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Dreamland

Fantasyland. More Generative AI. Typically, I make some pretty bleak synthetic work. But, I had a dream. This image does not even come close to it, but the dream left me laughing when I awoke. That woke musical miss who started smiling because of me. The dogs heard me laughing and came bounding in, jumped on the bed and we were smothered by Cocker Spaniels. This picture was created from my…

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Pieces and Parts

Useful. You know that sometimes I mix and match. That’s not what this is about. What I’m about to write is way more important than that. I have a friend, sort of a pen pal, who has been married for fifty plus years. A long time. Her husband has cancer. He’s about to leave the planet. The vigil has begun. I cannot imagine what that feels like. Something just happened as I started to write…

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#Art #Color #Content #Experiment #Fine Art #Intent #Nature #Parts #Photography #Pieces #Post Production #Ray Laskowitz #This and That

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Shapes of Things to Come

Round and round we go. What a mess. That was my first thought. Then, I wondered what did. What a mistake. I opened up this image as big as I could and knew what I did. I made such a complex picture that you have to study it closely because there’s all sorts of things going on. There’s lightning, things are falling apart, other things are growing, stuff is exploding and other stuff is…

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#Art #Circles #Color #Concept #Experiment #Fine Art #Intent #Layered #Photography #Post Production #Ray Laskowitz #Shapes

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The Great Purple

No, not grape jam. This was written once. But, my big fingers hit some key and the text was sent to the clipboard. I know how to find it, but I had no idea how to paste it back into place. There doesn’t seem to be a way, so I gave up. I started again. An old friend of mine, so old that we grew up together. We lived on the same street. He would have called this, “Purple Furpal.” I have no idea…

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#Art #Blue #Bold Color #Color #Content #Experiment #Intent #Nature #Photography #Post Production #Purple #Ray Laskowitz #Season

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Earth Day

Earth Day. You remember that old thing, right? Today’s the day. Since all of my new “fine art” is supposed to about climate change, nature, water, earth and us I thought I’d remind you of my intent by showing you a small portfolio of what I’ve been doing these past three months. You’ve seen all of these images, but not like this, not as a collection. Happy Earth Day.

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#Art #Celebration #Climate Change #Color #Concept #Earth Day #Experiment #Ideas #Intent #Many Images #Nature #Photography #Post Production #Ray Laskowitz

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One Sunday in Spring

Bright. Silent Sunday. Again. Enjoy your day. Tomorrow is Earth Day. Just wait. I think you’ll like the post.

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Flowers in Purple

Deep, dark and dreamless. Wow, oh wow is what I said after working on this image. I really love deep, rich purple. Would you look at that? Rich, deep purple. Purple is a hard color to make. I wanted to make sure that I remembered how to make purple in nature, so I Googled it. I was right about one particular shade. In the old days Murex snails were boiled in a lead vat to extract the color to…

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#Art #Color #Deep Purple #Flowers #Louisiana #Nature #New Orleans #Photography #Post Production #Ray Laskowitz #Season #Spring

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In a Land Far, Far Away

Flowers and beads. The essence of life, at least that’s what I think my new work is about. You may see it differently. I know you will. Freedom is what art is about. Nobody can or should tell you what to think about art, well really, anything. Art, defined by you, is about your experience and everything in between. I have nothing to do with it. Anyway. I’m listening to a podcast. The author…

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#Art #Blended #Color #Compositon #Content #Experiment #Flowers #Intention #Layered #Muted color #Nature #Photography #Post Production #Ray Laskowitz

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Additional Warmth

Warm, warmer, warmest Arrrgh. They’re doing it again. WordPress is making a whole lot of changes. My desktop has already changed. I used to know where everything was. Now I have to search for it. I get emails from them because I pay for being confused. First, in the Gutenberg project they created the block system, I don’t know anybody who likes it. Yet, they persist. Now they’ve added…

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#Art #Color #Conceptual #Experimental #Fine Art #Intentional #Photography #Post Production #Ray Laskowitz #Shape #Square #Warm Tones

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All At Once

Songs ‘n stuff. A little rant. As you all know I’m playing on Substack. I participate in a lot of others sites. I make comments. It’s kinda like here on WordPress, but it’s different because we can have direct interaction in real time. Most of us were talking about pictures until… some MAGAhead decided to chime in with their usual crap. The picture was woke and must have been posted by a…

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#Art #Color #Content #Deep Color #Experiment #Fine Art #Intent #Layered #Nature #Photography #Post Production #Ray Laskowitz

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It never fails. It never fails. The minute I say that I’m going in another direction a picture pops up and slaps me in the face. That’s what happened this time. I was sitting in a building lobby when I looked around and saw amazing light bouncing off of everything. Then the color started to change. It had me at light, shifting color sealed the deal. I did my usual layering and the final…

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#Art #Color #Content #Experiment #Indoor #Intent #Interior #Layered #Ornage #Pastel Color #Photography #Post Production #Ray Laskowitz #Yellow

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Half Way

French Quarter fun. Amazingly, we are half way through the month of April. This year is just rolling past. There are days when I think I’ve gotten nothing done. Do you ever feel that way? I need to take a little break from my creative endeavors so I thought I’d play around with a little Generative AI. This time I used one of my photographs as the base image rather than create an image from…

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#Art #Color #Experiment #Flooded #french quarter #Generative AI #Man #New Orleans #Photography #Ray Laskowitz #Standing #Synthetic Media #Test

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My People on Sunday

It’s yet another Sunday. I’m not going to say much because that’s the custom. But, I want to share these pictures. They were made by a Ukrainian photographer, Matagorzata Smieszek, who I stumbled upon as I rolled through Substack photographers, When I saw the picture (middle right) of the old babushka walking down the stairs I knew… these people could be my family. So you get to see…

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#Art #Babushka #Color #Documentary Photography #Grandmother #Matagorzata Smieszek #My People #People #Photography #Photojournalism #Slava Ukraine #Ukraine

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Now What?

All the color in this space. When I was working on this image I thought it couldn’t possibly work. There were too many flowers in it. I like flowers. The little backyard that is carved out of the farm is full of them. The English garden — the flowers anyway — is springing up. I tossed two packets of seeds onto the lawn and let nature take its course. It’s still blooming, and should keep it up…

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#Art #Bold Color #Color #Content #Experiment #Flowers #Growth #Intent #Layers #Nature #Photography #Post Production #Ray Laskowitz #Trees

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The Blues

Very blue… and red. You maybe thinking how did I get to this place. No, that’s a partial lyric to a song. instead, you maybe thinking that you’ve seen this before. You did. Kinda. It was red, so I changed a layer and made it blue. This is another image that makes me think of the ocean, not just because of the blue but because it looks like things are floating to the surface while other…

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#Art #Color #Creation #Deep Blue #Experimentation #Intention #Layered #Nature #Photography #Post Production #Ray Laskowitz

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What Is

Flowing, maybe growing. While I was experimenting with other approaches to making work like this image, I discovered I didn’t like them. They became too much like the original image which was a photograph of something. I stumbled around for a few says and finally established some sort of rhythm that works for me. Make work at night, post in the afternoon of the day before publication. That…

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#Art #Bold Color #Color #Content #Experimental #Intent #Laskowitzpictures #Look Closely #Luck #Magic #Nature #Photography #Post Production #Ray Laskowitz

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Alchemy and Stuff

Very dark. Did everybody have a good moon day? We didn’t. Nature said you can’t see it so here’s some clouds for you. Off course, even with clouds, the light turned dark. The dogs were not amused, instead they were confused. I have no idea how our neighbor’s cows felt. On the other hand, the big grass got mowed and bailed and we didn’t do it. We’ll have a second mowing later in summer and we…

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#Abstract #Art #Color #Concept #Deep Color #Dusk #Experiment #Intent #Lines #Nature #Photography #Post Production #Ray Laskowitz #Shapes