Please click on any image for a better view. St. Alexander’s in Lochiel, OntarioCape Breton near FourchuSt. Andrew’s, Lancaster OntarioPetersfriedhof, SalzburgKilladiskert, Leitrim, Northern IrelandTrory, Fermanagh, Northern Ireland Cee’s fun foto challenge: cemeteries Continue reading Final Rest
Composition is one of the elements that scared me the most when I first started painting. I did not have a handle on what made a composition ‘good’. But it’s true that the more you do the better you get and composing my photos is becoming second nature. I look for something on which to ‘hang’ the composition. My first image (click on images to enlarge them) … Continue reading More about Composition
Sometimes I just can’t decide if i prefer the black and white version, or the colour version, so I am offering up both. Bridge over the River Nith at Thornhill, Scotland Continue reading BW vs RGB -Nith Bridge
An ideal day for me is spent by the water. Weekly photo challenge: Ideal Day – what makes you happy The challenge is encouraging us to use MESH but I got as far as the information below and didn’t know if I wanted to give MESH management status … what does that mean? View user information data such as username, name, email, blog and Gravatar. … Continue reading A Good Day
Robyn hosts the one four challenge at Robyn’s Fine Art – take one of our own photos and edit it four ways over the course of the month. My photo for this month – a shot of our hedgerow in the winter. This month I want to develop skills to turn my photographs into painterly images. Sagelight has a number of tools with infinite variables that … Continue reading The Hedgerow- Week 1
Stacy over at Visual Venturing hosts the After Before challenge and we all love her for it. 🙂 Though I have looked at Photoshop layering a number of times I have never been able to get any joy; I’ve never been able to figure it out. HOWever, a fellow blogger pointed me towards Pixlr where even I have had some measure of success. I don’t know … Continue reading Photo Editing: Layering for dummies
This was an experiment in changing the atmosphere of an image. To create the low lying mist I inverted the image and then using the undo brush on varying levels of hardness and pressure I reverted it back to the original. I think my technique needs more practice but I found the results interesting. Done in Sagelight. Hosted by Stacy at Visual Venturing Original … Continue reading ABFriday: Changing the Mood
My Odd couple series Badlands of Alberta The original for those that like to see my editing choices Continue reading Odd Couple 13: The Hikers
I wanted to see if I could make this into an image with a more artistic feel to it; to see what I could accomplish without using one of the one-click apps that convert photos to oils or watercolour.So I brought up the details and liked what was happening in the sky and the branches of the tree. I adjusted the colour in the sky I added … Continue reading Photo Editing: Artistically speaking
“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
I’m joining Robyn’s One Four Challenge this month – one photograph processed four different ways over the month. This time I tried to change the time of day. In Photoscape I used the linear gradient feature several times, to the top and to the bottom, layering until I got something approaching what I wanted. In Sagelight I added HDR, adjusted the vibrancy and added a … Continue reading Photo Editing: One Four Challenge January week 4
I’m joining Robyn’s One Four Challenge this month – one photograph processed four different ways over the month. For Week 3 I am going with a monochrome. I can’t remember every step I took in this because I tried so many things but primarily I played with the power curves, and vibrancy using Sagelight. I also cropped the sides a bit to eliminate some effects that were happening there … Continue reading Photo Editing: One Four Challenge January week 3
Few experiences are as serene as stepping outside after the storm has passed and the snow has settled to listen to the muffled silence of a snow-laden countryside. Please click on the photo for a better view.Weekly photo challenge: Serenity Continue reading After the storm
I’m joining Robyn’s One Four Challenge this month – one photograph processed four different ways over the month. For week 2 I decided to aim for a dawning-of-a-new-world look; to dramatize the scene from natural to the surreal. Using the original image I adjusted the power curve and took the image to the extreme dark side. Then I went into the HDR details where Sagelight has … Continue reading Photo Editing: One Four Challenge January week 2
Cee’s Black and White Challenge: Weather More of my black and white weather images here Continue reading Winter on Lake Superior
I’m joining Robyn’s One Four Challenge this month – one photograph processed four different ways over the month. Here is week 1: This was taken at Pointe du Grouin on the coast of Brittany. The light was thrilling that day – I nearly knocked my sister down trying to get some shots before it changed 🙂 The original is below – you can see I gave … Continue reading Photo Editing: One Four Challenge January week 1
Landscapes from my little corner of the world – click on any photo for a closer look Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Land/Sea Scapes Continue reading Around Glengarry
Spirits of the Wood – the first painting I sold Weekly Photo Challenge: Achievement Continue reading Achievement
It feels good to be back in the studio … Stage 1 Stage 2 … haven’t ruined it yet Stage 3 Done or close to it … gotta stop before I ruin it … though that bank of trees on the left is too uniform … Had to change the structure of the painting – original layout wasn’t strong enough Continue reading New Pastel
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. ” – Robert Louis Stevenson Ailsa’s travel theme: Bountiful Continue reading Bountiful
Beyond the Brush 