The first in a series of taking a single color as the concept and creating or finding inspiring works. These I have selected to be the most beautiful art, photos, or paintings in the color “red”.

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A great favorite of mine. Here are some outstanding sunset images that will inspire you or help you along on your vacation plans. I tried to find some non-standard sunset images that were truly amazing.

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I love finding these great HDR images!

What is HDR?

HDR is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range of exposures (the range of values between light and dark areas) than normal digital imaging techniques. The intention of HDR is to accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes ranging from direct sunlight to shadows.

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I can’t believe I am writing about this, I can’t believe this is happening but it is very cool and great to see! What can you possibly say if you entered a staircase to find the cold metal handrail wrapped in colorful yarn? Other than smile what would you do if you are walking through a park and come upon a tree wrapped in brilliant colors in the dead of winter? Take a look at this “movement?” and see that it isn’t just about pot holders and blankets anymore. I applaud this creative graffiti, or rather public art form.

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Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured in the Astronomy Picture of the Day from NASA, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Amazing, beautiful images of our universe, stars, nebulae, comets, and planets. These are a must see!

Massive Stars in Open Cluster Pismis 24: How massive can a normal star be?

NGC 602 and Beyond Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy some 200 thousand light-years distant, lies 5 million year young star cluster NGC 602.

Amazing Comet Holmes Comet 17P/Holmes amazed sky watchers across planet Earth

Great Orion Nebulae The Great Nebula in Orion, also known as M42, is one of the most famous nebulae in the sky.

Moons, Rings, and Unexpected Colors on Saturn Why would Saturn show such strange colors?

In the Center of the Lagoon Nebula The center of the Lagoon Nebula is a whirlwind of spectacular star formation.

Camera Orion Orion, the Hunter, is one of the most easily recognizable constellations in planet Earth’s night sky.

Spiral Galaxy NGC 3370 from Hubble Is this what our own Milky Way Galaxy looks like from far away?

Bright Bolide On September 30, a spectacular bolide or fireball meteor surprised a group of amateur astronomers enjoying dark night skies over the Oklahoma panhandle’s.

Irregular Galaxy NGC 55 Irregular galaxy NGC 55 is thought to be similar to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).

Earth at Night This is what the Earth looks like at night.

A Solar Prominence Unfurls On September 29, this magnificent eruptive solar prominence lifted away from the Sun’s surface

Be sure to visit the APOD site to see more of these amazing images and explanations.

As Halloween approaches, take a look at these artists and the work they have created for your inspiration.  Horror Photography has several aspects which try to solicit fear, horror and terror from their viewers. It’s that time of year, and as a kid trick or treating images such as these ran through my mind as I approached a house an knocked on the door. The adrenaline rush overtaking all senses, the little voice in my head telling me to Run! The flight or fight and the hair on the back of the neck signals rushing to your brain…what will you do?

Growing up I loved Halloween, sitting with friends watching horror movies like; The Exorcist, Halloween, Phantasm, The Shining, and Poltergeist. We would watch them before going out into the night and when we got back, letting our minds play tricks on us as we wandered the streets.

Searching through these images brought it all back and I am ready to have some fun scaring kids this year! Time to start preparing the house!

the last living soul part 4 by photoplace

Birds II by ~ficmadur

endless pain by pekthong

Tears Of The Dead by arachnid15

Hidden by arachnid15

Silent Hill Nurses by allison-rose

The Amazing work of Joshua Hoffine

http://www.joshuahoffine.com

http://hoffine.deviantart.com/

Bed by Joshua Hoffine

Wolf by Joshua Hoffine

Phobia by Joshua Hoffine

Candy by Joshua Hoffine

Balloons by Joshua Hoffine

KFC is proud! He now gets free chicken for himself and all his friends.

Something tells me there is a job opening at this Walgreens

Don’t do us any favors!

Pot of Gold?

An Extremely generous establishment

Krispy Krime

Halloween night at the rest home

More Halloween Humor

It does taste like Bacon!

Why? Also, the bridge is out? What?…wait, what’s important to know?

When men rule the road

Avalanche team member

Mike Tyson’s kid

Redneck bbq

It’s her Job?!? Notice it doesn’t say made in China? I think it was made in the garage.

Paint Engine

Paint Engine Beta 1.1 is a plug-in filter for Adobe Photoshop compatible
plugin hosts. It is a highly configurable paint effects processor
that works with RGB images.

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Not sure what all that means so I had a look to see what was under the hood. I found it simple to use and that it really does create some beautiful effects. There are ~73 different brushes/effects to choose from with intensity settings to give each a different strength.

Original:

Examples:

Arctic Setting

Hue Blocks Setting

For a freeware product this is a must have!

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