Contributions of the group I feel manipulated

Creature

nobody@ipernity.com (Ceropegia) — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 14:22:35 +0000

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Created from a photo of a hot air balloon distorted with polar coordinates and added eyes. (IMG_3452kc)

Revenge on the Honey Thief

nobody@ipernity.com (Ceropegia) — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 04:29:19 +0000

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Digital photo maniputation. These are the two photos I used to create this image.

The Swarm

nobody@ipernity.com (Ceropegia) — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 04:29:23 +0000

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Digital photo maniputation. This is the photo I used to create this image.

Visage de l'apocalypse

nobody@ipernity.com (Valeriane ♫ ♫ ♫¨*) — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 07:15:58 +0000

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Détourage du personnage sur un fond retravaillé avec celui de la griffe du diable, retouches couleurs et encadrement. sous copyrigth...

Dragon Attack - Where is St. George when you need him?

nobody@ipernity.com (Ceropegia) — Sat, 21 Dec 2013 13:16:01 +0000

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Aka Damsel in Distress. I did manage to escape without harm.

Had a lot of fun creating this in Photoshop Elements. My initial rendition did not have flames, but later decided that the dragon should be throwing flames and was finally able to create some reasonably acceptable ones. It's a composite of three different shots, an old 35mm photo of rocks that I shot in Joshua tree in 2001, a wooden dragon which I shot and turned red, and me shot posed (against a blank wall) defensively, plus the flames which I painted in PSE.

Another Link in the Chain - Linking a fire dragon with a fire breathing dragon

How to make The Omnipotent even more omnipotent

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 21:20:15 +0000

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William Blake's "The Omnipotent" or "The Ancient of [Bad Hair] Days" (1794)
New version of www.ipernity.com/doc/goetzkluge/20986205

John Martin's Bard and Henry Holiday's Snark Illustrations

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 19:29:01 +0000

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top left: John Martin, The Bard (1817).

top right: John Martin, The Bard modified using GIMP, Retinex: Scale=160, ScaleDivision=6, Dynamic=2.5

bottom left: Illustration (1876) by Henry Holiday to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark, Fit 8. Changes: GIMP "delate" applied in order to yield a less darker printing.

bottom right: Illustration (1876) by Henry Holiday to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark, Fit 5

4800 px × 6500 px
20.3 cm × 27.5 cm (@ 600 dpi)

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John Martin: The Bard
ca. 1817

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
collections.britishart.yale.edu/vufind/Record/1671616:
"Based on a Thomas Gray poem, inspired by a Welsh tradition that said that Edward I had put to death any bards he found, to extinguish Welsh culture; the poem depicts the escape of a single bard.

In mydailyartdisplay.wordpress.com/the-bard-by-john-martin, "Jonathan" connects the painting to the poem The Bard written by by Thomas Gray in 1755:
· · ...
· · On a rock, whose haughty brow
· · Frowns o'er cold Conway's foaming flood,
· · Robed in the sable garb of woe
· · With haggard eyes the Poet stood;
· · ...
· · "Enough for me: with joy I see
· · The diff'rent doom our fates assign.
· · Be thine Despair and sceptred Care;
· · To triumph and to die are mine."
· · He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height
· · Deep in the roaring tide he plunged to endless night.
· · ...

The poem and the painting may have been an inspiration to Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday in The Hunting of the Snark:
· · 545· · Erect and sublime, for one moment of time.
· · 546· · · · In the next, that wild figure they saw
· · 547· · (As if stung by a spasm) plunge into a chasm,
· · 548· · · · While they waited and listened in awe.

Album:

John Martin

No Mistake

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 23:51:47 +0000

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A white spot not covered by ink?
A strange black shadow under the Billiard marker's chin? A bow tie?

Don't blame Joseph Swain, the engraver of Henry Holiday's illustrations to The Hunting of the Snark. Those "flaws" are no printmaking mistakes.

Probably Dodgson/Carroll knew that the little white spot on the Banker's coat is related to the reflection of light on a glass in William Sydney Mount's Bone Player painting. As a perfectionist, Dodgson would not have accepted flawed printing. Thus, Holiday created his pictorial allusions with Dodgson's consent - or even with Dodgson's support. Also, when lampooning Henry George Liddell (Dodgson's boss), Holiday and Dodgson may have worked together.

The Monster in the Branches

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 13:26:59 +0000

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2014-01-26: I like this allusion by Henry Holiday in one of his illustrations to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark to a little detail in John Martin's The Bard so much, that I made yet another assemblage.

Color image:
John Martin: The Bard, now in the Yale Center for British Art

Large black&white inlay:
[left]: John Martin: Detail from The Bard (ca. 1817)
[right, mirror view]: Henry Holiday: From Illustration (1876) to chapter The Beaver's Lesson in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark

I assume, that Holiday used allusions in order to construct conundrums. However, alluding to works of other artists also helps to draw inspiration in a quick and efficient manner.

See also p. 3 in www.academia.edu/9923718/Henry_Holidays_Monsterspotting

Happy Holidays!

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Wed, 22 May 2013 17:41:07 +0000

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Oakland CA, 2002

Anne Hale Mrs. Hoskins

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Tue, 21 May 2013 04:38:08 +0000

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Anne Hale, Mrs Hoskins (1629) by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger and a segment (mirror view) of an illustration by Henry Holiday (cut by Joseph Swain) to Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark (1876)

Bellman & Bard after retinex filtering

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 23:00:03 +0000

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[main image]: John Martin: The Bard (ca. 1817), by GIMP: contrast enhanced in the rock area & light areas delated & (most of) color removed & retinex filtering

[inset]: Henry Holiday: Illustration (1876) to chapter The Beaver's Lesson in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark, detail

In mydailyartdisplay.wordpress.com/the-bard-by-john-martin, "Jonathan" connects the painting to the poem The Bard written by by Thomas Gray in 1755. Inspired by a Welsh tradition that said that Edward I had put to death any bards he found, to extinguish Welsh culture; the poem depicts the escape of a single bard:
· · ...
· · On a rock, whose haughty brow
· · Frowns o'er cold Conway's foaming flood,
· · Robed in the sable garb of woe
· · With haggard eyes the Poet stood;
· · ...
· · A Voice, as of the Cherub-Choir,
· · Gales from blooming Eden bear;
· · And distant warblings lessen on my ear,
· · That lost in long futurity expire.
· · Fond impious Man, think'st thou, yon sanguine cloud,
· · Rais'd by thy breath, has quench'd the Orb of day?
· · To-morrow he repairs the golden flood,
· · And warms the nations with redoubled ray.
· · "Enough for me: With joy I see
· · The different doom our Fates assign.
· · Be thine Despair, and scept'red Care,
· · To triumph, and to die, are mine."
· · He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height
· · Deep in the roaring tide he plung'd to endless night.
· · ...

Full text:
www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=bapo
spenserians.cath.vt.edu/TextRecord.php?action=GET&tex...
www.english.upenn.edu/~mgamer/Etexts/gray.bard.html
www.google.com/search?q="A+Voice,+as+of+the+Cherub-Choir"

The poem and the painting may have been an inspiration to Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday in The Hunting of the Snark. This is about The Vanishing of The Baker:
· · 537 · · "There is Thingumbob shouting!" the Bellman said,
· · 538 · · · · "He is shouting like mad, only hark!
· · 539 · · He is waving his hands, he is wagging his head,
· · 540 · · · · He has certainly found a Snark!"

· · 541 · · They gazed in delight, while the Butcher exclaimed
· · 542 · · · · "He was always a desperate wag!"
· · 543 · · They beheld him--their Baker--their hero unnamed--
· · 544 · · · · On the top of a neighbouring crag.

· · 545 · · Erect and sublime, for one moment of time.
· · 546 · · · · In the next, that wild figure they saw
· · 547 · · (As if stung by a spasm) plunge into a chasm,
· · 548 · · · · While they waited and listened in awe.

Album:

John Martin

Blakeekalb

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 20:04:24 +0000

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I couldn'd decide which version I prefer. So I chose a compromise.

Bellman & Bard

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Sat, 23 Nov 2013 23:28:52 +0000

Götz Kluge has posted:

[main image]: John Martin: The Bard (ca. 1817), by GIMP: contrast enhanced in the rock area & light areas delated & (most of) color removed

[inset]: Henry Holiday: Illustration (1876) to chapter The Beaver's Lesson in Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark, detail

In mydailyartdisplay.wordpress.com/the-bard-by-john-martin, "Jonathan" connects the painting to the poem The Bard written by by Thomas Gray in 1755. Inspired by a Welsh tradition that said that Edward I had put to death any bards he found, to extinguish Welsh culture; the poem depicts the escape of a single bard:
· · ...
· · On a rock, whose haughty brow
· · Frowns o'er cold Conway's foaming flood,
· · Robed in the sable garb of woe
· · With haggard eyes the Poet stood;
· · ...
· · A Voice, as of the Cherub-Choir,
· · Gales from blooming Eden bear;
· · And distant warblings lessen on my ear,
· · That lost in long futurity expire.
· · Fond impious Man, think'st thou, yon sanguine cloud,
· · Rais'd by thy breath, has quench'd the Orb of day?
· · To-morrow he repairs the golden flood,
· · And warms the nations with redoubled ray.
· · "Enough for me: With joy I see
· · The different doom our Fates assign.
· · Be thine Despair, and scept'red Care,
· · To triumph, and to die, are mine."
· · He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height
· · Deep in the roaring tide he plung'd to endless night.
· · ...

Full text:
www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=bapo
spenserians.cath.vt.edu/TextRecord.php?action=GET&tex...
www.english.upenn.edu/~mgamer/Etexts/gray.bard.html
www.google.com/search?q="A+Voice,+as+of+the+Cherub-Choir"

The poem and the painting may have been an inspiration to Lewis Carroll and Henry Holiday in The Hunting of the Snark. This is about The Vanishing of The Baker:
· · 537 · · "There is Thingumbob shouting!" the Bellman said,
· · 538 · · · · "He is shouting like mad, only hark!
· · 539 · · He is waving his hands, he is wagging his head,
· · 540 · · · · He has certainly found a Snark!"

· · 541 · · They gazed in delight, while the Butcher exclaimed
· · 542 · · · · "He was always a desperate wag!"
· · 543 · · They beheld him--their Baker--their hero unnamed--
· · 544 · · · · On the top of a neighbouring crag.

· · 545 · · Erect and sublime, for one moment of time.
· · 546 · · · · In the next, that wild figure they saw
· · 547 · · (As if stung by a spasm) plunge into a chasm,
· · 548 · · · · While they waited and listened in awe.

Album:

John Martin

Detail from John Martin's "The Bard"

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Mon, 27 May 2013 07:45:35 +0000

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King Edward I "Longshanks" hiding in the bushes?

In a part of the detail I changed contrast and color. Then I vectorized the image.

Full Moon.

nobody@ipernity.com (Phil) — Mon, 27 May 2013 09:19:56 +0000

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Photographed using a Panasonic TZ10 compact camera attached to a pair of Celestron 15 x 70 "Skymaster" binoculars. Processed with Nikon Capture NX2.

Southern Californian Factory

nobody@ipernity.com (Götz Kluge) — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:44:05 +0000

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near San Jose, CA, 2005

Tools: very lousy camera, GIMP, Inkscape
By the way: I did not manipulate any color hues.

Industrial reflections.

nobody@ipernity.com (Phil) — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 05:43:51 +0000

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This large building (only part of which is visible here) once provided employment for people all over Pendle district. It was owned by Smith & Nephew and by BSN Medical Supplies in the past. It has been derelict for a number of years but has now been purchased by the local council for "Re-Development", possibly for conversion into flats (USA = "appartments") which is what is being done with others in the area.

Winter sunrise.

nobody@ipernity.com (Phil) — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 03:35:01 +0000

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Sunrise over the Leeds-Liverpool canal near Brierfield, Lancashire, UK. Taken on a very cold morning when the canal was "frozen solid" for miles, using a Canon Powershot G10 compact camera.

www.ipernity.com/group/england

Haunted hotel, York.

nobody@ipernity.com (Phil) — Fri, 05 Jul 2013 07:38:51 +0000

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The Golden Fleece is an inn in York, England, which has a free-house pub on the ground floor and four guest bedrooms above. It was mentioned in the York City Archives as far back as 1503 and is rumoured to be haunted (the inn claims to be the most haunted public house in the City of York). The back yard of the inn is named "Peckitt's Yard" after John Peckett, who owned the premises as well as being Lord Mayor of York around 1702. His wife Lady Alice Peckett is said to haunt the pub, which was featured on Living TV's "Most Haunted" show on 16 April 2005.

“ Many guests have reported seeing the late Lady Peckett wandering the endless corridors and staircases in the wee, small hours and moving furniture. She is just one of the five resident spirits. ”

The pub is situated on "The Pavement" in the centre of York, opposite the historic Tudor street called "The Shambles". It has a large golden fleece hanging above the door. Nearby attractions also include the Merchant Adventurers' Hall (the merchant adventurers were former owners of the inn), Cliffords Tower, and York Minster. In 1983 the inn was designated as a grade II listed building by English Heritage.
(Wikipedia).