Postcards from my favorite places:
Horsetooth Reservoir, Colorado
Walden, Colorado – Jackson County
Walden, Colorado – Jackson County
Cameron Peak, Colorado
Anvica’s Gallery is this week’s lens-artists host who has invited photographers to share images of favorite places. The images above were edited within Nik’s Analog Efex Pro 2 to create aged postcards of Colorado landscapes.
travelers set out
as the sun rises…
morning dew ~Issa*
This week’s lens-artists host, Ohtheplaceswesee, invites us to share images that tells a story – getting away.
*cited: haikuguy.com
Hum…it is a challenge to outline my editing process as it is more often than not a spontaneous flow of visual experimentation.
For this week’s challenge I chose the image below … the repeating patterns found within the dandelion family are inviting to my photographer’s eye.
First the raw image was cropped and edited in Capture One. A healing mask was used to remove some of the stems in the background.
Silver Efex: The editing process within Silver Efex began with a custom preset and some global adjustments. The blue filter was used as it was seen to lessen some of the background distraction. The IIford FP4 Plus 4 film type was chosen with a bit of yellow and green color filter sensitivity adjustments. Control points – contrast and brightness – were located in the parachutes. The vignette was set at -21%.
Photoshop: Contrast between lights and darks were explored with 3 curve layers.
Capture One: A custom split tone preset was the finishing edit.
One editing rule that I broke today is to walk away from an image for a period of time as a way to see my work through fresh eyes. Please let me know if you see any distractions or composition concerns.
Anne @ Slow Shutter Speed invited photographers to post their black and white photos as well as share their photo editing process.
images offered in response to Johnbo’s photo challenge for the week: on the water
My friend is lodging high in the Eastern Range,
Dearly loving the beauty of valleys and hills.
At Green Spring he lies in the empty woods;
And is still asleep when the sun shines on high.
A pine-tree wind dusts his sleeves and coat;
A pebbly stream cleans his heart and ears.
I envy you, who far from strife and talk
Are high-propped on a pillow of blue cloud. ~ Li Po*
A summer’s sprinkle
A spring snowstorm
It is a wonderful world…Amy (The World is a Book)
*(cited: Arthur Waley, The Poet Li Pl Gutenberg Project
the man’s whiteness
walking in the house’s shadow…
summer moon ~Issa*
sharing tree shade
with a butterfly…
friends in a previous life ~Issa*
Isn’t the shade under a tree the tree’s shadow?
joining in Leya’s photo challenge: shades and shadows.
*cited: haikuguy.com
This week Patti’s (P.A. Moed) Lens-Artists photo challenge is to pick a color and select several photos that feature that color and then beginning with a “large” color subject go down to an image that contains a small subject color — going from large to small.
smoke rising (Cameron Peak fire)
light reflections seen through the windows of a coffee shop
rust on a section of a pedestrian over-pass
the stem and veins within a leaf
Abstract photo submitted in response to Tina’s (Travels and Trifles) photo challenge: green and blue
like little dots
little billows in a row…
little clouds ~Issa (cited: haikuguy.com)
making the park
a vacation spot…
spring trees
Leya invites photographers to explore and enjoy different interpretations of two little words: Spots and Dots
Well…it’s just that…you know…really….it’s been a rough year…
a dandelion garden submitted for this week’s lens-artists’ photo challenge.
This week scillagrace invites us to share Getting To Know You photographs that show our relationship with a subject that generated our attention, won our affection and taught us a thing or two.
on a makeshift bridge
we make friends…
croaking frog ~Issa (cited www.haikuguy.com)
I enjoy photo walk abouts…it is as if a camera has a third eye that invites me to look/see. Over time, I’ve enjoyed expanding my efforts to include using double exposure, long exposure, window reflections in street photography.
Introducing body language as a way to introduce emotions within street photography.
Exploring window reflections as a means to compose a frame within a frame as well as create an abstract street image.
Accepting the challenge of in-camera double exposure.
And…may I invite you to spend a few minutes watching a mom and child, getting to know each other through laughter and validation. I know you will find yourself smiling.
Bebê italiano aprendendo a falar
“Yes, a line is fine, but when a line swerves, when a line bends, watch what happens . . . a shape begins!…
“A square is four sides all the same — … blocks to build with, share and stack…
“A rectangle is like a square with something rearranged. Two sides are long and two are short. …
“A circle’s … the bowl Mom fills with hot noddle soup, … a cookie to eat, … a big drum to beat, bicycle wheels …
“A triangle is three — three sides, three corners too … the pyramids of old, a lunch of jam and bread, a napkin to fold …
“An oval’s like a circle, except it’s not …” (cited: R G Greene, When a Line Bends . . . a Shape Begins)
Join Patti’s (P.A. Moed) Lens-Artists challenge — to share shapes that are visually interesting and form a pattern or rhythm.
a meditative journey 
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