Another Friday evening in where the pendulum of scarcity swings deep in the voids of space, for as the stomach grumbles the hands have nothing to grasp, for time has eroded the compassion for which sustainable support has ceased, drifting aimlessly among the stars in a ship without navigation and communication simply drifting as the systems shut down one by one, for hails of support frie out like beacons of hope only to be engulfed by the vastness of solitude, a crippling body riddled with pain a mind experiencing spaghettification, the singularity of desolation and despair blanket the cosmos shrouding the nebular dangers, light years from reality an existence that simply consumes it's very being, drifting into the abyss with a body that is more like a vacant rotting ship;

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Sometimes things just fall out of my head and the visual results are abstract in the fact they lack context, the chaos that my consciousness exists within often spills out in random forms, sometimes through random visualizations, sometimes through odd harmonic music that resonates thru my frequency, sometimes through writing that can be rich with cosmic chaos, there is no explaining this #visualart it just is;

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Very weird dream, first off geography makes no sense at all, one minute im in the middle of nowhere the next Im in the middle of some city and pulling into a massive parking garage at a humongous very elite upscale shopping mall, the next moment I am laying in bed speeding through town with some woman on top of me trying to wake me up for sex, then suddenly we're going through a map and end up in some weird part of London England, where we are running through some creepy buildings and crawling through secret passageways to finally end up at the top floor of some place I have no idea what it is, but im sitting there on this funky couch when the entire floor changes and becomes some horror musical, where I am ripping nets off the wall, some troll pounds 3 3inch nails into the bottom of my foot, then all the women become windows that sing to the city below to put them all to sleep, then this troll tries to cut my arm off so I start ripping it apart like paper, then the woman that took me there says come on let's go have sex, and I say no I want to go back where I came from where ever the hell that is, and everyone started laughing and claimed that no one can ever leave that room and no one can ever get into it, telling me you have always been here, then I woke up from my nap, that was disturbed by this disturbing dream;

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Just a Black/red bellied #Whistler, #waterfowl, #nature, #wildlife, #photography, #duck
#Olympus OM-D E-M5 and the M.Zuiko Digital 70-300 II 4.8-6.7 @ F6.7 1/400s ISO1000 300mm from 10m

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After a restless sleepless night of pain the old man drags his breathless lifeless corpse out of a sunken bed of jagged shards of steel and thorny glass, as the classical music plays and unable to yet see he drags himself across the floor to prepare his coffee, as his hands tremble and shake he pours in the water and counts the scoops of grind, after fumbling he manages to plug in the percolator and as the coffee begins to perc, he shuffles off to the toilet where his bowels bellow out in a hungerous rage, gazing into the abyss the mirror reflects his exhaustion and his disheveled hair and beard, to tired to care he stumbles back to his bed, he struggles to pull on his socks and pants he slips on his slippers and coat, he pours a cup of coffee and gently packs scraps of tobacco into his pipe, he slips out the door the sun is peeking from the horizon the air is chilled and damp, as the world begins to wake not a soul cares for the enduring hell the old man is forced to see yet another day;

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One my passions in life has always been #photography, many may claim to love it many may claim to excel at it, many in fact may have mastered it; For a photograph is a collection of photons either on a sensor or some form of medium in which you develop to see the final image, these two photographs I have taken today, both with very different beasts, the one on the left is of a Black/red Bellied Whistler which was captured with a #Olympus OM-D E-M5 and the M.Zuiko Digital 70-300mm 4.8-6.7 II ED handheld and autofocus @ F6.7 1/500s ISO1000 300mm from 10m where as my self portrait on the right was taken with a #Nikon D5600 & Nikkor 50mm 1.8 D @ f5.6 1/60s ISO1000 from 1.5m with a tripod manually focused, two very different subjects two very different environments and with two completely different sets of gear, what is the same about them is my approach, first I am very comfortable with the gear I have to use, I always shoot full raw, focus depends on subject and gear I am shooting, by my development of those raws is the same in every shot, first without giving away a lot of technical detail, I open my raw file in Rawtherapee where my unique processing reveal a workflow that treats the RAW image as a structural foundation rather than a finished product. The adjustments in #RawTherapee focus on three primary goals: aggressive light management, extreme detail enhancement, and color neutralization.

1. Tone Architecture
The first phase involves a heavy reshaping of how the camera perceives light and dark. The blacks are pulled down significantly to create deep, rich shadows, while the overall exposure is boosted to keep the highlights bright and punchy. This creates a high-contrast "base" that feels cinematic and dramatic, rather than flat and digital.

2. Micro-Detail Enhancement
This is the core of the "etched" look. Instead of using standard sharpening, which can look artificial, the focus is shifted to "Wavelet" levels. This technique breaks the image down into different scales of detail—from fine pores to larger facial contours—and amplifies them. This makes textures like beard hair and skin topography appear incredibly sharp and three-dimensional.

3. Surface Smoothing and Edge Protection
While the details are being amplified, the processing is set up to protect the edges of the subject. This ensures that the extreme sharpening doesn't create "halos" or digital artifacts. It keeps the transition between the subject and the dark background clean and professional.

4. Color Neutralization
The color is subtly pulled back to give the image a timeless, almost monochromatic feel. This removes any distracting "yellowing" from the light source and shifts the viewer's focus entirely toward the textures and the expression of the subject.

5. Final Export for Layering
The image is not finalized here; it is exported as a high-quality file specifically prepared for the next stage of assembly. By leaving traditional noise reduction disabled, the natural grain is preserved to act as an organic texture for the final composite.

These are applied to 3 files, a base the color, and two different black and white files, all exported as .tiff's I then open as layers in #Gimp where the color again is the base and the two black and white files sit on top, where I first apply transparency to those two files, the middle black and white gets a HSV Value of 75% and the top black and white gets a Soft Light at 50% starting with the middle I merge it down, then I merge the top down, I then save again as X.tiff and open #Digikam where I apply Lens correction and cropping, then save as png, then I batch process to jpg, resize for say sharing online and apply my watermarks;

This process has slowly evolved over the years and my workflow may seem cumbersome to some, but my self portrait for example from shutter click to frame/print ready is about 10 mins of work now, repetition is key when your building your skills, the more you do something the more proficient and efficient you become;

Anyways I just thought I would share a small part of how I enjoy my passion;

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I am disabled and on SSDI, I have severe anxiety and bipolar, PTSD, ADD/ADHD. I do not drive. I am poor. I struggle to make ends meet, and I have many unmet needs. I need help to get a home where I can keep until I die. I don’t want to worry about what I am going to eat, I don’t want to go to be hungry anymore, I don’t want to worry about the decline of my mental health, because of lack of care. My health is slowly but steadily declining. I have not had proper care for some time.

If I could raise ~$3 million in a rather short amount of time, I could obtain my own property and home, whether I buy a house and property or vacant property and build my forever home. My realistic ideal budget for property and home along with the necessary things that go with a home, is currently around $500,000 and that is very doable. But lets just say to create my forever home, furnish it stock it with food and all the stuff one needs to live, cost $1.5 million I would still have $1.5 million left in the bank which would give me $37,500 a year for the next 40 years of my life, which is an increase of $25,000 a year over my current $12,000 a year. Which would allow me to cover all my property taxes, utilities, maintenance, food and groceries and basic life costs, and not have to ever worry about what I am going to eat, or where I will sleep and for how long.

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Food For Thought, if every single or let's be more realistic, if 50% of all Americans for 24hrs collectively all shut off their phones, computers, tablets, smart tvs and speakers, and went silent for 24 hours as a protest to big data; The Net Economic Loss would be roughly $20–25 billion, but the Net Market Value Loss (Stock Market) would likely exceed $1.5 trillion;
It wouldn't just be a "quiet day"; it would be a "Black Monday" level event for Wall Street, proving that Big Data's greatest value isn't the data itself, but the constant, uninterrupted participation of the people;

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I was feeling hungry, so I took out my 1lb of ground turkey I had and put in my skillet to brown, just the time it took to cook, has my back aching and the arthritis in my hands and wrists is just nearly so bad I almost could not finish, its 1lb of ground turkey it cooks nearly instantly, my body keeps degrading at a rate I find unacceptable, and between my already disabled self and existing in poverty there really is nothing I can do nor afford to attempt to make life somewhat more manageable;

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