Tone your wants and tastes low down enough, and make much of negatives, and of mere daylight and the skies.

-- Walt Whitman

Image created with Dream by Wombo and textured with my textures plus Distressed FX Plus

Prompts:Bouquet of Poinsettias, holly, pine boughs with ornaments, clear glass vase, old dark rough wood table, still life, black background, only dark moody soft warm back lighting

Style: Soft Touch

Only one more week until Christmas so I've got a bunch of Wombo holiday images on the way!

Thanks in advance for taking a closer look, for your faves, comments and invitations!

Wattenmeer auf Föhr

Simplified

I collected about two dozen beautiful and varied leaves last night from the trees at Costco. My husband loaded our groceries while I wandered the parking lot searching for treasures. When we got home, I carefully laid the wet leaves on towels and put heavy pans over them to keep them from curling up and getting crunchy. I had dreams all night about what I could create with them.

On dreary days it's comforting to know that this is near my doorstep and I can't wait for the next visit.

happy Saturday!

location: taal, lemery, batangas, philippines

image info: nikon d90, 18-200mm@200.00mm focal length, manual settings w/o circular polarizer filter, iso:200, exposure:1/400s, aperture:f/5.6 and handheld

shot taken last: december 28, 2010

photo process info: natural light, with crop and no hdr. pp in adobe cs2 (adjustment of brightness/ contrast, exposure, shadows/ highlights and color balance), picasa 3.0 (adjusment of sharpen, tuning and watermark) and neat images (reducing noise).

That is my motto in life. Simplify. When things get stressful that is what I do. Here's to keeping it simple.

Natural Falls V

[30. November 2020]

Blue Dasher, Pachydiplax longipennis. The last of a very satisfying series of photos taken in Cullinan Park a year ago, and my last post with Canon equipment.

26 July 2021; 08:50 CDT; RAW+post

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" Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify."

- Henry David Thoreau

“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy”

― Isaac Newton

Natural Falls V

Hausruckviertel / Upper Austria

Natural Falls V

Central Alberta

Nikon D5000

18-105mm @ 106.8

f/11 ISO200 1/160sec

This, too, is taken in the gardens near the rose garden at Point Defiance Park, located in Tacoma, Washington. I think I'm having a difficult time deciding which I like more, roses or dahlias! They're both so beautiful! Hope you all enjoy!

Point Defiance Park

Tacoma, Washington

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.. a phlox, I think!

Thanks for looking in! - Have a great day!

The ability to simplify means to elmininate the unnecessary so that the necessary

may speak.

Hans Hofmann

Sky fire ongoing. Lone oak on a hillside.

simplify.

Edited in iColorama and Snapseed.

2022-85

Natural Falls V

only f/22 - 1/13 sec. hand-held ICM (Intentional Camera Movement)

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海 - Mare Adriatico - Adriatic Sea - Grottammare (Ascoli Piceno) Marche Italy

Olympus E-P1 Pen M.Zuiko 14-42mm

Zeiss 135/2 APO Sonnar

@ Vieux Lyon, France

Processed with Topaz Simplify, for a different look.

When we first arrived at Cam Loch the sun was directly above Suilven. Some half an hour later it finally dipped below the hill to the right casting an intense warm glow onto the mountain which was rendered in almost full silhouette due to the high dynamic range.

Decided to switch it up from the colors. I like a good B&W, too.