"Live Together": I walked home from work one day recently and saw this building all by itself in a parking lot. As I got nearer, I saw this brightly colored mural on the side. The title is on the tree in the middle and the artists have all signed their names at the bottom. I shot this in three portrait mode images and made and stitched the three images together is PSElements 3.0. I wanted to get as much of the surroundings of the mural into the frame as I could. Made a few alterations to repair the merge but not much compared past pano efforts.  

"Color Abstract Redux": You all remember 'Color Abstract' from back in January? Yes? Good. Well I put a full size image of it on the computer monitor and put a vase in front of it and this is what I got. Had to tone down some the light bright greens and blues a bit, but otherwise, the colors came out just fine. Later! 

"Garden Rose Stained Glass": Not sure how this got this way. I wanted to do a water color DA of this image and found myself eventually drawing lines and erasing everything in the lines to a lower layer, except the main flower, and this is what I got. Took a while. Hope it was worth it! Later. 

"Streams IV": Re edit of my Low Key Challenge entry, not so low key now as the entry. A vase in front of my computer monitor displaying a blue green gradient fill. The vase is lying on a the non glossy side of a piece of aluminum file (the upper right diffused background). 

"Floating": Store window display for this year's flower show. Lots of editing and then I found I picked the wrong image of this set. Oh well. Got rid of street light reflections, bright areas in the store behind the back drop, creases in the backdrop as well as a gap around the center, a small bit of one flower on the right and a few of the visible strings holding the flowers in mid air.

March 26, 2006

"Daffodil Duo"
Oops....must have gotten bogged down with a challenge entry whose score did not warrant the time I put into it....again! LOL! This is Kater Street Garden from Saturday.

"Forsythia Buds": Walked home from my voice lesson today in a very light rain. Went by the Kater Street Garden for the first time this year. Had a mac(ro) attack and shot everything, just about, with my 10x close up filter on top of the the UV and circular polarizer filters on the camera. I liked this one when I took it. The detail of the buds in full size is really fine. More from the garden tomorrow, unless I shoot on the way to work. Later! 

"Angled PAFA": Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Shot on my way home from work, got out early but have to work Sunday in exchange. Shooting architecture can be a bit trying in cities due to narrow streets. This is not the most narrow of streets but it limits the ability to get a lot in the frame. I have been using this angle for a while . The top of the frame is leveled to the top of the building and the camera angled from there. As you can see, you can get a lot more of the flavor of the building in one shot than you might with either a strait on shot on a perspective shot with the building straight up and down in the image. Later!  

March 23, 2006

04/01/06:Well it's not doing too well and since this post is about to fall off, I thought I would put it up:


Thought I had done this and woke up to see that I apparently had not. Any hoooo.

"Primrose Seltzer": It's actually Diet Sprite. Display an image of a patch of primroses on my computer monitor and placed a 2 liter bottle of Diet Sprite in front. Shot in standard mode, not macro, with a 10x close up filter on the camera. The crop is about 40% of the image out of camera. (Guess it would be nice if you saw it...well....I'm maybe using it for the water challenge...so we'll see if it goes in or not.)

"Encircled": Store window display. Shot this on my home from choir rehearsal last night. 

"Flowers by the Crystal Blue Stream": Display at the Philadelphia Flower Show. 

"Eyes": Reprocessed image of my entry in the Pick Two Challenge. 

"Office Patterns": This grouping of offices in the Mellon Bank Building (or us is Citizens now?...I forget) have caught my eye for some time when I walk home at night. So I tried it again the other day and it seemed to turne out OK. There's another grouping like this on another building across from where I work that I think might be better if it ever turns out. Oh well....someday. 

"Double Calla": Double bloom, one of two, on a calla lily plant I bought at the Flower Show last week. Shot this today along with a slew of others from the plant: there are about a dozen blooms on the plant. Uh-oh!LOL! 

"Design in Blues and Greens": Well you knew it had to come back at some point. Displayed an Amazing Circle that I made from a gradient fill on my computer monitor wiht the glass in front. 

"Caps and Pipes": Another fromt the St. Patrick's Day Parade in Philly. 

"XTerra Scape": Reflections in the left rear panel and window of an SUV. 

"Little Yellows": A small pot of minature tulips. 

"Green Hats and Scarves": Some marchers in the St. Patrick's Day Parade. The guy up front was very animated. 

"Four Gerbera": Potted plant I got at the flower show. 

"Replenish": Display at the 2006 PHS Philadelphia Flower show. 

"Veterans": Hey aint that my office building in the background? Yep sure is...guess I should get over there but hey, there's this big parade and everyone is wearing green for some reason? How will I get to the office...on a Sunday?! Guess I'll just have to wait 'til the parade is over.....and shoot a lot of pictures. (Veterans of the Battle of the Bulge in the 2006 Philadelphia St. Patrick's Day Parade) 

"Spokes": A multi colored plastic slinky, acutally a promotional item from work. Tried something different, I hope, angles of which this is one. 

"Spring has Sprung": We had an all day symposium on the Brahms Requiem that we are preparing for our Anniversary Concert at the end of April. On the way back, we stopped at one of the choir members homes. Rob, who drove, works part time as a landscaper and wanted to see what had come up of all the bulbs they planted at this home. Took this there...not sure if it was one of his or not. Love the pale purple and yellow flowers against the fall and winter dross around them. 

"Primrose Carpet": Two from the flower show. 

"Flower Show Colors 2006"