For the past few months, I’ve been experimenting with artificial intelligence apps that stretch the boundaries of digital photography, Initially, most of these apps were created for Instagram and sites like Tik-Tok, teenagers wanted to get creative with their photos and videos.

There are now about a dozen new apps (I don’t need to list them, they are all readily available and visible online). I see PhotoShop has an AI app now also.

The part of this that interests me – I’m always looking for new ways to soften digital photography, which can sometimes be harsh, literal, and joyless.

My idea is to play with a digital photograph, AI-enhanced.

I want try to give it a different look, a cross between a photo and painting, a hybrid, a new kind of photograph. I might try a dozen different looks and filters before I found the right one.

I took a picture of our fish tank tonight and ran it through some AI apps to see if I capture this vivid world differently. I like this one. It offers an entirely different perspective on a fish tank, reminds me a bit of Andy Warhol.

I took a photo of our statue at dusk, and I ran it through and app that burnt the edges to soften the image. With the app, it had a dreamy, painting kind of feeling.

Above, in the photo of Gus that ran with my posting on race, I ran a photo of Gus through my apps, and I liked the outcome of that also. I still like digital photography, and I don’t want to overdo the AI apps.

But they are exciting a new way to look at picture taking and challenge me. Digital photography is so simple it’s easy to feel detached from it, I don’t want the camera doing all the work.

Teenagers have revolutionized photography, I want to follow it and pick and choose from what is new and exciting.