IN AND OUT

Bonnie at Pixel Dust Photo Art has suggested the theme of In and Out for our Photo Friday Art submissions.  Bonnie has done some really cool faces for her submission, take a look when you can.

I keep going back to some favorite photos from last summer of our granddaughter running "In and Out" of the waves.

I decided to make each textured photo different, but have some common elements such as: ocean theme, text, font and textures that emphasized light found at the beach.

               

Dreamy, Lazy-Dazy Photos

I love love love to go blog visiting.  I seriously have to limit my time for soaking in all of the talent, spontaneity, color, wizardry and creativity presented by these fabulous blog genies.

Somedays I treat myself to "art" blogs

Other times to "photography" or "mixed media"

Then there are the "cooking/photography" blogs that I LOVE to read, but rarely give in to cooking their "delish" recipes.

Then I go all political...but those usually put me in a bad mood.

And so the circle goes and GROWS.

This week I have been once again pulled into photo processing: the kind that presents dreamy, sweet, fair-colored photographs that remind me of creamy grits and honey.  (remember I am in the South)

Susan Tuttle and Kim Klassen are masters of the pale, fragile, antique-like photographs. (There are many others who do this wonderful genre of photo processing.)

Kim offered a photoshop tutorial to transport our pictures into the land of gossamer and lemonade.

So I gave it a try. 

I came up sorely lacking...but I spent so much time on the pictures that I knew I had to salvage them by sharing.

At least I felt my time had a purpose.

In a past posting I shared some of these photos of passing pastures on our way to Raleigh, NC.  

But here they are in my humble first attempts at the

"understated."

Heart Thought:  it is humbling to want to do something well, but in the end you KNOW it will take much practice, patience, and more practice.  

Thank you  Kim Klassen for your textures and tutorials. 

Thank you  Susan Tuttle for your inspirational work.