Please click on any image for a better view. Marian columns are religious monuments usually depicting Virgin Mary on the top, and were often built in thanksgiving for the ending of a plague, as a gesture of public faith. This type of column flourished in the Catholic countries of Europe, especially in the 17th and 18th centuries. This column is the Holy Trinity Statue in Trinity Square on … Continue reading Statues and Sculptures/9
St. Mary’s Church in Beddgelert, Gwynnedd, Wales – please click on any image for a better view. This site near where the Rivers Glaslyn and Colwyn meet has been a place of Christian worship since the 7th century. By 1230 the monastic community was recognized as an Augustinian Priory with a sizable church and a number of other buildings that have since disappeared. St. … Continue reading Church/St. Mary’s, Beddgelert
When my husband passed away in March 2016 I felt abandoned, left behind to fend for myself. Now, leaving the year 2016 behind, I feel an easing of my grief. But I do not want to leave him behind; I want him always in my present. Perhaps I am getting near to that place where I can keep him close while moving forward. Combining my current … Continue reading Left Behind
This is series on couples – street photography capturing two people – which for lack of anything more imaginative I have named the Odd Couple series, when in fact they may, or may not be odd. I’ll leave that to the viewer. Taken in Rabat, Morocco. For my solo series click here Continue reading Odd Couple/32 – Rabat
So this is what I’ve been doing lately – acrylic on canvas Continue reading What I’ve been doing/2
Please click on any image for a better view Cee’s fun foto challenge: entrances and doors Continue reading Door(s) 20
Paula’s Black and White Sunday is Towering. Please click on images for a better view. The Hassan Tower in Rabat, Morocco was intended, in 1195, to be the largest minaret in the world along with a mosque, also intended to be the world’s largest. But the Sultan died and construction stopped. The tower reached 44 m (140 ft) only half of its intended height. The rest of the mosque was also left … Continue reading Black and White – Towers
Drumlanrig Castle overlooks the Nith Valley in Dumfries and Galloway in Scotland. It was built between 1679 and 1689 from distinctive pink sandstone and it is the Dumfriesshire seat of the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch and Queensberry. This shot is an archway below the grand staircase of the main entrance. Please click on image for a better view. Norm’s Thursday Doors Continue reading Door/14 – Drumlanrig
Please click on images for a better view. Ottawa’s Notre Dame Basilica, built in the mid-19th century, underwent a number of design changes before it was completed. Constructed over a period of five years, it was blessed August 15, 1846. However, the steeples, of which there are two, were not completed until 1858; the apse in 1862, and the primary work on the interior was … Continue reading Church/Notre Dame, Ottawa
Combining my current state of grief with my pastimes of art and gardening has produced this series. Please click on the image for a larger view. Continue reading Supplicant
Combining my current state of grief with my pastimes of art and gardening has produced this series. Continue reading Isolated
As I held him my best friend and husband slipped away from us on Thursday, March 3. Please click Continue reading Two Part Harmony
One photo, four ways over the course of the month. A great chance to play and see what develops 🙂 Please click on images for a larger view Original For the last week I took Week 3 and cloned out the diagonal line upper right. Now I think full focus is on the lily. Robyn’s One Four Challenge Week 4 Continue reading Robyn’s One Four Feb/Week 4
There were several stately trees in the park in Belcoo, which is on the main road through this small village in Northern Ireland. To do them justice I needed to show scale, as shown in the image above. Click on any image for a larger view. Continue reading The Trees of Belcoo
Here are two images I created from my photos using Sagelight software. For those of you who don’t already know, I LOVE Sagelight for the limitless variety that can be produced, each resulting piece one of a kind. Originals follow. Please click on images for a larger view. For a different edited version of the above image, not ‘artified’, click here Continue reading Photo Editing – painterly images
Weekly Photo Challenge: Alphabet Continue reading EL EM EN OH PEE
I’m in the middle of a very bad time and so will be absent or sporadic at best. I enjoy my photo blogging and hope to be back. Continue reading Another hiatus
Behind this door lived an aging widow. She sat with me while I sketched the beautiful doors of Verrucole in Tuscany. She had walked up the hill with pails of chestnuts from the woods and fresh beans and I helped her carry them inside. I asked if I could take her photo but she gently declined, unfortunately. Below is a watercolour I did. Continue reading Door/9 – 25 Via del Forte
I have been experimenting with artistic effects on my photographs. I have used Fotosketcher in the past, often with enjoyable results, but now I want to make the images more my own and so have been exploring the tools of Sagelight, my preferred editing program. I’ve done a comparison of the original photo with a Fotosketcher version and then my own version produced with Sagelight. Having used … Continue reading Photo Editing: Personal touch
Working from the original image as shown below, I inverted it, and then used the undo brush to bring most of ithe foreground back up. What I left is showing as a sort of wispy mist. I also added just a touch of a soft focus. One Photo Focus is hosted by Stacy at Visual Venturing. Check out the link to see how others edited the same … Continue reading Photo Editing: One Photo Focus Week 47
Beyond the Brush 