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Attension
@attension.art
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Balance through asymmetry.
Photographer and digital artist Michael Cardinale
📍Pittsburgh, PA
Free Patreon: https://patreon.com/attension
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Appreciating #small unnoticed plant forms in these #macro photographs for #BlueskyArtShow

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Dense tropical foliage at night abstracted in very soft focus and illuminated in blended red and magenta light. The end of a small delicate branch comes into sharp focus in the center of the image.
November 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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🔅Patreon Release🔅
https://www.patreon.com/posts/full-resolution-143520848

My earliest released piece! I’ll be renewing this series next year.

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A panoramic image of dense tropical foliage at night. Hard contrasting light brightens the plants in the immediate foreground as they create a border around its edges. Deeper into the dark central areas of the photo further flora can be seen against the dark night sky and dimly lit stars.
November 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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As studies these are a way to practice using darkness and softness maximally while leaving enough edges of shapes to anchor the image.

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A single flower stands out in focus among dense tropical foliage. The background of the image is very much softened and blurred and illuminated in magenta, violet, and lavender light, the separate colors blending at their edges.
November 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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🔅Patreon Release🔅
https://www.patreon.com/posts/full-resolution-121093157

A rare monochromatic one, spent effort almost entirely on shading and composition

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Very high contrast image of a cloud head, monochromatic in deep red, vaguely figural in shape.
November 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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For #BlueskyArtShow a shot of one of my favorite stretches of road in #autumn, my favorite time of year

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A cobblestone street in Pittsburgh’s Upper Lawrenceville neighborhood late at night, softly illuminated by a single streetlight. It is entirely surrounded by dense trees just about to lose their leaves at the changing of the season.
November 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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More blended and more abstract. I like where these are going

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Dene tropical foliage at night. Only a single stem and flower bud are in sharp focus in the center of the image. Surrounding that are the soft focus forms of other leaves illuminated in magenta and deep blue light. The colors blend, blurring the boundaries between forms.
October 31, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Super proud of @incultainc.bsky.social for putting on now the third edition of Unsettled art show! It’ll be exciting to see this latest display of monstrous emotions

It’s this Friday Oct. 24th at Velum on the Southside and if you’re in #Pittsburgh you should definitely check it out.

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A flyer for upcoming art exhibition Unsettled 3: Monstrous Emotions on October 24th at Velum Fermentation in Pittsburgh. This flyer for Unsettled 3 art show illustrates the different tiers of support for donations that benefit PAAR and Proud Haven.
October 22, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Plant forms and forms of color, balanced but in tension. Was happy to catch that single spider web strand too, dipping in and out of focus.

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Dense tropical foliage. In the foreground in sharp focus is a dry stalk which has withered to a rough and complex texture. A single spider web strand stretches across it. The background show more plant forms, softened and blurry and covered in light of multiple colors. Magenta, light blue, and vibrant green blend and shape the image.
October 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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🔅Patreon Release🔅
https://www.patreon.com/posts/dark-plant-study-118791627

The color contouring really worked out on this one

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October 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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A minimal lavender #glow for this week’s #BlueskyArtShow. I am truly in love with this color

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Dense tropical foliage illuminated in indigo, lavender, and magenta. Nearly all of the image is in extremely soft focus displaying a wash of gradients transitioning between the three colors. In the foreground is a single stem in sharp focus, leading the eye out of frame.
October 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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🔅Patreon Release🔅
https://www.patreon.com/posts/full-resolution-118785827

A more natural coloring here, relied on shading and let the clouds be clouds.

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A vast cloudscape. Shadows fall on the clouds closest to the foreground as bright white light pours from those in the distance and a hint of blue sky is revealed as well.
October 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Sometimes I find surprises in these, like the wisp of a spider web's single strand which you may see?

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Dense tropical foliage at night. A very thin dead branch is centered in sharp focus and the surrounding leaves are very softly blurred. Red and deep blue light falls across the image shaping its contours.
October 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Changing up the visual profile a bit for today’s #BlueskyArtShow. A quick iPhone snap of #theroad late on a foggy fall night.

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A city street late at night. Sodium vapor streetlights illuminate across the road dense tall trees in this foggy scene.
September 27, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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These studies have ultimately been an effort gain better control of abstraction through lensing and lighting. I’m really happy with this one!

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Dense tropical foliage at night. A plant’s stem is abstracted by ample blurring due to a very low depth of field. It is illuminated in a pinkish coral color and the amorphous background glows in magenta and violet.
September 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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🔅Patreon Release🔅
https://www.patreon.com/posts/full-resolution-137820334

These soft clouds are balanced out with lines at sharp #angles
#BlueskyArtShow

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Desaturated soft pink clouds hang down against a lavender colored sky. There is a circular blurring among the clouds and thin dark maroon spikes that droop down from inside and branch off in several directions.
September 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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The dead flowers hold shadows in a much less predictable and more interesting way. More color blending here too.

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Dense tropical foliage at night. Deep violet and indigo light illuminates a small dead flower bud. It is surrounded by leaves and branches softly blurred.
September 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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I make a lot of pictures of bright skies and dense tropical foliage but I live in #Pittsburgh and I’ll always feel much more at #home in an old cemetery at wintertime. In this case literally, since this amazing place is half a block from my house. From a lens test way back in 2020.

#BlueskyArtShow
The gatehouse at Allegheny Cemetery, established in 1844. It is seen on an overcast night during the dead of winter. Neo-gothic arches lead the eye toward distant trees on a hill.
September 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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This image helped me realized just how much more the colors blend in the soft focus areas. Expected but the layering and shapes are a surprise.

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Dense tropical foliage, highly abstracted by soft focus and a very low depth of field. Dead flower buds are central and in sharp focus while the surrounding blurred branches and leaves are illuminated by a pink and deep red light.
September 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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For #BlueskyArtShow, a piece I made a few years back that always reminds me of #summer

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alt - A beach landscape, double exposed and colored in blue and deep red.
September 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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The color is pretty bifurcated in this one, not a whole lot of blending. As a textural exercise I'm happy with it. Good balance of soft and sharp.

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Mostly dead leaves amongst dense tropical foliage at night. They are illuminated in indigo and violet light. The center of the image shows a crisp sharp texture and the dark background fades into softness.
September 3, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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🔅Patreon Release🔅
https://www.patreon.com/posts/full-resolution-121092794

#art #flashes #kunst #contemporaryart #patreon #artonbluesky #photography #sky #cloudscape #clouds #EastCoastKin #pghartist #pittsburghartist
A cloudscape in desaturated colors of coral and blue. The left side of the image shows a mass of clouds round and blue in color contrasting up against more distant linear clouds.
September 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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The photos from this new batch really are feeling distinct from my first set of these. Excited to see how they develop

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Branches at the base of a tropical plant. The rough texture is illuminated in gold and orange light as the soft focus background leaves are lit in a muted blue green color.
August 27, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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A big thank you to the several new patrons who have joined me recently! I’ve made Patreon the main outlet for my work and free memberships are available:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/aw-shucks-137272808

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Large leaves of dense tropical foliage, illuminated in a deep red light and framing a grey clouded moonlit soft focus sky.
August 26, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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This shot’s pretty old and it’s long since been demoted but I thought it’d be a fun one for #Stunday

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The silhouette of a palm tree set against a night sky glowing with stars. The sky and surrounding trees are distorted with a soft radial lens blur creating a dramatic warping of the entire image.
August 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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🔅Patreon Release🔅
https://www.patreon.com/posts/full-resolution-121092564

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Vast cloudscape against tinted gold against a purple sky, multicolored semi-transparent blocks and vertical lines are overlaid on the top half of the image.
August 19, 2025 at 6:41 PM