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I had a lot of fun with the prompt this week. Hearts, hearts and more hearts.
I'm posting and running though ... I'm SO behind in getting these up ...
Hope you all had a 'lovely' Valentine's Day!
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My quick contribution to this week's focus52 prompt, still life.
I love taking photos of fruit. And it seems I can't resist working them into some sort of art piece, adding textures and whatnot.
Two gorgeous textures here, one from the always fabulous Kim Klassen and another from my new-found friend, Eva Ricci. This year, Eva has started a twelve month creative project called Art of Texture. Each month she gives away one of her beautiful textures and provides four themes to choose from. If you're interested, you can check out her website here and her Art of Texture flickr group here. It seems I always end up taking on too many projects each year, but a once a month commitment I can definitely handle. Besides, her textures are fantastic.
There's also a photoshop brush used between these layers. The faint writing you see isn't from the textures, it's from a lovely set of brushes from French Kiss.
Do you play around with your photos at all? Are you a texture addict like I am? :)
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ummm ... not really. This has got to be the mildest, strangest winter ever.
Last Sunday, we were hit with a freak snow storm. No, I didn't venture out with my camera. I figured I'd have all week to get some great photos for this week's prompt. I should have known better because by Monday night it was pretty much all gone. Seriously.
But there are still patches here and there. Nice shady areas where the snow is sticking around. All in all though, nothing photo-worthy or at all representative of the word 'cold'. So daughter headed out with me today to have some fun, humor her mother, help me out ... ;)
This next one was to be my shot for this week. I liked the way the birch trees in the background helped the overall feeling of it being cold outside. And as you can see, I couldn't decide on only one shot this week, anyway. She's my girl ... what can I say? ;)
Feels cold, right? It's totally not. Well, not for this time of year, anyway.
This last one, I love.
Snow! (on flickr here)
Nope. Smoke and mirrors, really. Run your mouse over the photo to see the before shot.
A quick google search for 'snowflake textures' turned up all kinds of options. I found this one on deviantART (thank you!) and it works perfectly for this. Be honest - if I had only posted this one photo, would you think it was snowing for reals? I think you would ;)
Faking snow. In February. IN CANADA.
Yep. Very strange winter.
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This little keychain is so cute. You click the 'shutter' and it actually flashes and makes a clickity-click sound.
Well, it used to make a sound.
I need to fix that.
A little under the weather this past week, and when I finally picked up a bit, we got hit with a mountain of snow and gale-force winds. Blustery days, indeed.
So ... this is all I have for leading lines.
It happens :)
(I'm still in my pajamas too ... sshhhhhh...)
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It's funny, you would think that seeing how I come up with the prompts each week for focus52, it would be easy for me to also come up with the photographs to match. Right?
Yeah, not so much.
Most weeks, the prompts are just as much a challenge for me as they are for you. Honestly.
But I had a bit of fun this week with the black and white prompt ...
Look at these beautiful creatures ...
I took a gazillion photos of them (from the warmth of my car). So beautiful to watch.
I wonder if they get cold?
This man caught my eye as I was leaving the bank the other day. Again, taken all stalker-like from the warm safety of my car and a bit blurry to boot, but I liked the scene.
I wonder what's going through his mind.
And then there's this one. Always fun to play around with my little (but growing!) camera collection.
Thanks Ms. Shauna, for allowing me to force you into standing outside, freezing your butt off.
You're a good sport.
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