Before and After.

When we were in Holland recently we went for a walk on the beach on Sunday morning after there had been a night's worth of snow - the sky was flat pale grey, the sea was grey, the sand was brown with a layer of white. 

I'd never taken photos in such conditions before and it wasn't an immediately appealing view, but I had in mind the textures I've been so impressed by recently and decided that the flatness would work beautifully with them.

Before

 

After

Black and White and Red All Over......

I like the drama in this Treasury and that my Red on White print has been featured!

A few of my favourites

by Go Bead

The dramas with my printer continue.  I've had this problem previously and it's driven me crazy as I try every variation I can think of.  Perhaps I'm being too picky - we all know that a print on paper will never look as gorgeous as it does on the screen, even with soft proofing.  Maybe to someone who hasn't seen the computer image the printed image will look fine?

Here's the one I'm experimenting on now which to me looks great on screen but the print looks a bit dull with the branch in the bottom left corner being much less visible than in the image below, sort of a bit less luminous......

Spring 1

I Heart You - The Evolution.

I've revisited one of my old Morocco graffiti images, it's one I've always liked for the both simplicity of sentiment and execution.  I've Photoshopped it to death, it's been cropped, layered, texturised and generally abused and I think I've improved the original.

Here are the before and afters.

 

I Heart You

Cow parsley in the snow.

Cow Parsley in the Snow

Yet again I'm having a go at the 'texture thing' which I'm so intrigued by. I've found some very interesting blogs with tutorials and links to plenty of free to use textures and I've found a set which I'll buy when I've got my head around the whole practice.

This is one of my recent snowy pictures and I think this looks quite nice (It's gained two hearts on Etsy from just five views in about an hour, which is pretty good!).

As well as the 'texture thing', I've been playing with the 'PS Action thing' as well.

This image was created following instructions from Coffee Shop using a texture from Shadowhouse Creations and I'm grateful to both creative people for sharing their techniques.

Old or New?

I've been having fun with a great distressed texture from Flickr, this one's a scruffy old piece of board which looks just like a thick vintage postcard and I thought that it would work well with this temple photo which I took in Kyoto last year. I'm really pleased with the result and I'll have a go with some more as I think they'll make really interesting prints.