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Posted on 28/09/18 09:08:11 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Challenge 725: Halfway up the stairs
Here's a curiosity spotted by Josephine Harvatt on her travels: a hotel stair with a fireplace situated half way up. How could one make use of this oddly sited amenity? High res is here.  |
Posted on 28/09/18 09:54:22 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 4936 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 725: Halfway up the stairs
OMG! Looks like the old railway hotels of my youth. The ones that had shared bathrooms and toilets at the end of the corridor. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 28/09/18 11:18:57 AM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2596 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 725: Halfway up the stairs
Mercifully ours was en suite - I dread to think where they would have put a communal bathroom! _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 28/09/18 11:22:17 AM |
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josephine harvatt
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Re: Challenge 725: Halfway up the stairs
We also spent a night at a hotel where the bedroom floor was so far out of true that my phone slid merrily off the bedside table and the stairs had a distinct camber - didnt have a drink that night I can tell you, it was like living on a ski slope. _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 28/09/18 11:33:16 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 4936 Reply |
Re: Challenge 725: Halfway up the stairs
Seems you stay at all the high end places .......... Here's somewhere a bit less smart for you.  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 28/09/18 2:12:26 PM |
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srawland
Pixel Perfectionist Posts: 885 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 725: Halfway up the stairs
Is that a real fireplace that burns wood, or has it been converted? Either way, it looks like if you don't hug the railing, you run the risk of burns going around that corner when it's in use. _________________ I'm still learning. |
Posted on 29/09/18 06:24:54 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 4936 Reply |
Re: Challenge 725: Halfway up the stairs
I would guess the fireplace is real enough but it's insallation is not. It's purely decorative with no chimney. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 29/09/18 09:29:51 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 4936 Reply |
When The Cat's Away or Sex 'n Drugs 'n Rock 'n Roll......... (Parental Guidance Advised)
This definitely looked like the kind of hotel that would have mice ......... so, with no particular target or idea in mind, I want searching for mouse pictures. What I, quite unexpectedly, found were the most astonishing images of bizarre anthropomorphic mouse taxidermy, including even the couple on the mantel shelf - they really exist on a taxidermy site! Google Images can be quite entertainingly surprising sometimes ......... 
BTW I had the most terrible problems JPegging this. Even at maximum uncompressed quality it went unusably contrasty and dark. I had to adjust the original with some global brightness lift and contrast reduction to get the JPG to resemble the pre-adjusted original. It's not a problem I usually have so it must be something intrinsic to this image. This is pretty close now. With apologies to Ian Drury for the title .......... _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 29/09/18 10:16:39 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 4936 Reply |
Photo Bombed!!
 _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 29/09/18 10:33:32 AM |
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josephine harvatt
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Re: Challenge 725: Halfway up the stairs
 _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 29/09/18 10:34:38 AM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2596 Reply |
Re: Challenge 725: Halfway up the stairs
For a given value of "decorative" _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 29/09/18 11:13:10 AM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 4936 Reply |
Re: Challenge 725: Halfway up the stairs
_________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 29/09/18 2:10:53 PM |
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GKB
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Re: Challenge 725: Halfway up the stairs
I know it's a little early for this but as someone mentioned the 'C' word a couple of days ago I took it to be ok to mention it myself 
http://vimeo.com/292473499  _________________ Time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana. |
Posted on 29/09/18 3:22:52 PM |
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Ben Mills
Luminous Luminary Posts: 570 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 725: Halfway up the stairs
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Posted on 29/09/18 3:35:53 PM |
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josephine harvatt
Gag Gadgeteer Posts: 2596 Reply |
Re: Challenge 725: Halfway up the stairs
Of course Ben - why didnt I think of that! _________________ I'm not really bad - I just draw that way |
Posted on 30/09/18 01:17:42 AM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 2629 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 725: What's in your fireplace?
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Posted on 30/09/18 1:31:12 PM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 2817 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 725: Halfway up the stairs
That's a very nice smoke screen, Loyd. |
Posted on 30/09/18 1:33:27 PM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 2817 Reply |
Re: Challenge 725: Halfway up the stairs
Anna, lovely banner, with bandana! Sorry, couldn't resist it. |
Posted on 30/09/18 5:08:18 PM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 2629 Reply |
Re: Challenge 725: Halfway up the stairs
Thanks Michael, if nothing else it's a perfect gimmick for hiding any undone photoshop work.   |
Posted on 30/09/18 7:47:34 PM |
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michael sinclair
Off-Topic Opportunist Posts: 1752 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 725: Halfway up the stairs
Clever work David, and great idea Gordon.
Hmmm, All this place needs is some TLC: some adjustment here...some adjustment...there, and...perhaps a little...reconstruction, and before you can say "what a dump!" you have a new scene 
Animation 
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