{"id":3587,"date":"2022-07-25T07:21:59","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T11:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=3587"},"modified":"2022-07-25T13:15:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T17:15:50","slug":"altered-horizons-62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/altered-horizons-62\/","title":{"rendered":"Altered Horizons 62"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The reflection of the sun on my pond always teases me to photograph its sparkling, sometimes blinding, beauty. The problem is I usually over-expose the whole picture just trying to capture, on film, the beautiful patterns the sun makes on the rippled water. So here I inverted the image into its negative in Photoshop, turning the bright whites into black. Then I changed the colors from the blue-greens of the water to a pale pink sky. Enthralled with contrasting textures, I condensed a large heap of dried grasses into the land for this fabricated landscape.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shut up in the house during the hottest days of the heatwave, I find creating landscapes in Photoshop to be a great distraction from loneliness and depression.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Altered Horizons 62<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The reflection of the sun on my pond always teases me to photograph its sparkling, sometimes blinding, beauty. The problem is I usually over-expose the whole picture just trying to capture, on film, the beautiful patterns the sun makes on the rippled water. So here I inverted the image into its negative in Photoshop, turning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2254],"tags":[2406,2259,2271,976,2405,563,2351,2270,2255],"class_list":["post-3587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-h","tag-altered-horizons-62","tag-coping-with-change","tag-fabricated-landscapes","tag-grief-and-loss","tag-loneliness-and-depression","tag-photoshop","tag-therapeutic-photography","tag-upended-life","tag-upside-down-world"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t