Im more surprised that it won in the first place

Easiest way without wires is to download Send Anywhere to both devices. They connect by wifi.....very reliable and works great evertime

Theres a documentary out there somewhere and McLean explains how the song came about and what the various references relate to. Have to say I was disappointed....he should have kept it to himself.

Someone posted a comment in the main photography discussion page about why they dont use cellphones for serious photography and why did anybody else use them.
These were taken with an iphone 13 in Morocco recently.
People notice DSLr's.......they dont notice cellphones.

Topaz sharpen would havebeen a lot cheaper

A real photographer tends to over complicate everything

Jaipur, India 2017

Why fix whats not broken?

Leanardo AI

Nothing particularly was going on in my mind. I just thought about what was the type of photograph I like to take or look at...something that says something....thats what I came up with

Thanks for all the interesting replies...I think I know where Im going with it now

Hi...it was Leanardo AI....tried it a few more times but havnt been as successful since the first image.....

So Ive never been one of those photographers who think its OK to do basic editing to a photo but that anything more major is cheating....the mentality that says replacing a background or a sky doesnt reflect on what was actually seen at the time of pressing the shutter button and therefore isnt a true photograph. Ive always thought those views were from the dark ages.
The other day I thought Id investigate AI for the first time. I typed in a fairly lengthy description of what I wanted it to come up with....key words etc and then pushed the ok button. I was amazed to find it was more or less exactly what I envisaged in the first place.
I added it to my Flickr photostream but only placed it into a few specific groups designed for AI images.
Id already tagged it as AI generated and the only other thing I did in photoshop was to decrease the size of the bottle in the pic.
Later that day I discovered that it had been chosen as a photo to be included in Flickr explore and that it had recieved several thousand views and a couple of hundred Faves.
I never received any negative feedback...quite the opposite infact...and yet still feel slightly guilty that something I didnt take with a camera has been so well received.
What do other hoggers think?

He needs to get a life....