"WALLS" my today's publication, is basically the product of a street walk made as a catharsis to try to get out of one of my typical outbursts of bad mood, whose main characteristic is its appearance without any reason and unpredictable itensity.

^{📷 WALL 01}

^{📷 WALL 02}

I went out on the street armed with my camera and a 50mm fixed lens which I always find adequate to take "any picture that comes into my head". That's how I decided to "drain" my bad day looking at the walls of the town and its now classic interlude of slovenliness and abandonment.

^{📷 WALLS 01 & 02 MIX}

And suddenly Eureka!.... It occurred to me that "superimposing" the photographs on these chaotic old walls, dirty, forgotten and full of messages of dubious veracity, would be something interesting and with a visual result worth seeing... So with every other photograph I've created a hybrid!... (I'm starting to sound weird, aren't I?).

^{📷 WALL 03}

^{📷 WALL 04}

Oh dear, I hope someone is reading this, because this "creative exercise" has turned what promised to be a horrible day of inexplicable bad mood into a lovely time for me... It was like having an exorcism! (Yes, I'm definitely sounding pretty weird).

^{📷 WALLS 03 & 04 MIX}

The weather here has been miserable. A constant back and forth between torrential rain, extreme heat and unbreathable humidity, make the streets are even lonelier than usual.

^{📷 WALL 05}

^{📷 WALL 06}

^{📷 WALLS 05 & 06 MIX}

The weather is so bad that the few people I met on the streets (it was midday) seemed to be in a worse mood than even me. In fact, some of them looked so bad that they seemed to be walking around with a red-hot nail up their ass... So that made me think that I wasn't so screwed up after all!

^{📷 WALL 07}

^{📷 WALL 08}

So I spent a couple of hours on the street taking pictures of these walls of houses going to hell. Gradually I became convinced that the others around me probably had a lot more to worry about than I did. So that even made me smile a little and I went home looking better. My wife, who was doing some handicrafts in her workshop, raised an eyebrow and stared at me with her typical "this guy is absolutely crazy" look.

^{📷 WALLS 07 & 08 MIX}

Then I went to my desk and emptied the memory of my camera into the PC. There I spent several hours reveling while I edited the RAWs and converted them to JPG format. The next step was to overlap the images and graduate the transparency levels of each one until I achieved the desired result and output it as a JPG which could, of course, be edited at will. These are the images which I share here as "MIXES".

^{📷 WALL 09}

^{📷 WALL 10}

ADDITIONAL TECHNICAL NOTE: Photographs captured with my Nikon D7000 DSLR camera in RAW format, then processed in Adobe Camera RAW for adjustments regarding light, sharpening, contrast and depth... They were then exported to JGP format on which various modifications were carried out such as straightening, vignetting and - of course - image overlaying. All of which I did with PhotoScape 3.6.3.

^{📷 WALLS 09 & 10 MIX}

I sincerely hope you enjoyed looking at these pictures and also found the text relatively enjoyable. This is quite different from the work I usually do and share on #Hive, but it was undoubtedly very rewarding to do. Thank you all for stopping by and appreciating, we'll see you again soon!