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It's December 🎄 and year is almost over.
2025 has been the year of applied AI in life! It definitely has empowered me to do more! 💪🏽
Don't know what the future holds, however I hope that we find a way to lift everyone's lives for better! 🙏🏽
#HappyHolidays #2025 #LookingBack
"Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)" is a song written by #MorrisBroadnax, #ClarencePaul, and #StevieWonder. The song was originally recorded by Stevie Wonder in 1967, but his version was not released as a single and did not appear on an album until 1977's anthology #LookingBack. The best-known version of this song is the 1973 release by #ArethaFranklin, who had a million-selling top 10 hit on #Billboard charts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbokg0KM-n8
Lens-Artists Challenge #368: Looking Back to #106 – Autumn
This week it’s John’s turn to host the Challenge, and it’s another ‘Looking Back’ challenge, where a member of the team picks a subject from a previous Challenge, then makes a new entry on that subject. This time, it’s a topical subject: Autumn. On his blog, Journeys with Johnbo, he writes, ‘With autumn fully entrenched here in North Dakota, I searched the archives for a “Fall Colors” theme. In July 2020, the team hosted a series titled “Seasons.” Patti hosted the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #106: Autumn.’ He continues: Now, it’s your turn to show us autumn colors. Share with us your favorite images of autumn, or if the timing is right, share some new pictures.’
This week, I took my hint for subjects for the Challenge from John’s comment about searching for ‘Fall Colors’. Over here in Portugal, many of the trees are still quite green, though now the autumn colours are trying to push through. I decided that I would take two cameras with me on a ‘walk around the block’, where I tread the fields and what remains of the woods behind our house. The first camera was an Olympus Pen E-PL2 mirrorless cameras fitted with a Holga plastic lens (with a micro four-thirds mount) and a +4 close-up filter.
With this camera, I got some lovely autumn images of the changing leaves on the vines, which will soon fall and leave rows of bare sticks, to be trimmed and prepared for next year’s grape harvest, and also of the remains of the cornfields, with unpicked cobs among dried — and as yet uncut — corn.
With the second camera I had much more fun. This was my beloved Panasonic Lumix GF1 fitted with its dedicated Panasonic 20mm f1.7 pancake lens. This particular lens was sold as faulty, so I picked it up ‘for a song’ compared to the price of a ‘new’ lens. But on the GF1 it works perfectly, and I saved a fortune. For the Challenge, I fitted a 6-stop neutral density filter to the lens and concentrated on making some intentional camera movement images of the bare trees and autumn colours.
Instead of just presenting the ICM images, I brought them back home, loaded the files into my smartphone, and glitched a few with the smartphone app GlitchLab. I should have done this properly, but my new scanning/glitching setup is not finished yet. However, with a little RGB shift here, and some channel mixing there, I hope we have a couple of real examples of ‘Autumn colours’.
Themes for the Lens-Artists Challenge are posted each Saturday at 12:00 noon EST (which is 4pm, GMT) and anyone who wants to take part can post their images during the week. If you want to know more about the Challenge, details can be found here, and entries can be found on the WordPress reader using the tag ‘Lens-Artists’.
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#Abstract #Autumn #Challenge #ChannelMixing #Fall #FallColors #Glitch #GlitchArt #ICM #IntentionalCameraMovement #LensArtists #LookingBack #Motion #RGBShift #106 #LensArtists
Looking Back – 7-8-09 – A look at some of the discussion about a CFATS authorization bill, HR 2868 – This one failed for problems that are like what would be faced today to reauthorize the program – https://tinyurl.com/3utxsdn9 #CFATS #LookingBack
Why do people always lament the good old days? Despite all the bad things in history, the world today has become so much more progressive and humane than it was many years ago and before. This lamentation can only stem from a lack of education in which the past is presented to us.
The only thing we are really destroying continuously is the global climate. And then we have to admit to ourselves: “Everything used to be better.”
#LookingBack #GoodOldDays #Education #History #ClimateChange
Looking Back – EO 13556 – Looks at how the Obama CUI EO would affect the CFATS CVI processes – https://tinyurl.com/3bsy4n6j #LookingBack #CFATS
"Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)" is a song written by #MorrisBroadnax, #ClarencePaul, and #StevieWonder. The song was originally recorded by Stevie Wonder in 1967, but his version was not released as a single and did not appear on an album until 1977's anthology #LookingBack. The best-known version of this song is the 1973 release by #ArethaFranklin, who had a million-selling top 10 hit on #Billboard charts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbokg0KM-n8
Managing to finish doctoral study in such relatively rare field #Criminology, finishing dissertation and getting #Cumlaude graduate status whilst also recontribute to the industry that raises her by making such somewhat phenomenal comeback #NastiLest
#NASTHURSDAY #REKOMENASTI #NASThusiast #PulomasPrecious 👗🦀💙💎✨️ #reflection #lookingback 🪞
🔎 Looking Back: 2024 Congress Highlights
A deep dive into some of the incredible congresses we’ve worked on this year! 📅
🔗 https://congrex.com/press-releases-congrex-news/deepdive-into-some-of-our-2024-congresses/
Lens-Artists Challenge #355: Looking Back to Challenge #42 – Creativity (Revisited)
The Lens-Artists Challenge is taking a break this week, next week it’ll be back with a guest post from SH, but I thought it would be an idea to share this little gem of Creativity that probably only a handful of people in the whole of Portugal are aware of.
In front of our local Lidl supermarket in Oliveira do Bairro is a small derelict structure. I’ve photographed this many times over the years, and I never tire of it. A few years ago the vegetation that grows around the building was cut back, and I went exploring. I was startled to find the most beautiful mural on one wall. This wasn’t a typical street art painted mural, but azulejos, hand painted tiles, and it depicted a beautiful undersea vista.
Traditionally, tiles were decorated with a simple colour palate dominated by blues and whites, but in the twentieth century azulejos became more ornate and were used in advertising hoardings and murals. In the 1970s and 80s machine patterned tiles appeared, and houses began to be adorned with a variety of geometric shapes. (I really must gave another wander around the ‘old town’ in Aveiro, there are some great examples there.)
After my original foray into the building, back in 2021, the vegetation was allowed to grow back and the structure became inaccessible again, but in the past couple of weeks a lot of the vegetation around Lidl has been cut back, including around the derelict structure. As I was in Oliveira, I took the opportunity to see if I could access the building, and after a bit of clambering (and narrowly missing a poor dead cat in the undergrowth), I entered the derelict building and discovered the mural was as lovely as I remembered.
This time, I took some close-up images of the mural, or should it really be described as a mosaic, showing more details of the painted tiles. They really are splendid, and the close ups reveal the brush strokes and the effort that was put into the design. For someone this was a real labour of love. The shapes of the eyes of the fish, and individual fish, still retain their colour, and although there is some water damage, unsurprisingly since the building, and the mural, has been open to the elements for years, the mural is still an idyllic underwater vista.
Judging by the clearing up around the Lidl supermarket, it’s possible that after some twenty years that development might be taking place. The scrubland is one of my favourite places to go to test new cameras, and although I would miss the concrete pipes that have graced many a post, I would miss this building, and this irreplaceable mural, even more. I had better record its intricate detail while I can.
This was for Leya’s first ‘Looking Back’ Challenge, ‘Creativity‘. Themes for the Lens-Artists Challenge are posted each Saturday at 12:00 noon EST (which is 4pm, GMT) and anyone who wants to take part can post their images during the week. If you want to know more about the Challenge, details can be found here, and entries can be found on the WordPress reader using the tag ‘Lens-Artists’.
If you are on Mastodon, you can now follow this blog directly. Just go to Mastodon and follow the ‘Snapshot’ WordPress account at @keithdevereux.wordpress.com. All new posts will be automatically updated to your timeline.
#Abandoned #Abstract #Azulejos #Building #Challenge #Creativity #Decay #Design #LensArtists #LookingBack #Traditional #LensArtists
Lens-Artists Challenge #355: Looking Back to Challenge #42 – Creativity
It’s Leya’s turn to host the Challenge this week, and it’s a little different. In a post on her blog, To See a World in a Grain of Sand …, Leya introduces the first ‘Looking Back’ Challenge, Creativity. ‘This week we are starting to look back …’ says Leya. ‘one of us in the LAPC – team will repeat a PREVIOUSLY USED subject for the week [and] create a new post on the same subject’.
The Challenge Leya chose was #42 from 2019, ‘Creativity‘. In that post she wrote that Creativity ‘… is the use of imagination or original ideas to create something new’. Initially, this gave me some pause. One of the reasons I originally got into photography, way back in the 1980s, was that my drawing skills were pretty awful. And they’ve not improved since then. I considered posting about some of the wonderfully creative street art in Portugal, or the designs on the bows of the tourist boats on the canals of Aveiro, but sadly there’s little chance of spending much time there this week.
And then I remembered. For many years I was happy to produce images that were nicely exposed, in perfect (or near perfect) focus, and pleasing to look at. But then I became a little jaded with that and sought to embrace the errors and imperfections. In short, I wanted the create uncertainty in my images. I started using film again and bought a film camera, and then another, and another, until by now I have quite a collection. None of these cameras were perfect, they always had some flaws (which also made them quite cheap), but I took great pleasure in getting around these flaws to produce images from them once again. Imagine, some of these cameras might have laid neglected in drawers or cupboards for decades before they came into my possession and breathed new life into them.
A lot of these cameras are no longer light tight. I could do something about this, replacing light seals, or repairing the broken camera bodies, but instead I prefer to enjoy these imperfections. I’ve recently become fascinated with the Agfa Rapid system, which uses 35mm film but rolled into little canisters and not cartridges, like Instamatic film, or cassettes, like 35mm. There are a lot of variables with Rapid canisters where light leaks might be introduced, and I seem to have found them all.
The featured image was actually taken from a panorama of the beach at Mira. It features one of my favourite creative endeavours, redscaling film (exposing film backwards), and of course there inevitable light leaks.
Themes for the Lens-Artists Challenge are posted each Saturday at 12:00 noon EST (which is 4pm, GMT) and anyone who wants to take part can post their images during the week. If you want to know more about the Challenge, details can be found here, and entries can be found on the WordPress reader using the tag ‘Lens-Artists’.
If you are on Mastodon, you can now follow this blog directly. Just go to Mastodon and follow the ‘Snapshot’ WordPress account at @keithdevereux.wordpress.com. All new posts will be automatically updated to your timeline.
#Abstract #Art #Challenge #Creativity #LensArtists #LookingBack #PhotographyLightLeaks #42 #LensArtists
🔎 Looking Back: 2024 Congress Highlights
A deep dive into some of the incredible congresses we’ve worked on this year! 📅
🔗 https://congrex.com/press-releases-congrex-news/deepdive-into-some-of-our-2024-congresses/
🔎 Looking Back: 2024 Congress Highlights
A deep dive into some of the incredible congresses we’ve worked on this year! 📅
🔗 https://congrex.com/press-releases-congrex-news/deepdive-into-some-of-our-2024-congresses/
Kunst im Museum und die Kunst, eine gelungene, ansprechende Ausstellung zu machen... Hier ein paar Erinnerungen aus meinen Highlights im Lenbachhaus, der Fondation Beyerle, der Neuen Nationalgalerie und dem Columba Museum.
#kunstausstellung #museum #lookingback #museumhighlights
Anzac Day in Australia is a day for looking back - so here's a view from Frankston pier on Port Phillip Bay - looking back at Frankston town.
#Photography #Landscape #AustralianLandscape #Perspective #Pier #FrankstonPier #Seaview #WideAngle #LookingBack #PortPhillipBay
"Until You Come Back to Me (That's What I'm Gonna Do)" is a song written by #MorrisBroadnax, #ClarencePaul, and #StevieWonder. The song was originally recorded by Stevie Wonder in 1967, but his version was not released as a single and did not appear on an album until 1977's anthology #LookingBack. The best-known version of this song is the 1973 release by #ArethaFranklin, who had a million-selling top 10 hit on #Billboard charts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScHtuzA2HC8
CD-Review - MIKE AND THE MECHANICS - Looking Back - Living The Years
https://www.hooked-on-music.de/review/cd-review-mike-and-the-mechanics-looking-back-living-the-years/16196
#cd #review #mikeandthemechanics #lookingback #livingtheyears
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