Good day, all.

Here's a photo of Pippin taken in early 2017, not too long after we adopted him from a local shelter.

He's dozing on the couch, with his chin resting on a blanket.

   

The things I like most about this shot are: 1) it has nice clarity; 2) there is a full range of values; and; 2) the brownish and bluish tones interact nicely with each other and with the brighter white areas.

Good morning all - last day of the month. Just sitting here wondering when the cooler weather is going to get here. Almost 70F right now and not even 7 AM yet. Even up in the Smoky Mountains (where we are going in a couple of days) the weather promises to be sunny, upper 60s to lower 70s in the day and 50's at night.

I had some issues with the forum yesterday morning and I wasn't sure I was going to be able to recover everything, but it all worked out in the end. So if anyone tried to log in and found the forum closed, that was the problem. Of course with no more activity than we have I doubt anyone noticed.

Hope everyone has a good week coming up!

A short time ago someone posted a link to a tutorial by a photographer who experimented with moving the camera during slow exposures to create some unique and impressive images.

I finally got around to trying it earlier this week, but wasn't expecting good results becasue I didn't have my tripod with me. As expected most of the images I got were blurred, but here's one that somehow turned out reasonably sharp...

   

You folks have yourselves a good weekend.

Good day, all.

Another from the archives (Feb 2017 again)...

   

Still drizzly here....needed the rain while plants were growing, had drought...NOW it rains, when the farmers need to harvest the poor crops the drought produced!!  Anyways, here is the photo that reminded me of Dave's from yesterday!!
 
"And now, the end is near. And so I face the final curtain · I've lived a life that's full "

   

Good day Foto Friends.

I'm still without new photos worth sharing, so I thought I'd post some FotoSketcher versions of an old one.

1) The original, first posted on WetCanvas back in February 2017...

   

2) A subtly altered version of #1...

   

3) A version using a black & white pen and ink drawing layered on top of the original shown above, with a few other adjustments thrown in...

   

It was a fun spending about 30 minutes working on these.

Good Monday Moring All,
Let's get this week off to a creepy start.  What do you think?
I have to go out and buy my Halloween candy today.  If you are not in the mood to start celebrating the holiday, maybe this will help.
Have a good one, 
LORELL

(Deep Dream Generator Software)

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It's a gray morning here, but I have no new colorful photos to brighten things up. So back into my archives (to April 2017) for a red poppy image that I don't think I've posted before...

   

Wishing you all a happy, safe, and productive weekend.

I thought about maybe just starting the weekend thread since its already the weekend for MFIB!
But always concerned about duplicates so I'll just start Friday and eave it at that.
I hope everyone is having a great day.
Scraping the bottom of last weeks barrel!
   

I guess folks have been busy dealing with real life things. Maybe the frigid wintry weather that hit the central Midwest of the US and probably even harder in central Canada.

Rich and Grant, I hope you got through it OK. And Lorell, you may get some of that today. Stay safe. everyone.

No new photos from me so I went back through my archives to January 2017 for this shot of a sky with interesting colors...