Today on The Cosmic Photo Challenge I’d like you to consider the prompt; Less is more.
Make of that what you will and I’ll admire your minimal images on Monday.
Have a great weekend, happy snapping.
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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.
Another week dawns and another edition of The Cosmic Photo Challenge rises from the ashes of the weekend to brighten your Monday.
Good morning everyone, I hope your day is going well so far and you’re ready to face the challenge of the prompt; Woodland winter.
I took a very pleasant, if slightly soggy walk, through the woods around the soon to be developed Venn Quarriesjust outside Barnstaple.
The river was pretty swollen by the recent heavy rain and I managed to capture a few long exposure shots of the swirly currents, giving the water an ethereal, misty effect, along with some super slo-mo clips of waterfalls, which you can see in the short video tour below.
ended up with too many shots to choose between, so I have posted the entire gallery on my other blog and you can see them allHERE}
Now it’s time to see images of your own winter woodland wonderlands, I can’t wait to see what you have for 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.
Honestly, I will remember to post your prompt for The Cosmic Photo Challenge on a Friday eventually, but apparently not this week. ;~}
Anyway, now I’m finally here, I’ll tell you that today I’m asking you to find some images which illustrate the theme; Woodland winter.
I’m sure many of you will be able to furnish us with suitably seasonal pictures of snowy scenes, although I suspect my own offerings will be of the wet variety, since the weekend weather doesn’t look too promising here.
But whatever you manage to capture, we’ll all be here to enjoy the results on Monday. Have a nice couple of days off and I’ll see you on the other side.
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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, one and all, to the very first reveal post of 2022 on The Cosmic Photo Challenge, which today is themed around the prompt; Starting afresh.
A pretty broad brush with which to create our photographic masterpieces and I chose to take my first stroll of the year round Rock Park yesterday, later than planned as it began to bucket down with rain just as I was leaving.
However, that downpour provided some perfect stretches of standing water, all the better for catching reflections. I also captured some fresh paint and some not so fresh…
How was your start to the new year, show us your inaugural images and let us all share in your creativity.
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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 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.
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.
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.
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