Seattle was never like this! But I took the original photo in Seattle. It was a sunny day, the sky was quite blue, and the buildings were mostly light pastels, blues and off whites. Heh Heh Heh I did one of my favorite tricks by turning it into a negative. Day became instant night, with [...]
Posts from ‘February, 2010’
Morning at Union Station
Today’s image combines two things I love: train stations and the American realist style. It’s based, of course, on a photo of Portland’s Union Station from a train waiting on the platform. (I was on my way to Seattle on Amtrak’s Cascades train.) I used Paintshop Pro with the Topaz Simplify plug-in to adapt the [...]
December Rose
Portland, Oregon, is nicknamed the City of Roses for good reason. Roses bloom here nearly year round. I found this one blooming in a neighbor’s front yard in mid-December. I thought the colors were perfect for the month of December, not to mention the raindrops. As usual, I edited the original photo to look more [...]
Red-Breasted Sapsucker
I’ve been posting “impressions” up until now, photos manipulated with a digital editor to make them look like paintings. But another big area of interest for me is wildlife photography, especially birds. I love the little guys! And I love capturing them on film. I felt especially lucky to catch this one, because red-breasted sapsuckers [...]
The Zebras Finally Learn to Hide from the Lions
Here’s another image in my series of fantasy trees. This time, the trees have taken on some zebra prints. This one didn’t reduce to 600 x 400 very well. Click through to the larger version on Imagekind to see it a bit better.
Japanese Footbridge
Here’s another shot from our trip to San Francisco last summer. We spent a lovely afternoon in the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park. People were enjoying the challenge of crossing this footbridge, so it was hard to catch a shot with no one in it. Some people struggling across might have made an [...]
My Fuchsia’s Coral Seams
Here’s another photo with poem, the opening lines of Emily Dickinson’s “I tend my flowers for thee –” My Fuchsia’s Coral Seams Rip — while the Sower — dreams – This was a branch of fuchsia blooming in the midst of December a couple of years ago. As always, I applied the Topaz Simplify filter [...]
Impression: Chinatown
Hubby and I vacationed in San Francisco last summer and spent a lovely evening in Chinatown. He gamely pushed me up hills, over uneven pavement, and through crowded sidewalks. And he waited patiently while I shot lots of photos, bless him. These works are based on two of the shots from that evening. I have [...]
The Leopards Went Hunting and Left Their Spots Behind
This one’s just for pure fun. You can probably tell that the original photo was some winter tree branches against an overcast sky. I used Paintshop Pro Photo X3 to fill in a leopard pattern in the trees, add black edges, and replace the overcast sky with an aqua gradient. You can see some stripes [...]
