Photos of the Week - Week 40

Critique Group Challenge: 

Week 40, Fading Beauty

Photo by Julie Titus

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Julie says:

Mold and dehydration contrast the still vibrant colors. Golden hour light, tripod for long exposure, minimal LR edits

52-Week Photo Challenge Class
Week 40 - Do Over

Week 52 Photo Challenge:

Week 40, Panorama

Photo by Don Watts

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Don says: 

The Mexican Trestle outside of Cloudcroft, NM. Parts of what's left of the Cloudcroft rail line.

Smart Phone Photo Challenges
Week 40 - Doors

Smart Phone Challenge:

Week 40, Doors

Photo by Linda Rowberry

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Linda says :

I stumbled upon this cute little place with several different doors. Each door had a number over it so I figured they were individual spaces. Out of all the photos that I took, this door was my favorite, mainly because it is red, which is my favorite color! I added an oil painting filter from the BeCasso app

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Photos of the Week - Week 38

Critique Group Challenge: 

Week 38, Pareidolia

Photo by Roz Rossiter

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Roz says:

Does this work? I felt this old tractor had a very nice face.

52-Week Photo Challenge Class
Week 38 - Drive Pans 

Week 52 Photo Challenge:

Week 38, Drive Pans 

Photo by Joyce Edmunds

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Joyce says: 

Finally got out to do this week's assignment. What an amazing technique - so much fun! After many attempts and many disasters, I kept going back to this image. The more I looked at it, the more I saw in it. I love the contrast in colours and tones. Many of the branches and trunks of these burned out trees ae in quite good focus, while there is an impressionistic hazy feel to most of this image. The time has come to make the decision!

Smart Phone Photo Challenges
Week 38 - Stairs / Steps

Smart Phone Challenge:

Week 38, Stairs / Steps

Photo by Diane McCue

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Diane says :

Our restored staircase from the 1870’s.

Smart Phone Challenge:

Week 38,  Stairs / Steps

Photo by Ricky Tims

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Ricky says:

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Critique Group Challenge:

Week 38, Leading Line

Photo by Ricky Tims
from the 2022 Critique Group

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Ricky says:

We diverted off the main road en route to the Grand Canyon to take the drive through the Petrified Forest National Monument. I kept the challenge in mind hoping something might appear. I never scored with what I hoped, but this old crumudgeon seemed to be sufficient. It was a fun challenge.

Photos of the Week - Week 37

Critique Group Challenge: 

Week 37, Leading Line

Photo by Brian Savon

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Brian says:

Early morning black skimmer leaving a trailing line in the water as it forges for breakfast.

52-Week Photo Challenge Class
Week 37 - White on White

Week 52 Photo Challenge:

Week 37, White on White

Photo by Kathleen Madden

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Kathleen says: 

This is part of a statue at my parent's house. I used the healing brush in PS on specks on the fingers.

Smart Phone Photo Challenges
Week 37 - Teapots - Posterize

Smart Phone Challenge:

Week 37, Teapots - Posterize

Photo by Gigi Kandler

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Gigi says :

Posterizing gave the photo some interested. Also cropped a bit to straighten.

Smart Phone Challenge:

Week 37, Teapots - Posterize

Photo by Ricky Tims

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Ricky says:

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Critique Group Challenge:

Week 37, Leading Line

Photo by Ricky Tims
from the 2022 Critique Group

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Ricky says:

Hugo’s brother arrived this week from Portugal and we scheduled a short trip so he would see more than Southern Colorado. Santa Fe is our first stop before heading over to the Grand Canyon. This scene on Alameda street provided. Glorious leading line. Edited in Prisma app with Aircraft

Photos of the Week - Week 36

Critique Group Challenge: 

Week 36, Smoke Mirror

Photo by Wendy Browne

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Wendy says:

Smoke and Mirrors
I have spent hours playing with Photoshop, Lightroom, and Topaz Studio this week.
Firstly, I finally treated myself to a Speedlight to help take the smoke images.
I took multiple smoke images and then made them into brushes in Photoshop.
The mirror was made by my youngest son in Woodwork classes at school. I took the picture and then selected the mirror and made a layer mask. I altered the wooden surrounds in Camera Raw to be darker with more texture.
In photoshop I made a fill layer that was dark grey and used several of the smoke stamps. I then flipped this horizontally to make a mirror montage. This level was placed below the mirror mask to become the background.
Then I added another fill layer in the same grey and different smoke stamps and did another mirror montage. This scale of this was then transformed to fit the hole in the mirror.
This produced my submitted image.
Next into Topaz Studio for some filter fun. I also played with some of the original smoke images in Topaz with some great results.
My fun can be seen here.

52-Week Photo Challenge Class
Week 36 - Radial Symetry

Week 52 Photo Challenge:

Week 36, Radial Symetry

Photo by Joyce Edmunds

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Joyce says: 

This is a tightly cropped image of a gazania flower in my garden. I tried many other plants but I loved the tightly packed radial symetry of the centre of the flower. Is it a Fibonacci spiral? Apart from the crop, the edits are basic LR adjustments.

Smart Phone Photo Challenges
Week 36 - Abandoned 

Smart Phone Challenge:

Week 36, Abandoned 

Photo by Warren Lee

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Warren says:

With weeks above 108 degrees, vitality has been abandoned. This weekend finally has high temperatures under the century mark. These roses and other flowering plants will be revitalized within a few weeks.

Critique Group Challenge:

Week 36, Smoke Mirror

Photo by Ricky Tims
from the 2022 Critique Group

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Ricky says:

This was incense smoke photographed with the smoke and the reflection in a mirror. That one image was then blended with a color gradient to add color. That image was then mirrored. The mirror image was rotated 90˚ and blended. That image was then rotated 45˚ and blended.