The Magic Blue Egg
And with a wave of her wand, the blue faerie produced a beautiful blue egg decorated with irises from a scattering of blue faerie dust.
The theme for "Smile on Saturdat" for the 8th of April is "eggs-periment". For this challenge, the main subject must be eggs and one has to 'experiment' with post-processing the photo. Now this is a real challenge for me, because as a general rule, I don't like to do a great deal of post-processing to my images. However in this case I have made an egg-ception! I hope my post-processing using a bit of colour saturation and different lens flare images from Be-Funky will be enough. I must confess that it really does make this a rather magical egg! I hope you like my choice of the theme this week, and that it makes you smile.
This delicate and fragile Easter egg has been painted completely by hand in a beautiful Art Nouveau style, known as Arts and Crafts Movement or “Style Liberty” in the United Kingdom. The egg has a background of rich cobalt blue which is decorated with a stylised cobalt blue irises in a William Morris style and then overlaid with gilding. The egg is then covered in a varnish to protect the fragile hand painted surface. This egg, perched atop a small porcelain rest, has a small puncture at both the top and the bottom, indicating that it was “blown”, a tradition where one blows the white and yolk of the egg through the hole in the bottom by way of exhaling into the hole at the top. A time consuming method, egg blowing must be done gently so as not to break the fragile egg shell by applying too much pressure. It can take well over an hour to blow a single egg. The paper I have chosen for the background is one of William Morris’ most popular patterns, “Strawberry Thief”, created in 1883, which I thought suited this magical Style Liberty Easter egg.
The Magic Blue Egg
And with a wave of her wand, the blue faerie produced a beautiful blue egg decorated with irises from a scattering of blue faerie dust.
The theme for "Smile on Saturdat" for the 8th of April is "eggs-periment". For this challenge, the main subject must be eggs and one has to 'experiment' with post-processing the photo. Now this is a real challenge for me, because as a general rule, I don't like to do a great deal of post-processing to my images. However in this case I have made an egg-ception! I hope my post-processing using a bit of colour saturation and different lens flare images from Be-Funky will be enough. I must confess that it really does make this a rather magical egg! I hope you like my choice of the theme this week, and that it makes you smile.
This delicate and fragile Easter egg has been painted completely by hand in a beautiful Art Nouveau style, known as Arts and Crafts Movement or “Style Liberty” in the United Kingdom. The egg has a background of rich cobalt blue which is decorated with a stylised cobalt blue irises in a William Morris style and then overlaid with gilding. The egg is then covered in a varnish to protect the fragile hand painted surface. This egg, perched atop a small porcelain rest, has a small puncture at both the top and the bottom, indicating that it was “blown”, a tradition where one blows the white and yolk of the egg through the hole in the bottom by way of exhaling into the hole at the top. A time consuming method, egg blowing must be done gently so as not to break the fragile egg shell by applying too much pressure. It can take well over an hour to blow a single egg. The paper I have chosen for the background is one of William Morris’ most popular patterns, “Strawberry Thief”, created in 1883, which I thought suited this magical Style Liberty Easter egg.