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Truly unique
Have you ever seen something that is genuinely unique? Yes each person is unique, but there are billions of them on earth. I'm a travel blogger and so are many others. As we roam about we see many things, situations, places and the like, yet there is a similarity if I'm honest.
Taking photographs and writing an article including those photo's is what travel blogging is all about. Many years ago I was on a course for a year and needed work experience with a local business. I wanted 3 weeks inside Saatchi & Saatchi, part of that was with a color lab. We worked on a Carlsberg ad and after 9 tries the artist put a .02 percent yellow stroke on one part. I could not see that so he changed it to grayscale, I immediately saw it. He could not see the gray version and said that I was a grayscale specialist. With that in mind I did a post about a river with locks in grayscale, something I had never done before.
On the grayscale article, it ends with something which can never be repeated, that makes it completely and totally unique, set apart from anything else—ever!
Do this, stand somewhere and look down at your feet. No other creature in the universe can stand there, only you and what you see is uniquely yours. Often that just lasts a few seconds.
The top and sides were made by 3 aircraft, the rest is just some cloudish bits with winds. I did nothing to the original image. For the post it took hours and many layers in Photoshop to create what was needed. View it here.
Photograph wild animals and you will find they normally retreat from you, except when it's a female with a young one. The mother will attack, protecting her 'baby'. When I went out to take some shots of grey squirrels a couple of years ago, I ran across a very young one, probably about 2 months old. I reached down with my forefinger and it came right up to me and licked it.
Think about it
Yes each tree is unique and so are many other things, but the deal here is there are millions of them. I am not talking about that. For instance, I was out on a hike and saw this sculpture.Every artists sculpture is different, but in reality there is nothing truly unique about this, it's just a sculpture.
Taking photographs and writing an article including those photo's is what travel blogging is all about. Many years ago I was on a course for a year and needed work experience with a local business. I wanted 3 weeks inside Saatchi & Saatchi, part of that was with a color lab. We worked on a Carlsberg ad and after 9 tries the artist put a .02 percent yellow stroke on one part. I could not see that so he changed it to grayscale, I immediately saw it. He could not see the gray version and said that I was a grayscale specialist. With that in mind I did a post about a river with locks in grayscale, something I had never done before.
Another thing which has no two alike are clouds. I've looked at clouds from all sides when flying: below, above and going through them.
On the grayscale article, it ends with something which can never be repeated, that makes it completely and totally unique, set apart from anything else—ever!
Do this, stand somewhere and look down at your feet. No other creature in the universe can stand there, only you and what you see is uniquely yours. Often that just lasts a few seconds.
This only lasted about 10 seconds before the winds disintegrated it.
The top and sides were made by 3 aircraft, the rest is just some cloudish bits with winds. I did nothing to the original image. For the post it took hours and many layers in Photoshop to create what was needed. View it here.
Photograph wild animals and you will find they normally retreat from you, except when it's a female with a young one. The mother will attack, protecting her 'baby'. When I went out to take some shots of grey squirrels a couple of years ago, I ran across a very young one, probably about 2 months old. I reached down with my forefinger and it came right up to me and licked it.
Once only.
Sep 17, 2026
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