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A new slideshow. Venice, surely the most beautiful city on earth and possibly the busiest despite which we did manage to find a few of the quieter places. Res:16:10.

This is a remake of an earlier AV

This is my most personal video of all. Much of it has been put into other shows but the ultimate version was this one. I have hesitated to show this pte show for many years as it exposes my very personal feelings. As time is short I now don't care how others view it so much. I now feel it is time to let er rip. No more holding back. My wife Karen and I are artists in different fields...Musician and Artist. The opening poem says it all. I have never wanted to put together a show without a direction or story. I like moving towards something. Hence this show isn't for everyone by a long shot, but I hope some will find a feeling or emotion that makes sense.

This is my Lefty follow up. It is story driven so it is a bit long. Lefty is nearing the end of her line now so I really wanted to make a tribute to her. When I adopted her I knew she was at least 6 years old and maybe more. She spent 4 years in a kennel after she was rescued. She had nipped a couple folks that had come to see her. I know dogs and know what sets them off and I'm used to larger breeds. And because I have been ill for a few years I no-longer felt right about getting a puppy as I am on thin ice myself. Anyway after a couple months with me she settled down. We are best buds now. We are going up to the Jemez Mountains this morning if I can get her in the car. I have to lift her these days but she has lost weight this last year while I have gained weight. It's going up into the 90s the next couple days and Lefty and I need a break. More to follow when we get back. I hope you enjoy Lefty's show.

Melasti is a Hindu Balinese cleansing ceremony and ritual, which is held four days prior to Nyepi Day (Silent Day) according to the Balinese calendar. It is celebrated by Hindus in Indonesia, especially in Bali. The Melasti ceremony is held on the edge of the beach with the aim of clearing yourself from all bad things and leaving the past behind in the ocean. According to Hindu belief, the water source is considered to be the source of life (Tirta Amrita). In addition to praying, all the sacred objects that belong to a temple are cleaned and purified during the Melasti ceremony.

I posted this a few years ago when I first met Lefty. Her name was Bacardi but I'm not into booze names. I spent two days at the facility after driving 300 miles to southern California getting acquainted. Of the 22 dogs she was the only one who wouldn't come out of the shadows laying in the back of her kennel not acknowledging anyone. I put up my camp chair outside her kennel and sat there for a couple hours with my back to the kennel. I dropped a few treats and gradually she came out and started taking snacks. I fed her that night and walked her in the morning and then took her for a short drive. That was it. I took her home but had to drive the entire 300 miles without letting her out as I would have to lift down from my 4x4 and thought her head next to mine when she really didn't know me was foolish. When we arrived at my AZ shack I just lifted her down quick and she went right into the fenced in area around my trailer. I would like people to know about her before I post another video in a week or two to update this beautiful creature as now she is quite old. I salute this beautiful dog.

This show tells a somewhat subtle story. Notice that through the window, a rainstorm with lightning is raging and in the room, the fire in the fireplace is large with a roaring blaze, but in the painting, it's sunny outside with a small fire in the fireplace. This depicts the same place, but at different times. The techniques used include masking, PNG images, rain animation, lightning animation and the use of Visisketch Pro plus modifications by PTE. The intent was to tell a story with the painting. Hopefully, I was successful. Lin

Another view of South Africa

The Richtersveld is an arid region in the north western corner of the Northern Cape, South Africa.

Rondom, a form art in photography colors and edits with photoshop.

This PTE show is to confirm how advanced the video engine has become in PTE. I put together a 4:18 second video of life in my backyard back in 2017. I wanted to see if it would play in PTE. It played perfectly. This is a 1920x1080 HD video. The video I used is 471 megs. I put that file on the working track of PTE. I then changed the bitrate to 3500. The file produced ended up 111 megs and on my 43 inch screen I really couldn't notice a change. Nice work guys. I won't leave this up too long but it is actually a very warm video and a bit heartbreaking for me as I will soon have to sell it. By the way, my little water hole is just a couple salad bowls with a water drip from a hose. The rocks in the bowls keep the baby quail from drowning. Also, because I have a wire fence around the back and side of my old double wide trailer, I can leave Lefty out with my door open so she can go out whenever she wants. The coyotes don't come too close and the bunnies and quail are a bit safer. Lefty never makes a fuss about the little guys. When it gets warm she stays in for air conditioning and it keeps her away from the snakes that come out. The wild mules are just across the way west from my place at Lake Mojave. I am going out to Arizona one more time hopefully with Lefty. If we can keep moving with steroids we should be able to do it, but who knows. Every day is an adventure. I hope this helps with your research on PTE's qualities. It truly is quite wonderful. Jeff Lunt

Prior to our customary autumn visit to the Scottish Highlands, we decided to take a look at some of the fishing ports and villages on Scotland's East Coast between St Andrews and Inverness. Res: 1920x1200.

Visite du quartier branché de Camden Town à Londres

That is how beautiful a supermarket can be. A palace full of street art, that became the vacant Delhaize in Ixelles (Brussels – Belgium). In a few months, hundreds of national and international graffiti artists were allowed to transform the five thousand square meter mystical building with spray cans and brushes into a graffiti walhalla never seen before.

In the 1960s the landscapes of the desert of Tabernas developed into a sought after movie location, well known productions such as King of Kings (1960), Cleopatra (1963), and the winner of seven Oscars, Lawrence of Arabia (1962), all used the desert as a backdrop during filming, attracting big budget Hollywood directors such as Steven Spielberg who chose Almeria for scenes in his blockbuster movie Indian Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) starring Harrison Ford. Sergio Leone, the director of the famous Spaghetti Westerns, starring Clint Eastwood, also capitalised on these unique landscapes, scenes from A Fist Full of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), The Good The Bad and The Ugly (1966), and A Fistful of Dynamite (1972), were filmed in the western village movie sets as well as the surrounding desert and other well suited spots throughout the remarkable terrains of the province.

Safe PC executable. Download zip archive, extract two files. Store in folder and run exe. This is an example of the extreme flexibility of PTE. If you have a 4K display, play this and you can easily see over 14,480 individual videos playing simultaneously on rotating, zooming icosahedrons (20 sided 3d object) while the Earth spins and the star-field moves. I know of no other software product which could be used to create this animation. The entire construct was made in PTE AV Studio 10 Pro. Lin

Stanton House Fountain

More or less what it says on the tin. A few images taken during my wanderings.

Animation with PTE tools.

Autumn - my favourite season but always an element of sadness as Mother Nature shuts down before bursting forth with new life in Spring. 16:10 format

This are replicas of sailing ships on the Bataviayard in the Netherlands.

Glasgow Cathedral, also called the High Kirk of Glasgow or St Kentigern's or St Mungo's Cathedral, is the oldest cathedral on mainland Scotland and is the oldest building in Glasgow. Since the Reformation the cathedral c ontinues in public ownership, within the responsibility of Historic Environment Scotland

Attending the Colorado Springs, Colorado Lift-Off balloon festival, I noticed that many of the balloon pilots liked to descend and "dip" their gondola in the adjacent lake before resuming their flight. To really do justice to this as a photographer, it would be necessary to be either precisely positioned on shore or in a boat in direct proximity, so I decided to attempt to create a realistic animation using PTE. The last image in this short series shows my animation results. The balloon descends while flying toward the observer, makes a small "splash" as it contacts the rather still lake then with a blast of hot air begins the ascent as the ripples from the splash-down begin to spread. Of course there is the reflection of the descending and ascending balloon in the water as two nearby balloons descend toward the observer. A fun animation to figure out and create.... Improved Splash...

Ride to the Wall is an annual act of Remembrance by ' Bikers ' from all walks of life. to remember their lost mates, and raise much needed funds for the National Memorial Arboretum.

Found Found a piece of music that got my old juices flowing. Put pics and video from several adventures from the past to the music with an eye towards video and how much I could could shrink it and yet keep good HD quality and still stay within the megabits limit. I hope you enjoy the show. Jeff