One simple photo two ways:
black and white
cropped, with Kim Klassen’s rue marion texture
Linked up with Kim Klassen’s Texture Tuesday.
More Flowers from the Crannied Wall
Textured with Kim Klassen’s sybil texture for Texture Tuesday.
Deep Purple
I’m still getting to know the plants and flowers in our “garden” and am on a rush schedule now that it is October. I’m anticipating that the flowers will soon be gone and that freezing weather will be upon us at some point; this will be the first time I’ve lived with snow. Yesterday I used my macro lens to photograph this beauty with its deep purple petals. I textured it with Kim Klassen’s cool grunge texture, an oldie but a goodie, and am linking up with today’s Texture Tuesday.
Echinacea
While I was in Yellowstone, one of my daughter’s friends gave her a small bouquet, which included coneflowers (echinacea). I love photographing coneflowers (never knew they were echinacea!), because of their spiky centers. This photo I textured with Kim Klassen’s ruemarion and simplistic for Texture Tuesday.
Summer’s End
I know summer doesn’t officially end for awhile, but the Labor Day weekend has always seemed like a milestone marking the close of summer. As I walked around the front yard the other evening, I noticed that, as the daylight began to fade, the purple blossoms of the Russian sage were fading as well.
Textured with savor by Kim Klassen for Texture Tuesday.
Floral
With all the sky-gazing that I’ve been doing, I haven’t taken any time to photograph anything else. I am hoping to get back in the groove of doing photography in the mornings at some point soon, but for now I’m editing a photo I took in La Jolla a couple weeks ago. I am missing doing floral photography, and, although I have a yard of mostly rocks, I plan on getting outside soon to photograph the flowers I do have and to get a shot of the hummingbirds that frequent the yard.
I used 3 layers of Kim Klassen’s new savor texture- love this one!
Blooming
Last week’s visit to Benicia’s Community Garden yielded some nice flower photos- here’s one of my faves, edited with 3 layers of Kim Klassen’s 1301 texture. I used all three of the “tweaked” textures I created for Sunday’s post.
Giant
This sunflower is gigantic! I have visited it three times where it grows in the Benicia Community Garden. None of my photos have managed to convey its size, so I am contenting myself with showing details- no macro lens needed here!
Textured with Kim Klassen’s 1301 texture for Texture Tuesday.
White Orchid
for Texture Tuesday
edited with 1 layer kk_1301 and 2 layers kk_sybil
Berry Berry
No idea what kind of berries these are- but they are part of my bouquet of roses. Last minute macro and Texture Tuesday edit:
Editing notes: Desaturated and split-toned in LR; 2 layers of kk_anne added; desaturated a bit more with a black and white layer.
Excuses, excuses:
Our house is on the market (gasp!). Potentially, we could be homeless by August (a good thing. . .). Then . . . time to rent for a bit and find a new house to buy in Arizona. We are looking at it as a Big Adventure! But in the meantime, my photography and blog may be neglected occasionally. But, I’ll try my best- and I’ll be back with photographs of red rock and cacti!
Monterey Bay at Sunset
textured with Kim Klassen’s kk_daisy
Jellies
We spent just about 24 hours in Monterey this week to take our daughter’s family to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Hundreds of photos were taken; here is one of just a few of sea creatures- the gorgeous jelly fish. Truthfully, I took just as nice shots with my point and shoot camera on my last visit. I think they are almost impossible not to photograph well in their beautifully lit tank. This one I edited with a texture, so that I would have something to post for this week’s Texture Tuesday (a couple days late). I used Kim Klassen’s teatime texture.
Repositioned
We are having a bit of touch-ups and repair done on our house in preparation for selling. One item that needed painting was the wrought iron railing on the porch and steps leading to the front door. After the railing was painted, the front porch plants (and front porch pig. . .) were returned in a new arrangement by the painter. Here’s a quick snap and edit done after dinner last night. I textured the photo with Kim Klassen’s breakfree texture, and it will be this week’s nod to Texture Tuesday (but on Wednesday…).
Apples- Day 3
I’m multi-tasking today- another apple photo for Beyond Beyond AND I converted it to a black and white in response to today’s Texture Tuesday challenge. It somehow seemed WRONG to take the beautiful colors out of the apple photos, but, being pressed for time, that is what I decided to try- and I’m happy with the result.
Editing notes: In Lightroom, I used a bit of a matte curve (just slight) and added grain to soften the image. After converting it to black and white, I darkened the shadows a little and added some yellow to the highlights and purple to the shadows (low saturation). In Photoshop, I added a layer of Kim Klassen’s anna texture, 100% opacity to the background, 50-100% brushed off the apples.
Red POP!
This week’s Texture theme is POP! For me, no color pops more than RED, so here we go. . .
Textured with two layers of Kim Klassen’s cool grunge.
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