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The Quantum Magician
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"These little conversations, if I tried my very best, you know I never could say anything in twenty words or less."

Reader, programmer, photographer, gardener, occasional writer.
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The original photo: clematis/20210622

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Three burgundy-colored cultivated clematis blossoms in a line from lower left to upper right, amidst their own foliage. Everything is rain dappled.
November 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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A Phunky Photo: Rain's Bow

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Three cultivated clematis blossoms in a line from lower left to upper right, amidst their own foliage. Everything is rain dappled. The picture has been run through home brew image processing software which manipulated the colors and outlined details in black. The blossoms are red and orange, the nearer foliage blue, the darkest shadows are golden.
November 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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The original photo: strawberries/20210823

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Three ornamental strawberries against a background of their own foliage.
November 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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A Phunky Photo: Strawberry Lace

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Three ornamental strawberries against a background of their own foliage. The picture has been run through home brew image processing software which has selected pixels from the original image based on a Sobel filter algorithm and placed them on a black background.
November 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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The original photo: false sunflowers/20210804

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Five False Sunflower blossoms of various sizes against a background of foliage.
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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A Phunky Photo: Monday Blues

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Five False Sunflower blossoms of various sizes against a background of foliage. The picture has been run through home brew image processing software which manipulated the colors and outlined details in black. The background is a red/orange/yellow camp fire. The blossoms are blue.
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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The original photo: wild bergamot and bee/20210730

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A buy bee a top a nearly bald wild bergamot blossom, against a backdrop of wild bergamot foliage.
November 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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A Phunky Photo: B&B (Bergamot and Bee)

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A buy bee a top a nearly bald wild bergamot blossom, against a backdrop of wild bergamot foliage. The picture has been run through home brew image processing software which has manipulated the colors and outlined details in black. The bee is cyan, purple, and light touches of orange. The blossom is orange and yellow and red. The nearer foliage is read with blue touches, and then blue, and then the deepest shadows are cyan.
November 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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A screen shot of a sign in the style of the "ZOHRAN For New York" campaign poster. It reads "KING KONG DIED For Our Sins."
November 8, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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The original photo: canna plants/20251104

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Canna plants that have been damaged by frost (but not yet dead.)
November 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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A Phunky Photo: Frost Bite

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Canna plants that have been damaged by frost (but not yet dead.) The picture has been run through home brew image processing software which has used a Sobel filter algorithm to select pixels that were then false colored.
November 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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The original photo: full beaver supermoon/20251106

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A view of the 2025 Full Beaver Supermoon through autumn-bare cottonwood trees, low in the sky. The moon is somewhat blurred by a thin layer of cloud.
November 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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A Phunky Photo: Supermoon

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A view of the 2025 Full Beaver Supermoon through autumn-bare cottonwood trees, low in the sky. The picture has been run through home brew image processing software which has manipulated the colors and outlined details in black. The foreground cottonwoods are cyan, most of the night sky is a deep blue, and the supermoon is a warm yellow that smears out into orange and then red.
November 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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The original image: red japanese lace leaf maple.20251104

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A frame filled with red Japanese Lace Leaf Maple foliage.
November 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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A Phunky Photo: Laceleaf Endpaper

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A frame filled with Japanese Lace Leaf Maple foliage. The picture has been run through home brew image processing software which has used a Sobel filter algorithm to determine the rate of color changes across the image, and then used a false palette to display those changes. The image now resembles a black and white drawing of the original image, and brings to mind something you might see in a decorative endpaper for book on trees.
November 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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The original photo: weeping larch/20251104

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A frame filled with the fall foliage of a Weeping Larch, which is a needled plant that looks like a pine tree with dreadlocks. It is not an evergreen, tho' it looks like one, as it loses its needles every fall.
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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A Phunky Photo: Fall-ing Tears

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A frame filled with the fall foliage of a Weeping Larch, which is a needled plant that looks like a pine tree with dreadlocks. It is not an evergreen, tho' it looks like one, as it loses its needles every fall. The picture has been run through home brew image processing software which has manipulated the colors and outlined details in black. In this case, it did a "neatest colors" match using the AVaseOfVengeance palette, with a threshhold of 24 for the Sobel filter algorithm used to generate the black detail outlines.
November 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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It would appear that I, perhaps, might not be the only one who finds having to create an account to read an article somewhat problematic.
A screenshot that reads: It looks like you already have an account Check your email at biteme@example.com for a link to sign in securely, without a password or Sign in Back
November 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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A bonus Phunky Photo: lace leaf windfall

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A pile of dead leaves that contains oak, and burning bush, and maple, and birch leaves. The picture has been run through home brew image processing software which has used a Sobel filter algorithm to select pixels to lay on a black background, skeletonizing it.
November 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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The original photo: various leaves/20251104

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A pile of dead leaves that contains oak, and burning bush, and maple, and birch leaves.
November 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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A Phunky Photo: Windfall

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A pile of dead leaves that contains oak, and burning bush, and maple, and birch leaves. The picture has been run through home brew image processing software which has used a Sobel filter algorithm to outline details in gold.
November 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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The original photo: last cosmos/20251031

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Last of the fall cosmos blossoms against an out-of-focus foliage background.
November 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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A Phunky Photo: Gold Line

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Last of the fall cosmos blossoms against an out-of-focus foliage background. The picture has been run through home brew image processing software which has false-colored the results of a Sobel filter algorithm to generate what appears to be a yellow and orange line drawing of the original image.
November 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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The original photo: yew berries/20251101

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A cluster of yew berries on a yew branch. The background is out-of-focus foliage of various types.
November 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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A Phunky Photo: Ha-yew-cination

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A cluster of yew berries on a yew branch. The background is out-of-focus foliage of various types. The picture has been run through home brew image processing software which has super saturated the color and outlined details in black.
November 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM