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Rock

@rjrock.bsky.social

I’m an Army veteran, tech exec, and East Coast Kin member. Photography is presence--a way for me to connect with this amazing world and the wonderful people in it. I enjoy shooting landscape, street, and architecture, but love exploring all milieus.

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Rock @rjrock.bsky.social · 2h ago

Sunflower, Dry Grass, Mesa Wild sunflower holding its own against dry grass and a hazy blue mesa. Something is working the disc florets if you look close. #EastCoastKin #Photography #Leica #PhotographersofBlueSky #PhotographersUnited #LandscapePhotography #AOFoto

A single wild sunflower rises on a hairy, pale green stem from dry, golden-brown prairie grass, its face turned slightly down and to the right. The bloom sits in the upper third of a tall vertical frame, yellow petals radiating around a dark brown-black disc where a small insect is visible among the florets. Below, broad gray-green leaves curl along the stem, and a second, unopened bud branches just behind the main stalk. The background dissolves into a soft wash of warm dry grass, with the blue silhouette of a flat-topped mesa along the horizon under a pale, hazy sky. A faint line of dark fence posts recedes diagonally in the far left background. Everything but the flower and its nearest leaves is rendered in soft, creamy blur.

The image relies on a classic depth-of-field strategy: a wide aperture isolates the sunflower from the surrounding grassland, using sharp focus versus soft blur as the primary tool for figure-ground separation. Warm tones in the petals and grass sit in deliberate contrast with the cool blue of the distant mesa and sky, keeping the flower visually advancing while the landscape recedes. The composition favors an upper-left power point for the bloom, leaving generous negative space below that reads as openness and scale rather than emptiness. It is a quiet, observational piece of prairie botany more than a dramatic landscape image, closer to a field-guide portrait than a scenic vista.

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Marjo Slingerland-Boks @marjosl.eurosky.social · 13h ago

I have puzzle in the little free time on the moment with @rjrock.bsky.social his photo for #Postprocess #Converge #ECK I have use the double exposure in Snapseed and all the tools that where there. To get the MilkyWay and stars more visible. I don't even know if this is what Rock means to do😅

Juan J Rivero @jwolfiedog.bsky.social · yesterday

Used Snapseed tools: Double Exposure, Curve, Brush, Healing. #PostProcess #ECK #Converge Photos: @rjrock.bsky.social

Rock @rjrock.bsky.social · yesterday

Held Softly Quiet, warm, still. This one feels like being there in that moment. It's the shot I keep coming back to. #EastCoastKin #Photography #Leica #PhotographersofBlueSky #PhotographersUnited #ColorADay #BlueTue

A lone juniper stands alone on a grassy ridge, rendered with a soft, diffused quality that removes most fine texture from the scene. The tree is small in the frame, positioned left of center where the grass meets the sky, its canopy a mix of live green needles on one side and bare, pale dead branches on the other. The grass covering the foreground and rolling hillside is a warm amber-gold, textured only as a soft mass rather than individual blades. Above, a wide expanse of pale blue sky holds scattered cumulus clouds, their undersides tinted faint pink, suggesting late-day light. Hazy blue-grey mountains recede along the horizon behind the tree, fading gradually into the sky with atmospheric distance.

This image leans on negative space and a warm-cool color pairing rather than sharp detail to create its mood. Amber grass and blue sky sit near-complementary on the color wheel, giving the frame quiet vibrance without saturation. The overall softness lowers local contrast throughout, which flattens the usual boundary between subject and background and produces an immersive, at-peace feeling rather than a documentary sense of place. It is a deliberate departure from typical landscape sharpness, closer in spirit to Pictorialist photography, which favored soft focus to evoke mood over mechanical precision.

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Ghost of 1 Billion Crabs @biggiecrabs.bsky.social · 3d ago

Snapseed (Sky): Develop, Tune x2, Details, Curves, Dehaze, Vignette, HDR Scape, Film Snapseed (Composite): Develop, Crop, Tune, Details, Curves, Dehaze, HDR, Double Exposure, Tonal Contrast, Vignette, Curves x2 OneLab: Simple border Og 📸: @rjrock.bsky.social #ECK #PostProcess #Converge #ArtYear

An astrophotography composite of the Milky Way core stretching diagonally over a mountain ridge and open prairie. In the lower third, an abandoned wooden barn sits in a dark, dry grass field under soft ambient light. The Galactic Center glows in subtle purple and white tones above the dark silhouette of the hills. The image was created in Snapseed across two editing sessions: first prepping the sky with curve adjustments and dehazing, then using a double exposure mask to join the sky and foreground along the mountain ridge while matching exposure, white balance, and film grain.

Pepper @pepper10.bsky.social · 3d ago

I feel like a student entering medical school and doing brain surgery. But, here goes ... I rotated the original pic; colored it, erased some pats, blurred a portion and then tinted it. It's now a scape of farmland in the fall, with threatening skies above. #PostProcess #Converge #ECK

Turned the original pic into a scape of farmland under threatening skies.

Jason @bloodraynes.bsky.social · 2d ago

Evening #BlueSky🍻 Inspired by the words.. …“They were never going to share a frame honestly”… For challenge #PostProcess #Converge #ECK Original photo by @rjrock.bsky.social Achieved using Unity, Phonto,Snapseed & LightRoom with info #AltText Have a great rest of your day my freinds ☺️

So, l knew what l wanted to do with this edit but there was a skill issue…mine lol.

I tried for ages to find a suitable Google image of a simple easel, but I couldn’t get it to work.

But I know a Dan that can 😉

So, off to my step son and l asked him to use unity (after paying a beer tax of course) to drop a photorealistic easel into the first image and match all the lighting conditions.

Then he spouted gobbledygook about “global illumination, volumetric lighting and spectral highlighting?” and l had my base image.

I then took that new image into an app called Phonto and added the darker capture and with manipulation, l got the angle l needed without losing the quality for it to be positioned on the easel.

I then deleted the background image which left me with just the darker picture at the correct angle which l saved.

Then into Snapseed with the background image and the new darker one at the correct angle was added as a double exposure so l could get it to rest on the easel.

That new completed image was then taken to Lightroom for my usual finishing touches of a slight vignette and a white boarder frame.

Many thanks to Dan for his magic and help this week ☺️👍🏼

Rock @rjrock.bsky.social · 2d ago

Crepuscular, Colorado Crepuscular rays over the valley — a cliché of a shot, sure. Still stopped me cold. #EastCoastKin #Photography #ClassicMono #DJI #PhotographersofBlueSky #PhotographersUnited

A black-and-white aerial view over a wide river valley in western Colorado. Sunrays radiate outward from behind a flat-topped mesa on the horizon, fanning through a sky of scattered clouds — some dense and dark, others thin and nearly white where light passes through. The rays converge toward a bright glow just above the horizon, where the sun itself stays hidden behind the mesa. Below, the valley floor sits in deep gray and black: a small town, roads, and tree lines along a curving river. Two irregular ponds in the lower frame mirror the cloud pattern above, forming a pale band across the dark valley floor. The image is a tall vertical panorama, giving far more frame to sky than land.

The composition withholds its light source — the sun stays just out of frame behind the mesa, so the rays read as effect rather than object, keeping the eye searching rather than settling. The mesa’s hard horizontal edge contrasts with the rays’ radiating diagonals, pairing geometric and organic energy. The ponds act as a second sky, echoing the cloud pattern and linking the frame’s two halves. It’s a familiar subject — the crepuscular-ray sunset — handled with enough restraint to avoid the genre’s usual cliché, even though the phenomenon itself is instantly recognizable.

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Mimi_TlRife💙📸☕️🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒🍊🏈🐻🏀🧳🎮@mimitlrife.bsky.social · 2d ago

Original photo provided by @rjrock.bsky.social for this week’s #PostProcess challenge of #Converge #Photography #ECK

Used Snapseed with curves, film, glow, white balance, bloom, and crop.

🆂🅷🅴🅴🅽🅰 @sheena-mck.bsky.social · 2d ago

Here’s my attempt for #PostProcess #Converge Again I struggled with this one as I really wasn’t sure what was required. But I had a go anyway 🤷🏼 Original photo by @rjrock.bsky.social

Photos layered over each other. White balance fluorescent applied. Saturation increased and white elements of sky decreased. All in Photoshop Express

mjlinde.bsky.social @mjlinde.bsky.social · 2d ago

#ECK #PostProcess Aug 3 - Aug 9 #Converge original photo 📸 by @rjrock.bsky.social "One moment, one sky, one place...." ~rj rock The smoke was so thick.. like fog I'd never seen... We couldn't even see the flames coming over the hill.. until we could.. the only air left was fueling the fires...

Lots of brightening and overexposure.. lots of getting rid of the Milky Way and all the stars! and lots of filters to take away visibility.. special thank you to @bloodraynes.bsky.social for his special support and friendship..

P Pekka @prepekka98.bsky.social · 3d ago

#ECK #PostProcess #Converge Photos: @rjrock.bsky.social To achieve Rock's "restrained and realistic," I kept the colors desaturated. The blacks may be "crushed" but realistically at night they would be. I used Lightroom photo merge, made masks for minute light and clarity adjustments.

Rosemarie @roabrams.bsky.social · 3d ago

This week’s #postprocess is #converge original photos are from @rjrock.bsky.social #doubleexposure Definitely above my skill level and understanding, but I always enjoy trying new challenges My edits were done in Snapseed using an iPad

A double exposure night scene over farmland there is a building in the distance

Micha Pajocel @michapajocel.eurosky.social · 3d ago

@rjrock.bsky.social Hello ! here is my contribution for the #converge #postprocess challenge. #eck #photography Details in ALT

Two original images by @rjrock.bsky.social merged in one image. I used HDR efex from the nik collection.

Kay on the Prairie @kayontheprairie.bsky.social · 3d ago

There are plenty of nectar choices in the prairie garden, but when it’s available, the Monarchs definitely prefer the Rough Blazing Star (Liatris aspera) over everything 💜 #gardening #monarchs #nativeplants #eastcoastkin #stunday #Lepidoptera

A brightly colored monarch butterfly nectaring on purple rough blazing star flowers

Rock @rjrock.bsky.social · 3d ago

All the challenges of the last 17 weeks will #Converge in this #PostProcess challenge. Read both images or their alt text for instructions, and let's do something beautiful together. Game on. #EastCoastKin #ECK Files: tinyurl.com/33dc3jye

#ECK #PostProcess
Aug 3 - Aug 9 #Converge

Two exposures. One sky. One ground. They were never going to share a frame honestly — the ground needed its own light, the sky needed the dark it can only get alone. Your job is to make them lie well enough that no one asks.

Everything you've built through this series lives in this one. Mask it, grade it, dodge it, burn it. Just don't let it look built.
We provide the photo, you make it yours. Any tool.
New Challenge every week

Aug 3 - Aug 9 #Converge

This is a bit of a capstone. Milky Way edits (in my opinion) are very challenging to do well. Two exposures, one foreground and one sky and the goal is to create a believable image. You will have to use all of the editing skills or work you've put in, color, temperature, blending/layering, masking, luminosity blending, white balance matching, and local dodge-and-burn work. And some restraint.

Now it's your challenge and you do it your way, and if you want to put your skills to the challenge, then shoot for the believable photo--get the seam right, match the white balance, scale honestly, and avoid oversaturating the core or crushing the blacks. Game on.

Rock @rjrock.bsky.social · 3d ago

Sunset Bend The ponds went flat calm at sunset -- mirrored the whole sky, clouds and all, with the mountains holding the line to the west. #EastCoastKin #Photography #DJI #Stunday #ColorADay #OrangeSun #PhotographersofBlueSky #MountainMonday #PhotographersUnited

An aerial panorama of a river bend at sunset. The sky runs from pale blue at upper left to warm orange and pink toward the horizon, streaked with long bands of cloud lit gold by the low sun. On the right, a mountain ridge rises in layers, pale rock near the summit over darker slopes and a reddish lower cliff band. Below, a wide, glass-still river curves diagonally through the frame, its surface reflecting the sky and clouds almost exactly. Along the left bank sit a low apartment complex, scattered trees, and a dirt track; a smaller pond sits in the lower left corner. The right bank is lined with dense trees and brush, with a fenced property visible in the far foreground. A flat mesa sits on the horizon at far left.

The elevated drone vantage flattens the scene into a near-mirror image, with the river acting as a horizontal axis that doubles the sky's color and cloud pattern top to bottom. The river's gentle curve works as a leading line, pulling the eye from the developed left bank through open middle ground to the mountain mass on the right, which anchors the frame and breaks the horizontal emphasis. Blue, orange, and pink repeat in both sky and water, giving the image a unified, calm tonal range typical of golden-hour aerial work. Visible development along the banks -- rooftops, fences, a road -- keeps the scene grounded as an inhabited landscape rather than untouched wilderness.

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Mimi_TlRife💙📸☕️🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒🍊🏈🐻🏀🧳🎮@mimitlrife.bsky.social · 4d ago

For the challenge of #PostProcess #Ghost #ECK Original photo by @rjrock.bsky.social Thank you! I used Snapseed and my info is in #AltText Have a great rest of your day! 🙋‍♀️ #Photography #ClassicMono

I used the original photo provided and used double exposure. I then used a photo of our grandson mountain biking.

Rock @rjrock.bsky.social · 5d ago

Old Homestead, Milky Way Core Two exposures blended — sky and ground — Milky Way core over an old homestead cabin in the Colorado backcountry. #EastCoastKin #Photography #Fuji #AlphabetChallenge #WeekDForDark #PhotographersofBlueSky #PhotographersUnited #LandscapePhotography

A weathered log cabin with a low peaked roof stands alone in a grass and sagebrush field. Behind it, a dark, forested mountain ridge runs the width of the frame. A band of warm amber light hugs the horizon and fades upward into deep blue-violet sky. The Milky Way's bright core, dense with pale dust-lane structure and a faint pink tint near its base, arcs diagonally from the upper-left corner down toward the cabin. Stars — some warm orange, some cool blue-white — scatter across the darker sky to the right, and two thin streaks, likely satellites, cross the upper frame.

The galaxy's diagonal band works as a leading line, pulling the eye from the top corner down to the cabin, which sits near a lower-third power point — a small structure anchoring the frame despite its size. The palette splits along a warm/cool axis: amber horizon and grass tones read as grounded, while the cool blue-violet sky recedes, adding depth. The cabin's dark silhouette against the lighter horizon creates clear figure-ground separation. The mood is quiet and solitary — one structure beneath an enormous sky.

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BeTheChange @vishnumichael.bsky.social · 5d ago

#ghost #digitalart #Eck #AlphabetChallenge #WeekDforDark #photography #art #EastCoastKin First attempt at #PostProcess challenge. Edits using Snapseed and Brainfever mobile apps. Moon element is an original photo by myself. Original photo provided by @rjrock.bsky.social

Rock @rjrock.bsky.social · 5d ago

Riverbed, Not Riverbank Stood on rock that should be riverbed, not riverbank. Just enough water left to hold the whole bridge in reflection. #EastCoastKin #Photography #ClassicMono #BWFri #UrbanGaze #Fuji #PhotographersofBlueSky #PhotographersUnited #Scape

Black and white photograph of a historic steel truss bridge crossing a shallow river, with a nearly perfect mirror reflection of the bridge structure on the still water below. The bridge is a riveted through-truss design with a distinctive diagonal bracing pattern, spanning left to right across the upper-middle portion of the frame under a clear, pale sky with two small clouds. A concrete abutment marked with graffiti anchors the left side of the bridge at the near bank. A second, smaller truss span is partially visible in the background to the right, mostly obscured by trees and brush lining the far bank. The foreground is dominated by an extensive field of light-colored, rounded river rocks and cobbles covering roughly the bottom half of the frame, with only a narrow channel of water remaining between the exposed rock beds, just wide enough to hold the bridge's reflection intact. Scattered puddles and wet patches break up the dry rock surface closer to the camera.

The composition stacks four horizontal bands — dry rock foreground, reflected water and bridge, the bridge itself, and open sky — creating a visual rhyme between the irregular, scattered rocks below and the engineered diagonal bracing of the truss above. The exposed riverbed occupying so much of the frame is the central fact of the image: the water has receded enough to leave most of the channel dry, while what remains is calm enough to produce a clean, doubled image of the bridge. The effect pairs an engineered structure with clear physical evidence of a changed, reduced river, giving the photograph a documentary quality about water level and infrastructure rather than a purely scenic one.

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Rock @rjrock.bsky.social · 5d ago

Clear Early morning, alone at the water. Small next to all that rock and somehow closer to it because of it. #EastCoastKin #Photography #Scape #ForestFriday #Fuji #PhotographersofBlueSky #PhotographersUnited

Vertical color landscape photograph taken at the edge of an alpine lake, with a shallow, clear pool of water occupying most of the lower half of the frame. The water is transparent enough to reveal a rocky, sandy bottom with a single large rock breaking the surface near the center-bottom foreground. Thick green grass and reeds line both the left and right edges of the frame, framing the view of the water and mountains beyond. In the middle distance, a dense band of dark green conifer trees rings the far shore of the lake, with two small boats, one white and one darker-hulled, pulled up on the bank among the trees on the right side. Behind the treeline, a rugged mountain ridge rises across the frame, gray and purple-brown rock with sparse vegetation on its lower slopes and a jagged, saw-toothed crest along the skyline. The sky above is overcast, filled with soft gray-white clouds with no visible sun or blue sky breaking through.

The composition is organized into three clear horizontal bands — sky, mountain and treeline, and water — with the vertical frame giving each band room to read distinctly rather than compressing them together. Where a typical shot at this location might rely on the water as a mirror, here the water's transparency is the organizing idea instead: the eye is invited to look into the pool rather than at a reflection on its surface, an intentional variation on the reflective-lake convention. The grass framing the left and right edges creates a loose vignette effect, drawing attention inward toward the mountain at the center of the frame. The overall mood is quiet and observational, emphasizing the physical texture of the place — water, stone, grass — over dramatic light or color.

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Rock @rjrock.bsky.social · 5d ago

Storm Break, Fence Line Storm let go just enough for the light to get through — same rays hitting the ridge and the fence-line grass at my feet, three miles apart. #EastCoastKin #Photography #ClassicMono #Scape #ColorADay #BWFri #Leica #PhotographersofBlueSky #PhotographersUnited

Black and white landscape photograph of a wide agricultural valley beneath a heavily clouded storm sky. Dense, dark cloud cover fills the upper third of the frame, breaking into a wide gap of brighter, more textured cloud through which several distinct shafts of sunlight descend at a diagonal, fanning out toward the valley floor and mountains below. A layered mountain ridge runs across the middle of the frame, its slopes softened by falling rain visible as a hazy gray curtain beneath the clouds. Below the ridge, a patchwork of irrigated fields, scattered trees, and small structures marks the valley floor, with visible spray lines from active irrigation equipment. The foreground is an open pasture bounded by a barbed-wire fence, with tall grass in the lower third of the frame lit from behind by the same low sun producing the light shafts above, its seed heads and stalks rendered as fine bright texture against the darker field behind it.

The photograph builds its structure through layered contrast rather than a single focal point: dense black sky at top, luminous cloud break and light shafts as the visual peak, a mid-toned mountain-and-valley band, and a darker foreground grounded by the fence line and backlit grass. The crepuscular rays function as a compositional bridge, visually connecting the distant storm to the foreground grass, which catches the same quality of light at a completely different scale and distance — a deliberate echo between background and foreground that gives the image a sense of unified, continuous light across a large space rather than a single isolated sky event. The result reads as documentary landscape work with a formal, deliberate tonal structure rather than a snapshot of dramatic weather.

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𝙰𝚕𝚊𝚗𝚉𝚞𝚌𝚔𝚎𝚛.𝙰𝚛𝚝 @alanzucker.bsky.social · 5d ago

The contours of the rocks/cliff seemed very reminiscent of some scary ocean temperature data I recently saw via @zacklabe.com #PostProcess #Ghost #EastCoastKin #ECK Original photo credit: @rjrock.bsky.social

Rock @rjrock.bsky.social · 6d ago

Twist, Green Glass Aluminum fins twist across green glass. The sky wedge gives it form. #EastCoastKin #Photography #Fuji #PhotographersofBlueSky #PhotographersUnited #Scape #Urbangaze

The composition uses the sky wedge as a release valve for what would otherwise be unbroken repetition — the eye enters through that open corner and follows the diagonal line of the fin-tops down into the pattern, a use of continuation that keeps the density from reading as flat wallpaper. The cool green of the glass sits in near-complementary tension with the warm-neutral gray of the metal, giving the surface a faint sense of vibration even though nothing in the frame moves. It reads less as a record of a building and more as a study in rhythm — the point where architectural cladding starts to function as pure visual pattern.

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P Pekka @prepekka98.bsky.social · 6d ago

When your "natural" world is a digital simulation inside a post-apocalyptic survival dome. Here I used Rock's the current challenge photo with last week's #Sculpt challenge photo. See alt-Text for Lightroom edit details. #ECK #PostProcess #Ghost #Silly Original photos: @rjrock.bsky.social

Robyn @handcranked.bsky.social · 7d ago

Double trouble My edit of @rjrock.bsky.social's photo for #PostProcess #ghost. I added two cutouts of a creepy photo of my boyfriend as a kid. I made a Halloween photo for him years ago, blending his photo with the hallway from the Stanley Hotel, where The Shining was written. #ECK #EastCoastKin

A creepy composite photo of a jagged coastline with smooth water and moss-covered rocks combined with two identical photos of a little boy hovering above the water. The boy has a blonde bowl cut and is wearing tan shorts, a light short-sleeve button-down, red mid-calf socks, and brown shoes. His arms are at his side and he has a creepy stare. The photos of the boys are partially transparent and have a motion blur to make them appear like ghost. The background also has a motion blur so it looks like there's a ghost of the photo behind it. The colors are cold. There's a black frame around the photo with rounded corners.

Rock @rjrock.bsky.social · last wk.

Warm Seam, Cannon Street The Sugarloaf, Cannon Street EC4. Blue neon cuts a cool seam between warm brick above and warm stained glass below — two guys mid-conversation anchor the frame. #UrbanGaze #ECK #Photography #Leica #HumansofBlueSky #PhotographersofBlueSky #PhotographersUnited #EastCoastKin

Night exterior of The Sugarloaf pub on Cannon Street, London EC4. The facade breaks into three horizontal bands. On top, weathered brick glows amber under uplighting, with dark sash windows and flower boxes trailing greenery and orange blooms along the roofline, strung with fairy lights; a white CANNON STREET EC4 sign sits on the brick at upper right. Below, a thin band of cool blue LED light frames a lit sign reading THE SUGARLOAF in white serif capitals on black. Beneath that, tall leaded stained-glass windows glow deep red, amber, and green from the interior, patterned with small national flags. The lower facade is glossy black tile. On the sidewalk at right, two men stand mid-conversation, one in a white dress shirt and braces, the other in a blue shirt, both backlit into soft silhouette by the window glow. The foreground is a wide, empty stone sidewalk and a strip of dark, wet street.

The composition runs on a warm-cool-warm color structure: tungsten brick above, a cool blue band at the fascia, warm stained glass below, giving an otherwise flat facade real depth. The blue band reads as a seam, separating and connecting the two warm zones rather than competing with them. The two figures sit near the right third of the frame, backlit into near-silhouette against the glass, lending a quiet outsider-looking-in quality to an architectural study.

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AlinaHagen 🌊🎨📸 🥾@alinagrafik.eurosky.social · last wk.

#PostProcess #Ghost Original image by @rjrock.bsky.social Combine different images into one. #ECK #Photography #ClassicMono

I used Snapseed to convert initial images to BW, then worked with layers in Photoshop for joining the images into one. Three images were actually used. I cropped some of Rock's image at the top.

mjlinde.bsky.social @mjlinde.bsky.social · last wk.

#PostProces #EastCoastKin Challenge 17 #Ghost Blend the source with a 2nd layer, another exposure of the same scene, a texture, a memory of something else. The seam is the whole point. Where does one layer end, another begin and does it need to be invisible? FinalEntry..🤎see ALT "Saying Goodbye"