tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24439853788146350942023-11-16T03:02:56.755-08:00Photography and ProsePhotography captures a moment in time. It makes a moment indelible, permanent, forever. Adding text or words magnifies, enhances the moment. This is where truth as the eye and heart may be told.smiles, Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04174598026192853841noreply@blogger.comBlogger118125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2443985378814635094.post-41496385289208747902013-01-30T19:34:00.001-08:002013-01-30T19:34:38.595-08:00A TIME TO SIMPLIFY<br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">About two years ago, I started taking on line photography classes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Kat Sloma and Kim Klassen got me hooked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Those fantastic experiences seemed an appropriate time to start a <span style="color: cyan;">Photography Blog</span> devoted to my budding skills and interest in the finer nuances of photography.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I have met many wonderful people through <span style="color: cyan;">Photography and Prose.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I was beginning to feel like I was neglecting one or the other blogs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Occasionally what I wanted to share was appropriate for either art or photography.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: cyan;">Photography</span> is as much a part of my life as is <span style="color: magenta;">Art</span>, the two complement one another.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">It seems reasonable to combine them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> I will be posting both art and photography to </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I hope you will enjoy the mix!!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: large;">To celebrate my decision to Simplify</span><span style="font-size: medium;">,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"> next week I will be hosting a drawing for an </span></div>
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(Details will follow next week with a photograph of the painting. Just in time for Valentines.)</div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: purple;">Photography and Prose will be left open for <u>viewing of all past posts, but no new articles will be added,</u></span><u> unless at a later </u>date I change my mind</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">(I have been known to do that!!!!!smile)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">I do have some fun photography experiences to share!!!! And some new art techniques.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">If you haven't subscribed to S Furner Fine Art feel free to do so....don't want you to miss the opportunity to </span><span style="color: cyan; font-size: large;">win an original painting</span><span style="font-size: medium;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">This message in a Fortune Cooky sums up how I feel about my years of blogging and </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">YOU, the readers:</span></div>
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smiles, Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04174598026192853841noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2443985378814635094.post-62586746754772848352013-01-27T13:16:00.004-08:002013-01-27T13:17:53.871-08:00How to Build A Lion's Head<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">CHINESE NEW YEAR--the Year of the Snake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Not being particularly fond of snakes, wild or caged, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">let's concentrate on the </span><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Lion</span><span style="font-size: large;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My lovely Singapore-daughter Sarah, who is seldom without her camera</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">sent me some great photos of a Master Lion Head Designer/Builder, </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">after she visited his studio and workroom in Singapore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The genius behind it all, this gentleman, is the last artist making these beautiful AUTHENTIC, TRADITIONAL Lion heads, </span><span style="font-size: large;"> in Singapore.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">His Studio and Workroom</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It takes volumes of materials to create these magnificent pieces of art. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">He uses bamboo specially carved, mulberry paper to tie the pieces together, rice paper to cover the head and lamb's wool for the fur-like decorations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And what holds it altogether.....the humble pan of glue and a well used brush! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This lion head is valued at 15,000 Singapore dollars because it has real gold on its head. Without this "little" detail it would be closer to 1,300 sgd.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Yes that is a great deal of money. </span><br />
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smiles, Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04174598026192853841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2443985378814635094.post-82493739541929974792013-01-24T12:08:00.002-08:002013-01-24T12:08:32.783-08:00"H" as in HARDWARE<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">On the Main Street of Matthews, our little suburb of Charlotte, graces a centuries old Hardware Store.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The building looks old, smells old and has a true antique ambience. The windows are cloudy and at times dusty, filled with antique stoneware and butter churns with warped paddles, aging farm implements once highly valued for easing farm work, each standing shoulder to shoulder with the aging of time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When we lived in Havre de Grace, we had a similar but smaller hardware store.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was very "grubby" and once you stepped over the threshold of creaky boards, the vista was a "squirrel's nest" of all things possible and improbable, the nuts and bolts of repair and building.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are fortunate when we have buildings with a deep, rich history, serving us in the present and into the future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They remind us that there was a time before i pods, cell phones and computers, where good service, friendly chatter were very important and a part of everyday life. They stood as distilleries of information, informality and the "human element."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am glad they are still with us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bonnie, who sponsors, <a href="http://www.pixeldustphotoart.com/">Photo Art Friday</a>, gave us the general direction of "working with hardware."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Immediately I thought of something old that once served an important purpose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Rusted implements are beautiful standing on their own: they have been of service; they have made life and work easier; with age, the rust and patina represents a crown of good works.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">No longer do I sew. That activity belongs to days gone by. Recently I was going through a box of sewing odds and ends and found a bundle of rusted safety pins, a golden thimble and some floss. Memories unfolded as I attempted to pry open the rusted and bent pins. Rust flaked everywhere, staining my fingers, the lingering of past moments when these were an amazing invention of necessity that made a difference. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The invention of the safety pin has saved many a lady's modesty; held things together that were once cumbersome; kept a diaper on a wiggly baby and has not changed the way they work for centuries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Growing up in the Western part of the United States, snow was a part of our lives. We cleared the ice and snow from car windows with plastic scrapers, wore heavy rubber boots and real-wool winter coats, shoveled 2-3 foot drifts from the walks and driveways, LEARNED to drive in snow more than 2" deep, built crooked snowmen with sticks and stones, swirled snow angels in the deep drifts of pure puffy snow, sledding was taken for granted and skiing was a privilege on weekends, and school was <u>never ever canceled due to weather conditions.</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now, decades later we find ourselves in the Southern part of the United States. We have longed for snow, just one snow fall please! Well after two years we got our wish...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Last night's weather report mentioned we might have snow, but most likely rain and ice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Up before dawn, I checked for snow reflections out the windows...well sort of they were there...enough to get me dressed and out the door to really check it out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yup snow alright.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also really slippery thick clear ice lurking underneath.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As soon as the sun broke over the tops of the houses, my camera started clicking and clicking and clicking...I prayed it wouldn't FOG up coming from a warm house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This went on for two hours, until the full sun melted our much desired snow to slush. Only the deep shadows and protected areas had remnants of ice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I could show you 172 photos......no don't run away, just choosing a few favorites. Now don't laugh. To us in the South at low elevations THIS is as close to SNOW as we will get !!!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I know my neighbors driving to work must have really wondered if I had lost my senses to be standing in the semi-dark, wrestling with a tripod, taking photos of the ice and snow they had just chipped off of their windshields.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh, yes, a reminder I have had to disconnect the "anonymous" </span></div>
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however in Singapore, much like rampant growing bamboo.... major new museums, waterfront complexes and downtown buildings have emerged.</div>
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Singapore has to be an architect's dream.....everything imaginable is designed and built.</div>
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Gardens by the Sea is such an example. We saw the metal dome like shell being constructed. Trees and plants from all over the world are "planted" in specific climate zones...you can wander through vegetation of Indonesia to the dry plateaus of Africa.<br />
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A special treat was the amazing display of autumn gourds, pumpkins, graceful sheaves of wheat and lavender splayed like a Geisha's fan.</div>
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Mixed into an autumn palette of color and texture were American style scarecrows and wagons of pumpkins.</div>
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The Little Muggers and we had loaded up our art supplies, knowing this would be a super place to do some sketching. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bonnie at <u><a href="http://www.pixeldustphotoart.com/">Pixel Dust Photo Art</a></u> has suggested the theme of <b><i>In and Out</i></b> for our <u><a href="http://www.pixeldustphotoart.com/p/photo-art-friday.html">Photo Friday Art</a> </u>submissions. Bonnie has done some really cool faces for her submission, take a look when you can.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I keep going back to some favorite photos from last summer of our granddaughter running <i><b>"In and Out"</b></i> of the waves.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Thank you Bonnie for the textures. For those who are interested the steps are listed below. Photos taken SOOC. Elements 11, Wacom Tablet.</span></div>
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<u>My Mermaid Friend and Me</u>: Lomo Effect; <u>Van Gogh texture</u>; Orange filter, Handwriting</div>
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<u>Chasing Waves:</u> Tilt Shift, saturate; <u>Blue Stone Texture;</u> Wax Texture; Handwriting</div>
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<u>Golden Glow</u>: Old Fashion Photo, Vivid, Texture and Hue; <u>A Monet Morning Texture</u>, hard mix, saturation, warming filter; handwriting.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Several years ago I started some fun photography online courses with <a href="http://kateyestudio.com/">Kat Sloma</a>.(click on name) In fact that is the genesis of starting this blog. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There was a group of us who stayed with Kat's series and often left comments on one another's blogs. It was certainly a feeling of "community."</span></div>
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(Kat is starting these classes again, you might want to check them out.)</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of my favorites, Brenda Gottsabend who writes <i><a href="http://www.gottgraphicsdesign.com/">How to Feather an Empty Nest</a> (click on name)</i> is worth a visit on a regular basis. My but she has blossomed in her art/talent and website design. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Brenda has an eye for structural compositions, light/dark, positive /negative space. Her style is very distinct.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Everyone once in awhile I find myself taking a "Brenda" shot. I see something I feel Brenda would "shoot" and go for it. One day I will post some "Brenda-inspired" photographs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Brenda is hosting a fun and challenging opportunity for all of us, <a href="http://www.gottgraphicsdesign.com/third-thursday-challenge/"><b><u>3rd Thursday Challenge</u></b>.</a> The only prerequisite is to try something "different" from what we normally do. What might challenge us as photographers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have a dedicated macro lens. I love close up shots that peek into the more minute details; but the <b>challenge</b> for me is "clarity and crispness."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The <u>challenge</u> is due to a physical interior tremor that is permanent and only worsens with time. So handling a big, heavy camera with a tremor is a challenge in all circumstances, but particularly macro.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I do have a good tripod, but find it a "pain" to use, it really slows me down to the point I lose interest. But after my last batch of macro photos shot last week, and shown today on this posting, I realize I will have to use it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was a very rainy day. The sky rolled in gray batting, huge raindrops leaking downward and I worried about our bird feeders' seed becoming soggy, for lack of a better word.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When the steady rain wound down, it was time for seeing what damage the rain brought. And while at it take some shots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To counteract my tremor I decided to go for BIG BOKEH, thus masking some of the automatic blur I knew I would have.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Charmingly, the seeds fell down on the broad green leaves. It reminds me of a fairy banquet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It has been quite awhile since I participated in a dedicated "textures" photography group. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Heaven knows I have enough photos! When I decided to join Bonnie's </span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><a href="http://www.pixeldustphotoart.com/">Photo Art Friday</a></i></b>, I wondered if I would remember the steps involved in layering with textures...I was pretty slow but came up with two.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On our porch, baskets of seashells still sit, oblivious to the weather.....they are just happy TO BE.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love walking up to the front door and there the weathered metal basket sits filled with the textures and stories of South Carolina seashells.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I love the top shell with its many layers and tiny coral houses. It has to be The Grandmother Shell.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Some friends of mine live on a wonderful acreage with weathered outbuildings, gardens, rusted sculptures, back acres of trees, stream and open pasture, and a really fun Chicken Chalet for their "ladies." Each lady has a name and a suitable personality. Each lays a particular color of egg from teal blue to golden rust. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">While visiting they invited me to pluck a few freshly laid eggs and take them home. What a treasure, a "simple" meaningful gift.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I couldn't wait to photograph these beauties. I put them on a brightly striped napkin inside a wicker basket, placed where the morning light was streaming through windows, creating bold stripes of their own. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">At the same time I took a shot of the empty wicker stool and superimposed it over the photo of the eggs. Blending the two photos resulted in the previous photograph. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next was to apply two of Bonnie's textures: Nebula Overlay and French Script.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Fun to try textures again. I have a lot to learn and as we say "practice makes ________."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Drop by Bonnie's blog and see her "texture special" she is offering and look at some really amazing work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Usually my intentions are earnest and sincere, whole-heartedly intended to be fulfilled.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">BUT there are times when nothing evolves, it stops before it begins, the good intention evaporates like the frost on my car windows when struck by the first rays of sun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To be honest I have several GOOD INTENTIONS that didn't happen in 2012, one of which was so simple, so lovely, such a nice opportunity but poof, like the frost, the opportunity vanished.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><a href="http://kateyestudio.com/">Kat Sloma</a></span><span style="font-size: large;">, whom I have taken many photography related courses and learned so much from, offered an opportunity to post ONCE a month our favorite photo of that month. Not hard, rather fun. A GRAND IDEA I thought, but there was the necessary deadline, and despite her reminders via a newsletter, I never made the deadline. When I would think of it, the deadline had passed. And I might miss it this time, but I am here to attempt to fulfill 1/12th of a commitment to </span><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://kateyestudio.com/">Photo-Heart Connection.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is called "tidy-ing-up loose ends" before I do it again in 2013!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My phone camera and Big Mama were pretty busy during December there were so many super opportunities to shoot fun photos.....mostly fading gardens, skeleton trees, holiday lights and family...but we gained a new family member this past autumn and the camera really kicked up a notch with this adorable, photographic, "holds still" new Grand-Doggie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Blossom was a mistreated, malnourished, ill, damaged, over-bred dog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She is alive because a wonderful humane society rescued her and she regained some strength and vitality. The volunteers fell in love with her, but still, a year later, she remained in the humane center.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ashley and Daniel met Blossom and saw all of her potential and that she deserved a better and more meaningful life. So they took her home as a foster dog. Love was immediate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">While we were visiting them in the autumn, the decision was made, Blossom needed to be a full fledge member of their home no more "foster" nonsense, but a full adoption and commitment. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Loads of love from visiting family, more photos taken than of anyone else, the privilege to sleep under the Christmas tree and feel the warmth of the lights on her once damaged back, special snacks and presents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">She fell in love with her long-legged <span style="color: magenta;">Pink Piggy</span>. They are now constant companions. The "mother" who birthed too many puppies, can now enjoy a "childhood" and be cared for and loved. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yes, this photo represents what a healthy dose of </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">humanity, compassion, love and friendship</span><span style="font-size: large;"> can do for a broken heart...</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">If you would care to join me as I once again attempt to post on a monthly basis my favorite photo of the month, join me at Kat's Photo-Heart Connection. (click on links above)</span></i></div>
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smiles, Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04174598026192853841noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2443985378814635094.post-63664592960240238342012-12-21T07:43:00.000-08:002012-12-21T07:43:46.076-08:00 Celebrate What's Right With the World<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">A few months ago I tumbled into an appealing and thoughtful photography website. Dewitt Jones is a professional photographer. His work is remarkable, among the best. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This seems like the right time to share with those who want to focus on the positive in their lives Dewitt's:<u> Celebrate What is Right with the World.</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is so easy to get bound by the profoundly sad, the slowness by which we learn to cooperate and listen to one another. It is easy to slip over the edge into finding little that is positive in our lives and in the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I subscribed to his blog a few months ago and when I see his name pop up in my mail, I am eager to see what beautiful photo he has shared along with a meaningful quote.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">No selling, or needing to read his blog, simply a quote and a photo. Of course there is much within his website to explore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am sticking a note on my computer to join his <u>Celebration of What is Right in the World</u> by trying to share one of my photographs on an almost weekly basis. Would love to have you join me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: center;">The quote is from Dewitt. </span><a href="http://www.celebratewhatsright.com/#.UM9pt31Uk2I.blogger">Check out his site, Celebrate What's Right With the World</a>:<i> How easy it is to celebrate a birthday, a marriage, a holiday. How hard it is to hold that same perspective in our daily lives. Everyday we are inundated with messages that tell us what’s wrong with our world. It’s not surprising that we lose sight of all the things that are right with it; of all that is truly worth celebrating. As a photographer, I have a choice of what lens I put on my camera; a choice of how I am going to view the world. I choose to celebrate. Why? Because it imbues me with gratitude, because it allows me to see the best in people and situations, because it fills me with energy. This website is for those who choose celebration. A gathering place where we can come to share, to learn, to recharge, to take action. To change the world - one celebration at a time.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Children come in all shapes, sizes, colors, beliefs, circumstances, abilities and disabilities and innate innocence.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today's children, world wide, are our future, but for now, while young they are EVERYONE'S responsibility and blessing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In our little spot in North Carolina, my husband and I have been blessed with five children, all of whom were once very young, rambunctious, inquisitive, adorable, not-so-adorable, noisy, while sleeping looked like angels, a true mix-match of energy and joy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is a glow in a parent's eyes, that says: This is my child whom I dearly love and would protect with my life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In honor of the children and adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the children of Syria, far off corners of Africa, Cambodia, Afghanistan....places where children, can not protect themselves and are suffering: I wish to share photos of children one could see anywhere and just smile. May all of our children be protected and cherished.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have written very little on this blog about using an iPhone or iPad for taking photos, then scrambling them with a bevy of Apps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Actually, I probably take more photos with my phone and sometimes tablet than my Big Mama Camera.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I wasn't fully convinced I needed another "collage" shaping app.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But this one has turned out to be quirky, whimsical and just plain fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The above is a more typical collage layout....so I moved from ordinary to</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It should be mentioned that Sarah is very petite, yet having an Asian style kitchen, even she can barely fit in. Yet out of that tiny space with no dishwasher or disposal, comes a WEALTH of delicious foods.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our son, Hunter, loves to bake cakes and pies.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">His specialities are coconut cream pie and pecan pie.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">These little monkeys are just working up their appetite for dessert!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our family is blessed. No one goes hungry, abundance is piled upon our plates: an embarrassment of riches.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">All the more reason to donate to our favorite charities that help those who need a "hands-up."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In our local community we have over 1,000 children who do not get enough to eat on a daily basis. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">These Vietnamese children are smiling, happy, content in their world. But feeding and clothing them is very difficult.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It is like this in too many places all over the world. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am so grateful for the many organizations and charities and those who run them, <u>that give us the opportunity to donate</u> and be a tiny part of feeding our brothers and sisters. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today, November 30th, is our daughter's birthday. Her birth ushered in the Christmas and Hannukah Season. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">So tonight we have a family celebration, for which Hunter baked a luscious chocolate cake, smothered in raspberries. We are rather</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The actual festival started just AFTER we left Singapore. But these cute kids with their mom's blessing did some fun art projects.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mama-Sarah sent me the photos.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">(Sarah's photography skills are superb, she knows how to get down to the essence of the scene. Thanks Sarah for always sending me wonderful photos of the GrandKiddies.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Got it. Now to get the beans, lentils, rice and all the colorful mosaic pieces to glue onto the design. Actually I believe the design came with colorful plastic pieces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A gorgeous, full size mandala. Wish I had been part of this really fun day. Didn't they do a super job? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On to another project. Ella is applying a faux-henna paste to</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Years ago she and I had this done professionally. It takes great skill to apply henna. Ella did a fantastic job!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">a beautiful shrine for the Festival of Light, a time of renewal and forgiveness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Deepavali is a Hindu Festival celebrated around the world. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It falls between October and November.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Diwali means "a row of lights."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was just to commence when we were in Singapore with our family, Mateo, Sarah and their children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hope you enjoy a portion of the pre-celebration activities.</span><br />
(Photos were taken with my cell phone camera...not the best but good enough to catch the flavor of this wonderful celebration.)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On the day of Deepavali, everyone wakes up early in the morning, 4AM to be exact. There is a deep happiness, an inner joy, a radiating light as people greet one another, forgive those who have wronged them, and instill charity in the hearts of all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is an atmosphere of good cheer, joyfulness, forgiveness and freedom.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Hindus in different parts of the world have variations on this Holy Season, but the basics remain the same.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As a tourist, it is so much fun to walk through the markets, which consist of temporary tents stretched across streets. Once this festival concludes, all will be removed and the street put back in service.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Every holiday has its special foods, traditions and customs. One main staple are crispy, fried foods found in packages large and small. They also love their sweetmeats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Deepavali is a time when everyone purchases new clothing. It is a time of cleansing, some taking oil baths. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">All Hindu Deities are a manifestation of Brahman. Brahman plays a role in the creation of the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My next post will be loads of fun, Sarah, sent me photos of their children celebrating Deepavali in their home.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The charming activities will make you want to be a kid again...until then...hope you enjoyed a tiny tour of Singapore's Hindu area in preparation for Deepavali.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We drove three hours from the Singapore border to a UNESCO World Heritage City of Melaka, Malaysia. A brand new adventure for us, but not the "littles."</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">It was a full day and half exploring one of Asia's oldest cities. Here there is a peaceful mingling of many of the world's major religions; Buddhist, Hindu and Muslim. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mr. E is observant and pays close attention to those around him. He is also a budding photographer. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Both are intrepid travelers. I would let them guide me anywhere!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Over the next post or two, I would love to share a few highlights of our visit to Melaka, this beautiful, historical city which has grown through trade and cultural exchanges between East and West. It is a true multicultural city. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Shouldn't we always start with food....street food that is. Miss E. is munching down on spicy potato strips.....drizzled with sauce of choice. She, like her mother, are street food lovers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another favorite vendor food, handmade....always.....slightly sweet with soft texture, coconut topping tucked like a baby into a strip of palm leaf. Such efficiency! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>Heart Thought: </u> it is a quandary, whether to take photos of people in the actual act of worship. I find it intrusive at a most personal and sacred moment to photograph the worshiper, although I have certainly done so. Many of Asia's temples are open to the public, and I try to remember we are more than tourists, we are common souls sharing the same Earth. Just one of those little photographer's dilemmas. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We just returned from the beaches near Wilmington, NC.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The white-hot sun of day was slowly falling when we arrived at Shell Beach. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Shell Beach --- the perfect name. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mounds of shells crushed to tiny fragments, the beginnings of new sand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The evening sun split blades of sea grass</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The most spectacular surprise were a dozen or so cactus, in amazing colors. Bulb upon bulb, crimson, violet, purple, </span><span style="font-size: large;">fuchsia, theo-violet....all balanced by greens, blended into blue.</span><br />
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smiles, Sharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04174598026192853841noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2443985378814635094.post-77254927671283602752012-09-18T08:08:00.001-07:002012-09-18T08:08:03.916-07:00Yellow through the lens of a Phone<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"> Last spring I fell in love with a YELLOW cotton jacket.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yellow has always been a favorite color, just rather in the background....behind PINK.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">These past few weeks I have been taking a Creative iPhoneography Course with Kate England of <a href="http://www.marmalademoon.com/">Marmalade Moon</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(her website is full of great photography, tutorials, and tips)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Although "Place" was the subject of an assignment, I decided to interpret my photos with yellow foremost in my mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I will be sharing more and more of this fascinating peek at the world through a teeny tiny lens on a phone; (sigh) bypassing lengthy editing in Photoshop, rather using all sorts of fun apps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The following photograph was shot above our glass topped collections table with a vase of YELLOW Sunflowers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We went to the Scottish Highland Games this summer....the Fresh Lemonade stand caught my eye! It was standing there just waiting for its portrait to be taken!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I fully apologize for not listing the apps used. I have misplaced my notes. Still trying to work out a good system for keeping track of my app-steps. I would love to duplicate certain looks, but without notes it isn't so....anyone have some good ideas to share in the comments section?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u><a href="http://www.dewittjones.com/">Dewitt Jones</a></u> is a world renown photographer, adventurer, writer, author, and celebrator of LIFE. I recently connected to his website. He is welcoming with open arms the world of i Phoneography, after (and still) a prolific career as a photographer. His book<b> <a href="http://www.dewittjones.com/books.htm">iPhone Art in My Life: Volume One</a></b> is truly inspirational. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is comprised of GORGEOUS photos, with inspirational thoughts underscoring the picture. At the back of the book he goes through the apps that he processes with.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I downloaded onto iPad/Kindle app. But almost wish I had the actual book in my hands. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was totally inspired by this, <a href="http://www.dewittjones.com/celebrate.htm">Celebrate Life</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I plan on joining him on this CELEBRATION of LIFE.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Heart Thought:</b> Practice the Art of the Possible. And YES, it is possible I will wear my sunny yellow jacket in the winter!!! smiles</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I remember the day when a "lettuce" salad was composed of a WEDGE of pale, icky green iceberg lettuce, topped with pinkish, creamy Thousand Island dressing, speckled with bits of pickle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today salads are a true "Tossed Salad" of texture, color and taste. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then there is the fabulous "tossed salad" of PHOTOGRAPHY with its</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">High tech photo editing.....</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Point and Shoot Cameras with amazing pictures</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And smart it is. Gosh ten years ago I would never dreamed of talking to our family in Asia on a wireless phone!!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">I could never have imagined taking photos with a phone!!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">But it is HERE, ours for the enjoyment of spontaneous photography.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Linked to: Leaves'n Bloom</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Rosie at <u><a href="http://leavesnbloomphotography.blogspot.com/">Leaves 'n Bloom</a></u> is a wonderful photography website. She has just completed a FREE 31 Day Tutorial on using G+. If you want to know all about how to use Google Plus, hop over there right now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then there is the fantastic<u> <a href="http://www.iartchronicles.com/2012/09/favorite-shots-for-week.html">i Art Chronicles</a></u> blog, all about iphoneography created by my friend, Geri Centoza.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Geri will get you excited about i Phoneography like no one else I know.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And she knows all the FREE apps!!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Want free textures and the latest editing skills: there is always something to be shared at <a href="http://www.kimklassencafe.com/thecafe/texture-tuesdaythe-not-necessarily-textured-edition.html">Kim's website. </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u>Heart Thought:</u> Now go out and have a lovely, crisp Tossed Salad. But snap a shot before you eat it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Enthusiasm is the fire that makes you soar. And today, I have had greater enthusiasm for textures, color palettes and photo manipulation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A bit of background. A huge bundle of drying zinnias were picked a few weeks ago. Allowed to slightly dry and wilt, they created all new colors, mellowed from their normal vibrant hues.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They were a perfect mix for an antique statue I brought from India. It too, was worn with time and changing of seasons...paint peeling and flaking, once vibrant colors now graced with age.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Left to their own imaginations, the Funny Bunnies, chatted, giggled, "clipped and glued" their way through stacks of catalogs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I looked intently at what they were so busy with, I realized:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Slowly and methodically they had chosen magazine pictures that appealed to them, cut them out and glued in an "order" that only they could interpret.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">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. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Since the rain didn't cooperate, we found old rain boots, too-small rain jackets, and one umbrella.</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;">Rain rain please stay we're coming out to play!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Romp, Dance, Twirl, Lick the Drops, Soppy wet hair curling on pink cheeks, Boots filling with sheeting rain, Umbrella whipping into a flying saucer!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am getting more and more involved with my i Phone and all the bazillion of apps out there, enticing me like a day at the beach.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I thought I would play around with a few apps and see if I could create a color palette without PHOTOSHOP!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">See what you think. The apps I used are listed just in case you are intrigued enough to try for yourself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A rather fun app, even with icons still edging their way in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another application of Glaze and the icons are almost gone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have gone back to Color Scheme a couple of times and haven't eliminated the problem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On to another approach with a new photo and a fairly sophisticated drawing app, <u>Pro Create</u>. Here I used "brushes" to create the color swatches. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kim's Textures was also a lot of fun. Her theme was <span style="color: blue;">Looking Down</span>. I wanted to spice up my photo a bit by focusing on the water, pebbles and foam.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is the original photograph of a granddaughter and her friend, soaking their cute toes in a park stream. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I really like the colors in the foam, pebbles and clear water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Textures used: Beach Sand (multiply), Celery (color dodge)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Celery repeat (darken.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Don't you love those two toned nail colors? The turquoise polish empathizes the foam. Pretty cool!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today's exercises are linked to:</span></div>
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