Something for the Weekend - Part 242 - Smörgåsbord

[Trevor.Dennis]

Hi,

Thanks to all who took part in our last, 'Time and Tide', challenge.  We had lots of imaginative ideas and fun interpretations of Dave's photo of a North Yorkshire coastal town.

This week I'm helping Dave out, and I'm going to do something a bit different — mainly because I can't do the amazing photorealistic renders that Dave has started so many SFTW threads with.  This Smörgåsbord is an image buffet, many of which I have collected in my travels, and others that I have found online. 

The Rules:

• Use as many of my image elements as makes sense for your upload.  You can choose your own backgrounds.

• 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!  Bonus points if you create something quirky (like my pen/rubber).  Minus points if you resort to a Mr Potato Head 😉
• We usually provide starter images to use only for the challenges — they do have a habbit of reappearing in later challenges.  As this is a different kind of starter, you are welcome to keep and use my images as you like.  Just note that they are not all my images.

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 important to save the image to a local drive (rather than right click and copy) in order to retain transparency.

[davescm]

Trevor, thanks for posting our challenge this week. I can see some great opportunities there and I'll enjoy taking part this week.
Dave 

[Trevor.Dennis]

Looks like I need to kick off my own starter. 🙂  

[DeanUtian]

Nice work @Trevor.Dennis 

I tried to do mine without looking at others that had been posted. So wasn't ripping your one off 😉

[fbeaume]

Nice work Trevor!
...But you broke your own rules. Didn't you?

[Leigh N. E.]

[Trevor.Dennis]

If you zoom way way in, you can see a pot of gold at both ends of the rainbow.  Thanks, for having a go Leigh.  Nice one.

[fbeaume]

Corcovado in pride month mode!
Nicely done!

[Greg_S.]

[Trevor.Dennis]

Rubber feet for extra purchase Greg.  Mr Potatoe's equivalent of Nike Shox (I Googled that — I am too old to know cool stuff).   Imaginative use of the image elements.  I especially like the spiral doing duty as a mouth and moustache.  I'm guessing he's had a bit of an acident to have his 'orbs' recess so far. 

[AlanGilbertson]

"Eye eye eye... What have we here?" (In which a photograph of London public transport gives a convincing illusion of AI.)

 

[Trevor.Dennis]

This is when Big Brother gets creepy.  A lovely job of the lighting giving your image a moody atmosphere.  It's just the sort of place where a T800 Terminator might suddenly materialise.  Arnie would look pretty strange wearing that red-headed lady's clothes.

[AlanGilbertson]

I have all sorts of old stock photos on one of my drives. Every so often, like in this case, I find a use for one! London is famously awash in surveillance cameras, so this seemed like a natural combination.

[davescm]

I like it Alan. If all surveillance cameras looked like that there might be less crime! 🙂

Dave

[AlanGilbertson]

Or more people would wear hoodies. The proliferation of cameras was the genesis of the hoodie fashion, according to persons of that generation.

[Trevor.Dennis]

Or more people would wear hoodies. The proliferation of cameras was the genesis of the hoodie fashion, according to persons of that generation.

By @AlanGilbertson

It's interesting to see the back and forth between young criminals and police, and some of it is quite surprising.  The use of small motorcycles for grab and run thefts took a dark turn when the thieves stopped wear crash helmets (not even one of fb's Apple Helmets!) thinking that the cops would stop chasing for fear of hurting them.  But I believe the policy now is to knock them off their bikes regardless.  We watch a few UK cop reality shows, and crims seem to be much nastier there than in NZ. 

We have a lot of biker gangs (I can't take cruiser motorcycles seriously) running the drug trade here — most of them are predominently Maori for some unknown reason — but our government is cracking down on them at last making the wearing of gang patches illegal in public. I am not sure how well it is being enforced so far.  (I just searched and there have been more than 300 charges laid so for, and bikes, firearms, and patches siezed)

The other thing we have are what theyu are calling 'Boy Racer' meet ups where large groups gather to ruin their tires and knock each other over.  The cops have started crushing the cars of repeat offenders! 

[fbeaume]

I don't know why, but I feel watched.
There,s a 1984 vibe here... Well done Alan!

[Jacob Bugge]

Click to get closer, Click again to get closer still

[fbeaume]

We need to understand french to catch the pun... I love this idea!
Bien vu Jacob!

[Jacob Bugge]

Thank you very much, Franck.

Once I spotted the two, I hurried, lest one of yous with real knowledge came up with it sooner.

It was my hope that at least some (other) English speakers would have seen the longer name in connexion with cuisine, but just now I realized that the short name might be even less known; and without it, no pun. A DuckDuckGo search seems to support that, although both turn up convincingly when searching for Images.

[J E L]

[davescm]

Haha - I like the way he looks slightly off balance! 🙂
Dave

[AlanGilbertson]

"Eye eye eye," part 2. (In which a flipped AI image gives a convincing illusion of a London street.)

It turns out that Firefly is so convinced about how traffic goes that it will take a London street scene as a composition reference and flip all the traffic so that it's driving on the right-hand side of the road. So I flipped the image. ¯\(°_o)/¯

 

[subhadra_mishra]

[Trevor.Dennis]

Oh I love this one.  Am I allowed to have favourites Dave?  Beautiful lighting and shading, which makes all the difference.   You get extra points for the glasses. I have to admit that when something in one of Dave's starter images isn't working for me, I sometimes go find a similar object with better shape or perspective.  I am imagining Harry Potter, with Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, with the back of their heads in the foreground, 'spellbound', enjoying their favourite class at Hogwarts.