Hello there, I hope you all enjoyed your weekend, I’m looking forward to your contributions for The Cosmic Photo Challenge, based on the prompt; An Easter walk.
I went for a pleasant stroll in the woods just a few minutes from home and followed the river through drifts of wild garlic, celandine and wood anemones.
Now you can show us the scenery on your Easter walk…
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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.
This week on The Cosmic Photo Challenge we’re finally celebrating the arrival of a new season, because; It’s Spring!
I thought I was being hopelessly optimistic when I mentioned “sunshine photos” in Friday’s post, but yesterday was nice enough to sit out in the garden all day. I got out and about while the world was having a Sunday lie-in and captured that unique morning light.
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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.
Hi there, I hope you’ve all had a good weekend and are ready for The Cosmic Photo Challenge, which this week is based around the prompt; Out in the country.
I’ve had a fairly creative couple of days (the result of which can be seen on Return Of The Internet Nobody) and in the process of making the audio visual treats you’ll find over there, I had an idea…
Having shot a long video of a drive in the country (with the camera in a windscreen-mounted holder, safety fans), I realised I could use the frame capture feature to produce photos for today’s challenge.
These were edited for artistic effect, partly because some of them were a little blurred, but they came out surprisingly well.
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Just because I could, I shot a timelapse video of the return journey, shrinking the 20 minute drive down to 35 seconds. This worked fine, but it was very fast and I decided to slow it down with one of my video editing apps, which I noticed had a new “smooth slo-mo” button and I do love a gadget, so…well, of course I tried it.
Now, the feature is supposed to reduce or remove the jerky effect you sometimes get when slowing video right down, by artificially transitioning the frames more smoothly from one to the next.
But the poor old software doesn’t know I’ve given it a timelapse video to smooth out, with maybe a hundred yards traveled in between each individual photo, so it tries as hard as it possibly can to streeeeeeeetchh each frame and join them up.
The resulting warping, concertina effect immediately brought to mind a “boing” noise, so I quickly added an appropriate soundtrack and voila!
What did you capture in the countryside 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.
Hello there, time to start your week with a trip around the world in pictures on The Cosmic Photo Challenge, this week inspired by the prompt; Reflections.
With all the rain we’ve had recently, it wasn’t hard to find reflections (and some nice refraction, too) on a chilly walk around the park yesterday.
How was your weekend? Let’s have a look at your pictures, it really is very easy to join in…
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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 there, I hope your festivities went as planned and you all had a lovely day. As usual we are celebrating Christmas today instead, because Rhonda had a twelve hour shift yesterday, so we’ve just bumped everything up a day.
As a result, I don’t have any “action shots” of Christmas happening, so to speak, but I do have a lot of photos, nonetheless.
I went for a Christmas Eve walk at Watersmeet, which is the National Trust property near Lynton and Lynmouth, an area the Victorians described as “little Switzerland”.
I took so many, most of them form a special post on my other blog which you can peruse HERE, but here’s just a small selection to whet your appetite for the spectacular scenery of Exmoor.
Please go and check out the remaining photos, it really is a beautiful place.
Once again, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you, I look forward to more of your fabulous photos in 2023.
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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.
Bbbrrrrrrrr! It’s f-f-f-f-f-freezing, which I suppose is only right since this week The Cosmic Photo Challenge is inspired by the prompt; The big freeze.
I wrapped up warm and went for a brief and extremely bracing walk yesterday morning, in the unusually snowy countryside just round the corner from home.
This week on The Cosmic Photo Challenge we are remembering the past with an eye on the future, for the prompt; Lest we forget.
I went down to Rock Park in Barnstaple for the annual Remembrance Day service at the war memorial.
How did you mark your memorable 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.
For this week’s theme on The Cosmic Photo Challenge, we’re taking in the beauty of; Sunsets.
I captured my shots on exactly the same spot, at more or less the same time on Saturday and Sunday evening. I’ve taken some artistic liberties with last night’s, because why not?
Now let’s see your sundowners.
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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.
I was fully expecting a weekend of dreary weather, as per the forecast, hence the theme on The Cosmic Photo Challenge this week being based on the prompt; As summer fades.
But nature confounded satellite technology once again, with very pleasant weather on both days, including this fabulous Exmoor sunrise, from early yesterday morning after taking Rhonda to work.
Maybe there’s hope for summer, yet.
How did your mission to capture the changing seasons go?
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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 a bank holiday Monday edition of The Cosmic Photo Challenge, inspired by the prompt; In the evening.
I captured my twilight images on the way to collect Rhonda from work, including a brief visit to the Millennium Green at Landkey, just before 7 last night.
How did you fare in your search for some enchanted evening..?
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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.
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