photography

Thursday Challenge: Movement

Next Week: CARS (New, Old, Sedans, Convertibles, Station Wagons, Sports,…)

Thursday Challenge: Texture

Next week is TREES (Saplings, Gnarly Trees, Snow Covered, Bonsai, Dead Tree, Shade Tree,…).

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Purple Dresses Sepia Dancers

I converted the whole photograph except the bright purple ballet dresses to sepia.

Ballet Dancer with Red Hearts

I am very proud at how much my daughter has progressed in dance. She opened her group’s ballet performance with this move. She and her group of eight-year-old performed three nights, the youngest group to do so. Luckily, the dance teacher decorated the back walls with red, so I could use this for Ruby Tuesday.

Hollyhocks and Petunias

Hollyhocks looked lovely last summer at Longstreet Farm.

Red petunias scrambled across my front lawn in August 2010.

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Stratton Window

 
The inn we stayed in at Stratton Mountain in Vermont had a large, tall window in the cozy room with the fireplace. My daughter and I had fun hanging out in this room. You may see that rug again for Ruby Tuesday (if I’m not too crazed with work on a Monday). I took these shots with my daughter’s Canon Power Shot Elph – the quality isn’t as good as that of my old, larger Power Shot, but the camera is a great, flat size. Good enough to share.

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Philadelphia Zoo Bridge

Last October we passed this rhinoceros painting under the bridge next to the Philadelphia Zoo.

Here is the outside of the bridge with animal paintings.

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Sky at Stratton, Vermont

This is the sky early Monday morning at the bottom of Stratton Mountain in Vermont. At the top, it was about -30°F – frigid, frost-bite weather.

Here you can see some of the Stratton Mountain condos.

In the top photo, do you see the large, black bird swooping by? The bird (is it a hawk?) swooped and swooped all around, but I only managed to capture him in that one photo before he flew away. I wonder why this bird chose to stay in cold Vermont?

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Thursday Challenge: COLD

We had a nice time skiing at Stratton Mountain in Vermont. Today it was about 40 degrees warmer than it was on Monday, and it was about 34° today. I snapped this picture with my daughter’s Canon PowerShot Elph, and believe me, when you are up there on the mountain, you just snap and look to see what you’ve got much later.

Today’s Thursday Challenge is COLD. Next Week: RED (Fruit, Vegetables, Flowers, Clothing, Hair, Makeup, Wine, Toys,…)

Pied Piper of Highland Park

Unlike the original story of the Pied Piper of Hamlin, in which many children may have died of the plague, the Pied Piper of Highland Park is the story of a girl who likes to put on a show. And her mother who likes to play with Photoshop.

Her mother took all the background out of the original photo, except for a little on the right, after converting to sepia. Except for the red ribbon and the girl’s face.

A Photoshop brush of a star helped create a vibrant background. No rats were involved in this Highland Park project. And no children died of the plague. Thank goodness!