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Something for the Weekend - Part 234 - Clove Hitch!

  • February 14, 2025
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Hi,
Well done to all you posted images in our last, 'vital spark', challenge. There were some clever interpretations of the spark plug.

 

This week our starting ingredient is one which may be more familiar to the cooks among us. It is a dried clove but instead of using this one for flavour we will use it in creating an image. What can you make with it?

 

The “rules”:

  • Use the starter image as at least part of your own image entry.
  • Anything goes, as long as it meets the forum rules on decency, copyright, etc.
  • Anyone, and everyone, is welcome to have a go, whether you are a complete beginner or a Photoshop expert. This is not just for our forum “regulars”.
  • There are no prizes apart from the chance to practice, show off your skills, or bring a bit of humor and fun. Don't be shy, join in and have a go!
  • The starter image is made available for you to use in this forum challenge only.

 

To download the starter image, hover over the image and click on the circle with the arrows at the top right. Then, when the image opens in its own window, right click and choose “Save Image As/Save Target As” (or similar depending on your browser).

 

 

When posting back your image — please use the blue reply button in this first post and use the 'Insert Photos' icon at the top of the reply box. If posting a comment on someone else’s entry, then please use the grey reply button next to their image post.

 

Have fun!

 

Dave

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Monika Gause
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February 16, 2025

Leslie Moak Murray
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February 16, 2025

Haha!

Trevor.Dennis
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February 16, 2025

Clove Hitch 

 

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February 16, 2025

Nice one Trevor. The cloves make a good rope and you're the first with this, very literal, interpretation of this week's theme. Great job.
Dave

Henrik Heigl
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February 16, 2025

Its not rocket science ...

regards,Henrik
Trevor.Dennis
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February 16, 2025

Is that a clove hitch morphing from an avacado?  I am not sure which is the worse state?  Cloves are designed to ruin a nice apple pie, and avacado is a slimy spread people with strong stomachs put on their toast.  My Chris has a huge avacado tree that she grew from a pip. It spent a few months in a glass in the kitchen. Then she grew it in a large pot where it became pot bound.  finally she decided to plant it in the garden where it went crazy.

Chuck Uebele
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February 16, 2025

Nice Avacado tree @Trevor.Dennis. I love them and usually have one every day. I planted a couple when I was living in CA - you need 2 different types A & B so they pollinate - like a Hass and Bacon variety. I also had a dwarf one, which just started to bear a few small fruit, but then we moved.

Trevor.Dennis
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February 16, 2025

Clove Hitch — Do you get it?  😉

 

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February 16, 2025

Haha - I love it. Very clever.
Dave

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February 16, 2025

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February 16, 2025

When I posted the clove, I was thking it looked like one of those strange alien spaceships that Captain Kirk and his crew used to encounter. You've taken it a step on from there though, Trevor. 🙂

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February 16, 2025

@camiloadobe
Trevor.Dennis
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February 16, 2025

The Fairie Olympics.  I think that little guy lives at the end of Ged's garden.  Nicely done Camilo.

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February 16, 2025

Trevor.Dennis
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February 16, 2025

Beautiful colours. Lovely image.

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February 15, 2025

 

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February 16, 2025

The Statue of Liberty holding the clove. 🙂

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February 16, 2025

Welcome to America, and if you have toothache collect one of these! 🙂
Dave

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February 15, 2025

Leslie Moak Murray
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February 15, 2025

ha!

Semaphoric
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February 16, 2025

Leslie, I was hoping you would come up with the idea first, since you are a better cartoonist than I am . . .

Chuck Uebele
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February 15, 2025

CloveX

Trevor.Dennis
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February 16, 2025

Wow Chuck.  I checked out your Behance page to see the image I thought this was based on, and I see you have been busy.   You have some very nice imagery on that site.  We had a news item last night about a kayaker who was swallowed by a whale, but that would have been just an average day for you.  You certainly get up close and personal to them at least.

 

  https://www.behance.net/csuebele

 

Chuck Uebele
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February 16, 2025

Thanks @Trevor.Dennis! I haven't posted too much lately to Behance, but I have been busy. I have been enjoying shooting launches, when I'm In California. As far as the whales go, I it is a bit nerve racking kayaking when they're around, Several times, I could see the water roiling around, when they swam under me, but I couldn't see them. The day after I went kayaking with them two women we taken up in the mouth of a humpback, in the same spot I was kayaking.

 https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=two+women+kayak+whale#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:28be439f,vid:tgwGUNnf2Rc,st:0