Image the Alt Text

During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge.

Today’s TDC asks us to:

For this Daily Create, you are tasked with imagining the image that is described by the alternative text below.

Close-up of a chain-link fence with metal wires, set against a cloudy blue sky and distant green fields.

What do you “see” in these words and given context? Create it as an photo you might find, draw as a sketch, as a short poem, or just write a longer narrative description. If this is your jam, use it in a prompt to feed a GenAI image creator, maybe add a few more elements to go beyond the literal.

I like to use my own images for stuff like this where I can, but a quick search through my Flickr albums didn’t bring up anything that matched. So I headed over to NightCafe and dropped in the prompt. The result was pretty good:

Close-up of a chain-link fence with metal wires, set against a cloudy blue sky and distant green fields
Close-up of a chain-link fence with metal wires, set against a cloudy blue sky and distant green fields flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

However, as I am not working today and therefore have a bit of time to play, I decided to search through some of my photos for partial matches. Here’s some fences from Strontian and Ross Priory, with added birds.

Fences
Fences flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

 

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3-30-300 rule

During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge.

Glasgow is called Dear Green Place, and looking around where I live in the suburbs you can see why. Today’s TDC says that:

3-30-300 is an urban forestry concept which states that every resident should be able to see at least 3 mature trees from their home, live in a neighbourhood with at least 30% tree canopy cover, and be within 300 metres of a high-quality green space. Make a version of this rule for an online community, or show us an example of it from where you live.

Here’s the view from my bedroom window this morning – so many trees – apple, plum, lilac, rowan. Yesterday I counted 14 sparrows sitting on a branch on one of them. Sitting here in my study on a drizzly day I everything looks green through the window and the berries on the rowans are gleaming.

Garden trees
Garden trees flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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Silent Sunday

214/365 Heron
214/365 Heron flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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Right Angled Doodle

During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge.

A fun activity for today’s TDC. I chose the digital option and doodled away before clearing the page and making  a clean spiral.
Spiradoodle
Spiradoodle flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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Stranger things

During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge.

Today’s TDC asks:

Have you watched Stranger Things on Netflix? Even if you haven’t, imagine just how strange the world can get. Then write a story or create an image, or a soundtrack, or a video, of the Stranger Things you imagine. We won’t judge. Too much.

The worlds is strange in ways I don’t really want to imagine at the moment, so I jumped over to Lunapic to see what filters I could use. I chose the color glitch effect and added it to yesterday’s image of Cagney and the lemurs from Madagascar. She really pops out as the strangest of the things in that image!

Stranger Madagascar
Stranger Madagascar flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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Madagascar

During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge.

Today’s TDC asks us to:

Place the word Madagascar somewhere in the response in a way that makes no sense

As I web searched for Madagascar I noticed that images of lemurs featured heavily in the results, and that gave me an idea for a twist. I stole an image from this web page and edited it slightly. I am sure nobody will notice that I added a little cat to it.

Madagascar
Madagascar flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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Summer Art

During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge.

Today’s TDC is this:

Today is Summer, make summer art today

Well, this week Glasgow is back to dreich rainy days, so instead of heading outside with my camera I searched my Flickr archives for a sunny image and chose this one:

189/365 Sunflower
189/365 Sunflower flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

I downloaded it and cropped it, then headed over to Lunapic to play around with it. Here it is with the heat map filter.

Heat Map Sunflower
Heat Map Sunflower flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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Group Project: tell us about your very first blog

Image from the Blaugust Discord channel and community

During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge.

Last year I wrote a post about my blogging journey as part of the Reclaim Hosting #blogging4life initiative. and I also wrote a guest post for them about my beloved Daily Create. I don’t want to repeat any of that again, so suffice it to say that this IS my very first blog, though I have moved it from being a WordPress.com hosted site in 2012 to being self hosted in 2016. It’s eclectic – I describe my approach as ‘rhizomatic bricolage’ which really just means whatever I feel like writing at the time. I make no apologies for that 🙂 Because of my interests then many of my posts will focus on educaation – and, at the moment, I am pushing myself to make a blog-worthy version of the Daily Create each day.

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Silly Solage

During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge.

Today’s TDC asks us to

A silly solage is a happy poem of three lines, two of them as long as you dare, the third is one word. The third word is surprising and silly.

As far as I can tell this is a form of poetry just made up by Kathryn Apel as I can’t find it elsewhere in an internet search. She describes them as a type of joke, but mine’s more of a definition than a joke:

I like to be in the way
At all times of the day
CAT

Less working, more stroking
Less working, more stroking flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

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Rolling Stone

During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge.

Today’s TDC is from one of those wonderful random web pages one finds while browsing through the web.

Play around with this rolling stone and share a screenshot or a video of what you create.

I played around with the sounds and chose chimes for this experiment, then used the MS snipping tool to record my screen as I ‘released’ the stone. Finally I uploaded to YouTube and added the video here. If I’d had time I’d have snipped the video to start with the sound (there’s a delay between me pressing record and the sound kicking in) but it’s a work day and I really should do something I’m being paid to do.

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