Tuesday's Forecast: Rain and iPhoneography

The Funny Bunnies and I were having a sleep over.  We were barely awakening when early dawn lightening and rain crashed down.  It rained rained rained, sometimes a soft pitter-patter followed by pelting firehoses of water. 

We glumly starred out the windows while nibbling on breakfast....

Rain rain go away, Funny Bunnies want to play.

Since the rain didn't cooperate, we found old rain boots, too-small  rain jackets, and one umbrella.

Now we could shriek....

Rain rain please stay we're coming out to play!!!

Romp, Dance, Twirl, Lick the Drops, Soppy wet hair curling on pink cheeks, Boots filling with sheeting rain, Umbrella whipping into a flying saucer!!

ProCreate with Brushes  (sorry can't find link)

Pro Create, Rainy Dazy, Snapseed

ProCreate, Artista Oil , Snapseed

Pictures taken with i Phone. Processed on apps. See links.

 Linking to: Color Me Weekly.   

Dream-it,  Cotton Candy, Warming Filter, Gaussian Blur

Linking to Texture Tuesdays.

My favorite photo of our Rainy Day Weekend.

Linking to Kent Weakley,   Sweet Shot Tuesday

Finding the pink umbrella really set the color mood for today's sharings.  

Heart Thought:  I can never feel "blue" when I am seeing "pink."

Fun Tuesdays

  There are so many fun places to post photos on Tuesdays.  Often I would choose one site a week...well almost a week.  Then I noticed on other blogs that they combined various sites,  giving credit at the end of their post.  Brilliant!!! The best of all worlds.

It is taking me a long time to wrap my brain around creating color palettes. Should it really be that difficult? There are so many possible ways to do it?  

So today, using  Kim Klassen's storybook template, I gave it my best shot of a charming home I walked by outside of Aix, Provence.

This photo I have used as inspiration for at least three paintings.  This is the latest one.

Another palette style using a Kim Klassen texture.  On second thought, I wish I had brought the texture all the way to cover the hearts.  Another time I will give that a try.

There is so much more to photography than taking photos....it is the first step on a brilliant path of learning and creating.

Linking today with:

                                      Kent Weakley

Texture Tuesday: Frosted Leaf

 Since we are totally into autumn, "me thinks" I SHOULD work a little texture magic on a photo taken on a walk along the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina. Looking UP and  DOWN, So much to see and explore.  

This solitary leaf was alone, frigid and frosted with true FROST!  

Definitely needed some adjustments: cropping and levels) then on to the fun texture stuff.  Kim's textures 1. Stained 2 2.  KK the Leaf 

3. WARMING FILTER  4. DREAM OVERLAY.

This is one ordinary photography that steps into the extraordinary with a little help from Kim's wonderful textures. Be sure to visit her if you like this ARTSY WAY WITH PHOTOGRAPHS.

PS.

Now that it is posted, I an see that it might have helped to make the words more opaque…this is how we learn.  

Heart Thought: think of someone who might be having some difficulties in their life, send good wishes their way. 


 Until next time, smiles Sharon

Texture Tuesdays

I have finally made the commitment to jump in with two bare feet and Big Mama (camera) to Kim's Texture Tuesday postings.

Now this is really putting myself out there. And I hope my humble beginnings will be seen as such...simply trying...

We can't "land" anywhere if we don't try.

I love to see the photographs that others have manipulated with textures and text. I have taken several of Kim's extraordinary classes (highly recommend) but I just never could find the time to commit to getting the process down so that it was FUN and not INTIMIDATING.

I am still working on the second word!

Join the fun, Funny Bunny grandchildren, a campfire and making s'mores. Used two of my every day photos.

I used several textures: Scratched Magic, Bee Keeper

S'mores

Summer time isn't complete without a HUGE BAG EACH of marshmallows, graham crackers and really yummy chocolate!

Toss in an adorable little  Funny Bunny grandson and the party is complete.

This photography blog is an opportunity for me to explore all things photographic and pen a few words. So today I am working, trying very hard to learn TEXTURES.

The Real McCoy

Adding Kim Klassen's Textures: Scratched Magic and Honey Bee

Note: should have worked harder to pull high lights up.

There is so much to learn and I am eager to do it. The hard part is deciding which texture to apply and in which order. 

If you are desiring to really learn how to do textures this is the place! Thank you Kim

And now to see if there are any marshmallows left over!