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JK look back to the post last week I have copied the instructions from the RPS magazine "Old Woman Uses AI" She explains how she did it.
My image of a "Turner like very rough sea-scape with dramatic sunset, dark clouds, thunder storm and sailing ship!" This took less than 5 mins to create and gererate.
I thought the seascape was very good….and realistic …apart from perhaps two concurrent lightning strikes (does that happen at sea?).
The image reminded me of a painting, I came across at Greenwich Maritime Museum, while doing some genealogical research about an early 1700s ancestor of Jan. He ran a tavern in Westminster and over one Winter a group of Privateers lodged with him squandering their share of the “bouty” from the taking of 2 French ships.
We learnt all the details of their “cruise against the enemies of the king” from litigation between the parties.
Jans ancestor was granted guardianship over the youngest privateer ….as wait for it…he was under 18 and required a responsible adult to handle his share of the prize. (You couldn’t dream up a dafter scenario than underage pirates needing adult consent on spending their prize).
Anyway…the young pirate claimed Jans ancestor stole his money….BUT the whiley innkeeper had an inventory of everything the lad ate, drank and bought …including “ye clothes and trinketts”. So the court ruled the account was fair and ordered Jans ancestor to hand over the £30 residue of his £300guineas prize (work out how much the lad got in 1740 in todays money!!)
Mysteriously, Jans ancestor died suddenly the next Summer.
But I digress…..the painting in Greenwich was of the actual battle of the taking of the very two named French ships in which these privateers had been engaged.
All of which is a rambling story about nothing of consequence except to my good lady.
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