The 4th image in my collection is titled "Kalk Bay Depiction".

Kalk Bay is a small village near here that has a fishing harbour. We occasionally have camera club outings there, and this edit came out of the most recent one.

   

This image took a lot more effort than might appear at first sight. First of all, the boat was to the right of the centre line, which didn't suit my envisaged composition. The job of masking it out was pretty difficult, due mainly to lots of clutter behind the handrails. Next the boat and its reflection were cut out of the scene, and a new boat-free background image was constructed. I then used the Fractalius filter on the background, and blended it in to create the interesting effects seen on the buildings. The Fractalius bits were only included above the walkway. I pasted the boat/reflection back into the scene, and then used the Topaz Simplify filter on the water/reflections. Finally, things were cleaned up a bit using local hand cloning.

It is halfway through Saturday for me. Opted to start the weekender. We are currently in a veritable swarm of moths and butterflies.
This is the painted lady on Helichrysm or paper daisy.

and the Liime Orchard Swallowtail amongst parsley and larkspur.

Hi Folks

I've just realised that I haven't posted anything here this year. Apologies. 

I'm still very active at our camera club. For our end-of-year session we are asked to present 5 of our favourite images from 2026 for projection. I decided to put my selection up here too.

Start of Dune 45 Climb.

Dune 45 is one of the sand dunes near Sossusvlei in Namibia. It is a dune, close to the main road, that the public is encouraged to climb to the top of. My image here is a shot taken of the tree adjacent to the parking area. You can see the footprints in the background going up the spine of the dune. It provides an idea of the number of people that have climbed up there since the last serious wind would have erased all traces of climbers.

   

The image was processed in Photoshop CS6 with assistance of the Akvis Sketch plugin.

regards - Pete Dewar

In the most recent Weekender Rich hinted that I should post photos of the Halloween display at the home of one neighbor who usually goes all out on a number of holidays throughout the year.

But this year's Halloween display isn't nearly as elaborate as he usually creates.

So I had to look at some small details he placed in rings of flowers surrounding tree trunks in his front yard...

   

   

Here in coastal SoCal the forecast calls for rains starting this afternoon and lasting through tomorrow;with intermittent thunderstorms likely.

Greetings Friends! 
Fall is in the air in South Dakota. Some years we have snow in October, but doesn't last long. Here are houses decorated for Halloween. The first one is a couple of blocks from me and I drive by it every day. They are always the first to decorate and the last to put them away.

Enjoy your weekend.

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Greetings all!

It is a beautiful day here in the HeartLands! I usually take a walk in the cemetery on nice days as it won't be long before all the colors trun to white!
Here is a peaceful setting we call the Navy Lagoon. Lighting not the best but gives an idea of what it is. The statues are Marine and Navy left to right. Seperate forces but they workk with one another. 

Hope all is well in your life!

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Another bot this morning. Thought the group might be interested in what they look like. This was in the profile:

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Maybe it was a legit user - but certainly not wanting to join the forum to share photos. User deleted.

Good morning all -

For some reason the forum has started to get a lot of Bots trying to register, especially from Asia and India in particular. So I have to go in and see where the IP address is from, evaluate, and generally delete that user and then try to block those IP addresses. Keeps me on my toes. 

This image is from about 9 years ago, from Cades Cove in Tennessee. I converted from color to B&W just for interest.

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Since we haven't had much activity lately, I just made this one for Saturday in the likely event that there will not be one for Sunday.

This is an image that I played with this morning where I took a rather plain Jane sunrise image and converted to B&W. Now it sort of appears to be a night shot.

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Another new month and the last quarter of the year.

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