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• Excellent site to learn In-Camera Settings
  by Christopher Ewing

  As most of you know, I am at purist at heart. I am all about doing it In-Camera versus becoming dependant on a program. / A friend of min…

  As most of you know, I am at purist at heart. I am all about doing it In-Camera versus becoming dependant on a program. / A friend of mine (I’d post her link but she doesnt have any work on here yet, Grrr) sent this link that helps a person learn what the settings on their camera can and will do. / This site is totally awesome, wish I had had it when I started with digital. I have shared it with one of the groups I help run with Chipper called Untouchables / It’s a group that has No processing, not even cropping. So I thought I’d do a journal for those who might not be on the group. / It’s a great tool to give you an idea of what your settings on the camera will look like and their effects. / You can choose thru all the modes of your camera. / Hope all enjoy, and have fun learning :) / Dry Reading Camera Have fun with it, it’s totally cool

• Thanks
  by Lior Goldenberg

  Many thanks to the kind people who bought 2 cards of Can’t stay dry...

  Many thanks to the kind people who bought 2 cards of Can’t stay dry. I have one and I like it a lot – hope you’ll think the same when you get the cards. Many thanks to the hosts of the Abstract Art group for featuring ANTIGRAVITY 1. Many thanks to linaji & TeriLee of the Art in Math group for featuring Mysteries of the pyramids. Lior :-)))

• So What Happens When It Dries? It Is Time for the Final Touch...
  by Final Form Fallen Angel

  Painters… painters wait anxiously for their pigments to dry, whether for the stability to craft upon the canvass another layer of oil, ...

  Painters… painters wait anxiously for their pigments to dry, whether for the stability to craft upon the canvass another layer of oil, or to allow it to be handled without fear of the errant thumb or clumsy admirer. The sculptor… often the drying is more bane than benefice, but still, it must dry before it can be permanent. The druidic soul… always smears of dirt upon the hands and clothing. Yet, when the soil is saturated and the mulch beds mud, there is no righteousness or beauty in placing the living seed or sapling to its death. All three here above, I speak of waters – the stuff of life. All three here above I think of how water also has its ungraspable hand in the second thought, yet primary life of art. The art that keeps us alive. We have all come to terms with the water of the earth, but I would seek to find one of you who has found peace, true peace, with the waters of the spirit. How they ebb, flow, overwhelm and then go absent. I am finding my reserves dangerously low these last days, and the sudden drought has already opened deep cracks along my surface – deep cracks which are inching closer to my core. This is not depression, or writer’s block. Outside circumstance or loss of my peripheral. It is simply that unexplainable, when the heart pumps with luminescence, the eyes remain firefly beacons, the mind is overflowing with… what? Perhaps sand, but the sand that is the makings of cathedral stained glass. The driving is still top down in the sun of that youthful period between insecurity and hesitant acceptance. Smiles. Wishes… ...And a pair of hands that are so brittle from lack of that whetting, wetting, and the wedding of want and ability. My cornucopia is no longer overflowing with battle plans against this hungry earth. My view of what is beauty shines, but starkly, mundanely, human of glow. Even my… well, my applications… they have pulled a trick of language and defaulted. It will pass. It always has before. Sometimes a rain comes in misty sideways gusts, and the recovery requires months, years… sometimes there is a deluge, a monsoon, a drowning of the earth and its people as I knew them within it, just in a matter of days. I am glad though, for a moment here, because I want all of you (and with my drive gone, somehow I believe there is no reason all of you shouldn’t… or will not) to tell the stories of your own droughts, the return of the rain, and the color of the dove which brought back that olive branch to your will. Perhaps you do not see it as a lack of water… I do. I want very much to know what all of you, each of you see it as. Writer, graphic designer, photographer alike, I know you have this strength to write a gift of merit for the rest of us – give us all your disease, your symptoms, and your cure. (I have this faith that you won’t let me down… I am not expecting a mere 5-10 replies out of the 500,000+ of you, and for that, perhaps that alone, the 250,000 of you who are artists are going to give this to your fellow artists… or if for no one else… one 25 year old desert who needs to see the waterfalls again. I know you will because, unlike when I am a 48-hour machine, asking earnestly and never believing my own sincerity as to the dedication of the passionate – bards, bristle handed painters, viewfinders, vagabonds and gypsies… all you beautiful humans… today, I can only see what my mind processes). So thank you for the gifts in advance. I am certain each one of you will find a muse’s gift under the pillow as well. If only you believe we all care enough to grant a wish to the thirsty.

• "Thanks guys"
  by Birgitta

  Wow. Don’t know where to start other than to say thanks you guys for / all of your support & Bmails, etc. Well, I moved several months a…

  Wow. Don’t know where to start other than to say thanks you guys for / all of your support & Bmails, etc. Well, I moved several months ago, from / a 5 bedroom house in the suburbs-to a smaller 2 bedroom apartment. / I’ve been without a phone, cable tv, internet, etc. for months now. I only / got my DSL back yesterday. I have missed this place…aLOT. I wanted to start / a business (as many of us enthusiasts do) but the timing wasn’t right, and so / overnight, my whole world shifted and once again, I found myself living in a strange / place, having to “start over” yet again. Nevertheless, I’m encouraged. :) When you / feel you’ve lost everything, you can only look UP, eh? For you guys that have bought prints of my work while I was gone (and cards), / I feel like crying, really. I appreciate it more than I can express. I haven’t even / been around and you guys have been supporting my work! Please know, that I’ll / write each of you personally and thanks again, so very much. I’m looking forward to / seeing everyone’s new works! I can’t say that I have a lot of new things to upload- / it really is YOU GUYS that inspires me more than anything, so I haven’t been doing / much lately. I’ve missed you all. :) I’ll be popping in and out…I’ll be around. ;) / (got my services restored only yesterday) Take care, and thanks again for all of your comments, messages & Bmails. / Love y’all! -B

• T-shirt featured +
  by Lior Goldenberg

  My t-shirt LOVE and peace was featured today in the group “*P…

  My t-shirt LOVE and peace was featured today in the group Pop Art. It’s the first time I have a t-shirt featured, and I am especially proud of the message this one carries. I hope this feature will make more people take the time to look at it, and think…. Also, Can’t stay dry was featured in the group Out of the Blue – the 3rd group that chooses to make me happy and feature it! Thanks a lot to the hosts of these groups for the lovely surprise! Lior

• Challenge winning and features.
  by Eyal Nahmias

  I have just won another challenge, The Small World California...

  I have just won another challenge, The Small World California hosted by the California Sound group for my image Monarch Butterfly sip nectar from a Daisy flower# / # Another “Monarch butterfly” image is featured in the same group / The image mime is featured in The Professionals group after winning 7th place in The Adult Female Face challenge. The image “Scarlet Macaw Parrot” won 4th place in the Weekly Contest 04 – Birds challenge hosted by the Animal Photography group To all that voted for my winning Monarch Butterfly entry, and getting the Mime image to be in the top ten , THANK YOU! this could not have happened without you.

• 3 new features +
  by Lior Goldenberg

  My latest work Canal Grande was featured in the group “*Live, Love, ...

  My latest work Canal Grande was featured in the group Live, Love, Dream. Also, Can’t stay dry was featured in Masterpiece: Art. That is my ’’most featured’’ work so far with 4 features. Many thank to all host for the appreciation. I would also like to thank the kind people who voted for my entry Time to wake up in the challenge Sense of Place (Digital Art) (ranked #5). Cheers, / Lior P.S. A new feature a few minutes ago: Takeoff in ADAWG. Thank you so much guys!

• WaterMusic Exhibition...nice and dry (phew)
  by SoxyFleming

  I woke this morning, in the dark, to a terrifying sound – pouring rain. Luckily, I had loaded the twelve large delicate paper works for m…

  I woke this morning, in the dark, to a terrifying sound – pouring rain. Luckily, I had loaded the twelve large delicate paper works for my exhibition into the car in daylight, yesterday, when it wasn’t raining. But I still had to get to the library by 8am and unload the works. It takes months to collect the raw materials for these things, then five or more hours each in wet and sloppy creation, up to three days in slow drying – these fragile paper works could become piles of soggy mush again in a matter of seconds. I HAD to get them out of the car and into the library when it wasn’t raining. It could have been dreadful but in fact most things went quite smoothly. Despite sleeping in, being foiled by a crucial no right turn sign in the peak hour traffic on the drive there, having to move the massive ladder by myself, cursing over the fiddley problems of temperamental art track, the works found there spots on the wall well before library opening time. The process of creating the pieces is slow and gentle, meditative, unhurried. In contrast to this, the process of hanging the exhibition was tense, physically taxing, nerve-racking and very much limited by time. A public library can’t have some one climbing up and down a huge ladder and spreading fragile artworks around all over the magazine section during opening hours (and during school holidays too!). / It’s was a stark reminder of some kind of strange reality (well reality generally is strange). I’m glad to be home now, warm and dry, drinking coffee and eating chocolate, exhausted but happy. A big thank you to everyone who has favorited, left comments on my works and wished me well for this little show. Even a little show takes a lot of work and your encouragement means a great deal to me. Exhibition Poster and Opening Hours Works in the exhibition

• Thanks guys!
  by Lior Goldenberg

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  Translucent was featured in the group All Things Poetic, Artistic, Philosophical – many thanks Suzanne. Can’t stay dry was featured in #12 Great Feature’s – many thanks Heavenandus777 & OrphieG. Woo hoo… 5(!) features to this piece, and this makes me very happy (in contrast to my sales, that don’t make me happy at all…. well, maybe next time). Best wishes to all of you, / Lior

• “High and Dry” FEATURED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  by flyfish70

  Well, I just got on the computer for the first time today, and found out my photo “High and Dry” was featured in the group “Waterfowl”!!!...

  Well, I just got on the computer for the first time today, and found out my photo “High and Dry” was featured in the group “Waterfowl”!!!!!!!! What an awesome surprise to open up to, and totally unexpected. Thank you so much “Waterfowl” group hosts / Your Hosts angelandspot, lallymac and 1stAngel, and all of you for your wonderful support and comment!!!!! Thank you so much for this honor, my first feature in “Waterfowl”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• DROUGHT! A difficult year for all.......
  by hillsrain

  Odd evening tonight. Very warm – summer warm, yet its only 8 days into spring. The frogs are very vocal. A rhapsody of concern outsid…

  Odd evening tonight. Very warm – summer warm, yet its only 8 days into spring. The frogs are very vocal. A rhapsody of concern outside, pleading to mother nature to make it rain. Its a song in vain I fear. Random downbursts, sinking vortexes of wind and pressure skulk through the atmosphere. / Dead calm, then a strong gust of wind drops straight down from the sky above. The house creaks, the gate rattles and dinner plate drops of rain numbered around 25, but no more, crash onto the tin roof like pebbles from the sky. The weather station records nothing as dramatic as the complaints from the house would suggest. Then as fast as it comes its gone. Odd?? A new weather system is on the approach. It looked good for a while too. Rain was on the forecast!! Bummer, its weakening. / Bummer, it looks like the promised rains might have been a clutch at straws. Am worried by the downturn. I’ll be out of dam water by December at the current rate of season collapse. The cows will be thirsty. This is all too common a story across Australia. What will happen will happen, but the tough walk is still to come. Better get out the crutches I suppose. / Looks to the heavens and shouts – “You can break my legs ya bastard, but ya won’t stop me!!” This time next year will make the present look like a walk in the park. As this season rapidly collapses into weather anarchy yet again my thoughts cannot help but drift to the pessimistic view. I will see it through – just, but my income is supplemented from outside sources. I am lucky. My thoughts and prayers drift to those families whose soul resides IN the land and will have their spirit cut asunder this year. / Am thinking of you lot – you are not alone.

• 'Old Fence' featured!
  by DavidMark

  Thanks so much to the QUEENSLAND group for featuring Old Fence...

  Thanks so much to the QUEENSLAND group for featuring Old Fence ... Cheers! /

• Buddhist Magazines
  by Elena Ray

  I am still not working, however been very busy. One of the things I am doing is cleaning up and organizing my hard drives-what a mess. No…

  I am still not working, however been very busy. One of the things I am doing is cleaning up and organizing my hard drives-what a mess. Normally I don’t take time to keep up with it. This is a big job and I am in the mood to do it. Also think I’m going to take down all my unfinished paintings and lay them flat in a dark place-tired of looking at them. Mostly though, I am going through a big stack of Buddhist magazines my friend Annie loaned me. Shambhala Sun has the best art…Is reading Buddhist literature the equivalent of meditating, because I feel pretty good.

• About the "Empress Falls" image
  by Roger Barnes

  This image is a little different to others I have shot, so I thought I…

  This image is a little different to others I have shot, so I thought I’d provide some background. Some upcoming shots of Blue Mountains canyons use a similar technique, so stay tuned if you’d like to see more. I don’t have all the technical details to hand, but suffice to say, this is a combination of 3 bracketed shots (-2, 0, +2), all shot handheld with a Canon 20D, Sigma 10-22mm. The ISO was set to allow a handheld shot @ -2 with sufficient depth of field (f/8 I believe). Post-processing involved adjusting all 3 raw images in Bibble Pro , and outputting as 16-bit tiffs. Because they were shot handheld, I then ran them through hugin panorama software to align them into 3 new 16-bit tiffs. Then, I fired up gimp and loaded all 3 aligned images as layers. Next, I applied layer masks to the -2 and +2 images and adjusted the masks for detail (taking the darker parts where the waterfall had blown out, and the lighter parts for the vast areas of darkness in the original image). Then it was time for some final adjustment and sharpening before outputting to a single image. This technique is often referred to as Dynamic Range Increase (or DRI), a sibling of HDR, in a sense.

• Another Feature!! :)
  by Rebecca Lee

  I am so humbled to find that I had another writing featured within the same group as last time,Living Christianity...

  I am so humbled to find that I had another writing featured within the same group as last time,Living Christianity The piece is, Dry Land Thanks again to everyone! This has made my day! RebeccaLee

• Wheatbelt Landscape Series comes to an end.
  by GCPhoto

  Hi all, Have just uploaded the final pic’s to my series on the wheatbelt area of Western Australia. By all accounts, they have be…

  Hi all, Have just uploaded the final pic’s to my series on the wheatbelt area of Western Australia. By all accounts, they have been enjoyed by bubblers. It has put a big smile on my face to share them with you all and receive such a warm response in return – many thanks for the kind comments and sales. Cheers / Grant.

• First Sale!!!!
  by David Firth

  Yes I finally have done it. My first sale!!!!! I would sincerely like to thank myself for buying my calendar :) I am sure I will be …

  Yes I finally have done it. My first sale!!!!! I would sincerely like to thank myself for buying my calendar :) I am sure I will be happy with the quality of work that I have put together and other family members such as me and myself, will be able to enjoy the lovely scenery too!! :) My Calendar

• pleased as punch
  by britpix

  thank you to those who have commented on my first pic – now, / to continue my Norfolk twist I’ve added a couple more and I’ll say again – ...

  thank you to those who have commented on my first pic – now, / to continue my Norfolk twist I’ve added a couple more and I’ll say again – I absolutely love this part of England – hope you like ….........

• Thanks Michelle!
  by SpraggonPhotography

  Michelle has very kindly recommended me on her redbubble journal (check out her photos at http://www.redbubble.com/people/eyepics), so I …

  Michelle has very kindly recommended me on her redbubble journal (check out her photos at http://www.redbubble.com/people/eyepics), so I just wanted to thank her :) I intend to build up my collection of photos on redbubble this year. Things have been quiet since Christmas as the weather in England is pretty dull in January. In photo taking terms this means that I like to either wait for decent weather or have a great location in mind that will look good with a gloomy sky overhead. Right now nowhere sticks out so I’m looking forward to the cold weather…. cold weather = frosts = clear skies = me happy! For now I have added a few more photos from the last year, most of which aren’t on my flickr page.