Venezia, where I recently opened another gallery, is a very pretty sim…
… there is a wonderful combination of grand and humble architecture…
… plenty of opportunities to employ perspective in your photography…
… there are lots of colourful old buildings…
… plenty of waterways, of course…
… gently lapping against ancient blockwork…
… which can be crossed using the many little footbridges.
Flutter and I visited ‘Birdlings Flat‘, today. This is apparently based on a NZ, South Island beach, which I’m guessing is somewhere South of Christchurch…
… there’s plenty of Kiwi treats, here. Kingfishers…
… and the ubiquitous hawk on a country road fence post…
… the hills…
… the ‘Save the Eels’ sticker…
… my favourite kind of isolated beach…
… rugged sheep…
… there is much Zen-like natural simplicity, here, it’s very beautiful…
… this could be a coastal walking track, almost anywhere in NZ…
… once again, a wonderful scene sculpted with minimalist precision…
… this is a very uncluttered environment…
… there are even Pūkeko here (:
I hung some new work in my Soho gallery, today…
… this series is called ‘Strange Roads’…
… these images are darker, more surreal than the images in ‘Roads to Nowhere’…
… the images in ‘Roads to Nowhere’ are kinda benign… in these images, stuff is definitely happening.
I just hung a new exhibition in my home gallery…
… this series is called ‘Roads to Nowhere’…
… the images are dark, rich, and subtle, and reward prolonged study (:
I am almost always taking pictures. Often when I’m out exploring/shopping, I see really photogenic backdrops, and have to get pictures…
… these images are all from a few hours, this morning, when I was doing some casual exploring/shopping…
… I find a lot of cool places, this way… when I’m in a shop, and it is on a sim, I always have a look outside, to see if they have done any interesting landscaping, or if there are any other nice shops around…
… some creators have very pretty builds around their stores, making the whole scene much richer, more enjoyable than just shopping…
… I love when I get great pictures as well as new clothes!…
… there is so much to see and do in SL, so many amazing places waiting to be discovered… often, literally, just around the next corner.
In the fullest spirit of joining them if you can’t beat them, I have finally succumbed to the call of the Halloween-themed destination…
… finding, to my delight, places like Traitors Wood, with it’s wonderfully lurid colours…
… and dramatic lighting…
… which makes for plenty of interesting photographic potential…
… and just plain fun…
… ghosties and all…
… my Halloween-resistance has been laid to rest (:
So, as I mentioned in my last post, I spent today hanging my new work…
… there are eight works, called ‘Snake Bite Series’ in my home gallery…
… this work is nothing like my previous work, and, obviously, not everyone who liked my previous work will like them, but I love them!…
… there are another eight at my Soho gallery…
… ‘Snake Bite Series II’…
… and five at my Artemis gallery…
… ‘Snake Bite Series 3’. Each series is slightly different from the previous, as I tweaked the ‘prompts’, but still very much on the same, mutant ‘Snake Bite’ theme (:
I recently started a series of images I am calling the ‘Golden Planet’ series. I have been posting them on my Flickr page. There has been ‘Golden Planet Princess’, and ‘Golden Planet Pilot’. Over the last few days, I created ‘Golden Planet Tourist’. I make these works using multiple images I create in wonderful Midjourney, then I take several of those images into gorgeous Photoshop, and stitch them together with a fair bit of masking, and some touchup painting and a bit of clone stamp magic. I’d almost finished ‘Tourist’, when I decided she’d look more ‘touristy’ with a Golden Planet souvenir brooch, so I went back to Midjourney and had a go at creating one, there, instead of in Photoshop. I was really surprised to get, from my first 4 variations, 3 perfect-looking ‘brooches’!… so I thought, ‘hey, why don’t I whip up some snake bites (lip piercings) for here, too?’… I’d gotten such a precise result for the brooch, I was feeling lucky, so, among a few other (sorry, my secret!’) words, I entered as prompts ‘snake bite, lip piercings’…
… imagine my astonishment when I got four images that looked like this! But astonishment quickly turned to delight! Though nothing like what I’d intended, I found these results incredibly beautiful, if not slightly creepy, but creepy gorgeous! I could never have deliberately made work like this, this was a serendipitous AI artistic bonanza. One of the reasons I enjoy Midjourney is that my work has always been iterative, and the Midjourney process is pretty much entirely iterative… I banged out dozens and dozens of variations on this gorgeous theme, occasionally tweaking the prompts, but not much. I now have several exhibitions worth of this work, which I will begin putting in my galleries, probably tomorrow (:
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