This photo was manipulated with two Kim Klassen textures - 'mona' and 'just blush'. It is a picture of the Minuteman trail in early November. This year Fall came in late.
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Notice the missing people - I erased them with the "spot healing tool" with the foreground color set to black.
A Ferrari seen on the streets of Boston. Picture shot with Lensbaby and enhanced with Radlab. Given that we were all stuck in a traffic jam, I doubt the driver of the Ferrari had a chance to exercise the speed this car is capable of.
This is my first time taking part in Kim Klassen's Texture Tuesday blog party .
This picture of Fall Leaves was taken with a Lensbaby lens, aperture 5.6. Then I used Kim's Phoebe texture.
Here's the recipe:
Layer 0: The fall leaves photo
Layer 1: Phoebe texture, blending mode set to "darken"
Layer 2: Layer 0 duplicated, blending mode "linear dodge(add)" + layer mask with a black grungy brush to remove some of this layer.
Layer 3: Layer duplicated, blending mode set to "darken". Added a curves layer and clipped it to this layer. Played with the RGB curve.
Clouds. Thick, fluffy, grey clouds, seen through a Lensbaby. It makes the sky look stormy.
A tiny little confession that I have been meaning to make. When I first started this blog I knew I wanted to blog about things that inspire me. And it has been a creative journey for me. I've done all kinds of creative things ......paint watercolors, paint silk scarves, paint acrylics, mixed media, among other things.
Who knew that all that time I was gravitating towards photography. I wanted to create images. I have ogled at beautiful images, marvelled at how people enhanced their photos with Photoshop and wondered about the techniques.
I have found my way to the camera and Photoshop. Someone had once told me that it is a journey to figure out what kind of creativity you are drawn to. It is so true. When I travelled and saw beautiful landscapes I wanted to be able to paint them. But I couldn't quite translate what I saw into paintings. And then I discovered the art of photography.
My heart has settled on the camera. The idea of images that tell stories is thrilling. I have been drawn to stories since forever. As a kid my summers were filled with "story books", as I called fiction then.
This blog was always about images. Now this blog is about the images I capture. More images, less words.
It is nice to have done so many different things and to know that this is what I want to do - now.
Time travel... or almost time travel. A few weeks back I was on the minuteman trail and found something very unexpected!
People in old fashioned clothes, with completely home-made food like home-made butter and home-made honey meade and honey wine! It was a living history exhibit. The people participating had even stitched their own clothes with materials as possibly authentic to the period of the first tea party :-).
This lovely lady had even hand stitched the shift that is to be worn under the clothes!
Here in New England Halloween has been postponed. Thanks to a freak snowstorm on Saturday that left loads of people without electricity.
But my friend had a Halloween party on Saturday afternoon before the storm hit. And she had made these awesome party favors. Take a look at the details she worked in and she must have made at least 15 of these. And I thought that the subject befit the "Day of the Dead" as well so here's commemorating "Día de los Muertos".
She made each of these hats!
And the tag.....
And glittered those eye sockets.......
It is Diwali today. It is like Christmas for Hindus. It is a major festival in India and some other parts of the world. Happy Diwali or Happy Deepavali!
It is a festival of lights and colors and lanterns and presents and sweets and new clothes. To see some images of this colorful festival lights see the pictures on Washington Post and to read about it check out the Wiki on Diwali page.
I don't have any traditional images to share so I am going to share some Fall/autumn colors from the Minuteman trail in Lexington, MA.
New England looks beautiful in Fall. But they are predicting snow on Friday already!
And in case you are wondering what made this picture blurry at the edges - I used the Lensbaby Composer lens to take this picture.
Twilight and city lights in Cambridge (the town in Massachussetts). Twilight in September and October is so beautiful.
Some red more red, black and white to whet your appetite. Another magazine collage.
If you have any interest in printing your photographs in different ways check these sites out:
Blurb - You can make your own photo book! Cookbook, Instagram picture book, albums, pretty much any kind of book!
PostalPix - Right now this is an app only available on the iPhone for printing out pics. I tried this out, I printed my instagram pics out in a square format - and the pics were great.
My only problem is that since this is available only as an iPhone app and doesn't have a web area for picture uploading, the photos have to stay on my iPhone to use this.
Printstagr.am - Printing out your instagram photos as posters or tiny, tiny books or stickers and some more ways.
Postagramapp - Send real postcards from your iPhone or Android phones.
Keepsy - Print out albums of your photographs. They hook up with a bunch of places including Facebook, Instagram and Flickr.
Easy Canvas Prints - Have any photograph printed on a canvas! You can hang your on photography on your walls this way. Love this idea! I have got to try this out.
My image for the day - the statue of Captain Parker in Lexington, MA. Photo taken with Instagram on the iPhone and manipulated with different iPhone apps.
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