AI Generated vs Digital Painting vs photography. Well, we are being submersed in the AI world, adds popping up and sites that you need to pay for to use the AI generated systems.

So I clicked on one sight that lets you have one free photo generated AI photograph. The complete image is below of my two dogs. I have to admit, the photo is as cute as it can be, especially my little dog down in the bottom corner. She isn’t as fuzzy as the image implies, but so cute I think. This would be great if I were into writing children’s books or animated movies.

This type of generation is photo generative, there is also word generative images that are actually quite beautiful as well. They look like something right our of a movie, an imaginative world of soft, gorgeous colors. All of which I believe is an expression of art. Art has no limitations.

This next one is what I like to do. Create a painting from one of my photographs. This I actually use my mouse and brush over the image one area at a time. Along with other editing layers that I apply to my liking. It is relaxing to do and just plain fun for me.

This is the photo I took of my Chloee to create the art print.

But, the photo print below is what I really like to do. We are camped at a spot with a lot of family’s stationed at the army base here. The woman next to us has this beautiful Great Dane, her husband has been deploy to Israel.

So I went out and photographed her dog and made a couple of paintings for her and gave them to her with out her knowing that I took the photos. It is a wonderful way to give back and I just love photographing pets, so I am glad I can do this. He is such a beautiful dog.

AI Generated vs Digital Painting

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In Search Of Historical Bridges, I just happened to come across this one last month. As a photographer, shots like this is what makes being a photographer so much fun. I am always in search of scenic views when I am not out looking for wildlife to photograph.

Google maps has become my new source to help find lost treasures like this one. I was in an area and typed in the search bar on my phone, bridges and arched bridges. One showed up in this tiny little town not far from where I was at. So off I went in search of this little arched bridge.

It is called the Historic Ramsay Keystone Arched Bridge.  The Ramsay Bridge is 130 feet long and was built over the Black River in 1922.

So we arrived at the bridge on a rainy morning, from this side of the bridge it did not look like much of a view, a lot of over growth surrounding the bridge and it was hard to get to and I thought, well the bridge itself is pretty cool looking.

So we left and thought we would go look at one more thing and on the way back, maybe the rain will have stopped and we will look one more time.

We went back to the bridge on our way home and the surprise to this location, was to go to the other side of the bridge. That is where the shot was, a perfect amount of shrubs and colored leaves surrounding the bridge as if it was framed right out of a story book.

With its babbling brook running slowly underneath the bridge, it is a true picturesque view.

Needless to say when I stumble apon an area like this, I am smiling.

At 57 feet, the height of this bridge is also quite impressive, but it is the impressive stonework’s ability to stand the test of time that truly wows.

 And what is a keystone you might ask (or capstone) – it is the wedge-shaped stone at the apex of a masonry arch or typically round-shaped one at the apex of a vault. In both cases it is the final piece placed during construction and locks all the stones into position, allowing the arch or vault to bear weight. 

In Search Of

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The American Farmer Link – by Sandra J’s Photography

Visiting the mid west in the fall, especially Iowa, you are bound to see the combines running as the corn and beans need to be harvested.

This individual in the video below is someone we know and I asked him if we could make a video and take a few photos as he was combining at sunset. I gave him the video and photos, he has never seen his hard work looking from a drones perspective. You can see the corn rows are very straight as well.

Years ago, I knew a farmer that always drove around the countryside, after he planted all his fields. Just to see if his neighbors’ rows were straight. Just a thing farmers do I guess.

I am trying something new here with this video. I will see if it works after this post is live. I entered my video right into a block here on word press, which should show up below, hopefully. So that you can see the video right from reader and not having to go to the web site itself.

I also imbedded the video from my you tube account below, which only shows up on my page site, just incase it did not work above. 🙂

The American Farmer

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Using External Lights for wildlife photography. I tried something different this year with the squirrel photography. I have a table set up along the tree line that I put bird food on.

I put this Queen Ann Lace flower on the table and sprinkled seed all around it. I couldn’t have asked for a better pose from this red squirrel as he jumped on the table and then made his way behind the flower to eat a few seeds.

But it is dark over by the trees, so I set up a light on a tri pod to brighten up the area for more detail. It worked perfectly.

Photography is a great way to let your creativity come to life. Sometimes wildlife goes along with it and makes it more fun. Have a great weekend. 😉

Using External Lights

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Reflection Photography – The best time for reflections is usually in the early hours of the day or in the evening. The mist and the colored clouds of the sunset are a great subject.

Or with an overcast sky, the reflection can help to make an otherwise boring sky interesting.

Horizontal lines make for great reflection photos of tree lines along a lake, but don’t forget to get that wide angle lens out especially on a river where you can capture the bank on both sides of the water. Gives your photo a wonderful sense of depth.

All the leaves are down.

Reflection Photography

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Drone Photography, Autumn is the best time of year to get the drone up and flying. My husband does all the drone photos and it is a wonderful way to see all the trees turning color.

We only use the drone for landscape photography in designated areas. It provides for a wonderful view from above. Looking down on the world that was created for us.

Tree tops – Autumn Colors Short Video below. You have to visit the site to see this video, they don’t play on reader. I will add the link here, but sometimes that doesn’t work either. Or you can come on over to my You Tube channel and see all my videos over there. 🙂

Drone Photography

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Fall Garden Pollinators, the bumble bees are still hard at work. Bumble bees are keystone pollinators in the ecosystem. They pollinate food crops, trees, and of course, flowers. In my own yard, I realized that the more native plants I planted, the more pollinators visited my garden. Which has been beneficial for my food crops!

Amazing how all of creation has a purpose and it all works as designed, the pollinators being an example of such design.

Bees sleeping outside the nest will sleep under a flowerhead or inside a deep flower like a squash blossom where the temperature can be up to 18 degrees warmer close to the nectar source.

Fall Garden Pollinators

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Starting New Collection – Light Houses from across the country. So far I only have two and they are at complete opposite ends of the country.

This first one is on lake Superior. There are 78 light houses on lake superior so I have my work cut out for me to photograph them all.

There are 779 standing light houses around the United States.

And this one below I took in Savannah Georgia at Tybee Island.

Have a great weekend.

Starting New Collection

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The Black Hawk Helicopter – I photographed these as they were flying by me at a small airport, just added some artistic flare to the photos.

The Black Hawk Helicopter

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On the Road Again – Song by Willie Nelson

On the road again
Just can’t wait to get on the road again
The life I love is making music with my friends

And I can’t wait to get on the road again
On the road again
Goin’ places that I’ve never been
Seein’ things that I may never see again
And I can’t wait to get on the road again

On the road again
Like a band of gypsies we go down the highway
We’re the best of friends
Insisting that the world keep turning our way
And our way
Is on the road again
I just can’t wait to get on the road again

On the Road Again

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Autumn Landscapes

Have a great weekend. 🙂

Autumn Landscapes

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Campfires and Leaves Falling – fresh crisp air.

Autumn Poem

We see orange, we see brown, we see leaves, on the ground. 🙂

Campfires and Leaves Falling

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It Likes the Camouflage – I was sitting on my porch with my camera on my tri pod, just waiting for something to photograph when this moth landed on my lens. Of course I have another camera to take a picture of this.

With its wings closed it blends right in with the camouflage cover on my lens.

It Likes the Camouflage

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