I only ever saw Citadel Haedre from above

while traversing the underside warrens. My brood typically incubated in the cheapest pods my clone-parent could find so we spent a lot of time coming and going from the underside. Even from above and at a great distance I was struck by the architecture of the citadel. The outer spires seemed to soar up just out of tentacle-reach, although I knew the floor of the Royal Cavern was more than a mile below.

I was feeling artsy today so first let me share a black & white edit :)

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The view at night

when the glow stones are muted blues and a mandatory curfew is enforced. I had to sneak out to get this picture LOL

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By day the glow stones reflect the sunspot activity of the binary suns, pulsing through an ever changing array of yellows and oranges and purples and reds...

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The transition at second dusk is my favorite time of day on Xanthon, as the noise begins to die down to the gentle buzzing of the incubator pods and the last muted colors of the setting sun leave the lower levels...

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Original Art

These are variations on an offshoot mutation of one of my @haedre abstractions - follow the link to learn more :)
https://steemit.com/art/@carlgnash/dreaming-of-haedre-willamette-abstraction-3

My original macro photography of water ripple (left) was the first base image.

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The first style image I trained the Deep Dream Generator with was a
slice of @haedre's art (left), used with permission.

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This offshoot mutation branch started with a mirror crop that I applied a PhotoShop extrude effect to:

I used the above as the new base image in subsequent runs through the Deep Dream Generator to arrive at today's vacation pictures :)