The Unusual Subjects

Hello everybody! It's time to reveal the unsual subject for May! If you need to know the background and rules about this activity, then you can read about them at this link: The Unusual Subjects Activity Information Have fun creating your images! :)

The randomizer's results are:

May's unusual subject is:

A Fantasy

Contributed by: Deenamic

Yay -- this sounds pretty awesome. Thanks for posting, Dee!

You're welcome Hope! I can't wait to see what everybody creates. :)

That sounds great to me too, Dee-namic. I'll go for it % .

Cool, that's good to hear Jacomina! I can't wait to see what you come up with. I'm planning on participating too. I don't know what type of fantasy I want to create yet.

A spy at our front door : It's my sun glasses putting on our Wisteria flowers.

Man, is this BIG! !!

Next time (if there is a next time, ha-ha) I guess it's better to reduce the size.

That is definitely a fantasy photo! I love it! So many thoughts run through my head when I look at it. Have you ever watched The Addams Family? I thought it was a floral Mr. It at first. I've noticed that the photos have been big on here. It's okay if the photos are big, it's just more for us to look at and enjoy. :)

now Queen is singing in my head

what is more inline of the fantasy theme than a Faerie Ring?

I love it Mike! A faerie ring screams fantasy. What are the chances of finding something like that? Do you think the faeries are hiding? The ring kind of looks like a Q for Queen too. :)

Queen Zlata the Gentle approved of my posting this image.  And yes, the Fae do exist.  
It is not a matter of whether YOU believe in Faeries but rather if the Faeries believe in you.....

Tell Queen Zlata the Gentle that we thank her for letting us see a little bit of her faerie world. :)

She says 'You're welcome!'

Thank you for your nice words on my Spy, and telling me about your thoughts regarding the Addams Family, Dee, he, he

My husband told me about that series, unfortunately I never saw them, but now looked it up on the Internet.

Hi Mike, this is a splendid find, as a wonderful and cool round of fantasy 

You're welcome Jacomina! The Addams Family is an interesting tv show. If you like Halloween, then you'll like The Addams Family. :)

lol!

Where are the Ghostbusters when you need them? lol

Maybe here? No, just kidding . This is about fantasy in a bubble.

I saw some chairs stacked up in a church hall and thought "I could lose myself in there" so I took a photo of them. Then, when I got home I remembered I'd taken a selfie for my Facebook profile picture and decided to combine the two. This is the result.

I like that Jacomina! It looks they're having a nice fantasy in the bubble. The reflections on the glass help add scenery to the bubble world. I would like to have my own island paradise in a bubble.

Caroline, your photo turned out great! The chairs look like a whole other world from that perspective. I like the combination of your selfie and the chairs. It looks like you're really lost in there.

Dance Floor For Fairies

One can imagine, in unwatched moments the fairies dance here.

Beautiful!

Hendesse, I think it's beautiful too! I can definitely imagine that.

Could I enter another one please? I went for a walk in the woods today and I came across this. It's a toadstool carved from an old tree stump! There was nothing to indicate who'd done it or why.

You sure can Caroline. I like your photo! It makes you wonder if a human, creature, a group of faeries, or something else created the toadstool.

@ Klaus, what a wonderful picture, just waiting for the performance of the faeries.

@ Sunflower, Oh, this mushroom-tree says it all, what a fairy tale.

These are all beautiful images. for some reason, I'm not receiving notices . So I's sorry for not commenting as you post.

Also I didn't receive e-bots from this topic, but because I thought I did something against the rules I went searching for this. Now I see in red "unsubscribe", so I sure will get ALL

yeah! I just got the ebot of your posting

@ Mike:

The subject isn't unusual, but I think the treatment is. I live in Winchester, a small town in the south of England, which has a famous cathedral. Since I live here, it's very difficult to find anything in town (especially the cathedral) which I or countless others haven't photographed many times. However, it had been raining hard yesterday and I happened to be taking a short cut through the cathedral grounds and noticed its reflection in a large puddle - which got me thinking about an "Alice through the Looking Glass" effect, the stories of "drowned cathedrals" and what might happen if I could go through the puddle into the world behind the reflection.

A great idea, Sunflower!

Can this be a composite image? I didn't see anything in the rules that says it can't.

Caroline, I like your photo and the story behind it!

snowcrow1, it can definitely be a composite image. I'm planning on doing a composite image too.

Well...me car is broken, so I won't be going anywhere to take photos any time soon!!! Here is MY ENTRY, even though the image isn't mine, and I'll be disqualified this month! Found a great image on Deviantart, and did some photo manipulation in GIMP.

snowcrow1, you're not disqualified. The photos you use in a photo manipulation can be yours or somebody else's as long as they're free for personal use, free for personal and commercial use, free for any use, or public domain. As long you got them in the correct manner, you can use them. I love your photo manipulation! I can feel the electric energy coming off the image. I'm sorry to hear about your car. Cars are so unpredictable, you never know when or where they're going to breakdown. I hope your car feels better soon! :)

Time to get into this one.

I like that X-PaX! I can feel myself being pulled in. :)

You all are surprising me with your creations! I'm loving it! :)

So... as long as the finished image is done within the month of the challenge it's all good, ok! Good to know, because I lots of ideas!! B)

The car thing is under control, it's just an older model so get the part can be a challenge.

Yeah, it's all good snowcrow1. I can't wait to see your other ideas! I wish you good luck on getting the car part you need. :)

Hendesse posted at 11:33AM Sun, 22 May 2016 - #4269120

Dance Floor For Fairies

Stunning capture!!

Hi Christian, this is really FANTASTIC, and such a creative idea.

@ snowcrow1, You already know I liked what you did with your photo, and I'm glad to read here, your car is repaired.

I must say, this is one of the most poorly designed forums I've ever used!!! There is no way to nest a reply to a post, it ends up on a totally different page in some cases! I can see why the empty for the most part!!

Just hang in here with us snowcrow1. :)

I'm going to start working on my entry for this activity today. I think it's going to be a mixed medium artwork. All I can say is that it's going to have animals in it. :)

The Sawfly happened because of a challenge on Flickr of Literal Compound Words which was convenient for both there and here!

Great entry durleybeachbum!! Wish I had thought of it!!