Autumn Leaves (Or: How I did that)
Posted: October 12, 2012 Filed under: 365 Meditation Challenge, Adventures in art, Air, Autumn, Daily Walk, Digital Art, Earth, Fire, home, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, travel, Walking, water, weather | Tags: autumn, fall foliage, Hiking, Leaf peeping, MaidinSun Photography, nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photoshop, pond, trees, water 26 Comments
Floating on the creek. (f 5.0, 1/125s, ISO: 64) In this one, the creek is shallow so you can see the shadow on the bottom of the creek. It’s dark in the woods, but a little sunlight came along to help me out. The creek was running fast after the rain so I had to be quick to capture this one. Used an Orton Effect to smooth out the noise and water.
Chloe recently asked about how I get my leaf on water images to come out as they do. (She was more succinct, asking “How did you do that?”) I’m including the EXIF data with the photos in hopes that will help explain things.
Thursday Travels: Playing at Laverty Falls
Posted: September 6, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Digital Art, Earth, hiking, home, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Spring, Summer, Thursday Travels, travel, Vacation, Walking, water, weather | Tags: Canada, Fundy National Park, Hiking, Laverty Falls, MaidinSun Photography, nature, New Brunswick, Outdoors, Photography, Photoshop, pond, spring, Summer, travel, water, woods 16 Comments
Back at the top of Laverty Falls. Fundy National Park. New Brunswick, Canada.
Last week, I left off at the top of Laverty Falls after a lovely hike through the woods.
Distorted
Posted: March 3, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in Life, Digital Art, Earth, family, grandparenthood, Photography, Spirit, travel, winter | Tags: Carl Rogers, David Bohm, Distortion, Photoshop, Reeds Gap State Park, Susquehanna River 29 Comments
In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.
~ Carl Rogers
The Weekly Photo Challenge this week is Distorted. The photo above was taken on our way to Reeds Gap State Park. I used Photoshop to add some distortion.
Moon of Ice
Posted: February 9, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Earth, Fire, full moon, goals, home, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Walking, water, weather, winter | Tags: Digital Art, ice, Melting, moon, nature, Photography, Photomanipulation, Photoshop, Picnik, pond, reflections, sky, water, winter 51 Comments
thin wall —
with the moonlight comes
the cold~ Issa, 1824 Read the rest of this entry »
Friday reflections
Posted: February 3, 2012 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Art, Earth, family, Fire, goals, home, Karma's Photo Hunt, Letting Go, nature, Photography, politics, pond, Spirit, Walking, water, weather, winter | Tags: Dalai Lama, nature, Photography, Photoshop, Picnik, pond, reflections, trees, water, winter 48 Comments
Morning view of the pond. Processed in Photoshop and Picnik.
I was listening to the news while cooking dinner last night and one of the local weather oracles predicted that we would not see real winter temperatures for the rest of winter. Welcome to seasonal purgatory. I think Karma summed it up well in this post when she mentioned that it feels like November with no turkey dinner to look forward to. In case you didn’t follow the link, it will also lead you to Karma’s February Photo Hunt. Now you’ve had two chances to click. What are you waiting for? The more who participate, the merrier. I’ve been lax of late in participating in some of the photo challenges. I promise to do better this time around. It looks like a fun list.
Thanksgiving
Posted: November 24, 2011 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Autumn, celebrations, Earth, fall, holidays, home, NaBloPoMo, nature, Photography, Quotes, Spirit, yoga | Tags: abstract, gratitude, Holiday, NaBloPoMo, Photoshop, postaday2011, Thanksgiving 15 Comments
Wishing you a day filled with love, gratitude, and happiness. Happy Thanksgiving!
Abstractions and contemplations
Posted: November 22, 2011 Filed under: 365 Yoga Challenge, Adventures in art, Air, Art, Autumn, Blog awards, Earth, home, NaBloPoMo, nature, Photography, pond, Spirit, Walking, water, weather, yoga | Tags: Abstract art, fog, NaBloPoMo, Photography, Photoshop, pond, postaday2011 47 Comments
In the cave of fire
While getting caught up with my fellow bloggers, I came across Belen’s post, Abstract twirls. It was timely in that I’ve been playing with fire lately, and turning it into abstract photos. (If you didn’t click on that link and go see Belen’s abstract twirls, go do so now. They’re beautiful. We’ll wait for you. I promise.) Read the rest of this entry »
Life in the Bogs 