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Sailing the Caribbean

© A. Mac/A.G.


Making up for lost time so-to-speak


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A. Macarthur
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1  author  A. Macarthur    2 years ago

First-things-First; Check the article at the link below.

 
 
 
shona1
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1.1  shona1  replied to  A. Macarthur @1    2 years ago

Arvo Mac...

Reminds me of Rod Stewart's song..sailing..

I am sailing 

I am sailing

Home again 

Across the sea...⛵

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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1.2  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  A. Macarthur @1    2 years ago

Nice sailing shot.  It makes me realize that I should not have filled the photo so much with the boat as I did in this shot I took of a boat in the Ottawa River behind Canada's Parliament Buildings.

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The only time I was on a sailboat that wasn't moored was when I was in a small boat on Biscayne Bay at Miami.  We stopped a liner by sailing in front of it - who knew the rules of the sea back then?  .

 
 
 
Kavika
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2  Kavika     2 years ago

In 1983 Red and I spent two weeks on the Yankee Clipper sailing from Fort de Frace Martinique to the Grenadines and most islands between the two. She is a 199-foot schooner with no engine everything is done by hand and sail. 24 customers and 28 crew. It was a glorious two weeks. 

We sailed into Marigot Bay in Saint Lucia where Doctor Doolittle was filmed and we had a steel band come on the boat. They were supposed to play for a couple of hours and at 2 am in the morning they were still there and we were still dancing to Bob Marley. Great memories.

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Buzz of the Orient
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2.1  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Kavika @2    2 years ago

Fantastic.

 
 
 
Gsquared
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3  Gsquared    2 years ago

Boston Rainbow

©  G. Gam

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Buzz of the Orient
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3.1  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Gsquared @3    2 years ago

A great combo.

 
 
 
Gsquared
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3.1.1  Gsquared  replied to  Buzz of the Orient @3.1    2 years ago

Thanks, Buzz.

 
 
 
Gsquared
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4  Gsquared    2 years ago

My exceptionally talented wife created this origami butterfly and placed it on a wreath that she also created.

©  G. Gam

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shona1
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4.1  shona1  replied to  Gsquared @4    2 years ago

Arvo G.... absolutely stunning and you have a very talented wife..

 
 
 
Gsquared
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4.1.1  Gsquared  replied to  shona1 @4.1    2 years ago

Thank you very much, Shona.   She is very talented and I am extremely proud of her.

 
 
 
A. Macarthur
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4.2  author  A. Macarthur  replied to  Gsquared @4    2 years ago

These are quite powerful and aesthetically compelling! Beautifully done!

 
 
 
Gsquared
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4.2.1  Gsquared  replied to  A. Macarthur @4.2    2 years ago

Thank you.  She is working on more and I'm excited to see what she creates next.

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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4.3  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Gsquared @4    2 years ago

She's talented.

 
 
 
Gsquared
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4.3.1  Gsquared  replied to  Buzz of the Orient @4.3    2 years ago

Yes, she is.

 
 
 
Dig
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4.4  Dig  replied to  Gsquared @4    2 years ago

That looks great. 

 
 
 
Gsquared
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4.4.1  Gsquared  replied to  Dig @4.4    2 years ago

Thanks, Dig.

 
 
 
Kavika
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4.5  Kavika   replied to  Gsquared @4    2 years ago

It is quite beautiful, G. Tell your wife that it is stunning.

 
 
 
Gsquared
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4.5.1  Gsquared  replied to  Kavika @4.5    2 years ago

Thank you, Kavika.  I will tell her.

 
 
 
Perrie Halpern R.A.
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4.6  Perrie Halpern R.A.  replied to  Gsquared @4    2 years ago

That is truly a piece of art. I love it!

 
 
 
Gsquared
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4.6.1  Gsquared  replied to  Perrie Halpern R.A. @4.6    2 years ago

So do I.

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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5  Buzz of the Orient    2 years ago

Lets have some editing fun.  We should post a "bad" photo, perhaps one accidentally taken or one that we don't think is good enough to display, and allow other group members to copy it and edit it to create an improved, changed and/or better images from it.  Everyone who is able to edit photos should then copy the "bad" photo, edit it and then post the result as a reply to the comment displaying the original photo.  To keep it legal, everyone who posts an original "bad" photo should copy and paste this phrase with it:  "Permission is granted to any Creative Arts member to copy, edit and/or change this photo in any way, and then post the edited/changed photo as a reply to this comment."

As an example of what I mean by editing or changing, here is a photo that I took in Beijing that was IMO a "bad" photo which I will edit to improve, to make it a worthwhile one to display.

Original photo:

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Edited photo:  

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As you can see I straightened it, cropped it, sharpened it, added a bit of colour to it and framed it.  There is a statue at the bottom I never noticed befoe.  Now I consider it to be a more interesting and presentable photo.  

Now here is my "bad" photo that I took in Chongqing to start the exercise.  Permission is granted to any Creative Arts member to copy, edit and/or change this photo in any way, and then post the edited/changed photo as a reply to this comment.

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Dig
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5.1  Dig  replied to  Buzz of the Orient @5    2 years ago

Maybe not what you were looking for, but fun to play around with.

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Buzz of the Orient
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5.1.1  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Dig @5.1    2 years ago

Good.  I burst out laughing when I saw the second one - my first laugh of the day - thanks. 

 
 
 
Gsquared
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5.2  Gsquared  replied to  Buzz of the Orient @5    2 years ago

I wouldn't call the original photo "bad".  I like it.

Something different --

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Buzz of the Orient
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5.2.1  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Gsquared @5.2    2 years ago

A great improvement, GG.  Thank you.

 
 
 
Kavika
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5.2.2  Kavika   replied to  Gsquared @5.2    2 years ago

I'm seeing double and triple, I have to quit drinking...Oh wait, I don't drink what could it be? NO, that is not an invitation for members to guess what is wrong with me..LOL

 
 
 
Gsquared
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5.2.3  Gsquared  replied to  Buzz of the Orient @5.2.1    2 years ago

I don't know about that.  I think the original photo is great.  But, as I said, something different.

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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5.2.4  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Kavika @5.2.2    2 years ago

LOL

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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5.3  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Buzz of the Orient @5    2 years ago

Isn't anyone going to post what they consider a mistake or poor photo they took that I can play with?  If anyone does, please remember to post the permission. 

 
 
 
Kavika
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5.3.1  Kavika   replied to  Buzz of the Orient @5.3    2 years ago

Sorry Buzz, I have not taken any poor photos. All of mine are if not perfect, close to it. 

If anyone disagrees with that I have only one thing to say, ''You're speaking with fork tongue''...jrSmiley_2_smiley_image.png

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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5.3.2  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Kavika @5.3.1    2 years ago

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Dig
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5.3.3  Dig  replied to  Buzz of the Orient @5.3    2 years ago

I'm not really sure what kind of problem photos you want to mess around with, but here's a couple of what I consider to be bad shots.

I doubt anything can be done with this one. It was too far away and over-zoomed, and taken through a window while it was raining. Big hawk, though.

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This one is much better, but still over-zoomed. I was trying to catch that goldfinch ripping petals off of zinnias from about 100 feet away.

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Anyone can do whatever they want to either image. The sharpness issue may be beyond hope, but feel free to chop them up, mirror them, make geometric effects, add fairies or aliens, use pieces of them in a completely new image, or nothing at all, whatever. 

 
 
 
A. Macarthur
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5.3.4  author  A. Macarthur  replied to  Dig @5.3.3    2 years ago

How's this?

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Dig
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5.3.5  Dig  replied to  A. Macarthur @5.3.4    2 years ago

Wow! That's quite a bit sharper than I was able to make it with my own software when I tried. That's impressive. You have skills, Mac.

If you don't mind I'm going to save that one back to my computer.

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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5.3.6  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Dig @5.3.3    2 years ago

Here is my take on your hawk photo.  I used yours as a base - A.Mac did not provide permission to use his.

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And my take for your goldfinch.

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Buzz of the Orient
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5.3.7  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Buzz of the Orient @5.3.6    2 years ago

Looking for more photos to play with...

 
 
 
Dig
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5.3.8  Dig  replied to  Buzz of the Orient @5.3.6    2 years ago

Awesome! You did really well with the hawk, too. I guess it wasn't as irredeemable as I thought. And great job with the goldfinch. I love the vignette blur.

 
 
 
A. Macarthur
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5.3.9  author  A. Macarthur  replied to  Dig @5.3.5    2 years ago

Ok with me.

 
 
 
Gsquared
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5.3.11  Gsquared  replied to  Dig @5.3.3    2 years ago

My versions --     

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Dig
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5.3.12  Dig  replied to  Gsquared @5.3.11    2 years ago

Cool, G. The hawk almost looks painted.

 
 
 
shona1
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6  shona1    2 years ago

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Ahhh the bane of our Aussie beaches..

The blueys (blue bottle jelly fish) are in..

They wont kill ya but sting ya..

Gotta love it here...

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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6.1  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  shona1 @6    2 years ago

Never saw a jellyfish in natural waters.  However, ever since I watched the movie Jaws I prefer to swim in lakes or pools.  There was a 2008 movie called Seven Pounds in which Will Smith commits suicide by using a jellyfish. 

 
 
 
shona1
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6.1.1  shona1  replied to  Buzz of the Orient @6.1    2 years ago

Well he would have heaps to choose from here..😁

 
 
 
evilone
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7  evilone    2 years ago

The Apostle Islands lighthouse.

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Gsquared
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7.1  Gsquared  replied to  evilone @7    2 years ago

Beautiful photo, EG.

 
 
 
Kavika
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7.2  Kavika   replied to  evilone @7    2 years ago

Beautiful, EG and a special place to all Ojibwe people.

 
 
 
Ender
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7.3  Ender  replied to  evilone @7    2 years ago

The trees are falling! The trees are falling!

 
 
 
evilone
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8  evilone    2 years ago

I got all my office holiday decorations up...

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Snuffy
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8.1  Snuffy  replied to  evilone @8    2 years ago

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I retired so no longer have an office to decorate for the holidays, but I did remember to hang the Mistle-Toad.

 
 
 
evilone
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8.1.1  evilone  replied to  Snuffy @8.1    2 years ago

Very nice! 

 
 
 
Just Jim NC TttH
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8.1.2  Just Jim NC TttH  replied to  Snuffy @8.1    2 years ago

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Buzz of the Orient
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8.1.3  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Snuffy @8.1    2 years ago

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Buzz of the Orient
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8.2  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  evilone @8    2 years ago

Makes me think of a little kid growing out of his clothes. LOL

 
 
 
devangelical
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9  devangelical    2 years ago

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Dig
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9.1  Dig  replied to  devangelical @9    2 years ago

I wonder how many people have pulled that little gag at office parties , lol.

 
 
 
devangelical
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9.1.1  devangelical  replied to  Dig @9.1    2 years ago

gag is an interesting word choice...

 
 
 
Kavika
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10  Kavika     2 years ago

This is a pretty unique photo. It was taken by the SC Photo Club.

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Dig
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10.1  Dig  replied to  Kavika @10    2 years ago

Awesome. What a fortuitous shot. 

 
 
 
A. Macarthur
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11  author  A. Macarthur    2 years ago

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Buzz of the Orient
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11.1  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  A. Macarthur @11    2 years ago

My grandmother used to make gefilte fish from whitefish and pike.  I knew what a pike looked like, but never saw a whitefish before - thanks for showing me what it looks like.  

 
 
 
Ender
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12  Ender    2 years ago

For Christmas. Remember the classics...

Ship to the two minute mark.

 
 
 
Ender
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12.1  Ender  replied to  Ender @12    2 years ago

*Skip...For some reason I cannot edit my posts here.

 
 
 
Dig
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12.2  Dig  replied to  Ender @12    2 years ago

LOL!

 
 
 
Ender
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13  Ender    2 years ago

This is a couple of years old. A pic I found from someone that was visiting Gulf Shores.

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Dig
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13.1  Dig  replied to  Ender @13    2 years ago

That's pretty cool, but it can't be real, can it? If it is real, then it should win some kind of award.

 
 
 
Ender
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13.1.1  Ender  replied to  Dig @13.1    2 years ago

Yeah, there was a news story about it. 

 
 
 
Dig
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13.1.2  Dig  replied to  Ender @13.1.1    2 years ago

That's amazing!

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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13.2  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Ender @13    2 years ago

I doubt that anyone would ever see anything similar to that again.

 
 
 
Ender
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15  Ender    2 years ago

 
 
 
Dig
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15.1  Dig  replied to  Ender @15    2 years ago

Cool. What's powering the motion, the heat of the light?

 
 
 
Ender
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15.1.1  Ender  replied to  Dig @15.1    2 years ago

Yeah, it heats up and they start bubbling.

 
 
 
A. Macarthur
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16  author  A. Macarthur    2 years ago

My Dawg, Gracie.

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Buzz of the Orient
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16.1  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  A. Macarthur @16    2 years ago

She's a winner.  

 
 
 
Dig
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17  Dig    2 years ago

It was a great day for bird watching. Chilly, but clear and bright.

Blue jays were on the ground this morning swallowing acorns whole. Yup, swallowing them whole. I couldn't believe what I was seeing, so I had to go look it up. Apparently, they were just storing them for transport in a part of their throats called a gular pouch, to be taken and cached away somewhere. The internet says they can haul up to five at a time – three in the throat pouch, one in the mouth, and one in the beak. I didn't know any of that before today.

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Red-breasted nuthatch.

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Northern flicker.

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Eastern bluebird.

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Northern cardinal.

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Buzz of the Orient
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17.1  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Dig @17    2 years ago

Blue Jays can do more than that, they can win back-to-back World Series.  LOL

 
 
 
Kavika
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17.2  Kavika   replied to  Dig @17    2 years ago

Great photos and loved the info on the blue jays.

 
 
 
Kavika
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18  Kavika     2 years ago

Early morning at the 11th hole. Stone Creek CC, Ocala, FL.

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Buzz of the Orient
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18.1  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Kavika @18    2 years ago

I know your're a great fisherman, but are you a golfer as well?

 
 
 
Kavika
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18.1.1  Kavika   replied to  Buzz of the Orient @18.1    2 years ago

I don't golf nearly as much as I used to.

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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18.1.2  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Kavika @18.1.1    2 years ago

I used to golf as well, but not since I moved here.  I never was that good a golfer.  My father who started golfing in his 40s worked his way to a 12 handicap, and he always beat me.

 
 
 
Dig
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19  Dig    2 years ago

Here's a few more for Buzz's editing challenge, if anyone wants to play around with them.

Full permissions granted.

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A. Macarthur
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19.1  author  A. Macarthur  replied to  Dig @19    2 years ago

How's this?

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Dig
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19.1.1  Dig  replied to  A. Macarthur @19.1    2 years ago

Awesome. You replaced the sky, cleaned things up, and enhanced the fall colors. That looks dreamy. You made it look better than the real thing. :)

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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19.1.2  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  A. Macarthur @19.1    2 years ago

Ah, you were able to layer in the sky.  I don't have that option.  You also did a great job of providing better fall colours which I guess I could have done, but instead I changed the season.

 
 
 
Gsquared
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19.1.3  Gsquared  replied to  A. Macarthur @19.1    2 years ago

That's beautiful.

 
 
 
Gsquared
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19.2  Gsquared  replied to  Dig @19    2 years ago

A. Mac has the ultimate color version, so I did something else.  Makes it look vintage.

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Dig
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19.2.1  Dig  replied to  Gsquared @19.2    2 years ago

That really does look like something ripped out of a 19th century newspaper. That's pretty neat.

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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19.2.2  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Gsquared @19.2    2 years ago

Beautiful job, GG.

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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20  Buzz of the Orient    2 years ago

Your photos were not that bad, the first one mostly needed sharpening (they all needed some) and dehazing and a little more colour, a couple were helped by cropping and frames always make the photos look better. 

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Dig
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20.1  Dig  replied to  Buzz of the Orient @20    2 years ago

Yeah, the first one was the only one I would call bad. The sun was low in the sky and to my front. I thought the other two might just be fun to enhance. I should have used one of those for a Halloween background now that I'm thinking about it. Ghosts coming out of the ruins or something.

It's neat how you turned the first one from fall to springlike green. Good job on all of them.

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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20.1.1  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Dig @20.1    2 years ago

For your bottom photo, the most important things were to get rid of the caution sign at the bottom left which was a distraction and make the rear buildings stand out more vividly..

 
 
 
Dig
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21  Dig    2 years ago

Hey, everyone, I was thinking about Buzz's idea of an editing challenge and had a thought — we should get a bunch of holiday-themed component images and clipart from Pixabay (a free stock image site), post them on their own page to avoid cluttering up the weekly Creative Arts article, and have everyone use them to come up with holiday creations (like Christmas card art, for example) that could be posted here over the next few weeks. Or maybe instead of posting a page of fixed component images, we could just provide a link to Pixabay and people could use whatever they want from there.

What do you guys think? Sound like fun? If so, then should we use a fixed set of component images or just leave it open to any free, public domain stuff we can find?

 
 
 
Dig
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21.1  Dig  replied to  Dig @21    2 years ago

I was just looking at Pixabay for component images and clipart and there's literally thousands of results for different holiday-themed search words. It would be a shame to limit us to a fixed set of  'ingredients' when there's so much available, so let's not do that. 

If it's OK with you, Mac, I can post an article with a link to Pixabay on the main page later, inviting everyone to get creative for the holiday season and to post their creations here in the upcoming weeks.

 
 
 
A. Macarthur
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21.1.1  author  A. Macarthur  replied to  Dig @21.1    2 years ago

As long as any image posted herein that is not the intellectual property of the one who posts it -- IS ATTRIBUTED TO THE COPYRIGHTS HOLDER, OR, IF THE IMAGE IS DESIGNATED AS "PUBLIC DOMAIN" or "CREATIVE COMMONS," etc., it's OK. Since Perrie owns NT, issues of copyright infringement would fall on her and we do not want that.

 
 
 
Dig
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21.1.2  Dig  replied to  A. Macarthur @21.1.1    2 years ago

Everything posted on Pixabay is licensed for free use with no attribution required.

Here's their content license — Pixabay License

 
 
 
A. Macarthur
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21.1.3  author  A. Macarthur  replied to  Dig @21.1.2    2 years ago

OK.

 
 
 
Kavika
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22  Kavika     2 years ago

I've been playing around with Dig's recommendation of Pixabay. I found this photo and didn't add anything to it since IMO it is just beautiful. Nature at its best, I'll be trying more complicated things a bit later.

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Dig
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22.1  Dig  replied to  Kavika @22    2 years ago

Looks freshly fallen. I agree, few things are as pretty as freshly fallen snow. 

 
 
 
Gsquared
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22.2  Gsquared  replied to  Kavika @22    2 years ago

What is that white stuff all over everything?

 
 
 
Kavika
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22.2.1  Kavika   replied to  Gsquared @22.2    2 years ago
What is that white stuff all over everything?

Styrofoam..

 
 
 
Buzz of the Orient
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22.2.2  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Kavika @22.2.1    2 years ago

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Buzz of the Orient
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22.3  Buzz of the Orient  replied to  Kavika @22    2 years ago

Glad you didn't do anything with it so it can display its natural beauty.

 
 
 
A. Macarthur
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23  author  A. Macarthur    2 years ago

Thanks to all … see you Thursday night.

 
 

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