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Dramatic skies … Window
Views and Reflections
Dramatic skies … Window
Views and Reflections
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others participating in Thursday Thirteen, Midweek Blues,
Sky Watch, and Haiku Friday
others participating in Thursday Thirteen, Midweek Blues,
Sky Watch, and Haiku Friday
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for others participating in Window Views and Weekend Reflections
for others participating in Window Views and Weekend Reflections
A playful bonus … just because
cropped then ‘screened with exclusion’ and lightened
cropped then ‘screened with exclusion’ and lightened
Thought for Today
“To repeat what others have said requires education; to challenge it requires brains.” Mary Pettibone Poole
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Scroll down for Blue Monday, Ruby Tuesday,
My World and Wordless Outdoor Wednesday too
After being sick
last week I am catching up
by multi-tasking
Here in Southern Cal
we don’t see many color
changes, but walking
recently I found
colorful deciduous
trees and snapped a few
photographs to share
in mosaics … splendidly
this week, just because
Originals … straight out of the camera
Palette Knife
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Accented Edges, lightened
Invert
Accented Edges Solarized
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Accented Edges
Poster Edges
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Colored Pencil
Solarized
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Mellow Yellow, Mosaic, and Blue Monday …
Thought for Today
“Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.” Dalai Lama
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than at the bottom ;–)
13 photos from
my sister in Alaska
RV traveling
Collaboration..
I create the mosaics
then share on my blogs.
Follow up from my
Outdoor Wordless Watery
Midweek Blues today
published earlier
at Sacred Ruminations …
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dif’rences seem minimal …
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Original Mosaic
Ink Outlines – lightened
Solarize
Solarize – lightened
Solarize – lightened with Poster Edges
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Wordless Wednesday and Thursday Thirteen t00.
See also my Blue Views from Alaska – Outdoor & Watery
Thought for Today
“Renew your passions daily.” Abbe Yeux-verdi
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Haiku Sky Watch Friday is in the next post
These Plumeria
bloom in a yard down the street …
beautiful in pink ;–)
Neon Glow with Chalk & Charcoal – Poster Edges
Neon Glow with Chalk & Charcoal
Neon Glow with Chalk & Charcoal – Infared
Straight Out of the Camera
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Poster Edges
Nifty shadows cast
captured and collaged by me …
of course, then I played ;–)
Spherize
Pinch
Polar Coordinates
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and … Shadow Shots at Hey Harriet
Thought for Today
“Everywhere is walking distance
if you have the time.”
Steven Wright
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Thirteen Mosaics
created with 13 views
straight across the street.
Amazing to me
how varied that view can be …
Note the cluster of
palm trees in each shot
underneath the various
sky vistas … then tell
me what’s strange about
the ‘view’ in the center … Do
you see something odd?
Original – straight out of the camera
Posterized – 9
Poster Edges
Watercolor
Palette Knife
Dry Brush
Smudge Stick
Black & White – Scenic Landscape
Black & White – Scenic Landscape with Poster Edges
Photoshop ‘filters’
create ‘kewl’ effects … it’s fun
to experiment!
Invert
Black & White – Infared
Bas Relief
Zig Zag
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Thursday Thirteen, Sky Watch and Haiku Friday
Thought for Today
“The road to wisdom? Well, it’s plain and simple to express:
Err and err again, but less and less and less.”
Piet Hein
Playing with ‘templates’
in Photoshop Elements …
enjoying process!
Thirteen ‘windows’ through
which to examine pansies
growing in MY yard.
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Wordless Wednesday, Thursday Thirteen, and Color Carnival,
See my other Wordless T-13 Colorful posts today at
Small Reflections and Sacred Ruminations
Small Reflections and Sacred Ruminations
Thought for Today
“Joy is not in things! It is in us!”
Benjamin Franklin
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While rains fell Midwest,
early morning drizzles brought
me a bit of hope …
here in So Cal, but
soon it became clear I’d be
‘watering’ by hand
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A few more windows
snapped around the neighborhood
on my daily walks …
filtered and collaged
cutouts … posterized … and some
poster edges too.
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Mostly Wordless, and Wordless Wednesday t00.
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Small Reflections and Sacred Ruminations
Small Reflections and Sacred Ruminations
Thought for Today
“Our life is frittered away with detail. Simplify. Simplify.”
Henry David Thoreau
In my Digital Media Arts class I’ve learned to create and use templates with Photoshop Elements … and here is my first attempt. Each lettered space is a different layer on which to insert photos. Our instructor is a Scrapbooker and wanted us to use a 12 by 24 inch format to create two book pages together. I’m not sure I’ll continue this practice for blogging purposes … but I see why she likes it.
Using this template in last night’s class, I entered ten photos of Molly and Ms. Kitty … used the Control G (or ‘group’ command) to link each photo to the appropriate layer … added stroke outlines (blue for Molly and red for Ms Kitty) … shadows … and bevels to each … then used one photo with the opacity lowered as a background.
I separated the left and right pages using the cropping tool,
In order to make this a T-13, this morning I repeated last night’s steps to add 3 additional photos … below. I do love the Control G command because it doesn’t require me to crop photos and finesse them into the correct spot. I suspect that with practice (and some experimentation) I’ll figure out simple ways to combine these new skills with ones I’ve mastered previously … and discover new techniques of my own.
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Thought for Today
“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.’ “ George Bernard Shaw
This week’s theme is bridge(s) …
This ‘apparent stairway’ leads to a 2nd bridge across the same stream on the grounds of the Mabel Dodge House in Taos, New Mexico seen spanned by a flatter wooden structure (in similarly various forms) at Sacred Ruminations in another Photo Hunt this weekend. The ‘original photo’ at the top was snapped with my Casio Exlim ‘point & shoot’ while attending the 2007 Writers Retreat during the summer. Below are 9 variations using filters in Photoshop Elements …
Original Snapshot
3-D Transform
Accented Edges
Smudge Stick
Ink Outlines
Ink Outlines & Find Edges
Fresco Filter
Glowing Edges
Poster Edges
Posterize
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This is my 3rd effort at Creative Photography (my 1st is at Small Reflections). Click for others participating in Creative Photography and Photo Hunt this week.
Thought for Today
“A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.” Eudora Welty
How to Remain Young!
1. Try everything twice. On Madams tombstone (of Whelan’s and Madam) she said she wanted this epitaph: Tried everything twice…loved it both times! 2. Keep only cheerful friends.
The grouches pull you down. (keep this in mind if you are one of those grouches;)
3. Keep learning:
Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening,
whatever. Never let the brain get idle.
“An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.”
And the devil’s name is Alzheimer’s!
4. Enjoy the simple things.
Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening,
whatever. Never let the brain get idle.
“An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.”
And the devil’s name is Alzheimer’s!
4. Enjoy the simple things.
5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
And if you have a friend who makes you laugh, spend lots and lots of time with HIM/HER.
6. The tears happen:
Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. LIVE while you are alive.
Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. LIVE while you are alive.
7. Surround yourself with what you love:
Whether it’s family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.
Your home is your refuge.
8. Cherish your health:
If it is good, preserve it.
If it is unstable, improve it.
If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.
9. Don’t take guilt trips.
Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.
If it is good, preserve it.
If it is unstable, improve it.
If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.
9. Don’t take guilt trips.
Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.
10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.
11. Forgive now those who made you cry. You might not get a second time.
A Thank You (& a Plea for Help!!!)
I appreciate those of you who have checked out my new Happily Retired Storyteller blog here at WordPress & left me comments.
I apologize that they’re not visible for all to see, and I’m doing what I can to figure out what the problem is. They show up in my dashboard and I’ve ‘approved’ them (though I’ve figured out how to remove the ‘approval’ function altogether) … they’re ‘counted’ but all that appears in the sidebar is your ‘identity’ … so if anyone who uses WordPress knows what’s going on, I’d appreciate some help with this situation.
I’ve spent considerable time searching the ‘Forums’ for help (to no avail on this issue) but I’ve learned there are significant differences in ‘available features’ on the WordPress platform depending on whether you’re using ‘blogname.WordPress.com’ and simply ‘blogname.com’ … so there’s more complexity that I realized initially.
Belated Addendum:
For the benefit of others who might encounter such a problem in the future, I was able to fix the ‘invisible comment’ issue by dumping all the widgets in my sidebar and starting over. It turns out that a couple of the graphics were causing the problem, so I’ll watch out for that in the future.
It was Dona of Clutch Cargo Lips & Cedar Waxwing’s Nest who suggested I disable all widgets (and, if necessary, reset to the default theme) to see if comments showed up … and then to add widgets one at a time … simple & effective stragegy for sure!
Thought for Today – “Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. ~Gil Stern
This was a sticky post, but not any more ;–)
After blogging for about 13 months, I’ve established a WordPress account primarily as a ‘backup’ for my three ‘Blogger’ sites (see links in the abbreviated ‘About Me’ in the sidebar), but I’m also intrigued (now that I’m here) to see ‘how things work’ … just because. Methinks I’ll use this Happily Retired blog to post experimentally to see what happens, at least for a while.
I’m hoping for a gentle rain in Southern California today, but it’s more likely that we’ll experience heavier rain showers. I certainly ‘feel’ for the homeowners in the recently ‘burned areas’ where mud slides are likely to add insult to injury … wreaking more havoc in their already disrupted lives.
Thought for Today – “Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won’t have time to make them all yourself.” ~Alfred Sheinwold
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