My LiveJournal Blog is nine years old
On the 15th of this month, I will have Nine years of posting in my LiveJournal. In the spirit of celebrating the anniversary of my birth for a week vice day–which I started doing a few years ago when I missed my actual birth"day"–I’ll celebrate this LiveJournal anniversary for a week… whatever that entails… maybe [...]
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Autumn at Mesa Verde
reposted from HERE Mesa Verde oak in autumn – Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado Peace
Tee shirt or cup design
This is a design I made for possible use as a tee shirt silk screen design and/or for a coffee mug. comments? pro/con I was planning to use the photo this was made from for a cup but the prices I’ve found so far are a bit high for reselling profitably and for using for [...]
gotta post a photo…
repost Dusty Roads The kitty with a vocabulary that exceeded mine and she spoke languages I’d never heard before. Peace
red barn cats
This barn is near Coupeville on Whidbey Island at the north end of Puget Sound. I knew there were cats patrolling this barn because I’d seen them before. When I set up my camera on the tripod the gray cat came to sit in one of the open windows and just before I tripped the [...]
trying to set up a mouseover effect
using these photoshop layers- Peace
MERRY CHRISTMAS
We wish all who read this the experience of the Peace of our Lord celebrated today. Peace
paintbrush, pearly everlasting and mtn aster
digital photograph manipulated in photoshop
Paradise Valley and section of image
This image I posted before – it’s one that I said was simplified and other stuff. As an explanation to what I do when manipulating an image, I posted the second image below to show a full size section of this image that was reduced in size and jpg compressed. You see that there is [...]
Edith Creek water blur
this image was made from the stone bridge that crosses Edith Creek in Paradise Valley – a digital image again with the rocks simplified in Photoshop.
Vine Maple and Ancient Douglas Fir
I have been to this location several times over the years to photograph the leaves on this maple against the bark of the huge douglas fir. I was there this time to record the leaves yellow against the brown bark but was too early and when I returned a few weeks later, the wind was [...]
Anemone
The Anemone which has a large white flower in spring and very beautiful at that stage changes drastically when the seeds are ready to spread,,, It’s also known as “mouse on a stick”, “old man of the mountains” and a few other descriptive names. The background here is a heather. Camera: Nikon F4, Lens: 35-135mm [...]
Lewis Monkeyflowers along the Skyline Trail
another in the series of painted monkeyflowers in the Paradise area… (a little work needed on this one yet) Camera: Nikon F4, Lens: 35-135mm, Polarizer, Film: Ektachrome E100 VS
Manchester Light Panorama
in panorama format and a little lighter… different versions of the same image — different stories to tell
Manchester Light Evening
I made this digital phot from the ferry between Seattle and Bremerton when we entered Rich Passage… I couldn’t decide whether to leave this as it is or crop off most of the water and make it a panorama Camera: Nikon Coolpix 990, hand held (to hold a camera steadier while on a ferry or [...]
Mt Rainier Evening Light
Mount Rainier evening light from Mazama Ridge… this is a painterly rendition of a digital photograph… I love the glow in the air that bends around the mountain… So many tourists comment about the sky not being clear enough to see the top of the mountain but the mountain makes it’s own weather so the [...]
Lupine and Shasta Daisies
Lupine and Shasta Daisies at Paradise – more flowers from Paradise? yes! This image another Photoshop paint… reduce detail and then heavy on the finding edges and darkening them… Camera: Nikon F4, Lens 35-135mm, Polarizer, Film: Ektachrome E100VS