My eyes open (it must be morning). Through the plexiglass I glimpse a shade of a fleeting ghost (my cat is practicing stalking again). Burnt smells and noxious fumes assault my nose (the toaster's dead, no breakfast today). My bare feet are silent as I make my way through the rubble (here's my jeans, and there's my shirt, and where's my phone?). Any noise in the streets feels disrespectful of the former townspeople (the flat feels so empty now). I manage to scavenge some equipment in a shop (another picture, another keepsake). Time to leave this place behind (I can't stand the memories anymore).
Happy as a rainy day
Running sweet strawberry steps
Under the bridge,
Cats and dandelions unite!
Evilly eager
Crabtree's tail is wagging.
Raised hair like blue echidnas
Drowned, dumped, duct-taped,
Rose-scented oranges abound.
Crabtree, why is your tail not wagging?
He says:
"Because the sunflowers are sad."
Like the Charles de Gaulle
Allied general, aircraft carrier, airport:
"Je vous ai compris!"
The wonderful land of fluff
Shall have floons –
No reference intended.
As the chemical strawberry dies
Cats go nap,
Dandelions blown in the wind.
Another year, another day,
Another night for Stingy Jack
To repent and regret his tricks
As he ends up on earth again.
He puts his glowing pumpkin down –
His turnip burnt out long ago –
He melts into the crowd and smiles;
For him it really was too long.
Tonight again it's trick-or-treats,
Extortion turned into a game
That Jack O'Lantern won before,
That Jack O'Lantern always wins.
For tricks Jack can become a ghost,
A poltergeist of no small strength;
For treats Jacks will take all you have,
Your house, your food – and more besides.
Another year, another day,
Another Halloween is past.
Jack's off again, to rove and roam
My eyes open (it must be morning). Through the plexiglass I glimpse a shade of a fleeting ghost (my cat is practicing stalking again). Burnt smells and noxious fumes assault my nose (the toaster's dead, no breakfast today). My bare feet are silent as I make my way through the rubble (here's my jeans, and there's my shirt, and where's my phone?). Any noise in the streets feels disrespectful of the former townspeople (the flat feels so empty now). I manage to scavenge some equipment in a shop (another picture, another keepsake). Time to leave this place behind (I can't stand the memories anymore).
Happy as a rainy day
Running sweet strawberry steps
Under the bridge,
Cats and dandelions unite!
Evilly eager
Crabtree's tail is wagging.
Raised hair like blue echidnas
Drowned, dumped, duct-taped,
Rose-scented oranges abound.
Crabtree, why is your tail not wagging?
He says:
"Because the sunflowers are sad."
Like the Charles de Gaulle
Allied general, aircraft carrier, airport:
"Je vous ai compris!"
The wonderful land of fluff
Shall have floons –
No reference intended.
As the chemical strawberry dies
Cats go nap,
Dandelions blown in the wind.
Another year, another day,
Another night for Stingy Jack
To repent and regret his tricks
As he ends up on earth again.
He puts his glowing pumpkin down –
His turnip burnt out long ago –
He melts into the crowd and smiles;
For him it really was too long.
Tonight again it's trick-or-treats,
Extortion turned into a game
That Jack O'Lantern won before,
That Jack O'Lantern always wins.
For tricks Jack can become a ghost,
A poltergeist of no small strength;
For treats Jacks will take all you have,
Your house, your food – and more besides.
Another year, another day,
Another Halloween is past.
Jack's off again, to rove and roam
Picket white
paint drips in rivers
along the wood grain
of a newly hewn fence.
Faint birdsong and distant wind
chimes accompany the clink
of empty china teacups
alongside biscuit crumbs
stuck in drizzled honey.
The cotton tablecloth
sweeps at her legs
with the wind, wrinkled
with age, stained with memory.
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through dA,
Not a troll was stirring, nor Grinch in his sleigh.
Deviations were hung in digital Galleries with care,
In hopes that +Favourites soon would be there.
The n00bs were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of Daily Deviations danced in their heads.
And Fella in his 'kerchief, and spyed (https://www.deviantart.com/spyed) with his night-light,
Had just settled down to log-off for the night,
When over in the Forums there arose such a clatter,
Fella sprang back online to see what was the matter.
To the browser window he flew like a flash,
Tore open the tabs and refreshed the cache.
When what to his art-loving ey
staggering and struggling by eloquence-fair, literature
Literature
staggering and struggling
01.
yesterday, i wrote
your name on a slip of paper
and folded it into an origami star.
it hangs on my bonsai tree
(little trees for big
wishes) as a just-in-case hope
for those times when it feels like
absolutely nothing
can make me
happy.
sometimes, when even stars
and little trees aren't
enough to make me happy, i cut
down the paper stars and pretend
that it is a meteorite shower in my
bedroom, but sometimes that
just makes it worse
because i realize
that shooting stars are actually
falling stars;
we are all just stars that have
forgotten the happy-thoughts that
made us fly,
it's just that some of us are blaz
Before and after - Postprocessing. by MarioGuti, journal
Before and after - Postprocessing.
Hello, I've decided to share some of my original images next to the final edited results, so that you can see the difference -sometimes huge, sometimes not that obvious- between them.
The software I use to edit them is Lightroom 3.4 (for colour and lightning) and Photoshop CS6 (for cloning, deleting and moving things). The way I edit the colour and lightning is quite intuitive, that's why I see kind of hard to make a tutorial to explain. Each picture is asking for different settings so I'd just reccomend to experiment until you find some result you are happy with. I've chosen 12 before/after examples:
-Sepia and B/W edition:
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I forget.
I have forgotten my first breath.
I have forgotten my first hug.
I have forgotten my first bottle of milk.
I have forgotten my first medical exam.
I have forgotten my first days.
I forget.
I have forgotten my first bed.
I have forgotten my first toy.
I have forgotten my first steps.
I have forgotten my first spoken words.
I have forgotten my first home.
I forget.
I have forgotten my first friend.
I have forgotten my first rival.
I have forgotten my first crush.
I have forgotten my first caretaker.
I have forgotten my first nursery school.
I forget.
I have forgotten my first idol.
I have forgotten my first fairyt
Hi! I like to read, and I really admire graphic artists ^^
I write from time to time, and I dabble in photography sometimes too... I can't draw at all, so don't expect any of that here ^^"
Current Residence: Paris deviantWEAR sizing preference: L (or M? US sizes are so big...) Print preference: Free Favourite genre of music: Country Favourite style of art: Poetry Operating System: Windows 7 MP3 player of choice: None Wallpaper of choice: Fluff, nice unobstrusive background (whitish so I can read the file names ^^") Skin of choice: Smooth and unscaly (no preference really) Favourite cartoon character: Roadrunner Personal Quote: Who me? / Miaaw!
Nnnnooooo!! I got tagged!! By ~silenced-echo (https://www.deviantart.com/silenced-echo) ! Again!! And blackmailed into doing it too! Again!! (Well not really, but you know...)
So I have to answer a few questions ^^ Should be easy, right?
...Right?
Okay, here we go:
1. When is your birthday?
May 15th, the exact same as... Uh... Let me check... International Family's Day!! Woot! I learned something new today XD
2.What's your favorite food?
>_< Now the difficult questions start. I like all kinds of food, but I think... Chocolate. And pomelo. And apples. And fruits in general (not Durian though :bleh:). But definitely chocolate though ^^
3. Somewhere you would love to vis
So no way out of it I guess ^^ ah well, I've got the answers (weird as they are, but I came up with them when in a not-so-pensive mood (fooling around with silenced-echo who was showing me I got tagged)) so on with it...
#1 - would you rather have a tail or wings? (you're still a human, you didn't morph into an animal!)
I'd rather have wings!! Who'd want to have a useless tail (I mean what can you do with a tail you can't do with your hands?) when you can fly under you own power with awesome wings?!
#2 - if your eyes could be any color, what would you choose?
Can I get multicolored eyes? Or I know, I know! Eyes that randomly change colors