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Created 3 scenery ATC with the layered background technique, but instead of embossing I used gesso.
The Hero Arts Art (G2678) smugded with gesso and stamped on the background. When dry enough mask a sun and created the background coloring. Added several grasses and flowers in different colors green and finaly some in black
Stamps used:
HA Art, Life Beauty (G2678)
HA Fanciful Leaf (F3246)
HA Papillons (LL736)
HA Antique Engravings (CL383)
Tim Holtz - Flights of fancy
I'm having fun playing around with textures. This image was from 2014, when I was doing some food shots, and I thought it might look good with a textured background. The original image has a white background. I used Topaz Texture Effects 2 to create the textured background.
Cheers,
Wade
"Tree Swallow - Looking at You" by Patti Deters. This image features a vibrant Tree Swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) perched on a weathered wooden post. The songbird’s iridescent blue and white plumage contrasts beautifully against the soft, textured background. The bird is alert and looking directly at the camera, perhaps contemplating the world from its wooden perch. Its bright eyes hold a hint of curiosity, as if it’s wondering what adventures the day might bringm or maybe simply enjoying a moment of quiet reflection, allowing itself to pause and be still. Thank you for viewing this image. If you like outdoor nature photography, please enjoy more birds, animals, and other wildlife images at patti-deters.pixels.com/featured/tree-swallow-looking-at-....
Do you know that the Passion Flower has Christian symbolism?
The blue rays represent the crown of thorns, the three stigmas look like three nails of the crucifixion, the five anthers represent the five wounds and the sharp leaves represent whips and spears. That is why it is called Passion flower.
Thank you to Hornbeam Arts for the information.
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Ibirapuera Park with the Obelisc in background. Sao Paulo, Brazil
(Parque do Ibirapuera, em São Paulo-SP, tendo ao fundo o Obelisco de São Paulo, ou Obelisco do Ibirapuera.)
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Don't really know what to think of this shot. This is the best shot I have of the Spanish Steps - paid by the French, built in Italy; probably Rome's most 'European' landmark - regarding the architectural composition. I really like the mood and I can hear the noise and chatter almost through my screen, but their legs or worse are cut off. With my architectural background people have to annoy me, hehe. Now seriously, the distracting billboard is to raise funds through advertisement. With these icons of capitalism is the Eternal City more eternal - spanning more ages - than it probably would like to be.
The Spanish Steps (Italian: Scalinata della Trinità dei Monti) are a set of steps in Rome, Italy, climbing a steep slope between the Piazza di Spagna at the base and Piazza Trinità dei Monti, dominated by the Trinità dei Monti church at the top. According to some scholars, the Scalinata is the widest staircase in Europe. The monumental stairway of 138 steps was built with French diplomat Étienne Gueffier’s bequeathed funds of 20,000 scudi, in 1723–1725, linking the Bourbon Spanish Embassy, and the Trinità dei Monti church that was under the patronage of the Bourbon kings of France, both located above — to the Holy See in Palazzo Monaldeschi located below. The stairway was designed by architects Francesco de Sanctis and Alessandro Specchi.
Following a competition in 1717 the steps were designed by the little-known Francesco de Sanctis, though Alessandro Specchi was long thought to have produced the winning entry. Generations of heated discussion over how the steep slope to the church on a shoulder of the Pincio should be urbanised preceded the final execution. Archival drawings from the 1580s show that Pope Gregory XIII was interested in constructing a stair to the recently completed façade of the French church. Gaspar van Wittel's view of the wooded slope in 1683, before the Scalinata was built, is conserved in the Galleria Nazionale, Rome. The Roman-educated Cardinal Mazarin took a personal interest in the project that had been stipulated in Gueffier's will and entrusted it to his agent in Rome, whose plan included an equestrian monument of Louis XIV, an ambitious intrusion that created a furore in papal Rome. Mazarin died in 1661, the pope in 1667, and Gueffier's will was successfully contested by a nephew who claimed half; so the project lay dormant until Pope Clement XI Albani renewed interest in it. The Bourbon fleur-de-lys and Innocent XIII's eagle and crown are carefully balanced in the sculptural details. The solution is a gigantic inflation of some conventions of terraced garden stairs. The Spanish Steps, which Joseph de Lalande and Charles de Brosses noted were already in poor condition, have been restored several times, most recently in 1995.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish Steps
In 1494, Saint Francis of Paola, a hermit from Calabria, bought a vineyard from the papal scholar and former patriarch of Aquileia, Ermolao Barbaro, and then obtained the authorization from Pope Alexander VI to establish a monastery for the Minimite Friars. In 1502, Louis XII of France began construction of the church of the Trinità dei Monti next to this monastery, to celebrate his successful invasion of Naples. Building work began in a French style with pointed late Gothic arches, but construction lagged. The present Italian Renaissance church was eventually built in its place and finally consecrated in 1585 by the great urbanizer Pope Sixtus V, whose via Sistina connected the Piazza della Trinità dei Monti (outside the church) to the Piazza Barberini across the city. The architect of the facade is not known for certain, but Wolfgang Lotz suggests that it may have originated in a design by Giacomo della Porta (a follower of Michelangelo), who had built the church of San Anastasio dei Greci, which has similarities, a little earlier. The double staircase in front of the church was by Domenico Fontana. In front of the church stands the Obelisco Sallustiano, one of the many obelisks in Rome, moved here in 1789. It is a Roman obelisk in imitation of Egyptian ones, originally constructed in the early years of the Roman Empire for the Gardens of Sallust near the Porta Salaria. The hieroglyphic inscription was copied from that on the obelisk in the Piazza del Popolo. During the Napoleonic occupation of Rome, the church, like many others, was despoiled of its art and decorations. In 1816, after the Bourbon restoration, the church was restored at the expense of Louis XVIII.
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Today is first day of Spring, but here unfortunately, only in the calendar... Outside today all day was snowing, so I can to look at the Spring only on my home window ;)
Saw this Australian Galah perched on my just made home backyard perches and managed to grab him being bathed by the early morning sunlight which was highlighting the background trees in the traditional Australian colours of green and gold.
Zebra head on white background
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This was taken in Aug 2009 with the recognisable design of the old Hanley bus station in the background.
Having had a batch of route branded Omnicities like 65037 YN06WMK for the core First Potteries 101 to Stafford, fast forward 11 years and the same vehicles are on the same service being refurbished.