august break week 4

new apps this week: jazz, afterlight, glaze and mextures

august break week 3

this week i found and tried out some interesting new apps.
distressed FX, vintique, instant polaroid and photo wizard
got some wonderful results

august break week 2

on life in LoFi i discovered vividHDR, an incredible camera app that takes three shots with different exposures and then merges them into one vividly coloured image with a high dynamic range. i love it, and have been using it a lot this week.

august break week 1

this month i am joining susannah conway's summer august break along with more than 600 others!!!
one summer shot a day, for a month, i have inked in to her blog roll as nr 670....
i am using my iPhone to take the shots and process them in the wonderful collect app

my private jungle     

photo heart connection july

a well hidden oasis of green light

browsing through the many shots i took this summer month i came up with this one, taken while out with my dog Lukas. we often visit this park with its twisting paths and small bridges crossing ditches overhung with thick branches covered with fresh young leaves. the many shades of green always make me stop because they literally take my breath away.

 

photo heart connection june

creating fine art with my camera

this image touches my heart every time i look at it. from the moment i finished processing the original shot i kept saying to myself: this is it! for me it is a piece of art and it enables me to experience myself as an artist. it is 'just' a simple shot of some cheap glass objects seen through the window of a big chain store. by coaxing out the myriad exquisite colours and reflections in Lightroom i was able to create something very special. i just love it!
i am planning to have it printed on plexiglass

an embarrassment of riches     

photo-heart-connection may     

creating a royal homestead

at the end of april we got a new king. actually, the queen stepped down and her son became the first king in ages. it was a huge event, things like this don't happen very often :-) it also generated a lot of commercial activity: all the big stores pushed their own little toys, cards, crockery and other 'royal' gadgets.
i got blessed with a couple of soft furry orange balls with gold carton crowns. i kinda liked them and named them willies, after our new king Willem Alexander. after the coronation, my friends started adding to my collection by asking for left-over willies at the store. (you can say they literally gave me the willies lol!). i ended up with 49 of them and decided to give them a home. so i ordered this wooden 'palace' from a toy shop and had loads of fun glueing them in their rooms and on the roof and finally setting up this tableau in my shed window, arranging the remaining willies on the sill beside the royal home...
i call this an embarrassment of riches, because the first thing people say when they see my willies is: wow, you must have spent tons of money at the supermarket...! (they came free with every spent 15 euro)
this photo was taken with my iPhone. i love it as much as i love seeing my willies every time i walk past the shed. so this is most definitely my photo-heart connection for this month!