Camellias

On my walk a few days ago, I came across some discarded camellias-maybe they were blown off in the  windy weather we have had recently, but I thought I would give them a little extra time before they completely turned brown and shriveled up. The top photo was taken with my DSLR and the bottom three were shot with my iPhone. For the larger photo, two layers of Happy Heart texture were added after running the photo through RadLab. The triptych photos were shot with the Hipstamatic app using the Melodie lens and the DreamCanvas film.

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Plum Elegance

My love for photographing plums rivals that of pears. Displayed are two images of some Italian prune plums that I have photographed. The top color image has one layer of texture-a subtle one-just to soften the effect. The black and white image was processed in ACR, then using the Lo-Fi app- Kodachrome look with a slight blur, heavy grain and a vignette was applied.

More plum links
Plum Crazy-Part One
Plum Crazy-Part Two
Plum Ratafia

Candy Cane Reflection

Two candy canes reflected in a mirror with a red background form a heart to celebrate the holidays. Kim Klassen's 'and then some' texture was added several times with two of the textures enhanced with Snap Art 2 to create an Impasto painting technique popular with the Rembrandt, Titian and the French Impressionists as well as Vincent Van Gogh. With this technique, the paint is laid on the canvas or parts of the canvas very thickly, usually thick enough for painting-knife or brush strokes to show.Source Lastly, some of the Impasto texture was brushed away from the candy canes.

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Pear Still Life Painting

Not much post processing except using Snap Art 2 to create a painterly effect. The leaves are Bradford pear leaves from my neighbor's yard, a fitting leaf to show off the pear and has a beautiful array of colors in the fall.  Hope you like my image.