Reality and Unreality

[Hajo]

A hobby of mine is photography, but I also like digital image manipulation. So often my photos just become input material for digital experiments in shape, light and color. I want to present some of them in loose order here, I hope that will be alright

This is a fairly heavily reworked photo, and I'd like to give it a more happy atmosphere, but it definitely has a touch of strangeness, and that might be interesting, too.

Mercury


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[ian_scho]

Lokks like the foreground hill is made of tiramisu... Hmmmmm.

[Bit]

I add something happy: That's T0mi's statue after the first day of spring

[Gambit37]

It seems familiar yet strange. Spooky picture, nice work

[Hajo]

Thanks

Since we all wait for spring, I thought I'll post this ... actually this photo was taken almost 4 weeks ago, when we had a few sunny and warm days in a row, and nature already prepared to awaken but then snow and winter came back.

Messenger of Spring


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Today I saw some more of these, but I don't have the photos online yet. I definitely hop that spring now has won over winter and will stay.

[Jan]

Oh, that's a beautiful photo, Hajo! When I look out of the window, I still see snow, so this picture really is a Messenger of Spring!

[Bit]

So powerful this little one.
Nature is just amazing.

[Hajo]

In between winter came back, and it was almost like on this photo again, which I had taken in January:

Road



But since a while we have acceptable temperatures and no more snow now. Flowers bloom again. Bumblebees were visiting, but I didn't get to catch one with the camera. They are just too busy.

Pasqueflower



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