Steve Bucknell's photos

Noticed these on the stove when I got up and found the pattern they made worth a quick photo.

An AI creation

AI creation. In many respects the AI that ChatGPT runs can’t cope with complex visualisations. Requesting a “documentary, photographic style” comes up with this. And if you try to make figures small in proportion to the scene it can’t cope, and faces distort. I wanted the comfy bed in the middle of an ancient battle scene much smaller in relation to the battlefield, but this is the best it can do. It looks like a child’s illustration, like so many AI creations.

AI creation. The wedding veil was on a blank mannequin in a shop. I had to work hard to create details that weren’t just the generic young and conventionally glamorous that all AI pushes towards. Then I edited to B&W,

AI creation

AI creation

An AI creation for The Limbo Connection. Thanks for your kindness and good humour. Thanks for the chance to see your fine photographs and wonderful poems and prose pieces. All art is the result of observation. Often we see yet do nothing. Sometimes we do not notice at all. Ideas are fragile. They quickly vaporise if they are not preserved and developed. The universe is full of broken fragments of ideas. The Limbo Connection.

I’ve been experimenting with image creation on Chat GPT. This was made purely from my written prompt. Some are manipulations of my photographs.