Year of the Rat

Contribution for The Sunday Challenge #430: Fast shutter speed

... and PicMonkey Creative Users group for the past years! ⚠️ The posted date of this image changed. Picture originally uploaded in April 2020. We have now removed the PicMonkey API link from the ACTIONS menu. And this is because the Adobe Flash based old PicMonkey online editor is no longer supported. If you still wish to use especially PicMonkey as your post processing software, you have to use it outside ipernity and pay for it , or use their still free mobile app . Check out also my short review posted earlier. Do remember that you can also download your image at ipernity, and upload the new version when it is again possible . So, no more easy online editor, but yet relatively easy way to rework already uploaded images. On this image I added the text onto image with PicMonkey Android app, but I could not find frames on that software. So, I added the frame with Snapseed Android app. This is what I have lately started to do more often. I use multiple phone apps to get what I want. The positive side of PicMonkey and Snapseed are that they seem to keep the EXIF data, allowing the audience to see the details of exposure, and even the map location, if they have been recorded in the first place. Snapseed is better on this, keeping more EXIF data untouched. Sometimes I even use Snapseed's "double exposure" feature to "merge" image edited on another app onto the "original", to get the full EXIF recorded and shared ;-)

Contribution for The Sunday Challenge #432: Low key

Contribution for The Sunday Challenge #433: Automobiles Such car models used to be on the windowsill of every driving school in Finland. They were once used to show how the car mechanics and engine works. Nowadays cars are not that simple.

Spring in spring in spring... UPDATE: The same place as here www.ipernity.com/doc/polytropos/49466612

Contribution for The Sunday Challenge #434: Use a mirror, any way you like

Contribution for The Sunday Challenge #435: Serenity Sorry for being late, TSC folks.

You can vacuum clean your camera ;-) Be careful when doing it. So, see my article or jump right to Cristi Kerekes's YouTube tutorial .

Contribution for The Sunday Challenge #436: More or less 50 feet from your home. Neighbor told me it is a cherry tree! I have lived here for years, and did not knew (or recall) we have a cherry tree growing in our courtyard! Seems that I have not much paid attention on what is growing there.

Here's an interesting problem for (all of) you to think about. Previously I have tried to inform people on copyright issues . According to Wikimedia Commons, for example board games are one example on subject that people should avoid photographing. But then there is a concept of derivative works to consider. So, the question is: What makes something as a derivative work (enough)? For example on case of such image as above, is the subject altered enough to become as a derivative work? Original subject is a jigsaw puzzle by Ravensburg and subject of illustration by Aimee Stewart . Well, removing colors is very likely not enough. But if the pieces of puzzle are spread out like seen above, and part of the puzzle is out of focus, would it be then enough? And the same case concerning for example any copyright protected image. So, was Andy Warhol an ingenious artist or a biggest con artist of all time ? And ever since gaming and playing have become popular discussion topic online, board game fans have had to ask the same questions .

Contribution for The Sunday Challenge #438: Backwards No photo manipulation, but two mirrors.

Contribution for The Sunday Challenge #439: What is it? EDIT: Answer here