Clerkmanifestoland video

 

Not everything on clerkmanifesto can be great, but it's usually better if I think it's great when I put it up for the world to see, and then, only later, encounter what I've done and think:

Not everything on clerkmanifesto can be great.

But I like to think the important lesson here is:

Who am I to decide what's great on clerkmanifesto!

I've got bigger fish to fry.

With all that said, I have been poking around with some video versions in the visualization of Clerkmanifestoland. These are in the line of experiments, which is what we call the things I make for clerkmanifesto that aren't what I dreamed they would be, but maybe someday could be? Some of the tools I'm using for these videos are capable of creating unique features, and some struggle with almost everything, but I've kind of mashed it all together, minor successes and minor failures and come up with this short video.

Sound is important for this video, and remember to click, full screen it, and click again to get it all going.

Remasters: Water revisited

 

As I said there would be in the first round of my remasters of water pictures, here is round two, in a group small enough to hopefully not overwhelm you. Once again these pictures, while manipulated in all sorts of strange ways, aren't nearly as altered as one might think, and remain truly pictures of stream water and falls and burbling brooks, usually taken close up in strong light. And while I say that, knowing it to be true, I look at these pictures and remain a little skeptical about it myself. Sometimes it doesn't much look it.

While this concludes the water pictures in this remaster series, I remember having far more of these source pictures than I have found, remastered, and shown you in these two parts. But I'm not sure where to find them in the history of clerkmanifesto right now. But there's no saying there won't be more sometime in the future. 

I'm sure you'll manage them, if they happen to show up, as gracefully as you will today's showing.

Remasters: Ice and snow

As you likely know we have been running through some upgrades of old photographs from the past of clerkmanifesto. I have been grouping these according to subject matter, like birds, water, animals, and so on. These pictures are mostly the same as when they first appeared here over the past years, but with a bit of reimagining, and primarily some enrichifying, which is a complicated technical term that means: I did stuff to them and they may or may not be any better than they originally were.

So who wouldn't be excited to see these!!!

My world right now is hot and full of flowers, but today's pictures are all about Winter, or, specifically about ice and snow. Mostly these are pictures of close up ice, but a few scenic snowscapes come into these as well. Like with my many, many close up photographs of water, there are probably enough to split these images across more than one post, but I think I'll just load up what I have here, and let you sort through them as you like. It's all cool.

The remasters: Animals

 

We here at clerkmanifesto have been remastering some of our old, primarily nature, photographs. These are upgrades, with a slight touch of reimagination. I have been grouping them according to subject and today's subject is animals. But a lot of animals already have their own category in this series. For instance, I did birds already. And I'm pretty sure there's a cat collection coming up, although I might want to add the cats here. Fox and Skunk naturally have their own thing, whatever that is. And it's possible a bug or two might end up in the macrophotography collection. So this is really more of a collection of whatever animals are left after that. But don't worry, there's a few good ones. For instance, I'll never forget when I met the coyote that you'll see here.

And squirrels can be a lot cuter than we're inclined to think.

So here is what we have:

Well, and then I made a little movie of some of these, with music. Perhaps you recall how these work: click to prime the video, enlarge if you please, and click again to play.