Original DDE™ art: “Western Tanager” — by: rob kistner © 3/9/26
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the breeze speaks first
then the birch answers
with a gentle wave of branches
suddenly
a restless Tanager lifts
taking flight
as if the sky had called its name
I remain below
feet rooted in gravity
studying the freedom
of that brief upward decision
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rob kistner © 03/9/26
I’m just gonna live here for a little while:
“the breeze speaks first”
Yes, please. Sigh.
Be my guest De … and thank you! 🙂
Rob, you captured the magic of the moment perfectly in 44 words. The image is so alive!
Will you say more about DDE? It’s not AI is it, but you created something before AI showed up?
Thank you Lisa, very much. This link will take you back to the post on my Image and Verse website where I’ve had my DDE process outlined for quite some time — maybe three years. It will explain how I go about creating my images. >>> https://www.image-verse.com/my-ddaies-trade
Here is a bit more — Without going into too much confusing details, Lisa what I have created, over the last number of years, a compositional prompt group that I feed into a bot a rendering processor, for example, like a MidJourney, or Dal-lee, or any rendering bot. I use use this prompt languaging litany that I have created, as the core of my DDE (Directed Digital Extrapolation) to arrive at the results that I am seeking. Whereas, without the DDE discipline, you have no friggin idea what’s gonna come out. It’s all in using the DDE prep, before you start rendering. It’s all the DDE prompting, that makes the image what it is, what you want — that includes feeding a digital Wacom sketch. So anyhow, that’s already more complicated than I wanted to get — but that’s what DDE is based on. Here is a good outline of the steps tfor you.
1. Lighting
2. Nature of detailing
3. Depth of Field
4. Image Mood
5. Composition
6. Art Style (painterly / illustration / watercolor / photographic — etc.)
Soon enough, we’ll all take flight. Awesome work, Rob. Thanks
Thank you do much Ron! I’d love to be able to do it pre-expiration — and not in some flying machine… 😉