fisheye
by raish

Comment by riversong:
Nice painting!

...when you finally reappear at the place where you came from...
by raish

Comment by jaysonmc:
Amazing shot. I like the unconventional take on the challenge. Good lighting and textures.

fisheye
by raish

Comment by boydestroy:
very unique

On Constitution Day
by raish

Comment by codfish:
I think a faster shutter speed to freeze the image would have been better to avoid the blur

fisheye
by raish

Comment by citymars:
Nice photo, but isn't there a rule against a consisting entirely of a pre-existing artwork? Maybe that only applies to pre-existing photographs. Anyway, this is a nice painting, and you've certainly photographed it well.

...when you finally reappear at the place where you came from...
by raish

Comment by krnodil:
Beautiful perspective, great take on the challenge.

Artist: Dire Straits
Song Lyrics: Love Over Gold

You walk out on the high wire
You're dancer on thin ice
You pay no heed to the danger
And less to advice
Your footsteps are forbidden
But with knowledge of your sin
You throw your love to all the strangers
And caution to the wind

And you go dancing through doorways
Just to see what you will find
Leaving nothing to interfere
With the crazy balance of your mind
And when you finally reappear
At the place where you came in
You're thrown your love to all the strangers
And caution to the wind

I takes love over gold
And mind over matter
To do what you to that you must
When the things that you hold
Can fall and be shattered
Or run through your fingers like dust

...when you finally reappear at the place where you came from...
by raish

Comment by raish:

Here are the beasties, in all some of their glory, snuggled up in the botanical gardens' orchid house in Oslo. According to the info there, they hail from Australia and a called (no doubt in some Aboriginal vernacular) polypodiaceae, no less. Is sherpet's 'stag horn' the common name in Oz?

The frame: It's done in its own layer, maybe. With dimensions of X by Y pixels for the whole picture, a rectangular marquee at X-20 by Y-20 is moved 10 clicks left and 10 clicks up by way of arrow keys. The stroke function gives it a line inside of it - I think I plucked the green from the middle of one of the stems. Then the selection is reversed and brown sampled from around the - ahem - vanishing point is painted on with a brush tool at about 400 pixels wide and NB! 60% oppacity. I suspect that I may have done all or some of this on a new canvas of identical dimensions to the picture. This would enable the border to be edited with brightness/contrast and/or curves, without affecting the rest. I don't remember for sure, but something along those lines, as I recall . . .

In the meanwhiletime, I'm loving the comments, many thanks.

fisheye
by raish

Comment by DefyTime:
This made me laugh a little...really like this one.

...when you finally reappear at the place where you came from...
by raish

Comment by noraneko:
Peter, this is gorgeous. I love the lines and colors. Very refreshing to see something so natural and yet so well done.

...when you finally reappear at the place where you came from...
by raish

Comment by bmartuch:
Fantastic detail. Welcome back to the box. Very decent score also.