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  • Bo’ness Steam Locomotive Re-Imagined As AI Artwork in my Fan Of… Series #3

    Bo’ness Steam Locomotive Re-Imagined As AI Artwork in my Fan Of… Series #3

    Hi All 👋 Feel free to join this weekly challenge whenever you think, “I’m a fan of…” (see below for how-to).

    Finally, it’s here, more AI-assisted re-imaginings of an old steam train. This week’s Fan Of… #237 is AI-assisted artwork featuring the Bo’ness Steam Locomotive. This old steam locomotive runs a short tourist route out of Bo’ness Station to Kinneil on the southern shores of the Firth of Forth. Bo’ness Station is also home to the Museum of Scottish Railways.

    The inspiration — Exploring the World of AI-Generated Artwork: My Journey in the ‘Fan Of…’ Challenge

    Probably, most of you are wondering why AI; it all comes down to the time of year. Here in Scotland, daylight hours in winter are pretty much between 0900 & 1500 & unless you get one of those bright, clear days. The weather can best be described as dreich (those grey, miserable, wet days) where the light is not so great. Don’t get me wrong, If there’s something worth photographing, I’ll happily be out in the worst of weather?

    I also work in retail; this sees an increase in work hours & very little chance to get out with Snappy. The end result is that I can feel my creativity start to wane; not being able to get out with my camera certainly puts a dampener on the creative spirit — & so over to AI & Hot Mods.

    For more about AI in the creative world, visit Susan’s site & in particular, the series of posts that she’s writing: Post 1 & Post 2.

    This form of AI artwork allows me to use my own photography as a basis for AI prompt engineering. In all my Fan Of… posts about AI creativity, I’ll show the original image & then the various outputs from Hot Mods as I work with the AI to create new artwork.

    As you’ll see from these posts, the expected output is not always what I wanted (I’ll share these as well), so I’m back to rewriting the prompt.

    This is the original image I shot & used as the basis of my prompt engineering.

    From Real Photos to COllaborative AI Artwork: My Experiment with AI Art

    Bo'ness Steam Locomotive
    Bo’ness & Kinneil Steam Locomotive
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  • Capturing the Essence of Winter: Icy Puddle Photography #8 for Water Water Everywhere #208

    Capturing the Essence of Winter: Icy Puddle Photography #8 for Water Water Everywhere #208

    Hi All 👋 Feel free to join in whenever you have a water picture to post (any type of water, in any state, will do). See below for how to join the fun

    I’m doing a series of icy puddles for WWE; all shots are taken using my iPhone SE, inverted at ground level for a unique perspective

    This is also my post for John’s Cellpic Sunday.

    Icy puddle from ground level
    Icy puddle from ground level

    How To Join In

    1. Create a Water Water Everywhere Photo Post.
    2. Add a link to your WWE blog post in my comment box, or create a pingback by linking to my post.
    3. Title your post Water Water Everywhere or add WWE tag.

    Hae a guid week 😁

  • Dawn’s Orange Glow Infuses Wintery Skies

    Dawn’s Orange Glow Infuses Wintery Skies

    Hi All 👋 My entry for Debbie’s Six Word Saturday.

    Orange glow of dawn

    I decided to do some AI Artwork from this image. First up is a watercolour of the scene.

    Watercolour of dawn's glow

    Next up, I decided to combine the original image with the #6WS title as the prompt. I also specified the addition of cirrus clouds & the removal of the buildings; it was quite a vivid outcome.

    Dawn's glow

    Next up was a transformation of the above picture as a watercolour to soften the image.

    Dawn's glow as a watercolour
  • Bo’ness Steam Locomotive Re-Imagined As AI Artwork in my Fan Of… Series #2

    Bo’ness Steam Locomotive Re-Imagined As AI Artwork in my Fan Of… Series #2

    Hi All 👋 Feel free to join this weekly challenge whenever you think, “I’m a fan of…” (see below for how-to).

    Finally, it’s here, more AI-assisted re-imaginings of an old steam train. This week’s Fan Of… #236 is AI-assisted artwork featuring the Bo’ness Steam Locomotive. This old steam locomotive runs a short tourist route out of Bo’ness Station to Kinneil on the southern shores of the Firth of Forth. Bo’ness Station is also home to the Museum of Scottish Railways.

    The inspiration — Exploring the World of AI-Generated Artwork: My Journey in the ‘Fan Of…’ Challenge

    Probably, most of you are wondering why AI; it all comes down to the time of year. Here in Scotland, daylight hours in winter are pretty much between 0900 & 1500 & unless you get one of those bright, clear days. The weather can best be described as dreich (those grey, miserable, wet days) where the light is not so great. Don’t get me wrong, If there’s something worth photographing, I’ll happily be out in the worst of weather?

    I also work in retail; this sees an increase in work hours & very little chance to get out with Snappy. The end result is that I can feel my creativity start to wane; not being able to get out with my camera certainly puts a dampener on the creative spirit — & so over to AI & Hot Mods.

    For more about AI in the creative world, visit Susan’s site & in particular, the series of posts that she’s writing: Post 1 & Post 2.

    This form of AI artwork allows me to use my own photography as a basis for AI prompt engineering. In all my Fan Of… posts about AI creativity, I’ll show the original image & then the various outputs from Hot Mods as I work with the AI to create new artwork.

    As you’ll see from these posts, the expected output is not always what I wanted (I’ll share these as well), so I’m back to rewriting the prompt.

    This is the original image I shot & used as the basis of my prompt engineering.

    From Real Photos to COllaborative AI Artwork: My Experiment with AI Art

    Bo'ness Steam Locomotive
    Bo’ness & Kinneil Steam Locomotive
    (more…)
  • Capturing the Essence of Winter: Icy Puddle Photography #7 for Water Water Everywhere #207

    Capturing the Essence of Winter: Icy Puddle Photography #7 for Water Water Everywhere #207

    Hi All 👋 Feel free to join in whenever you have a water picture to post (any type of water, in any state, will do). See below for how to join the fun

    I’m doing a series of icy puddles for WWE; all shots are taken using my iPhone SE, inverted at ground level for a unique perspective

    Icy puddle from ground level
    Icy puddle from ground level

    How To Join In

    1. Create a Water Water Everywhere Photo Post.
    2. Add a link to your WWE blog post in my comment box, or create a pingback by linking to my post.
    3. Title your post Water Water Everywhere or add WWE tag.

    Hae a guid week 😁

  • Wispy Cirrus Races Across Winter’s Sky

    Wispy Cirrus Races Across Winter’s Sky

    Hi All 👋 My entry for Debbie’s Six Word Saturday.

    Cirrus strewn sky
    Cirrus strewn sky

    From the title, I saw an image of “Cirrus Horses” racing across the sky; here’s what I came up with.

  • Susan’s Digital Art Challenge — AI Artwork in my Fan Of… Series

    Susan’s Digital Art Challenge — AI Artwork in my Fan Of… Series

    Hi All 👋 Feel free to join this weekly challenge whenever you think, “I’m a fan of…” (see below for how-to).

    Firstly, I would like to apologise for not being able to interact with your posts this weekMy two-day, sixteen-hour work schedule unexpectedly turned into a five-day, 40+ hour marathonI hope to catch up with all your posts this week

    I know this week was meant to be more re-imaginings of the Bo’ness & Kinneil Steam Locomotive, but I went a different route

    This week’s Fan Of… #236 Susan’s Spies, Lies & Digital Skies Digital Art Challenge

    This week’s prompt is “The Elusive Double Agent“.

    From Real Photos to COllaborative AI Artwork

    My baseline picture.

    Part of the Bo’ness Railway Museum grounds
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  • Capturing the Essence of Winter: Icy Puddle Photography #6 for Water Water Everywhere #206

    Capturing the Essence of Winter: Icy Puddle Photography #6 for Water Water Everywhere #206

    First off, an apologyI’ve been unable to get to all your posts this week; my 2-day, 16-hour work week turned into a 5-day, 40+ hour marathon. I’ll be catching up with all your posts this coming week

    Hi All 👋 Feel free to join in whenever you have a water picture to post (any type of water, in any state, will do). See below for how to join the fun

    I’m doing a series of icy puddles for WWE; all shots are taken using my iPhone SE, inverted at ground level for a unique perspective

    This is also my post for John’s Cellpic Sunday.

    Icy puddle from ground level
    Icy puddle from ground level

    How To Join In

    1. Create a Water Water Everywhere Photo Post.
    2. Add a link to your WWE blog post in my comment box, or create a pingback by linking to my post.
    3. Title your post Water Water Everywhere or add WWE tag.

    Hae a guid week 😁

  • Didn’t Make The Post — AI Artwork in my Fan Of… Series

    Didn’t Make The Post — AI Artwork in my Fan Of… Series

    Hi All 👋 Feel free to join this weekly challenge whenever you think, “I’m a fan of…” (see below for how-to).

    I know this week was meant to be more re-imaginings of the Bo’ness & Kinneil Steam Locomotive, but I went a different route

    This week’s Fan Of… #235 is images that didn’t make my post for Susan’s Spies, Lies & Digital Skies: Clandestine Meeting.

    One of my thoughts was to have the clandestine meeting down at the docks; this is the original image I shot & used as the basis of my prompt engineering.

    From Real Photos to COllaborative AI Artwork: My Experiment with AI Art

    Ardrossan Mariner
    Ardrossan Mariner
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