Contributions of the group Spatial , science fiction , galactic atmosphère , New world

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nobody@ipernity.com (Bubu) — Sun, 09 Oct 2016 21:48:41 +0000

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Intense gravity

nobody@ipernity.com (Sami Serola (inactive)) — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 17:49:19 +0000

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Soundtrack by SPOON: soundcloud.com/spoontheband/inside-out

Because it is so intense!

Slowly, enormous reptiles are dragging their silvered scales

nobody@ipernity.com (J.Garcia) — Sat, 03 Sep 2016 09:42:48 +0000

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Your visits and comments are very appreciated

The Lycan Gate ...

nobody@ipernity.com (autofantasia) — Sun, 22 May 2016 09:44:18 +0000

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For this week's Sunday Challenge which had the theme of liminal spaces

Don't worry if that doesn't mean much to you as I wasn't sure what it meant either. However, it appears there are two definitions. It can be of, or relating to, a transitional or initial stage of a process, but it can also relate to occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold.

Torn between the two options, perhaps even stuck in my own liminal space I decided to create a fantasy image that would combine the two definitions.

I began with a photograph I shot recently at Harlow Carr in Harrogate of a wooden archway in the children's adventure playground. It seemed rather magical looking to me so I decided this could well be a portal to another realm hidden deep within some ancient forest.

A special place marked by the magnificent wooden arch, which marks the boundary between the world we know and the other that we believe to be simply one of folklore: a place where fairies dance and pixies play; a place where lycans might not only go to transform, but where their wolfen spirits could roam free.

To get there though I've done a fair bit of processing to my original image, which can be found in the Notes, all designed to turn it from a bright daytime shot into something darker.

All my own work with the exception of the wolf, which I sourced from nobacks although even that has been transformed somewhat (no pun intended)!

Please view large on black for best effect.

A Little More About Werewolves ...

A werewolf or lycanthrope is a mythological or folkloric human with the ability to transform themselves into a wolf or a wolf-like creature. Sometimes this ability might have been acquired as a result of a curse, whilst others supposedly gain it from having been bitten/scratched by another lycan.

One of the first movies to focus on the werewolf was the 1941 film "The Wolf Man", which starred Lon Chaney, Jr. as the unfortunate Lawrence Talbot and this catapulted the werewolf into public consciousness.

In the decades that followed similarly sympathetic portrayals were indeed rare with most werewolves being depicted as fierce and uncontrollable monsters ... the stuff indeed of nightmares.

There were exceptions though, most notably the comedic "An American Werewolf in London". Released in 1981 it was directed by John Landis and has become a cult classic. More recently though the werewolves, or lycans, have gone from being portrayed as malevolent monsters to friendly even heroic creatures, such as has been the case with the "Underworld" and "Twilight" franchises.

The Third Kind ...

nobody@ipernity.com (autofantasia) — Sat, 02 Jan 2016 19:27:43 +0000

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A little bit of fun produced for the Come Slide With Me group challenge.

It's based on a shot of the road between Tagish and Carcross in the Southern Yukon as taken and shared with the group by The Wicked Witch of The North.

You'll find a copy of the original image in the Notes though it has been manipulated quite a bit since then. I started by mirroring it, then I took a square crop of the central area. Next I added the ripple effect in PaintShop Pro where I also added the lightning bolts and the small spheres.

The main central dome of the UFO is based on an orb I created from shopping trolley's a while back. I also manipulated one of those images several times to create the body of the saucer.

Finished off with some lighting effects and a widescreen crop to try and give it a more cinematic feel.

The Red Skulls ...

nobody@ipernity.com (autofantasia) — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 15:41:46 +0000

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Just a little bit of post Halloween scariness for you ... why not go full screen on black, that's if you dare!

Cosmonaut

nobody@ipernity.com (Sami Serola (inactive)) — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 16:47:52 +0000

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Soundtrack by Pogo (Nick Bertke): soundcloud.com/pogomix/what-is-i

histoire des étoiles...

nobody@ipernity.com (cortomaltese91) — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 18:54:38 +0000

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Green experiment

nobody@ipernity.com (Soeradjoen (limited time)) — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 17:55:30 +0000

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Doctor On Call ...

nobody@ipernity.com (autofantasia) — Wed, 07 Oct 2015 15:20:44 +0000

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What started out as a simple orb became my very own tribute to the man in the little blue box as well as all those that have travelled with him over the years.

Don't even ask what I did or how I got there as it would take ages to xplain, but please do take time to view it large.

Thanks to everyone who takes up the invitation.

Best wishes

PAUL

subway

nobody@ipernity.com (cortomaltese91) — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 16:54:18 +0000

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The Faerie Bridges ...

nobody@ipernity.com (autofantasia) — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 10:31:22 +0000

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Legend has it that if you travel to the very edge of man's world
And sit quietly on the grassy bank amongst the ferns unfurled
Where the four magic rivers flow and lovers look for romance
Then there's every chance that you might see the faeries dance

So the theme for this week's Sunday Challenge was mirroring and we were all asked to use the same stock image. However, from there we could do what we wanted with it: we could mirror, process and texture it in whatever way we wanted.

The stock image we were provided with was The Bridge of the Fairies by Leina1 over on Deviant Art.

You will find a copy of this in the Notes if you don't want to follow the links through to Deviant Art.

I experimented using PicMonkey to see what effects I could generate by mirroring Leina's excellent photo. Quite quickly I discovered that if I placed the original on the right before applying the mirroring effect the stones that supported the bridge started to look awfully like a large skull ... a discovery I then set out to take full advantage of by adding in some menacing looking eyes.

The mirrored pair of images were then mirrored again so that I ended up with 4 stone arches, 2 skulls, and a grassy area in the middle. That looked to me like it was crying out for a statue of some kind so I dug into my archives where I uncovered a shot I'd taken of an odd little statue whilst visiting an open garden in Whixley.

The statue was only about 4 feet tall and once again you'll find a copy of the original shot in the Notes. Obviously, I had to process it somewhat to get the proportions to look best in the space and to try and get it to match the existing stonework of the bridge. A small section of which I copied across to form the small group of stones at the statue's base.

I still felt the overall image I was producing looked too obviously mirrored so I set out to try and disguise this somewhat by altering the trees against the skyline and cloning in some extra stones into the river.

Next I wanted to create some foreground to the picture so that it would appear the shot had been taken from a field or another bridge under which the 4 rivers would flow. I had the idea of creating a wall so I once again dipped into the archives and utilised a shot I'd taken of a section of dry stone walling when out walking close to Roseberry Topping. Again for the curious amongst you I've inserted a copy of this image into the Notes.

I deleted the sky from my shot and then mirrored it before mirroring it again to create a long enough section of wall to go from on side of my image to the other.

I then returned to PicMonkey to look for some suitable texture and in the end I chose one of the ones in their Clouds section. I chose this because the one thing I didn't like about my combined image at that time was the fact that the sky was rather washed out and lifeless, but this texture gave me some striking clouds and helped to add the appearance of dappled light elsewhere.

Finally, I took the image back into PaintShop Pro to add some flares, which I found in the Picture Tube tool, to represent the 'dancing faeries'.

Oh, and the poem is by me, just a few words I strung together that I felt helped reinforce the atmosphere I was trying to convey when creating the image.

Best viewed large for best effect, so please hit z and enjoy!

The Magical Esplanade Bridge

nobody@ipernity.com (funtor) — Sat, 13 Jun 2015 22:00:43 +0000

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Time Warp

nobody@ipernity.com (Ulrich John) — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 11:26:39 +0000

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Frankfurt, My Zeil

Don't Go Around Tonight ...

nobody@ipernity.com (autofantasia) — Sun, 07 Jun 2015 22:20:13 +0000

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Created over many hours for this week's Sunday Challenge, which has the theme of favourite song or songs.

Right from the very beginning I only really had two songs in mind: "Bad To The Bone" by George Thorogood & The Destroyers and "Bad Moon Rising" by Creedance Clearwater Revival.

Both are songs that I first encountered at the cinema as they featured on two of my favourite films upon release - many, many years ago: John Carpenter's "Christine" based on the Stephen King novel and John Landis' "An American Werewolf in London".

With no 1958 Plymouth Fury to call upon I decided to let the "Christine" idea go and concentrated instead on "Bad Moon Rising".

The final image is a composite of sorts. The building is actually a shot I took myself in Harrogate during daylight, but I've altered the perspective on it in PaintShop Pro and also 'tweaked' it in an attempt to create the illusion that it was shot at night.

As for my very own 'bad moon', the base image was obtained as a download from the NASA Scientific Visualization Studio and you'll find a copy of this in the Notes. You can find out more about this organisation and check out further images by following the link below:

svs.gsfc.nasa.gov

The skull element was based around work produced by Marc Gosselin on DeviantArt and again you'll find a copy of the original unaltered image in the Notes. You can see more of Marc's work by following the link below:

marcgosselin.deviantart.com

Bringing the two images together that form the 'bad moon' in a convincing and I hope seamless way was a bit fiddly, but I'm pleased with the final result.

I have to say I also found the merging of my 'bad moon' and the church to the background shot of the night sky rather difficult too as I've not worked much with masks in the past.

However, once again I'm fairly happy with the end result and thanks for the starry night sky must go to a Wiki user called chensiyuan who took this shot, which is entitled "Vermont_night_sky_stargazing". You can find more of their images by following the link below:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Chensiyuan

You can listen to "Bad Moon Rising" via the MP3 I've inserted above or, if you also want to read the lyrics to the song then follow the link below:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUQiUFZ5RDw

Apparently, it "looks amazing on black" ... so why not hit z and see if you agree with the lovely Karen ... that's if you're brave enough!

bad news day

nobody@ipernity.com (Heidiho) — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 20:51:22 +0000

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Ce pourait être..... Un autre moment

nobody@ipernity.com (Krisonteme) — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 08:00:21 +0000

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Lüttich - Bahnhof Liège-Guillemins, Rolltreppen zu den Bahnsteigen

nobody@ipernity.com (LotharW) — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 18:06:35 +0000

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Journée de la Femme

nobody@ipernity.com (Valeriane ♫ ♫ ♫¨*) — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 22:53:50 +0000

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« La femme est un délicieux instrument de plaisir, mais il faut en connaître les frémissantes cordes,en étudier la prose, le clavier timide, le doigté changeant et capricieux. »
Honoré de Balzac
Merci pour vos visites et vos commentaires♫

Paris, La Défense

nobody@ipernity.com (cortomaltese91) — Sat, 07 Feb 2015 18:01:47 +0000

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