I felt like it would have been iffy sizewise but I love this photo of a Red-footed Cannibal Fly, Promachus rufipes
(and unfortunate Western Honey Bee) taken with my D750, Sigma 150-600 @10 feet

Never one to let moss grow under my feet, I have also been experimenting with ICM, Intentional Camera Movement. Actually some of my first photos of this genre were taken in the 1970s. If you choose to visit the gallery you will see those early film photos first. Digital is so much easier with instant feedback, however it is extremely difficult to force a new camera to do exactly what it was designed not to do, and generally requires using a 6 to 10 stop neutral density filter.

https://jamesdevore.smugmug.com/60-YEAR-JOURNEY-IN-PHOTOGRAPHY/A-LITTLE-BIT-OF-EVERYTHING/ICM-INTENTIONAL-CAMERA-MOVEMENT

Teaser photo, "Kayaker on Lake Starvation". I hope you can see it.

Photoshop Generative Fill AI beta gallery

Photography purists will hate it, “it is not photography, it is something else", ok. Adobe would probably hate it for skewing their beta toward something they never envisioned, ok. It can’t be helped.

When the beta arrived, I was heavily involved in a facebook group called “The Plane Spot” run by Tampa International Airport. The group is dedicated to Plane Spotting, by registration/plane type and livery, exactly like train spotting only different.(train/plane spotting joke)

The airlines are bold in their livery or paint jobs. For instance, google “Our Commitment” Alaska Airlines, “Florida One” Southwest, “One World” British Airways, or especially “Imua One” Southwest. Naturally the two worlds began to blend together in my mind and I started generating my own livery for various planes, and that morphed into creating a few new species you will never see. Best viewed as full screen slide show, play button top right.

https://jamesdevore.smugmug.com/60-YEAR-JOURNEY-IN-PHOTOGRAPHY/A-LITTLE-BIT-OF-EVERYTHING/GENERATIVE-FILL-AI-PS-BETA

If you are an aviation enthusiast, check out my contributions to plane spotting
https://jamesdevore.smugmug.com/60-YEAR-JOURNEY-IN-PHOTOGRAPHY/A-LITTLE-BIT-OF-EVERYTHING/PLANESPOTTING

if you caught the recent hubbub of alien non-human technology being reverse engineered, https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-retrieved-non-human-craft/ ...........I have been having some fun with PS generative fill and will soon have a complete gallery of my laboratory experiments. As a teaser, here is the latest F16 design using alien non-human technology. The F16 Woodpecker