Hi,
We had some great entries to our last, 'Northern Isles' challenge. Thanks to all who took part.
This week we start with a simple object - a circular saw blade. 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). It is a png so is already cut out from the background for you - an easy start to 2025. 🙂
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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Reminds me of a photograph by Andris Apse. NZ's best known landscape photographer. He said it cost him NZ$10K in helicopter trips to get this photo, and it nearly killed him. They were hovering stationary with an uber strong tail wind, and the turbine shut down. Luckily, the pilot was on his game, and by pure reflex, he was able to fire it up again before they hit the water. Least ways that's what he told me. He has a reputation as an old school purist, so it just a bit spoiled this picture for me when he also told me that it is actually two shots, with the breaking waves added to the fishing boat image. How would you fancy earning your living taking that boat out day after day in conditions like that? It's off the coast of Fiordland just outside Breaksea Sound.
After the dreadful pike River Mine disaster in 20210, Greymouth, which was the nearest town to the mine was awash with journalists and TV news camera crews for months. Greymouth is 250 miles noth of where Andris Apse took his photograh(s) and both locations are open to the Tasman Sea. The bottom line is that the West Coast get's some pretty wild seas. There are only 34,000 people living on that entire West Coast!
One of those TV News crews got this videwo while waiting for developments at the mine. There's about as much chance that I'd cross that bar in a small boat, as there was of my taking a ride in a Robinson R44 helicopter. Well that's interesting. I checked the stats and 18 people have died crossing the Greymouth Bar in the last 30 years, while 19 people have died in R44 accidents just in New Zealand. I have a friend who pilots a Search & Rescue helicopter, and I asked if he waould fly in an R44. His answer was an emphatic NO! AFAIK, the S&R teams all fly AgustaWestland AW169 helicopters.
Steel Wheels on my Iron Horse...
I had to rotate the arrows : )
(yes, that's me catching air over a table top jump):
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