Photo Art Friday

Thank You to Tatjana Parkacheva for mentioning Photo Art Friday on her blog (with her beautiful rose).  
Bonnie, at Pixel Dust Photo Art, has a fun spot called Photo Art Friday,
a place for sharing digital editing of photographs.

While hubby was yelling at the tv watching the Patriots play football, I was photo editing.
Here is the end result (Thank you Henry David Thoreau for the quote)

I started with this photo of the boat, taken in Oqunquit, Maine...

and used this photo...

to create my first texture - What Fun !!!

The Color Wheel, part one exploration with Kat

Kat’s most recent exploration from The Kat Eye View of the World is the color wheel, part 1.

In Kat’s post she gives great examples and great descriptions of monochromatic color, analogous color schemes and chromatic gradation.  In reviewing my archives I discovered that I have taken lots of photos with opposites in the color wheel, but not many to tie in with this exploration.

Thanks to a little photo editing, I have an example of a monochromatic color scheme..

And if I've cropped out enough purple flowers, an example of an analogous color scheme...

And if I could go behind the store window and move Oscar next to Grover, then Big Bird and Ernie, followed by Elmo, I think I would have a fine example of chromatic gradation.  And Bert, well I’m not certain where he will go..  Please be sure to visit Kat’s site for the explanation!!

SIGN - SIGN everywhere a SIGN.....

Signs draw our attention. Lately, I have been drawn to photographing them. So many signs are deliberately designed with colors to capture our attention, but I think these signs still effectively convey their messages in black and white.


Signs show you where to go...

where you are...

and where you might need to go....

signs that are to the point....

signs my youngest son does not want to see...

and signs I like to see...

mmmm....canolis from the North End in Boston...

Linking with Dragonstar at the Weekend in Black and White...  visit Dragonstar to see fabulous black and photos and links to sites of very talented photographers

weekend reflections in Maine

Summer is winding down and the air is getting cooler...  This reflections photo is a shot of the lake, taken on the last morning of our vacation.  The water was so still and it was a chilly 47 degrees..

visit James at Weekend Reflections to see a sampling of gorgeous photographs

Monochrome in Maine

We lost our electricity for 4 days after the hurricane.  Then we had our vacation in Maine, in the middle of nowhere without any electricity..Now we are back into the fast pace of work and life..

I took this photo while we were driving in Maine, on our way to Eastport - one of the easternmost locales in the mainland USA.

I liked the photo in color, but the blues and reds drew your attention away from the old car. In black & white,  I like the way your eye is drawn to the textures in the car and the way it is framed between the two old gas pumps.  I wonder what the price of fuel was back then??

Visit Dragonstar at The Weekend in Black and White for a fabulous sampling of Monochrome Photography

water and mist - awaiting hurricane Irene

a black and white photo featuring water and mist...thought this would be appropriate as we await the approach of hurricane Irene here on the east coast...

unlike today, this photo was taken on a hot summer day in Boston...

check out The Weekend in Black and White if you enjoy black & white photography.....you are in for a treat - stay safe and happy weekend !!

The Liberate Your Art postcard swap and blog hop !!!!

Kat Sloma from The Kat Eye View was the creator, host and laborer for this creative and fun event.  Each of us created 5 unique postcards and forwarded them to Kat.
Kat very graciously received, stamped, sorted and mailed 1020 of them !!  phew!

I studied my photos and went back and forth before finally selecting the final 5.
I wasn't certain what I would write on the postcards, but finally chose a quote which came from a fortune cookie of all places.  The fortune read “Never judge a work of art by its defects".
I never look for the defects in anyone else's artwork, yet it is something I always to do myself. … see my previous post here…

Every day I looked forward to checking the mail, eagerly awaiting a postcard.  I displayed the postcards on our fridge and let my family know every time one arrived.  It was so much fun to participate and receive the lovely postcards.  And the fun still continues as we meet each other and share our creative lives with each other on our blogs.

I chose to use a little creativity with the scanner in my sampler of the beautiful postcards I received…..

And after all of the effort Kat had already put into this project, she was kind enough to send each of us a postcard from her.  I am really grateful that I was fortunate enough to find Kat’s blog and everything that she has brought out in me since then.