AI generated art is capable of producing some really great images with a carefully designed prompt. It can also make an absolute dogs breakfast of an image even with a carefully designed prompt. But what happens if you ask it to create an image based on a feeling. An image…

Christmas cards don’t seem to be that common anymore, not here least ways, but I have fond memories of receiving cards with festive artwork from family and friends. I’m sure you can probably still get them these days, but most of the cards I see are more modern than the…

What happens if you ask the stable diffusion AI tool to generate images with absolutely no prompt at all? On my system that I have running stable diffusion here I’ve been experimenting with different prompts and styles and I got to wondering, what happens if you give it no prompt…

So, this week, in between the usual everyday stuff, I’ve spent a bit of time cleaning up my old Pentax 35mm film camera and tracked down some film to put in it. All with the aim to go out this weekend to a local forest area and spend some time…

If you woke up one morning, back in time and had to shoot using analog cameras and film, would it change how you take a shot? — Imagine, if you will, you wake up one morning to find you’ve somehow traveled back in time and the only camera you have to use are film cameras. Let’s assume for a moment that you know (somehow) how to load the film into the camera, how to focus manually and…

I’m under no illusions that typing some words into a computer and having it spit out a picture makes me an artist. I still don’t have skills to sit down and create paintings or art like this and I hold a great respect for those that can. I am just…

Pouring rain? Doesn’t mean you have to stay inside. A rainy day can make for some amazing photographs. — With the weather bureau announcing that this weekend could see a low forming off the coast and potential for 300mm+ of rainfall this weekend I got a little depressed because I’d hoped to get out this weekend for some nature photography. Oh well, I guess I’ll find something else to…

I was at a beach early one morning, some time ago now. I had arrived for first light and stayed through the sunrise. This beach-side town was very active and at first light there was already people active on this beach and by sunrise it was a veritable hive of…

Here are five new fantasy/science fiction artworks generated using the Stable Diffusion algorithm for your enjoyment. I will include the prompts used to generate them as the image captions. For the image above I asked it to generate an intricate and beautiful elven city and castle in the mountains. I…