From cold ground,

A grave

The Breath of Spring

Warms the air

Draws colours,

Life unfurls,

Rising from Winter sleep

Created for Award Tree Challenge 129 ~ Pastel Palette, also

SOTN Challenge 39 Shock Woman

Texture: FrostedBlossom2 is my own and is available from My Texture Set

Sit back from your screen to view

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Joey K's Restaurant & Bar

Magazine Street, New Orleans

For Sliders Sunday

Twins in sunshine,

Used: Pixabay 511884 - Photoshop - Filter Forge

Achiltibuie and Ben More Coigach from Polbain: evening light

This was the view from the cottage we stayed in at Easter.

www.karlwilliamsphotography.co.uk

A variation on a previous image ...

The hidden faces,

Used: Filter Forge, Pixabay, Photoshop

A collage inspired by the scrapbooks that our great grand parents kept for storing photos, pressed flowers, theatre programs, and other memorabilia ...

Created for the theme challenge Nostalgia in the Handheld Art Group.

I created the background layers, composed the colllage, blended the different elements and textures, and to added the handwritten script in PicsArt and iColorama on my iPad.

I tweaked the colour and made the "grungey" border from some of my textures in Photoshop Elements 13 for Mac.

All the photographs, background layers, and textures are my own, with the exception of the "human" elements which are free non-attributable images from Pixabay

Published in Living the Photo Artistic Life," Issue No. 93, Nov 2022, Featured Artist, Cover and Pgs. 31-35, issuu.com. Image Sources:Water Background from anton-darius-Qbn7_Nqs8WA-unsplash; House from jean-wimmerlin-eB6D0Wks7jA-unsplash; Carp from PublicDomainPictures on Pixabay; Fish from Petco; Brush from Nucly; Woman from electricsorcere on Deviant Art; Plant from pngwing.com; Fractal from Dieter_G on Pixabay; Fractal from astronomiseme on Deviant Art; Branch from SatyaPrem on Pixabay; Light Beam brush from SS; Bubbles brush from millertimemsu on Deviant Art;

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People in the far north are a very self sufficient bunch - right down to being able to launch and retrieve their boats in the mighty Yukon River with out help - or even with the aid of a boat ramp. This young man looked like he had learned this technique from a very young age. He flawlessly positioned the boat on the submerged trailer - jumped in the water and then into his truck, and drove home with his catch of the day. HSS!

*( Posted for Sliders Sunday Group - "Processed to the Max". )

Original photographs over-processed in PS and Studio Artist 4. It's not subtle but it is what it is.

Not enough room for dancing

Created for the Treat This 61 Challenge in the Kreative People group.

With thanks to Abstractartangel77 for the source image. A small copy is posted below

Texture HintofPurple is my own

PRESS L

music : Bass Communion/ghost on the magnetic tape

My award from you is a word or few, not a flashing/dancing/jumping or singing copy/paste item.

Those comments waste my time and will be erased

The use of this photo is allowed only with written authorization of Svante Oldenburg

this is my Gypsy Dream. i cannot even begin to explain how she came to be, but she sure is pretty :)

Jackets and sweaters, Stockings and boots

Snug hats and mittens, Warm woolen suits

All bundled up and ready to go

Out of the house to play in the snow

Although I feel clumsy in all of these clothes

I am so happy whenever it snows!

~Ogden Nash

"Explored" 11/15/13

Kingfisher by watercolor

A grackle father providing food to a juvenile grackle. The original photo was poorly focused, so I transformed it in Topaz Studio 2 into an expressionist rendering of the image. In explore 06-17-2024'

Painted European Peacock,

used: Studio Artist, Photoshop, Filter Forge

Photo taken and edited with iphone6, cam apps: ProCamera, postpro apps: NoirPhoto, Superimpose, IColoramaS, Lens Distortions, Stackables, Mextures, After Light, PhotoPower.

Twitter/IG/EyeEm/Tumblr: @adesantora

One of my personal favourites of the Opera house series, just to break it up a bit.

We spent the long weekend in Sydney to see The 'Vivid Sydney" light show this year.

What can I say! What a spectacular show.

If you have a chance to go, this is a must see event if you in or around Sydney at the time.

For more information see : www.vividsydney.com/

The projected images are constantly moving and it is quite a challenge to get it right.

Hope you enjoy.

Thanks for looking

Norbert

Woman - 3331741, Used- Mosaizer, Pixabay, Photoshop

About 30 percent of my photos can be re-rippled to the point where I finally like their abstract-worthiness (even the photos I absolutely hate, originally!). :D

A lovely steampunk gal is packing her steamer trunk for a trip across the ocean on a steamship.Published in "Living the Photo Artistic Life," Issue No. 94, Dec 2022, p. 38, Issuu.com. Image Sources: Woman from faestock on Deviant Art; Luggage from pngwing.com; Hatbox from Foxey Squirrel; Overlay from BLP; star_fabric_by_paulinemoss_on Deviant Art; Bow from PublicDomainPictures on Pixabay; Nucly overlays; Shoes from ItKuPiLLi; Lamp from Magical Reality;

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Until this summer - I had never heard of, or enjoyed, a fruit called "Donut Peaches". When the "fruit man" arrived in town this summer - he handed out samples of this delightful peach - and now I am hooked. I find them to be sweeter and juicier than a regular peach, and I can't wait to get my hands on some more.

**(Donut peaches are distinguished by their shape, which is roughly rounded and squat with a dimpled center at the fruit's stem end. The fruit's skin has a velvety finish and is flushed with tones of ivory, rose and rouge. Within the fruit's core is its non-clinging, easy to remove pit. Its creamy, juicy-when-ripe flesh is low-acid with a candy-like sweetness and a melting quality. The sweetness is due to what is referred to as the honey gene, a dominant gene that is found in all Chinese peach varieties. Documentation of peaches was first recorded in Chinese writings during 1100 B.C.)

via Instagram instagr.am/p/Cb5SeinrTWv/

Created for Kreative People Treat This 98.

Thanks to Lemon~art for use of her Autumn fruits for Treat This image. A copy is also posted in the first comment box below.

All other photographs and textures are my own. The textures used are:

BarkLichen1

StainedFabric1

GoldenLightTrails

An exercise in contrast manipulation

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I see the Rainbow,

Used: Pixabay, Filter Forge, Photoshop

Amazing the colours you see by the roadside in gulleys and gutters during Autumn ... Worth getting soaked in the rain !

Textures are my own:

Rainbow

WaterAndReflections4

PavedWithGoldGrunge

DappledSunlightOnAWall

And can be found in my texture set