
Visual Quotations 79: Haiku
“A drop of water View the world that hides within Watch it fall to ground” – Lynne Ayers Continue reading Visual Quotations 79: Haiku
“A drop of water View the world that hides within Watch it fall to ground” – Lynne Ayers Continue reading Visual Quotations 79: Haiku
After spending the afternoon driving along the narrow tracks of roads on the Isle of Skye around Tarskavaig and Tokavaig we passed through this valley and I thought something I’ve never thought in any of the other places that I’ve traveled. I thought that I could live in this little valley and the rest of the world could fall away and I wouldn’t know and I … Continue reading Utopia
Please click on the images for a larger view I realize that one person’s ‘early’ is another’s ‘the-day-is-half-over’ but this is about as early as I get. While staying near Thornhill, south of Glasgow, in our converted stable – I got up early enough to see the morning mist – and walked around the corner to the bridge over the River Nith – and enjoyed the … Continue reading Morning Walk
A storm of snow, rain and sleet blew through our area on Monday. On Tuesday I stepped out to a beautiful winter wonderland dripping with ice and glitter. Felt like I was in Disneyland. I took a few photos … 104 actually, but that’s because I was shooting blind. It was so bright I couldn’t see what was in my screen so I just took … Continue reading Transformed
When my husband first mentioned Frog Hollow I thought it was his own name for a local spot, but, no. It’s right there on the road sign: Frog Hollow. Since I moved here, Frog Hollow and I have become acquainted – it’s about 3 kms down the road. I have photographed it in winter and the floods of spring, with the butterflies of summer and the … Continue reading Frog Hollow
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
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
Cee’s black and white challenge: texture Continue reading Black and White: Texture
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
Cee’s black and white challenge: Open topic Continue reading Black and White: For the Birds
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
I have enjoyed my photography so much lately I haven’t been in my studio for … a long time. This is a pastel I did this weekend. I’m not satisfied with the sky. I’m going to try another one … Continue reading Back in the studio again
The weekly photo challenge is: Fray Continue reading Frayed
“The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” – Christopher McCandless Ailsa’s travel theme is: Horizons Continue reading Visual Quotations 64: Horizon