ubbyisis' playground and gallery

[Starzee]

Blended my daily with the corridor

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Very cool double exposure!!!

 

[ubbyisis]

We take turns

Health status report When my husband came home from his 10k run yesterday he soon got terrible pain in his left foot. It wasn’t much better this morning so he has had to stick to more tranquil activities. Not so bad I think - the patio railing was very much in need of refreshment As for me it’s the opposite. When I started out for my daily walk I immediately felt my left knee didn’t hurt. For the first time in two weeks I could take a ”real power walk” - 7km So there is hope the pain was just a result of walking overload.

working hard - edits in LR

working out hard - even my wrinkles almost disappeared No, not really, I just played around in Picsart

 

[ubbyisis]

Look who’s back! Even on schedule.

This morning we met Mr and Mrs Pied Flycatcher. They must have arrived during the night. Usually the males arrive a week are so before the females. Perhaps the males did an extra stop further south when they realized how cold it was this year. And then the females caught up on them and they took the last part of their journey together Anyhow, it's great to get them back here. I will never understand how they can find their way back from Tropical Africa all the way up here and to the same spot. They even chose the same house as last year! According to the statistics they usually arrive to our part of Sweden on May 6th

 

[ubbyisis]

personal reflections on AI text to image

Since AI text prompts to images appeared I have played around a bit, but always stopped because of the "language barrier". I have to use so much energy on translating my text ideas from Swedish to English that all the fun disappears.
It must be a "problem" for all people who aren't native English speakers. But perhaps there are text-to-image-solutions also for other big languages for ex Spanish, Chinese?
Now I remember having read that there are AI prompt generators too. But the input must still be in English.
I feel like I'm excluded Sorry, just joking, but I admit I'm a tiny bit frustrated.

Anyhow, when I looked at my daily dinner table image of today, my spontaneous reaction was: "Looks as if it was made with AI text to image" With a prompt like "old man behaving crazy at the dinner table, surreal, colourpop etc"

Shot with Hipstamatic. BG blur created in Picsart

 

[ubbyisis]

The end is near - the tussilagos are beginning to fade

These tussilagos finally start to give up for the season - very late

edits in Lightroom

 

[ubbyisis]

Happy sheep

These sheep finally got out to their pasture today after having spent the winter season inside. The walks are much cozier with animal friends around. No cows yet. There’s not enough grass yet as it’s been so cold for so long.

Freshly cut Very unusual skin pattern

native cam - edited in LR

chilling in the warm sunshine. edited in LR and Touch Retouch. I wanted to test Touch Retouch’s relatively new feature Remove Meshes. And it worked. Removed everything after having analyzed the image for about 15 seconds. Of course I could have used the line/segment brush but this was way much faster.

 

[terse]

I wanted to test Touch Retouch’s relatively new feature Remove Meshes. And it worked.

Sure did!

 

[ubbyisis]

at 20:55 - five minutes before sunset

It’s finally here - the season of the bright summer nights. Apologize for the ”oversmoothing” but I couldn’t resist

originals were terribly oversharpened

 

[Jacosta]

at 20:55 - five minutes before sunset

It’s finally here - the season of the bright summer nights. Apologize for the ”oversmoothing” but I couldn’t resist

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originals were terribly oversharpened

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Love these!

 

[ubbyisis]

Love these!

Thanks Me too

 

[Starzee]

Happy sheep

These sheep finally got out to their pasture today after having spent the winter season inside. The walks are much cozier with animal friends around. No cows yet. There’s not enough grass yet as it’s been so cold for so long.

Freshly cut Very unusual skin pattern

native cam - edited in LR

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chilling in the warm sunshine. edited in LR and Touch Retouch. I wanted to test Touch Retouch’s relatively new feature Remove Meshes. And it worked. Removed everything after having analyzed the image for about 15 seconds. Of course I could have used the line/segment brush but this was way much faster.

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at 20:55 - five minutes before sunset

It’s finally here - the season of the bright summer nights. Apologize for the ”oversmoothing” but I couldn’t resist

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originals were terribly oversharpened

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Lovely edits!!!

 

[ubbyisis]

Nothing but the blues

from my walk

 

[ubbyisis]

Today’s hubby project

native cam, edits LR

Meanwhile...
lazy wife with new shoes doing nothing - that could be an AI prompt

 

[ubbyisis]

Burying beetle

The insects have all woken up after the winter. All sorts of them every where.

Seems to be an interesting little beetle

from Wikipedia:

Burying beetle - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[ubbyisis]

Oh happy day, the snake’s heads have survived

We thought we would never see them again, but suddenly they were just in the same place as where we planted the bulbs

edits in LR

 

[ubbyisis]

tonight’s sunset

edits in LR, iColorama and Snapseed I think

 

[ubbyisis]

The first plum blossoms

edits in LR

 

[ubbyisis]

Catkin

I like this accidentally blurry look. The camera focused on some tiny parts in the center

 

[ubbyisis]

Tulips also get tired and need a night’s rest. This is the same one I posted in my 365 earlier today.
Shot tonight at 20:40

edits in Snapseed

 

[ubbyisis]

view towards the north at 22:28

 

[ubbyisis]

My usual rant over all the new houses around here

I still haven’t got over the fact that there are houses blocking my view.

See what I mean?:

As many times before I tried to take some shots without the houses. Almost impossible. But one of them worked. I had to demolish a car and some lamps in Touch Retouch though

 

[ubbyisis]

Who’ll Stop the Rain - finally I know the answer

Creedence Clearwater Revival was the first "foreign band" I "fell in love with". I was 10 years old. I still get a special feeling listening to their music.

Who'll Stop the Rain was a favourite. Came to think of that song tonight as the rain which had been going on since yesterday morning stopped almost at the very moment Linus arrived here

edits in Photomator and Snapseed

 

[Starzee]

Who’ll Stop the Rain - finally I know the answer

Creedence Clearwater Revival was the first "foreign band" I "fell in love with". I was 10 years old. I still get a special feeling listening to their music.

Who'll Stop the Rain was a favourite. Came to think of that song tonight as the rain which had been going on since yesterday morning stopped almost at the very moment Linus arrived here

edits in Photomator and Snapseed

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That was my favorite CCR song.

 

[Starzee]

My usual rant over all the new houses around here

I still haven’t got over the fact that there are houses blocking my view.

See what I mean?:

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As many times before I tried to take some shots without the houses. Almost impossible. But one of them worked. I had to demolish a car and some lamps in Touch Retouch though

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I again appreciate how lucky we are to have so many places to walk. But we DO have to drive to all of them. I live in a neighborhood in a village. I am fortunate to like my neighbors and my village.

 

[ubbyisis]

Cowslips in our garden

edits in LR