When I was on Skyline Drive with Charlie a few days ago, a bear crossed the road in front of us. By the time I stopped the car and got ready to take a picture, he was disappearing into the woods. That’s okay because I’ve taken pictures of a bear crossing the road before. [See this post and this.]
It reminded me of the time I missed a great picture of a bear that appeared out of the fog. The fog (actually a cloud covering the mountaintop), was so thick that it was dangerous to stop on the winding road because if another car had come around the bend, the driver would not have seen my car in time.
Well, this bear was awesome because it was lumbering along the top of a stone wall, and seemed to just materialize out of the fog. What a moody picture that would have been!
Today I decided to re-create the scene using StarryAI. I uploaded a photo of one of Skyline Drive’s iconic stone walls and asked the app to add a bear walking on it in thick fog. It took several tries and revisions before I got anything that resembled what I saw. Even then, I cropped and refined the two best images in the IOS photos app. Here are final versions that I chose.
It would really be the perfect photo, sometimes we lose it, it happens to me often. The ones with AI are also wonderful.
ReplyDeleteTo jest bardzo pomocne móc sobie stworzyć grafikę ze swoich wspomnień. Ja to nazywam "zdjęcia, których nie zrobiliśmy". Ile ja ptaków widziałam w pięknych okolicznościach, a nie miałam aparatu.
ReplyDeleteTa pierwsza grafika nawet naturalna, gdyby nie to, że niedźwiedź raczej by wybrał drogę, nie barierkę.
The bear I saw was actually walking on the wall! I was amazed. Perhaps it knew the road was unsafe in the fog.
DeleteTo odważny niedźwiedź a Ty miałaś szczęście, że go zobaczyłaś!
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ReplyDeleteI have had some great bear sightings at Shenandoah! The AI images are wonderful. Take care, enjoy your day!
You could fool me into thinking the pictures are real.
ReplyDelete...I was working in the back yard and two beautiful little fawns came along.
ReplyDeleteMore than once, I've run into one of these characters on the trails in SNP while backpacking. And I can frankly say that photography was always the very last thing on my mind. :-)
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