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Tie-dye jacket blogged here:
couturearts.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/tie-dye-jacket/
Patchwork skirt from pre-blogging days.
Tie Dye is all the rage and my customer requested tying it all in with a pool party.
We decided upon bathing suits, beach balls, towels, and peace signs. The colors were taken from the invitation.
DYER DHOW 8 ft. Sailing Dinghy. An excellent sample of the very popular, very handsome sailing dinghy. Boat is in very good overall condition and includes all spars and rigging, but no sail. Untitled, unregistered smallcraft not intended for motorization. $950
that's me in the tie-dye, in case you can't tell... the out-of-focusness makes it hard to discern the shape of half of a person in the background.
there is an unfortunate story behind this.... while I was sitting on this pine straw bale, I discovered that there is an unholy amount of ants living in it. eeeeew.
CSX Q642 holds in Dyer siding on the Monon Subdivision with a C40-8, SD40-2, GP38-2, GP40-2, and a NRE 3GS21B
Mango, pink lemonade, blue raspberry swirl
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Last night's activities :) More info on my blog:
foxtailcreekstudio.blogspot.com/2009/10/wool-dyeing-with-...
Dyeing small pieces of fabric as a dye test. With the dye in different gradation.
Check my blog for more info: www.esthervaneden.blogspot.com
At last a trial of rust dyeing. Not sure if I did it right. I'd coloured this piece of fabric with some tea dying before I did the rust dyeing.
Experimenting with tray dyeing: one photo of two in a tub, one with one in a tub: i think the looser packed dyebath -- with more complete color saturation -- will be preferable.
There was this plant in Jersey City, the town where I spent my childhood, that made aniline dyes. This was in the mid 1960's before OSHA, probably before anyone cared about the health and welfare of workers. We were wandering around this industrial area, getting shots of the factory building when we came upon this guy, taking a smoke break from his job at the dye works. He was pleasant enough and let me photograph him. He worked as a mixer and a packer and spent his days over the open vats where the dye was made. He looked like this every day, he said and didn't bother to clean up until his shower at the end of the day before going home.
I wonder if he survived until retirement, or whether he suffered ill effects from constant exposure the the chemicals and never made it that far. In any event, this Ektachrome transparency of him has barely survived. The red dyes in the 'chrome had faded so much that his skin tones were barely red and the highlights on his face were nearly blown out.
I did as much correction as I could in the scan, including using dust removal to clean up some vertical scratches on the back of the slide. I then brought the scanned file into PS4 for more adjustments:
1. I changed the mode to Lab and created some curves to do selective tweaking of the reds and blues to bring back the skin color without losing the blue of the dye and his demin shirt.
2. I made a copy of the background layer, darkened it and unmasked it over the highlights to bring back some detail, using the opacity slider to keep the effect subtle.
3. I made another duplicate of the background layer, sharpened the Lightness channel and selectively unmasked it around his eyes and mouth.
4. I then brought the saved .PSD file into Lightroom, which is what I use to manage my library of images, and put a graduated filter over the lower left corner of his sweater where the color had faded too drastically to be touched up. I put a blue tint on this area to help try to blend it in.
A lot of work, to be sure. But this Ektachrome is almost a half a century old, and an hour to preserve the image seems like a small investment.
“At eighteen I decided I wanted to see the world so I started travelling. I’ve always been a people person, and I’ve never been scared by much. I wanted to meet as many different people as possible and I found a way to do that through travelling. I had a habit of having bright, coloured hair. When I was in Thailand, the sun turned my hair into this crazy neon colour. I couldn’t walk anywhere without people wanting to take pictures. My hair was not in a good shape though. I remember I ran out of hair dye, and I was walking round the market. I met this elder Thai lady. She had a stall where she was using natural dye to colour clothes. I asked her whether I could use it on my hair. It was all natural, from berries and other plants. She nodded and started showing me how she made the dyes. Over a period of weeks she showed me how she got her ingredients and her methods. I started to make my own hair dyes, and sell them whilst I was travelling. When I got back home I decided to set it up as a business. All from a chance meeting with a beautiful soul.”
I had an appointment with a retina specialist today to see why I see this: ____/\_________ instead of this: ______________. It's the first noticeable visible distortion caused by macular degeneration. One of the tests was to inject this dye into my hand to get contrast pictures of my eye. Oh, the joys of aging!!
By the way, I don't think this shot is very sharp, but my eyes are still a little bit dilated, so I'm not really sure what I've done to it in editing.
Also, a light accumulation of snow is forecast for tomorrow - so I'm hopeful I can get a snow shot...doesn't happen much here!!
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It's that time of year when I dye my easter eggs. This time I got three girlies from work to join me. I use white eggs, the dye is made from onion skins, the designs come from flowers and leaves in my garden. Any additional colors (like the blue in the daisy) comes entirely from the natural colors within the plants.
Marine Lance Cpl. Christopher J. Dyer
Died August 03, 2005 serving during Operation Iraqi Freedom
19, of Cincinnati; assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Marine Forces Reserve, Columbus, Ohio; attached to Regimental Combat Team 2, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward); killed Aug. 3 when the amphibious assault vehicle in which he was a passenger was hit by an improvised explosive device south of Hadithah, Iraq.
www.arlingtoncemetery.net/cjdyer.htm
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Using an old Edwards coffee can I soaked my piece of cotton in vinegar and wrapped the cloth around the can. I spritzed it with a mix of 1/2 water 1/2 vinegar and this was the result in 1 day. I soaked it in salty water to stop the rust process and then washed it in soapy water.