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Cosmic Photo Challenge: Distortion Using Contrast and Cropping

Dale offers the prompt “distortion” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

I use the GIMP photo editor. It’s a free tool with many features I have not explored. I mainly use it to shrink the size of the image and rotate it a bit if I got the horizon wrong.

Here I am going to use the contrast feature of the editor along with cropping.

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Here is the original.
I figured I could add contrast. I did and then brightened it a bit because it got pretty dark. It gets spookier the darker it gets.
I cropped the original, but this doesn’t distort it very much.
So I added enough contrast to make it spooky.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Nature In Black And White

Dale offers the prompt “nature in black and white” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

I picked some photos that had little color in them but black and white.

I was going to remove the color, but then I would have to learn a new trick with the photo editor.

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Full moon, black space. That is about as sharp of an image as I could get with my phone.
Whatever this is, I found it on a forest trail. I think it is seeds expelled from a pod.
I think it’s alive and hanging onto this plastered wall.
Full moon with clouds in the sky. I took this the same evening I took the first photo.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: What’s Flowering?

Dale offers the prompt “what’s flowering where you are” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

None of these are wild flowers since someone had to plant them.

I am glad they/we did.

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There are white and yellow flowers in our garden.
Our neighbor has this awesome blossom.
On the way to his garden there are magnolia trees with white blossoms.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Looking For Shade

Dale offers the prompt “looking for shade” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

I went under a shady tunnel a few days ago.

It was kind of spooky, but I ain’t afraid of no ghost.

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It looks like there is shade in this tunnel under the road.
Rather colorful. I guess the kids (hopefully not the adults) have been busy.
Enough shade. Time to continue my walk.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Symmetry

Dale offers the prompt “symmetry” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

One of the places where I watched sunsets in southern Florida has a shiny wall blocking a residence from the park.

If I stood near the wall I could see the setting sun. This allowed me to put two sunsets in the photo.

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Two sunsets!
Two skylines!
One reflected sunset.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Under The Canopy

Dale offers the prompt “under the canopy” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

I wonder if palm trees form a canopy. They do block the sun.

Or awnings?

Or clouds?

The red part is a covering (canopy), but above it is a beautiful, cloudy sky.
A big bird minding his own business under a bush canopy.
It’s amazing what you can see under a canopy of trees.

Cosmic Photo Challenge: Art For Art’s Sake

Dale offers the prompt “art for art’s sake” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

Where we are at the moment there are plenty of opportunities to see sunsets and water. This is inland water, not the ocean, but there’s an ocean nearby.

I might not show any of those photos. Today it is art for art’s sake.

I can’t remember what this was. I do recall my phone telling me to clean the lens. (The lens was dirty.)
This is a fallen palm leaf waiting to be picked up. There’s a bit of water in it on the right.
Here’s a sunset that looks to my like art for arts sake

Cosmic Photo Challenge: North, South, East and West

Dale offers the prompt “North, South, East and West” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

The photos “don’t all have to be taken from the same spot, or even on the same day”.

Here are some over many years and different places.

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NORTH: Vltava River in Prague from the Charles Bridge
SOUTH: Vltava River in Prague on the Charles Bridge
EAST: St Augustine, Florida, at the old fort facing a harbor leading to the Atlantic Ocean
WEST: Sunset seen from Miami Beach, Florida

Cosmic Photo Challenge: How Does My Garden Grow

Dale offers the prompt “how does my garden grow” for this week’s Cosmic Photo Challenge.

I don’t have a garden, but my neighbors do. Here are some photos from theirs over the years.

White and orange blooming
Blueberries ripening
A lot of yellow and a little blue trying to get through