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Challenge: Extended Free Study 2025-08 (Extended Editing)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot SX540 HS
Location: Fayette County, Texas (USA)
Date: Aug 26, 2025
Aperture: 6.5
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/159
Date Uploaded: Sep 10, 2025

A piece of "waiting room art" of the kind I'm especially drawn to. This katydid was on the polished cement floor of a garage I happened into at work one day. I was astounded by its beauty, and a straight-up macro shot just wasn't doing it for me. So I decided to go for something more emotionally evocative.

Additional processing here is basically two variations of painterly filtering, layered and blended along with a high-contrast grayscale of the original macro to bring out finer details.

[Sep. 21st, 2025 11:10:55 PM]

For those interested in seeing the macro on which this is based:


Statistics
Place: 15 out of 37
Avg (all users): 6.1714
Avg (participants): 6.0909
Avg (non-participants): 6.3077
Views since voting: 18
Views during voting: 61
Votes: 35
Comments: 7
Favorites: 0


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09/22/2025 04:18:48 PM
Beautiful image.
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09/22/2025 02:23:30 PM
Wonderful image! 8
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/21/2025 11:06:03 PM
stunning. I'm curious how you did this and what it means to be an artist.
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09/21/2025 04:25:35 PM
I’m not always a fan of these kinds of filters, but I’d hang this image on my wall, especially a three or four photo series similar to this.
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09/17/2025 05:42:20 PM
Perfect for a children's book!
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09/17/2025 04:16:10 PM
Hmmmm. This one stopped me in my tracks. Not sure if the frame detracts, but I love the BG and textures. Very nice. Also not sure if it's really mimicry if the BG is not like that in nature. Probably is (doesn't matter). 8
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09/15/2025 07:24:18 PM
Fascinating image to study.
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