In a field of lights.
Taken with Click!, processed with Snapseed.
Rooftops, Britzingen.
Taken with Click!, black and white with Simply B&W.
Colour and motion.
Taken with SynthCam, processed with Snapseed.
Atop a ridge in the Vosges Mountains, France.
Taken with Click!, black and white with Simply B&W.
Sunday was a little cool but really nice in the sun. I’m thinking that it must be really late for the farmers to be plowing under their fields for winter but I am certainly not a farmer.
Taken with Click!, cropped with the native photo app, processed with Snapseed.
A few minutes later, he died.
Taken with Click!, processed with Snapseed, frame with Pixlromatic.
September was hotter than July. October started out that way but showed its true, cold self a week ago. Taken with Click!, processed with Snapseed.
The church in Munster, France.
Taken with Vint B&W, a little bit of cloning with Filterstorm, processing with Snapseed, frame with Pixlromatic.
Auto schilder sofort just means fast license plates. Not so interesting but I liked all the signs on the old bike. I used Synthcam to take this but the background wasn’t blurred enough. So I desaturated it in Simply B&W and gave it a more obvious blur with TiltShiftGen.
The pace of construction.
Taken with SynthCam, processed with Snapseed, frame with Pixlromatic.
October corn field. Alsace, France.
Taken with Click!, paint effect with AutoPainter.
The Vespa.
Taken with SynthCam, black & white and frame with Best Camera.
Went to a gallery last night to check out the urban arts exhibit and the Kunsthalle Freiburg last night. There was some really cool work there. Taken with Click!, straightened,desaturated and framed with Filterstorm.
Given to France by the Ottoman Khedive of Egypt, the 3300 year old Luxor Obelisk stands tall in the Place de la Concorde brimming with it’s own history and artfully covering up the history of the Place itself.
The Place de la Concorde once had a different name: the Place de la Revolution. And the spot now taken by the obelisk had hosted the famed gallows of the revolution. This is the spot where Marie Antoinette, Robespierre, and Louis XVI were killed. Their heads removed by the remorseless blade in front of approving, sometimes cheering crowds. The famous were not the only ones to fear the National Razor, perhaps as many as 40,000 people died - not all in the gallows - in the two years of the Reign of Terror including 1300 in one month in the very spot you are looking at now.
Of course, this plaza was not innocent before the arrival of the revolution. It was the Place de Grève and this was the spot for the bourgeoisie to watch the torture and executions of criminals and opponents no doubt fostering some of the resentment that lead to the revolution.
Once again, blood is used to wash away blood.
I used damn near the whole kit on this one: Camera Bag, Mill Colour, Photo fx, Best Camera, Pro HDR, Pastebot and PS Mobile (which now has sharpening). Why use all of them? Well, I wanted to separate the sky from the clouds which, in (real) Photoshop is easy: just use channels to get the B&W contrast right but on the phone I had to do some gymnastics with Mill Colour and Photo fx to get the contrast. Blended the HDR images, filtered with the other filter apps, cropped with pastebot and sharpened with PS mobile. Whew.
Le Penseur. Originally called The Poet, this statue represents Dante and first appeared, much smaller, in Rodin’s brilliant The Gates of Hell. In Rodin’s own words: he is not a dreamer; he is a creator.
He now sits in the Musée Rodin; a fantastic museum in the heart of Paris. One thing that I learned about myself on that trip is that the thought of seeing famous sculpures really excited me — David, in Florence; The Thinker, in Paris; Aphrodite of Milos, in the Louvre. I was not disappointed.
I stood, feeling small in front of these iconic works, stunned, awed. Knowing of them my entire life, I now knew them. It was significant and profound.
I used both Mill Colour and the image filters in Pastebot to desaturate and add contrast to this photo.
