Arlene Was Here

My senior picture and a snapshot taken in a jail

cell where women were housed back in the 70's 

make up this piece. I used Image Blender to combine

the two…adjusting the layer mode and opacity to

get this effect. 

Originals:

Follow Your Bliss

"Follow your bliss and the Universe will

open doors….." 

                                                           joseph campbell

Snapseed and VSCOcam were the apps

used to process this shot. Only added a little

HDR and a filter.

Raw photo:

iphoneography…..definitely my bliss….

Oh What the Heck…..Stairway to Heaven

I wanted to call this Stairway to Heaven but

it isn't a stairway…is it? This was taken this

morning in an alley down town. I liked the

angle and how it seemed to fade out from the

sun glare. 

I opened it first in Snapseed and applied an HDR

filter…adjusting the scale until I got the muted color.

Next a filter was applied in VSCOcam to further

enhance the color of the brick. Last thing I did was

apply two textures in DistressedFX to get the heavy

texture on top and add the darkness around the 

border.

Here's the original raw from the iPhone:

All in all I'm happy with how it turned out.

The pollen count has held me hostage this last week so

I haven't ventured out to do much shooting but have been

immersed in a wonderful PhotoShop class so I've kept

myself busy inside. I wish I had been able to take this

class when I first taught myself to use PS. I can't say

enough good things about it and would recommend it

to anyone wishing to make digital art.

The Beauty of a Seed Pod

"Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it."

                                                         ~ confucius

I don't know of too many folks that like having a

Sweetgum tree shed these seed pods in their yards.

They do have a beauty if you really look closely.

This piece started with an older photo that I took

several years ago.

As you can see it had some limbs and shadows

in the background. I opened it in Photoshop

and played around with the layers settings until I

got the background a vivid white with just a blurred

shadow of the limbs. Then I took the clone tool and 

cloned the white over the limbs creating a solid white

background. I thought about extracting the pod and

making it into a PNG but didn't really want to spend

thirty minutes getting all those details so I decided to

work with the white background. Next I sent this to 

my iPad and opened it in my DistressedFX app and 

played around with the different textures and opacities

until I got the look I wanted. The warm earth tones

of these textures really make the seed pod pop.

I saw a snap on lens for my iPhone with a fish eye…

wide angle…and two macro lens that I'd LOVE to

have if I had $67.00 to spend. Oh well…

maybe someday...

The Bee Keeper

I'm not sure where I saw this article about the bees

attending their keepers funeral but I always thought 

it was such a beautiful story. Playing around with

iPhoneography this sunny Saturday morn.

I see you……..

This little one was at my youngest grans birthday 

celebration today. Those eyes….I couldn't wait to

do a little photoshop wizardry on him!

Blessing the Tree

my pecan tree during this last snow

didn't see this until i posted

the angel…

blessing

the

tree