CREATIVE ARTS WEEKEND
PLEASE POST YOUR CREATIVE EFFORTS.
IF YOU HAVE A PAINTING, A DRAWING, A PHOTOGRAPH, OR YOU HAVE WRITTEN A POEM, OR RECORDED AN ORIGINAL PIECE OF MUSIC, POST THEM!
RED BOX RULES: AN IMPORTANT REMINDER
From time-to-time, I should remind all members of NT, etc., that when posting photos, artwork, etc., it's important, when posting, that you own, and/or legally represent the licensing, copyright, etc., of what you post, and TO PROTECT YOUR WORK, TO INCLUDE YOUR COPYRIGHT SYMBOL/INFORMATION; and/or, WHEN POSTING COPYRIGHTED PROPERTY BELONGING TO PARTIES OTHER THAN YOURSELF, TO …
• BE SURE YOU HAVE PERMISSION TO POST, TRANSMIT, etc, SUCH PROPERTY, and,
• IF/WHEN SUCH PERMISSION HAS BEEN GRANTED, TO PROPERLY AND CLEARLY ATTRIBUTE THE COPYRIGHTS TO THEIR RIGHTFUL OWNER(S).
VERY IMPORTANT … IN THE FUTURE, I WILL REMEMBER TO POST THIS CAVEAT REGULARLY.
Thanks, A. MAC
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Getting an early start. Who doesn't love an extra-long weekend?
Roses & Bird Bath (© G.Gam)
Ooooooo... very painterly. Love the pops of color!
Thanks!
Lovely photo, and I see you've added a frame (which, IMO, can enhance a photo).
Thank you.
bing image generator /lunapic
halloween sky
That is similar to a series I created from photos I took, not AI generated. This is one of them --
(© G.Gam)
cool
Wow they look so similar.
Do great minds think alike?
Okay, if orange is the colour of the day...
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Really nice, John! Very artistic.
Quite effective.
Still trying to tame the wild Nikon. Here's some stuff from my little patio. (Yeah, I've been feeding the critters.)
Good catches.
Here's one I captured this morning.
They didn't make it to the World Series this year.
I like the local marsupial a lot, but I especially like the fourth photo with the blurred effect. Very nice.
Looks like lens choice to me...
bing image creator - halloween 1910
What did you do to my heirloom sheet?
Somewhat reminiscent of a Norman Rockwell painting.
i asked the bing image creator to do it in a norman rockwell style
Gulls
Worth two in the bush.
I like it!
the social hierarchy of seagulls ...
That's a great photo!
Cool, dev.
Best comment IMO that I've ever seen you post , especially since it's a whole bunch of posts.
thanks!
No vote up or thanks for my voting up your post(s) and my compliment?
Morning...dumb question..why do you have a fence along the beach?
... to keep dipshits from driving into the ocean. that picture was taken on the US gulf coast where there's no shortage ...
Fair dinkum??
In that case I would let them do it and thin the herd...
Why ruin a perfectly good beach with a fugly fence..
Do that here and there would be a riot..🤣
welcome to america. half the country is too stupid to keep from trying to kill themselves and taking everybody along with them, and the other half writes laws trying to keep those genetic defects from doing it. it's time to change "survival of the fittest" to the newer survival of the mentally fittest, this whole freedom to be stupid concept will be the death of us all ...
🤣🤣🤣 best laugh I have had all day..
Dumb answer: Generally speaking, fences have one of either of these two functions, either to keep people (and or animals) in-- or to keep them out!
Of course occasionally there are exceptions (where the construction of a fence is intended to serve both purposes).
Those are great.
Birds On A Wire (© G.Gam)
Birds On A Wire 2.0 (© G.Gam)
My wife took this shot. I did the edit.
That's really nice. Moody and evocative, in a way.
Not on a wire, but I like the image. It's one of my older shots with my first digital.
Electrifying!
And it's even (kinda) orange.
Alfred HItchcock or Leonard Cohen via Johnny Cash?
AI touch up, but that's exactly what he and his brother look like.
Striking. Are his eyes really that green?
Pretty close! But not that bright
Mesmerizing.
Just an odd bunch of photos taken in China over the years.
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Nice group of photos.
Thanks.
Very nice. Well done.
Is the seventh photo with the heart border someone you know?
Thanks. No, I didn't realize they were hearts - I just chose a colour matching frame. It's more and more necessary these days for me to get Lasik eye surgery.
Nice photo s - particularly liked the stone frogs and turtle !!
Yeah, they are kind of unusual.
Those choice of those two animals is not random . I immediately recognized them as being important symbols in the ancient art (science?) of #FengShui!
Feng Shui: Turtle
Feng Shui: Frog
What do you think the significance is of placing the stone items in the creek?
Good for you for picking up on that!
A lot of Chinese philosophy, including TCM (AKA "Traditional Chinese Medicine") is based on "Chi"-- the "Universal Life Force". And those (Chinese) systems say there are 5 types of Chi -- each is one of the 5 elements (Earth, Fire, Water, Metal, and Wood).
The idea is that when all 5 types of Chi are balanced there is harmony.
And that harmony can be in a human body (that's when there's health). Or a balance of Chi in a building, etc (That's done via Feng Shui).
There can be imbalances within the 5 types of Chi. A state of disharmony when the Chi isn't flowing freely-- or flowing too much.
The importance of the water in this picture is that its moving. Moving Water = flowing Chi. Stagnant water equals to stagnant Chi.
And the significance here is that the flowing water strengthens ("tonifies") the energy of those two (positive) animals!
In western esoteric systems we use 4 elements: Air, Fire, Earth, and Water, (For example in Western Astrology the sign of Aquarius is an Air sign . . .)
My sun sign is Aquariius.
Thanks everyone. Closing up now. See you next time.