@Adel - summer dreaming
I testet some green screen things in shotcut together with Gimp and thought, why not put some together with that pic and a bit music.
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Wow, you did a great job, I really liked it 
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Isla San Cristóbal (actually it is Panama)
San pic by Angela at Tristans. A bit modified and combined with a pic (CC0)
Done with Gimp 3.0.
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Good job getting your light sources lined up correctly, the shadow under her arm is a nice touch.
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I think it’s actually more disturbing than hilarious to see how well this works with amateur tools. You cannot trust anything to be real anymore.
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Finding matching images sometimes takes more time than the actual editing. 
BTW, with San gone, have you found a new darling yet?
Summer’s Almost Gone
It’s a late summer evening in VHTV
Wondering about what I will see
My mind start to wander to times gone by
Where did the years go, where did they fly
I arrived on a Misty day six years ago
Soon I decided to go with the flow
I found it so Funny I wanted to stay
I really enjoyed to see Emily play
Participants here have the strangest names
From fairy tales, myths and legends and games
There’s Pandora, Apollo and Cinderella
And I’m not forgetting the Gorgeous Gella
Here we have plenty of cute dogs and cats
Sometimes we even see budgies and rats
There’s Jolie and Fedya, Snoopy and Mickey
Meanwhile some guest is getting a hickey
There’s sex in the bedrooms, bathrooms and halls
Then picking their noses and scratching their balls
Next grabbing their phones before dinnertime
It’s rinse and repeat, now join the pantomime
The forum is full of grumpies and gladdies
With a mixed up bag of buddies and baddies
There’s Funny’s and Jokes, boobies and smiles
With insight and nonsense for miles upon miles
Sometimes VHTV makes me want to frown
It’s over and under and sideways and down
Yet at the end of the day, there’s one thing I know
I’ll still hang around and go with the flow
Here’s Shana, Pure Kitty, Swera and Pearl
More beauties to turn my head to a whirl
There’s archives and music, a kitten, a pup
While patiently waiting, will Wendy show up
Days getting darker, days getting colder
Still no use to look back over your shoulder
Summer is gone now, but let’s not be sad
Get ready for autumn, grump up and be glad
A reflection by GladNGrumpy, late August 2025
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Well, why not? Here goes nothing 
I’m not particularly skilled with photo- and video editing, or AI for that matter. On the other hand, I do have a certain knack for language, playing around with words and rhymes. Naturally I do this best in my mother tongue, which is Norwegian. If I can do it it English too may be a story for another day 
What tools are used for this? Just the vivid imagination of my nerd brain, pure and simple 
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i read the lines with help from google translator
that’s not bad for an amateur poem creator
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