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Dark Sky

I'm not a fan of hot weather, and wildfires make me hate summer. The smoke this year has not been as bad as in years past, but I've still managed to capture a couple of decent sunrise and sunset photos. I got one full moon shot, and it wasn't as clear a photo as I wanted. Thank heavens the smoke is clearing for the next full moon! Nevertheless, I thought I'd try to improve upon my weak moon shot by feeding it into AI and asking it to clear the focus. The above was one of my first renderings. A bit dramatic, but not a bad image.

This was in the second batch. Blew me away. Not sure how it came up with this image with the prompt, "clarify focus", but I'll take it.

This one, on the third rerun, really got me. So I decided to get creative with the renderings that followed.

I asked the program to replace the girl with a majestic elk.

Then I asked for a unicorn.

Some of the renderings were so fun, I played with them in Photoshop. My sister would have loved this one!

AI can come up with some pretty bizarre stuff. But sometimes, it can create really cool images. Images I can improve upon in Photoshop!

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Gone with the Wind

Back in November, I estimated overnight sustained wind speed at 70 mph with 100 mph gusts. I had absolutely nothing to base my numbers on other than the winds I've experienced over the years, particularly December 2021's Marshal Fire. I lost shingles during that storm, and I was forced to replace my roof in 2022. But I still have a roof. Connected to a home. Our horrific winds just a couple of months ago brought back painful and depressing memories of last year's tragic fire and also took trampolines, tables, chairs, porch cushions, windows, fences and trash bins places they'd never been. A couple of days later, I learned our official sustained wind speed in our village was 69 mph and that 120 mph gusts had been clocked.

We'd been having some work done on the foundation of our home, and the tarps the company used to cover up the holes took a real beating. Neighbors a couple of doors down lost scores of shingles. Boy, does my heart go out to them! Another neighbor's soccer goal net blew more than three houses down. Otherwise I think we and our immediate neighborhood fared well. We'd battened down the hatches, so to speak.

A tree skeleton behind our house I've often used while photographing sunrises and sunsets, particularly when we can't go anywhere for more exquisite scenery, has now seen its better days. This tree has had quite the modeling workout the past three years! I am really going to miss this tree!!!

Most memorable, of course, was the rainbow that fell exactly in the right place in 2014.

That one shot provided me with literally hours and hours of Photoshop entertainment.

While looking for photos of THE tree, I found this totally forgotten shot, one of my first panoramic photographs. That little skeleton tree is on the far right.

There undoubtedly will be more silhouettes of the Leaning Tree of Snowcatcher until it finally hits the ground completely. It's just a little more difficult to shoot now through the chainlink fence...

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