Tag: #CosPhoChal

Five times

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What a challenge! Dale at CosPhoCal has asked to turn the everyday in the unusual. What an opportunity to play! But first things first, let’s start with the important ingredient:

Coffee.

The cup of this owl (aka: me) reads: I’m afraid I am awake (I’m awake I’m afraid?) How mundane can it get?

A walk with the dog.

A ride on the bike.

A slice of lemon.

And some healthy apples rife for the picking.

These are the untouched photos that were used:

Linked to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: The everyday into the unusual.

Choose whatever you want – as long as it is a mask!

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Although Corona-Man has been telling us for months now, how to wear masks properly

there are still some that seem to ignore this advice and hazard the possible consequences looming the background.

But even if this is the proper way to wear a mask I still prefer these kinds of masks (worn anyway at all):

Or better yet, this kind:

I saw this in the area of the Dell Open Air Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. I always assumed it was Alex Kingston but I couldn’t find any record of it. Possibly a role that River Song still has to play.

Linked to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: Choose your masks.

Selective splash

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I’ve spent far too much time trying out different photo editing tools online for this post of the Cosmic Photo Challenge where Dale asks for a “splash of colour” this week. I’ve played around with them, using different methods. I haven’t found one that works satisfactorily, particularly the automatic colour spotting didn’t work really well in any programme. These are the results:

This poppy was the most labourious as it involved rendering the photo b&w first, then manually colouring the blossom sepia, then first enhancing the contrast, changing the hue, and finally using “saturate”.

Here is the same poppy in a slightly different shot with plain colour spotting.

This cornflower was fairly simple, just manually blocking the colour everywhere but the blossom.

.With this mirror I used a blunt tool to highlight the colour (and finally changing it to green).

This was an automatic colour selective tool but the tolerance couldn’t be adjusted properly and there was no eraser or reverse tool to be applied manually.

And finally the angel and the rose – an automatic colour spotting tool but I had severe problems of downloading the result without signing up (which didn’t want just for the use of one tool) – and it only worked once.

Linked to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: A splash of colour.

A bit of (cosmic) fun

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I had a lot of fun with the latest Cosmic prompt: abstract.

I’ll start off with a shot that was abstract from the start. Without any editing this is how it was recorded on my memory card in the camera:

Move on to a subject that is intentionally abstract like this sculpture of which I could not find any title or the name of the artist or anything, even after researching it on the internet:

And finally a perfectly ordinary close up of a flower rendered abstract by various filters in an editing program:

Linked to The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Abstract.

Grey herons

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Driving on my bike these two were easy to miss. Sometimes I get lucky.

There are more storks around and they are easier to spot than the grey herons.

Look at those breast feathers and the garter on the upper thigh!

I’m by no means an expert but I think these were two juveniles.

And off again.

Linked to The Cosmic Photo Challenge: Our feathered friends.