Finding our way to The Way one situation at a time. I don't know how great it will be, but I expect it will be interesting, and I look forward to it going on past all reason because wonder is just that way. Are you coming or not?
And this is today's post after applying Photoshop (Beta)'s Artificial Intelligence "Generative Fill" filter to it, expanding the size of the original image right/left/up/down.
Using the AI filter means that every landscape photograph now has the potential of being both the enlarged landscape and the detail.
And, it means that I could add a red canoe/kayak, or a Corvette convertible, etc., anywhere in the scene. And, it means I could completely transform the original image into a barn and a cow and a pasture with very little effort.
The implications and possibilities are limitless. Artificial reality is the new reality. Which means we are beyond the boundaries holding things together in terms of what we can trust, assume, take for granted. And, we are having to find our way around in a new world that changes as we watch, and have no business exposing ourselves to the magic of media and need to increase the amount of time we spend in the natural world, and with emptiness, stillness and silence, processing, reflecting, listening, looking, asking, seeking, knocking, wondering what's what and what needs to be done in response, all the time, everywhere. Because we are at the point of nothing being as it appears to be, and certainly not as we presume that it is.
We have to bring solitude to the fore, and refuse to become lost in the crowd, any crowd--in the noise, any noise. And work to be aware of and maintain/sustain our balance and harmony in each situation as it arises, from one moment to the next, every day.
Being aware of being aware. Being here/now. Seeing ourselves seeing, listening, looking, hearing... Not getting lost in unconscious sense perceptions. Remembering that we are being blinded, or blind-sided, by what we are looking at, and have to learn to live as blind people finding their way through a world
that is overwhelming their senses at every turn.
And you can't trust any of my photos any longer to be only what they appear to be. They are likely to be so much more.
I'm retired, and still finding my way--but now, I don't have to pretend that I know what I'm doing.
I retired after 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, serving churches in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. I graduated from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Austin, Texas, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. My wife, Judy, and I have three daughters, five granddaughters, one great granddaughter, and a great grandson on the way, within about ten minutes from where we live--and are enjoying our retirement as much as we have ever enjoyed anything.
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This A I stuff is really too much. We have created everything we imagined back in the 50’s. Soon it will be Star Treck and no planet Earth to which we may return! What happens if you ask your photo program to show you a picture of a canoe on Cane River? OMG
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This A I stuff is really too much. We have created everything we imagined back in the 50’s. Soon it will be Star Treck and no planet Earth to which we may return! What happens if you ask your photo program to show you a picture of a canoe on Cane River? OMG
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