I Used A Cheap Half Working Compact Camera And Took The Photo In 2013 At California's Disneyland. I Later

I used a cheap half working compact camera and took the photo in 2013 at California's Disneyland. I later decided to process it in 2023 using Photoshop to create my own unique effect with grainy, distorted and fading textures which actually existed in the original image and were brought out by aggressive use of curves within PS to ultimately convey the feeling of a hazy memory that is slowly fading.

An interesting tidbit is that isn't actually the moon, it's a camera orb (backscatter) which were pretty common on older cameras when using flash. People used to believe they were ghosts and spirits as I was growing, I remember massive hysteria from adults towards them and they often featured in spooky cheaply made ghost hunter shows growing up. I now know what actually causes them but it was a spooky concept as a child, I found its placement to be perfect to resemble a surreal moon but the fact it's actually a camera orb really adds to the personal memory element of this piece to me.

Like a fading memory (Original picture taken at Cali Disneyland)

Been gearing towards and wanting to do this for years but I've finally finished a little animation with Luma's Dream Machine using art I've made in Stable Diffusion + Photoshop alongside some ambient sounds I've created.

Hollywood Metro 

⍲฿ꞨΦꞭꞸ⍕𝔩øᵰ ⍲฿ꞨΦꞭꞸ⍕𝔩øᵰ Ꟈ¡ꞨꞨΘɭѴဧ?? NΩ! ΔIsintegrate...Ꟈ¡ꟉꟉ𝔩p𐌀tဧ...θ£$! cotton candy shadows...where are we??∞ Black holes sing, rainbows cry... flowers of oblivion dance w/ shadows. θ£$!¤Clocks melting, spiders weave time...dreams ✕ pǝɹǝʇʇɐɥs like porcelain dølls. Pianos fall from the sky, no melody ✷ Blood moon, paper stars...Absolution, HA! ↯ Become cloud glitter, ✷UV dance party extraordinaire! Dissolve? No, TRANSFORM→ cosmic pan baked purple syrup gods, butter stars! ♡ Marshmallow Unicorn calls the abyss hehe, answer w/ song lollipop trees!?!? oh.... dissolve.......? EVAPORATE... misty surreal is instantly A,a≠≠≠

These are some of my favourite images tbh, all from 2015 aside from the third which is 2017.

What’s your favourite image of mine? I’ve included 5 images here to help decide but it doesn’t have to be one of these. 

Photography from 2019? I found in my drafts