Seeing Double

Simple bicycle tire rim shot with Hipstamatic app using

Salvador 84 Lens and Blackeys Supergrain film. 

Double exposure…shadows….lines….

oh my….

Mobile Home with a View

Found this abandoned "home" in my asparagus

bed this morning.  I snapped this shot using

the Camera+ app on my iPhone…the only

adjustment was the lighting. I sat the shell

on the rusted lid of a galvanized can where

 I store bird seed to take the shot. Next I 

added the water/reflection below the picture.

And there you have it…mobile home with

a view.

Snips 'n Snails

I took a photo of my youngest grandson and skewed

it in Elasticam…opened it in Photoshop…selected

just his head and converted it to a PNG. I layered

the head on an old book texture…added the stars and

boat using a stamp brush. I reopened this in my

Reflection app and added the water…playing 

around with the color and opacity until it felt right.

Finally I opened it one last time in DistressedFX

and added a couple of textures and adjusted them

to get the colors I wanted. I really like the effects

I can get with the Elasticam app…I've always 

loved wonky things!

That Beard….

I don't know what drew me first to this picture…the beard

or the eyes. I got it from the Swedish National Heritage Board

on Flickr. It was a black and white image.

I opened it first in Photoshop…converted it to an HDR image

and burned the eye area to make them even stronger. Next I 

opened it in Focal Lab and created the blur effect. After that

I opened it in Hipstamatic and applied a lens and film combination

that gave it the grain and color. Finally I opened it in Distressedfx

and converted it into an HDR photo again to get the strong visual.

Kind of a scary looking fellow…..

Reflections…..

“It is when you lose sight of yourself that you lose your way.

 To keep your truth in sight you must keep yourself in 

sight... and the world to you should be a mirror to reflect

 to you your image... the world should be a mirror that

 you reflect upon.” ~ C. Joybell

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...

Margaret

I've always loved this picture of my cousin standing

in front of our grandmother's house. I practiced a little

photoshop wizardry to blur the background and add

 a little texture then scanned in an old letter..printed it..

cut it in strips and rescanned the strips in two lots. I 

spent a goodly amount of time selecting and making 

each strip into a png before adding all sixteen layers

of letter to the photo. It seemed to call for a dark frame

to keep with the vintage feel so I added the black frame 

using Camera+ on my iPad. I love the way it turned out.

Here's the story behind the letter….on one of my junkin'

trips I was thrilled to find a keep sake book from 1939. 

It's full of letters and mementos of Miss Zelda Shutt.

This particular letter was written to her by her niece

and the child like handwriting was the reason I 

chose it for this piece…and I was intrigued by the

whole 'quarantined for scarlet fever' thing.

My Sacred Tools

…..my sacred tools

i feel the energy just looking at this picture.

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.

Totem

I've been taking an Iphoneography Class with Susan

Tuttle and can I just say that I'm absolutely twitterpated

by the idea of being able to shoot and edit pictures anywhere

that I happen to be. I've always carried around my Canon but

it can be cumbersome and to be able to carry an iPhone in my

pocket….well that's so much easier. I'm in app heaven at the

moment….love all the apps that I bought for this class. If you

are interested in seeing my work progress you can follow me

on Instagram….justjody59.

Boundless and Infinite….

I want to live simply.

I want to sit by the window when

it rains and read books I'll

never be tested on.

I want to paint because I want to,

not because I've got something to prove.

I want to listen to my body,

fall asleep when the moon is high

and wake up slowly,

with no place to rush off to.

I want not to be governed by money

or clocks or any of the artificial

restraints that humanity

imposes on itself. I just want to be,

boundless and infinite.

Both this image and this quote are from

Facebook so I don't know who to

attribute either of them to but I think they

 are both awesome! When I read this 

quote I realized that I'm pretty

much there….and very blessed to be

able to say this. And the image…well

it just seemed to be representative of

my life….blessed….

blessed indeed…. 

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!