Hello there, welcome to a bank holiday edition of The Cosmic Photo Challenge, which is inspired by Friday’s prompt; Out in the country.
My trip out to take pictures yesterday wasn’t very well timed, as the weather was just starting to turn (from the glorious sunshine we were treated to all day Saturday) to grey mist and the threat of rain.
Nevertheless, I managed to capture a lot of verdant greenery on the country lanes outside Barnstaple, as the land rises up towards the edge of Exmoor.
And, as a bonus, here’s an effects-laden video I made from a timelapse of my journey home yesterday.
Now let’s see your countryside views…
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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.
Monday morning means it’s time for The Cosmic Photo Challenge to brighten your day, this week with images based on the prompt; Looking through.
I captured some contrasting views of Barnstaple, some of which were looking thru the flowers, allowing me to crowbar in a jangly dream pop classic for good measure.
This one is a bird feeder, in case you’re interested
What did you look through at the weekend?
Come on, show and tell time…
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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, the very best of Mondays to you. Today on The Cosmic Photo Challenge we’re turning our attention upwards again, because this week; The sky’s the limit.
There are a lot of fabulously fluffy cloud formations around at the moment, which have combined rather nicely with a vapour trail in one of my shots. In fact it made such a nice shot, I used it for the cover art on my latest EP*, which you can check out by clicking on the photo in question, or at this link.
What did you see up in the great blue yonder 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.
*BONUS CONTENT
Speaking of new music, here’s another brand spanking new audio visual project I finished just yesterday. I couldn’t begin to guess what musical genre you’d fit this into, but I’ve called it Return Of The Malevolent Seven and it’s a bit of an epic.
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.
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.
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