This is the photo I am going to use this month. Each week I’m going to begin with some sort of distortion of this photo and see if I can produce an interesting and pleasing artistic image. For week 4 I again began with a polar coordinates distortion which I compounded by repeating it several times until something I liked emerged. I quite liked this but continued … Continue reading One Four Challenge Feb Week 4
My Odd Couple series Original photo You can view my Solo series here. Continue reading Odd Couple/11: Shoeshine
This is the photo I am going to use this month. Each week I’m going to begin with some sort of distortion of this photo and see if I can produce an interesting and pleasing artistic image. For week three I began in Sagelight with a plug-in to smooth the image and then applied a median filter. In PS Elements 8 I distorted it using polar … Continue reading One Four Challenge Feb Week 3
This beast transforms our 300 foot country drive from impassable to passable. Ailsa’s Travel theme: Transformation Continue reading Transformation
Gates, Hay-on-Wye, Wales Weekly Photo Challenge is: Symmetry Continue reading Symmetry
“I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to master it. Then I remembered that line from Jaws and couldn’t help smiling: ‘We’re gonna need a bigger boat.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love Continue reading Visual Quotation 68: Life
This is the photo I am going to use this month. Each week I’m going to begin with some sort of distortion of this photo and see if I can produce an interesting and pleasing artistic image. For week 2 I began with a polar distortion again, which I compounded by doing it twice. I rotated it 90 degrees and cropped it and did a zoom … Continue reading One Four Challenge Feb Week 2
Carcassonne, France Weekly photo challenge: Scale Continue reading Scale
Click on image to enlarge Step one for me is usually adjusting the lighting. I work in Sagelight and used the Smart Light to make minor adjustments. I liked the wet reflections on the sidewalk and wanted to keep and enhance that if I could. I didn’t like the semi-visible light standard to the right of centre so I wanted to either get rid of … Continue reading Photo Editing: ABFriday Week 35 One Photo Focus
My Odd Couple series Original photo You can view my Solo series here. Continue reading Odd Couple/10
This is the photo I am going to use this month. Each week I’m going to begin with some sort of distortion of this photo and see if I can produce an interesting and pleasing artistic image. Here is week one. I began with a polar coordinates distortion I liked the stark split of dark and light and decided to work with that. I cropped … Continue reading One Four Challenge Feb Week 1
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly. – Richard Bach, American Novelist Weekly photo challenge: Depth Continue reading Visual Quotation 67: Depth
Beyond the Brush 