we all need a few zzzzz's

to keep the rrrrr's revved ...

now, go have a nap.

xo

made ollie's image a bit sunnier, thanks to kim klassen textures ... blogged here!

Created for Kim Klassen's Texture Tuesday.

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whimsicalitys: Ah ha!!

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Interesting place, where treats have been dropped!

This big old dictionary provided thumb tabs for users.

7 Days of Shooting. Week #46. Library Days and/or Books - Texture Tuesday.

Luxury: time for a slow cup of coffee with home-made biscotti. A fabulous way to start a day.

7DoS "Party Time" "Texture Tuesday"

The start to my day today. (Kim Klassen Texture)

I used my own photo with Kim's Golden Hour texture with Scriptina font.

With the texture by myself.

Crusty snow

7DoS Texture Tuesday - Out of my Window

This shot across the vally out of my window, is pretty much the only roof I can see and has rough texture and lichen giving me the style for today.

Shot at approx. 900mm effective focal length (560mm on a Canon APS-C sensor), ignore the EXIF which doesn't work when I stack TCs

7DOS Cliff Texture – Barrier to climbing - IMG_2594

For Texture Tuesday using "Xanthe Scripted" texture.

For Kim Klassen texture tuesday Dreamlike eDition ... I never seem to be able to go as soft as Kim goes ... I love color. Another play with Sybil.

Oh my I wish I was still there with all the pretty colors and trees in bloom...We are blooming here but it is grey, cold and damp...and no sun in the near future...

I don't know what the name of this lovely is but sure wish I had one.

"It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between."

Diane Ackerman

Shot for 7DOS Weekly theme Stepping out, Texture Tuesday. And no, I don't/can't wear them - they were for a Hallowe'en costume a few years back.

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Santa Elena and Monteverde.

"7 Days of Shooting" "Week #30" "Curves" "Texture Tuesday"...wet and soft and rough bark. Just realized I am a bit late with this one...sigh..that kind of week.

[7DOS] - Anything goes - Texture Tuesday

Kim Klassen Gift Texture

via Instagram instagr.am/p/CSrUSQxNNAD/

for 7DoS: wasn't sure about the texture in the shot I had planned for today, so it will appear later in the week.

Trying to find a board game not already in the pool, I remembered this old family favourite :)

I'm not fond of the city. Occasionally I have to pass through one on my way to here or there and when this happens I do admire the enormity of the skyscrapers; I do appreciate their architectural value.

7 Days of Shooting – Week #42 (w/b 24 April) Glass

Texture Tuesday - Texture in photography emphasizes features and details, so the detail in the surface of the object(s) you are photographing should be the most important feature of the image.

Day eight and we visited the Biltmore Estate before leaving the wonderful town of Asheville. We thought "go early, avoid the crowd" - Sunday morning and this place was really busy. We thought $60 each to go in was a bit pointy but it really was worth every cent. It is a magnificent place and the four hours we spent here hardly did it justice. The home of George Vandebilt family. Built as an escape from everyday life. You think???? Only downside was that I couldn't take pictures inside the house. But believe me when I say it is awesome. If you're in the area it is well worth a visit. The grounds and gardens are beautiful as well. Unlike a lot of these places you could imagine people living there. Filthy rotten rich people, but people nonetheless!!! We didn't even make the trip to the winery or farm or village!!! Stunning!

Chocolate digestives! I find them irresistible!

[7DOS] - Chocolate - Texture Tuesday

A pretty clock inside the Doge's Palace in Venice.

Between Cape Town and Johannesburg in South Africa

The Trans Karoo Express, or simply Trans Karoo, was a South African express passenger train service which travelled an approximately 1,600-kilometre (990 mi) journey between Johannesburg and Cape Town. It operated daily in each direction, meaning that there were in fact two Trans Karoos - they passed each other during the night, heading in opposite directions. The service was operated by Spoornet, the national railway company.

The Trans Karoo was named from the Great Karoo scrubland, one of the most extensive geographical features of southern Africa, across which the train operated...

The service is now incorporated into the Shosholoza Meyl network of operations, a sub-division of the national passenger train operator, the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa. Although the title of Trans Karoo has officially ended, it is still used colloquially..

Wikipedia

2016 "7 Days of Shooting" "Week #9" "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" "Texture Tuesday"

Playing with an iPhone picture in the PicTapGo app

7 Days of Shooting –

So, if you are walking about in your Jimmy Choo’s this is the week for you! Let’s see the differing footwear that we all have ~ big shoes, small shoes, baby shoes, wooden clogs or whatever this is the week of footwear! These “boots are made for walking” stomp, stomp!!

However, don’’t forget that socks and slippers and even those toe rings that some wear are acceptable for our Theme.

for 7DoS: I'm not sure if this is a parent guarding a nest, or a large baby (see extra shot in comment box below) waiting to be fed?

Plaque in memory of Henry (Harry) Dennis Witt. Son of George & Ellen Witt, Fireman on the Titanic. Lost at sea April 14/15th 1912 Age 37. Born 14 Dec 1874 at Cross House, Itchen, Southampton, son of a Master builder, grandson of a Shipwright. He signed on at the last minute.

Witt family grave c175/76 in the Southampton Common cemetery, of Harry’s mother Ellen Jane Witt nee Sillence, Harry’s sister Nellie Elizabeth Mary White nee Witt, and Nellie’s husband James Albert White. Nellie was my great grandmother.

Titanic photo... www.titanic-whitestarships.com/Titanic.htm

More information in the first comment and at QR record...

qr-memories.co.uk/HenryDennisWitt

www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-victim/henry-dennis...

7DOS texture

created with Kim Klassen Textures Sweetreat and Silence

My wife bought some apple turnovers today and we are having one this evening for our dessert! They certainly remind me of my mother's although she made her own ... yummy!!

7 Days of Shooting Week #48 Nostalgia Texture Tuesday ....

Thanks to everyone who views this photo, adds a note, leaves a comment and of course BIG thanks to anyone who chooses to favourite my photo .... thanks to you all.

Eroded cliffs at Skinningrove

Piazza San Marco, Venice, Italy

I am submitting this image for Kim's "Finding Fences" challenge in the Beyond Layers group and for Texture Tuesday's "Texture X's 2 eDition"

Formula --

Original photo:

* cropped to 6 x 12, 300 dpi

* levels adjustment

* auto-sharpen

* color balance

* diffuse glow filter (1-1-13)

* watercolor filter (12-0-3

* duplicated image (ctrl or cmd +J); soft light blend mode @ 28%

* brightness/contrast adjustment layer (-24 / -9)

* hue/sat adjustment layer (magenta +2 saturation; cyan -36 saturation; greens -22 saturation; yellows -22 saturation; reds -14 saturation)

* Yesteryear texture (overlay blend mode @ 90%)

* Thursday texture (vivid light @ 48%)

* Thursday texture (soft light @ 76%)

* Landsdowne & CAC Shishoni Brush fonts

* added processed image to clipping mask made with brushes by Anna Aspnes (designerdigitals.com)

* added quote by Alexander Herzen

* added watermark

* re-sized for web

Thanks for looking!

Blackbird fly, Blackbird fly

Into the light of the dark black night.

View it big press "L"

Sweetgrass baskets were originally made to carry and store rice. The technique was brought to North America by enslaved Africans, who used this coil technique with other materials. In South Carolina they began to use sweetgrass, that the mundane became art. Sweetgrass baskets are beautiful, some are very large and complex, and even very old sweetgrass baskets smell fresh when touched.

7DoS "Tradition or Traditional" "Texture Tuesday"

7 Days of Shooting – Week #30 (w/b 29 January) On The Edge - that edge can be anything such as a fringe on a scarf or on a decorative border, the crimped edge of a yummy apple pie but whatever your subject is this week don’t fall over the the edge!!

for 7DoS: I was planning on going with symmetry as a balance idea for today, but when I was out walking this afternoon, I decided to jump up and balance on the edge of this bench seat. I guess standing on one leg would have required even more balance, but then the passing runner would have given me an even odder look ;) You may get to see my feet again this week

Bag packed, ready to go

7 Days of Shooting/Week #26/Where I Spend My Day/Texture Tuesday

...and here is the bishop. Worth clicking on the image for a closer look at him.

You can view the story of my visit here in my set, Isle of May.

7 Days of Shooting/Week #50/Between/Texture Tuesday

#TextureTuesday

Texture Tuuesday July 22 - LaCanourgue HairDresser

Read more about the making of this image at : sweetleafnotes.blogspot.com/2014/07/texture-tuesday-lacan...

Entry for Texture Tuesday

Bromeliad, native to Brazil.

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"7 Days of Shooting" "Week #45" "Think Pink" "Texture Tuesday"

Seasonal ~ 7 Days of Shooting (Texture Tuesday)

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