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On thing that AI image generation has taught me is how much I don't know about various forms of art and colours.  This is an 'urban scene with spectral hues'.   I can't say that I have ever heard of spectral hues but it does do a nice colour cast.  So much to learn! 

Keeping with the Christmas theme, here is another AI-generated image.  In this one I asked for bright, coloured lighting on the outside of the house and Midjourney AI rendered this artwork.

With the sad announcement this morning of a very dear friend's passing, I thought a smile would come in handy.  This street scene of the little boy chasing the balloon was rendered by Midjourney AI.

As a change of pace, today's AI image is a colourful view of a home in Tucson, done in watercolour and ink.  I love the various types of cacti that Midjourney included in this artwork.  

We were sitting around the firepit with some good friends the other night and musing about A.I. impact on various jobs.  One of the interesting careers we talked about was 'car designer'.  So... while we were sitting around the firepit, I asked Midjourney AI to render me some futuristic car models.  Here is an example of the results.  Will A.I. eventually replace the car designer or inspire the care designer?

This month's photo assignment from the Grimsby Photo Group is called "Seeing Red".  With that in mind, I grabbed my iPhone 14 Pro Max and ventured off to a nearby car show.  Here are a couple of red vehicles that I found there.  

My Arizona neighbour and good friend, Jim, has a beautiful yellow 1971 Jaguar in his garage (likely the only one in the world whose engine was swapped out for a Shelby Cobra!).  I have been trying to coax the Midjourney AI engine to produce a photo-realistic image of Jim's car.  So far, I am not happy with what I have been able to coax out of Midjourney.  The images are too cartoonish, not very photo realistic.  Clearly, I need to improve my skills working with Midjourney.  

I was curious to see what Midjourney AI would render as an image of the city I was born in the year I was born.  The result is interesting but needed some aging so I put the Midjourney image through Distressed FX to give it an older look.  Here are the two images.  

I've always been a fan of minimalist photos, but have never been particularly good at finding the right opportunities.  I thought I would see what Midjourney AI would generate if I asked for a show of some minimalist images.  These are two that I love.

I was interested to see what Midjourney AI would produce with my request for a silhouette and a reflection.  It is an interesting result.  I like that Midjourney added the human form and the setting sun in this image.

One of the fun things about playing with AI is that I can change my location and my timeframe.  As an example, I asked the AI engine to show me Paris, France on a rainy night in 1900.  This is what it rendered.

Still playing with my photos from last month's visit to Quidi Vidi, here is a nice fishing scene then cropped with the Luminar NEO app, and water adjusted in the Reflect app.  I do have fun with my editing apps! 

One thing I love about the Prisma app on my iPad is its ability to quickly generate such a wide variety of looks.  Here are two Prisma edits of two men working on a boat at Quidi Vidi.

Here is a night view of St. John's Harbour in Newfoundland with "The Narrows" (entrance to the harbour) in the top left of the photo.  I took the photo from my hotel room last Saturday and it was a good thing as thick fog wiped out this view for the rest of the time I was there.

One of the unique aspects of streetscapes in St. John's, Newfoundland is the brightly coloured houses a.k.a. "jellybean" row houses.  There are numerous theories of how this started.  Some say that the fishermen couldn't see their houses in the fog when returning from sea so they painted them in bright colours.  Others say that paint was an expensive commodity but they needed paint for their boats so they used leftover on their houses.  And others explain that men would stagger home after an evening at the pub and would wander into the wrong house - so colour became an important way for them to find the way to the right house.  Whatever the explanation it is an absolutely beautiful feature of St. John's!

This is the view looking down at St. John's Harbour and City from the top of Signal Hill (.... on a day when it is not foggy!).  

 There was plenty of rain in the area last month.   Here is my grandson out for a stroll testing out my new golf umbrella and wondering when the weather will allow us to golf again.

Wednesday of this week was full of rain in Arizona thanks to the storms that moved in from California.  It was a soggy day then followed by a beautiful rainbow.  Here are a couple of rainbow shots.

I spotted this fellow last week, hunched over his drink at a bar, and I wondered what stories he could tell.  The original iPhone photo was run through the Enlight app on the iPad to add a more painterly look.

There was quite a dump of snow in our part of Arizona overnight.  What's happening with global warming??!!??