The Parkways Projects 1934≈2025

The Digital Hybrids are primarily linked directly to the Hybrid Works. Think of them as siblings... When finished, it will be one of the first five or six of my large Digital Hybrids to be available in print form. It's about 65% done as you see it here. Stay tuned, the Sea Oats are coming (far less dangerous than "the Sand Snakes of GoT), plus a few less recognizable architectural features! I'll be finishing this work up in a few weeks, and when done I'll do a Work in Progress string. The composition is built of three primary photographs. The central one an interior view, the outer views worked into place as a digital collage puzzle, in a way. Based on a place I've loved for years and years and years, yet, I've not seen it since these photos were shot there in March of 2023. The Ghosts Forests at Huntington Beach State Park have been growing faster (according to SCPRT signage) and I'm curious to get back there to see just how the salt water levels are settling. It's an eerie thing to behold. The composition is done, so far, in muted avocado greens and natural clay color, with rich deep reds in the bricks. Other elements are about to be added, almost as scrim layers on a stage, which will be foliage, trees, perhaps some of those scary sea oats!

"Atalaya Triptych," [work in progress] a #DigitalCollage (DCI) from the Digital Hybrid series, for 'The Parkways Projects." #TomOgburn I'm back, sort of in little dribs and drabs...

#BlueSkyArtShow #Horizontal #HuntingtonBeachStatePark
#SCPRT #SouthCarolinaStateParks #DigitalCollage #CarolinaCoast

The faintest of lowing, barely heard Short Takes » Writing on the fly on a near-winter night.

Many thanks to all who are staying with me & new followers. I've had to put 70% of my time in trying to finally settle a long estate dilemma & sell our properties while also trying to build 'The Parkways Projects' Substack site. 🦉🪔🌙 Here's a link:

#TheParkwaysProjects

This is a fairly decent example of what I've found online when conducting searches through the last decade for a higher quality scan, made from a much higher quality original Thiollier print. Which I have yet to see, sadly. It is only 72 pixels per inch ( I made a copy from a file I found to the same specs) 600x600 pixels. The contrast is far too dark, the trees in the distance too pale and washed out, and the digital artifacts are the same as almost every other scanned image I have ever seen online. Some have been attempted recoveries or restorations, but when starting from a badly artifacted older digital scan. My guess is that most all I have seen are replications derived from a single, older poor quality scan from the late 1980's-early 1990's. If you look closely at his daughter's arms and hands, her right foot and the left tail of her coat, you'll see the digital halo artifacting. And this is an example of one which has had a lot of effort put into removing those artifacts. If anyone does know a source for his works, an archive of his photographic prints in France where the works by his own hand exist, please do let me know. Especially if a better image of this photograph is in that collection.

Here's an example of the better quality (fairly decent) versions available online. If any locates one that is an certified scan of an original print of this image, please, please hit me back with the news and a link?

The Horse Trainer Short Takes » Photos » Félix Thiollier » The most enigmatic photo ever made?

This is the latest attempt by me in Photoshop to recover the finer details and lose the really shudder-worthy digital artifacting that seems to be at the root of all of Thioller's images present online. 🦉✨

#FelixThioller #TheHorseTrainer #TheParkwaysProjects
#ClassicPhotography #Photography ⬇️🥂

A legacy of long ago; phantoms in the now, and living art to come from trees which died circa 1936. Short Takes » Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree » An Early Digital Art Experiment

🦉🪔🍂The final feed, with intro, which technically speaking, should have arrived first on the scene.

#theparkwaysprojects #ChestnutTrees #BlueRidgeParkway #SkylineDriveParkway #TomOgburn #TheSixties #1960s #TheGreatSmokyMountainsNationalPark

Indeed. But we did try.

Ohio YouTube video by Crosby, Stills & Nash - Topic

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This needs no explanation.

I apologize for my entire generation that no matter how much we tried, nothing fucking changed.

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Thanks Aaron, I am—I zapped you something a few days back but yeah, working hard down here. I hope Big Sky Country is treating you well!

Sort of getting ready to pop back in more. I'll have sort of a story to tell on my return 📖

A legacy of long ago; phantoms in the now Short Takes » Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree

🦉 It’s a very personal quest for me, for my father tried very hard to find a few of the still standing remains of the old giant chestnut trees in 1963 & again in 1964. He had seen them as a young man, when he attended Clemson University in 1946; he was certain of it even if we were not.

🍂Hey Folks!

NICE shot Bill!! 🦉

Fiordland, New Zealand 🇳🇿
#WaterfallWednesday #photography

©️Robynne Limoges ‘Snowfall’

Trying to remember a lot of things at present 🕊️✨

🌙🦉A beautiful shot Alina!

A tree with multiple trunks and long thin branches is weighted down with a heavy snowfall, creating curved lines of black branches and white snow seemingly in unison flexing to touch the snowy ground.

Sunday #Stunday

Thin black branches flex in unison under the weight of the snow, gently bending to touch their tips into the snowy ground creating a pattern of black and white.

#EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #Snow #SensoryArt #Lines

Aaron is most likely Secret Agent Man! 😎

Hey Allan, great work! Your BiL told me about you and your collage work 🦉💙

I’ve been on a bit of a hiatus @🦋 while working up a Substack for the Parkways Projects, and applying for a couple of grants for those works :) By all means let’s follow; more later 🌙

Awesome! Yeah, I understand the pull!! I wonder if I can find photos of all five of mine?

Nice tree Leaves dying. Reflected in a pond. Water also behind it. Followed by trees and sky. Bench to the left of the tree.

Wordless #BlueskyMonday

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There is beautiful fall foliage in this old, historic town in Nevada. The main street is to the left while museums and shops are on the right side of the image. In the background are mountains in the shadow, but sunlight is backlighting one bright orange tree that's behind Genoa's city sign. The buildings are all old, in the original Western style.

#BlueskyMonday #MountainMonday

Genoa City, Nevada. It was the first settlement (1851) in what was to become the Nevada Territory (1861-1864). It's nestled at the eastern base of the Sierra Nevada range.

#EastCoastKin #Nevada #LandscapePhotography #SierraNevada

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I know I've mentioned him before, but my BiL does some amazing collages. I got to poke around his studio when I was visiting! Not AI! Take a peek and give him a follow!

#collage #art

歩道橋

#art #photo #photography #streetsnap #Monochrome #ClassicMono #Tainan #EastCoastKin
©️skinskin

An old elevator in a dusty lot at the edge of a small rural town.

An old Elevator in western Nebraska. Barely perceptible in the distance is the railroad track. See below for closer view.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels #BlueskyMonday #FarmLife #MobilePhotography #Photography 📷

Black and white image of large grain silos and a storage building under a cloudy sky, with a tractor and equipment in the foreground.

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Went on a mosey around my town yesterday. Been going very gentle with the new eyes!

Between the vertical lines and the clouds, there was no way I could pass this up!

Have a great Monday, y'all!

#EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #Montana #photography #blackandwhitephotography

Marantz 1060
Stereo Integrated Amplifier (1971-78)

Power output: 30 watts per channel into 8Ω (stereo)

Frequency response: 20Hz to 20kHz

Total harmonic distortion: 0.5%

Damping factor: 45

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AM/FM Stereophonic Tuner

“She seemed to have a great affinity for the “great god Lost” in all his guises, whether a chipmunk-scaled gremlin or, on a few occasions, one of the last great mountain panthers.” ≈ Tom Ogburn

“We were trying to get away from all the damned tumult.” ≈ Jean Ogburn

#EastCoastKin #ArtYear #Landscape

Ravens Roost through Photoshop Time Short Takes » WIP » Experimenting with emulating Mid Century Photos

🦉 I'm almost ready to apply for a few things over here at #TheParkwaysProjects Thanks Y'all! 🪔

✨And still writing up a storm. Here's a WIP entry with a couple of stories embedded. A choice of Fire or Rain.

#EastCoastKin #ArtYear #BlueRidgeParkway #NationalParks
#Photography #Landscape #Mountains

🦉Thanks y'all, for the likes. It means a lot to me! 🌿🕊️