Life Signatures

The yellow rose is my mother’s favorite flower.

Unconscious thoughts and unknowing minds
Still breathes small signs of what’s to come
For the promise of the day
Is as evident as the rising sun…

In other words…it’s going to be a crazy day. But I will pray before I go and I know that I will go protected.

This has been a gray stormy spring but yet, it’s beautiful in it’s own way.

When the sky is filled with violet and lavender, I’m in my cozy creative nesting place. I wish I could stay there, but the world beckons…

We were cruising the Chesapeake when Chessy pops her head out of the water.

She startled us…I believe.

Does the hawk take flight by your wisdom
and spread his wings toward the south?

Does the eagle soar at your command
and build his nest on high?

He dwells on a cliff and stays there at night;
a rocky crag is his stronghold.

Job 39: 26-28

The story this year is rain.

Posted on Shutter Sisters.

Today I’m using the vivid setting in my camera.

I’m also playing with the focal point…really trying hard…

to set the focus on a petal, a stamen, a stem.

And I’m holding my breath, so that my hands are steady…I wanted to keep these photos SOOC, no editing at all.

It’s takes practice, my yoga training comes in handy…

Happy to post this SOOC Saturday over at Slurping Life.

I haven’t had much time lately to play with Photoshop but tonight, it’s how I’m relaxing. I have two plays for Laura over at dolcepics this week.

The before ~

Now you see why I wanted to play. This little girl is so adorable and the SOOC is just perfect.

The after #1 ~ I made her a drawing with a colored pencil fill.

My photographer geek friend Danny sent me this link and I decided to use it on this photo. I followed the tutorial but thought the end product didn’t really capture the little girl. After all, the photo that Mr. Barker is working on is a bathroom. So I chose instead to put the last layer on “color” in the layer palette. Then I lowered the opacity of the color and texture layer so that the little girl and swing was more prominent. I really had to play around with the layers and messed up several times so please make sure you make duplicate layers if you are going to play. Unless of course you know what you are doing, unlike myself.

If that’s a little too much, then I did this second play, using actions from TRA.

This is fun…I could stay up all night doing this but I don’t dare. Tomorrow comes pretty quickly!

I hope to have many more photos of this beautiful bird this summer.