, get boosted, start as you mean to go on.
Peace.
X
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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.
Good morning, welcome to the final installment of The Cosmic Photo Challenge for 2021, I hope you all had a lovely time over the festive weekend and are ready to; Show us your Christmas.
I have gone completely over the top with my closing contribution for the year, by creating a multimedia extravaganza for your viewing and listening pleasure.
I spent a considerable amount of time over the last few days composing, producing, editing and mixing an epic wall of sound masterpiece, which then of course required a suitably extraordinary video to accompany it. But what could I use for the raw material..?
We had a split celebration this year, as Rhonda was working a twelve hour shift on the 25th; so Audrey and I had Christmas Day part one on our own. She opened gifts from a friend in America, we watched a movie with homemade popcorn and had a lazy day filled with food and the sound of Audrey talking to her new friend, Alexa.
We did Christmas properly on Boxing Day, when Rhonda had a rare couple of days off, complete with a second burst of presents, all the food, crackers, silly hats and yes, even a Christmas jumper…
Anyway, I’d taken this 18 second timelapse of Audrey disemboweling her first batch of presents…
…which I thought would make as good a starting point as any for my video editing project.
So, after many, many hours of layering, FX, more layering, more editing, more FX and even more layering, that 18 seconds of my daughter making a mess with wrapping paper turned into the mind-bending, eyeball-popping, trance-inducing epic which appears in the player below.
{Nothing else apart from that initial short clip was involved in the creation of the final product, only my excessive use of mucking about and digital fiddling}
This and the original version of my track, Aypeks, will soon be available for purchase on my Bandcamp profile, but for now, turn up the volume and strap yourselves in for the Extreme Funk Makeover Mix.
Enjoy.
Now let’s see what you did over the holidays…
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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.
Good evening, everybody, I hope all your preparations are complete and you can now relax into the holidays with your families and loved ones.
Should you wish to capture and share the festivities in your part of the world, you can do so as part of this week’s yuletide prompt; Show us your Christmas.
All that remains is for me to once again wish you the very warmest compliments of the season and I look forward to seeing you all on the other side.
A very merry Christmas, stay safe, get boosted, be good to one another.
Peace.
X
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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.
Hello, it’s Monday again and time for The Cosmic Photo Challenge, which this week is designed for you to show us something you liked about your photography this year, using the prompt; Your best bits.
I chose to spend some time mucking about with a random selection of shots from the last twelve months, starting with a simple photo of a quiet Barnstaple street and ending up with, well, this…
What were your highlights this year, now is your chance to shine…
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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.
Good morning, greetings from the penultimate prompt for The Cosmic Photo Challenge of 2021, which today will be themed around the idea of; Your best bits.
Yes, it’s time for our round up of your favourite photos, impressively inspired images and championship shots of the year.
Maybe you have some pictures which didn’t fit any of the prompts, but you’d like to showcase them just because you like them. Perhaps you’d like to revisit something from earlier in the year, or maybe there were just too many to choose from and now’s your chance to post them anyway.
Whatever you decide, give it your best shot, so to speak and show us what you’re most proud of, because on Monday anything goes.
Have a great weekend, stay safe, wear a mask, get boosted.
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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.
A very happy Monday to you, one and all, from The Cosmic Photo Challenge‘s Christmas grotto of festive images, themed today around the prompt; ‘Tis the season.
For my contribution, here are a few photos of our tree and some illuminated decorations in the dark, with which I did a spot of light painting, inspired by last week’s traffic trails.
How are your holiday preparations coming along, can we have a look..?
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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.
Right, this is the fifth time I’ve started to post today’s prompt for The Cosmic Photo Challenge and only the first time I haven’t been sidetracked into doing something else, so I apologise for my extra lateness.
I think we’re close enough now to the holidays to start sharing our respective festive spirits, so the theme for Monday’s post is; ‘Tis the season.
Have you got your tree up yet? Do you have a picturesque snowy landscape outside your window? Do you make your own decorations..?
Let’s fill next week with sparkle and glitter, before we do an annual roundup of the photographic best bits of 2021 in the final two posts of the year.
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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.
Good morning, I hope you’re all refreshed after a couple of days break and ready to face another round of The Cosmic Photo Challenge, this week themed around the prompt; A cold start.
I gave Rhonda a lift to work at 6.30 yesterday morning, so it was still pitch dark (and appropriately, bloody freezing) when I went looking for inspiration, above and beside the roads just outside Barnstaple.
I took several long exposures from bridges and lay-bys, of car headlights passing in the slowly lightening gloom of dawn.
Where did you find your chilled images at the weekend, can we have a look..?
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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.
Welcome to another rather late prompt for The Cosmic Photo Challenge, which today is themed around the idea of; A cold start.
I don’t think that requires much imagination at this time of year, (yes, hello Southern hemisphere, I already see you raising your hand, but I’m sure you can come up with something inspired, all the same) so I look forward to seeing some chilly images for the undoubtedly cold start to next week.
Stay warm in the meantime, have a great weekend and I’ll see you 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.
For this week’s mission on The Cosmic Photo Challenge, I asked you to get creative and fulfill the theme of; Art for art’s sake.
Absolute carte blanche to do whatever you like, basically, as all art is subjective and if you say it’s art, then that’s what it is.
I went with a composite image; see if you can spot the elements of 10 previous challenge submissions I’ve added to this autumn scene, including a couple of local graffiti characters I released into the park, from their home in a pedestrian underpass.
Where did your imagination take you today..?
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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 