Out of the Norm

I was trying to create a new image with the usage of multiple photos. I've used the following photos for photo mesh..

And this was the result of the photo mesh of the photos above - it did resemble a painting.

Aspen

This picture was taken around Carbondale, CO from a hot air balloon ride. I would say that this was about 5:30 A.M. as the sunset started to rise. This picture captured my main focus, the shadow of the balloon and the moon, which was unique.

After the hot air balloon ride was over, our captain served us mimosa. We landed on the ground about quarter to 8 A.M.

The hot air balloon landed in a field close to a farm area in Carbondale. As The crews were getting equipment packed up, I took the liberty of playing around with the spot metering since it was sunny from the picture. What gave this picture a great saturation was that the plant was wet from the melted morning frost.

The saturation was great from the morning frost.I love the different layers of the plants in this picture.

Nature Walk

  I almost stepped on this little toad - very photogenic toad!

Virginia bluebell - to get this angle, I shot this from the ground up.

This was done using spot metering since the light was shinning through the trees, which created spots of light.

Vintage Bouquet

I took this picture of a French bead bouquet made by Fen Li for her site (www.beadflora.com). I wanted to add some vintage look to it because every time I looked at the bouquet, vintage kept coming to my mind. With layering and masking in Photoshop, this was accomplished.

Tree Trunk

This black and white photo was taken along the shore at Grant Park, Oak Creek, WI. How much I miss Wisconsin. What I liked about this photo is the dead tree trunk, which gave this picture a contrast and allowed the eyes to follow from the bottom of the pictures toward the top.

Lucky Flowers

I have neglected this blog for quite sometime now due to major life changing events, which couldn't have been better!

As I scouted through my old collections of photos, I came across a collection of photos where I was playing around with the lighting effects of an incandescent  flashlight and LED flashlight. I like how the LED lights impacted the white lucky flower.

The picture below is using a regular incandescent light. This flashlight was set to light the middle of the flower and the camera was set to spot metering.

A different angle of the flower with the same setting as above.

This last picture (below) was being lighted with LED lights. The LED lights added a hint of blue, but it does brighten up the object better than the incandescent light. Maybe it my eye sight, but the LED does seem to give the petals more of a whiteness, while the incandescent light gave it more of a yellow tint.

Cat

I took this in Hope, AR (December 2009). This was such a beautiful cat living around the farm. Allyson found this one and brought it to the farm.  This cat does look like Russian's blue cat, not sure.
It was close to sunset and there wasn't much lighting around the cabin, so I had to turn up the exposure to compensate for the lack of lighting.