Flowers for Leontien

Flowers for Leontien

Room With a View...

A forest room:

Shaded

Floor of twigs

Windows

Doors

And views.

The Weekend in Black and White

Picasa Meets a Stump

These are not all the same shot, 

but they are all the same stump.

All have been cropped to one degree or another.

Posterized. I like this one a lot.

Pixelated. My least favorite of these examples.

Black & white with the levels for fill, shadow, and brightness adjusted.

"Lomo-ish"

Light levels adjusted. Maybe some other adjustments, also, but I don't remember.

I like this one a lot, too.

Snow Drops

These flowers have faded, but they were beautiful.

I applied Picasa's "Pencil Sketch" to my black and white image;

this is the result.

The Weekend in Black and White

Variations on a Theme: Alder Catkins

I have been playing with Picasa recently, and I thought I would share some of the results.

I like alder catkins, or flowers, and I am thankful that we have alder trees growing around our property. One day last week I took this picture:

I like it...

but I decided to focus in on a smaller portion, so I cropped it down:

This is nicer, the catkins droop gracefully, the cones from last year give spikey contrast, the branches hold it together, and the sky makes a good background.

Next, I reversed the colors, so it looks like a color negative:

Cool!

Returning to the original colors, and posterizing:   

                                 

I played with the slider to increase the number of colors until I liked the result.

Next (and last), the posterized edit with Duo-Tone:

There are a lot of color options for foreground and background in this tool. I don't remember which ones I used, but I think the result is really pretty.

I had a lot of fun playing around, I may show you more in later posts!

Reflected Sky

I have been experimenting with different processing options in Picasa.

This shot was cropped and tinted.

The reflective surface is made of recycled windows which we used to enclose our front porch.

Weekend Reflections

See It Sunday

Cups

I am glad the weather is a little warmer and drier.

I am also glad for these little cups, which grow among the moss on rocks and stumps.

The Weekend in Black and White