Tradition meets modernity in Odeceixe village Algarve Portugal by Western Exposure

On our 2019 trip we came through the beautiful village of Odeceixe in the northern part of the municipality of Aljezur, in the Portuguese Algarve. The village is located on the south bank of the river Ribeira de Seixe and is part of the Nature Park of the Southwest Alentejo and Vincentine Coast with its rocky coast and marvelous sandy beaches. The Seixe river forms the border between the Algarve and Alentejo regions. The image shows part of the picturesque village from a road above. This roofscape perspective revealed not only a number of satellite dishes but also an abundance of solar panels - an interesting mix of traditional architecture and modern technology. The image is a painterly digital render of on one of my photographs.

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Originally from Northern Germany, I have been living on a small farm in the West of Ireland for many years. I love to be creative, to create new things, be it arts and crafts or in image form. A few years ago I started to create digital works, based on my photographs or purely in Photoshop - the latter mostly as abstract works. Recently I have also started working with acrylic paints. I like to "play" with colours and digital effects.
My inspiration comes mainly from my immediate rural, rustic surroundings. So I often use distressed textures, plants, my farm animals, the sea, earth colours. When the often grey skies here get to me, I sometimes resort to brighter colours to compensate.
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ps. For Reasons: My digital art is made by me in a 2012 version of Photoshop (CS6), not by AI. My take on generative AI art is that it is soulless 'instant art', devoid of graft and craft. More importantly, in my mind it also constitutes mass copyright infringement, as billions of images available online (including my own) have been siphoned into the underlying databases from which the AI images are concocted without the creatives' knowledge and consent, or indeed any recompense.

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