17 January 2013 - Dusk Photo

 

Had to wait until the sun was down to go home

after a 42 degrees celcius day.

 

(delayed posting because of hot weather)

26 December 2012 - Sunflower Photo & Painter

 

Using various Cloner Brushes, Water Colour Brushes, Pencils,

Salt, Bleach, Erasers and Adjust Colours

in Corel Painter.

 

A few of the stages in its creation and the original photo are below.

 

 

 

 

My photo of a sunflower

growing by the rainwater tank in my parent's garden,

surviving in spite of the summer heat

 

 

19 December 2012 - Misty Cool-change Sunset & Photoshop

 

Using various Adjustment Layers in Photoshop

 

 

Here's the original picture

taken on the way home this evening

 

 

 

 

5 December 2012 - Rainbow Yarn & Photoshop (& Avacado Stone)

 

Photo of the Poems Rainbow Sock Yarn

put through Photoshop

 

Stained Glass

 

 

Poster Edges

 

 

 

Glowing Edges

 

 

Underpainting

 

 

Fresco

 

 

Plus an update of the avacado stone

 

 

1 December 2012 - Polos & Light at the End of the Tunnel

 

Nostalgia for an English childhood

 

 

 

Only 1 month to go on this 365 project

 

The light is actually at the end

of Adelaide Railway Station,

on the way to visit Deb and Chris for lunch

20 November 2012 - Rotunda Photo & Photoshop

 

Playing with Photoshop's filters

 

19 November 2012 - Elder Park Rotunda Shadows

 

Photos from the Rotunda in Elder Park, a popular venue for

public entertainments large and small.

 

The bird is local native, a Murray Magpie (Grallina cyanoleuca)

 

 

 

 

 

 

The construction in the background is going to be

Adelaide's new public hospital.

 

http://www.southaustralia.com/info.aspx?id=9000809

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magpie-lark

 

 

17 November 2012 - Sunlight on Sea (Video) - Glenelg Beach in Spring

 

Sunlight on the water, looking down from the jetty.

 

 

The fish-measuring station

 

 

The Surf Life-savers station

 

Beautiful Glenelg beach in Spring,

on a mild but sunny Saturday, the beach was quiet.

16 November 2012 - Sunlight Sparkles on the River Torrens

 

The River Torrens runs down from the Adelaide Hills,

through the suburbs and through the city centre

(where I took these photos on the way home from work)

and out into the sea at Henley Beach.

15 November 2012 - Jacaranda Tree Shadow

 

Heather Ingram created one of her Guy In The Life images

by combining lots of photos.

 

I liked how the late afternoon shadow on the wall

had some sharp clean edges and some hazy soft edges.

14 November 2012 - Solar Eclipse Viewer

 

Bright and early at 7.30am today I was out in the back yard

trying to take a photo of an image of this morning's solar eclipse.

 

We only got a partial eclipse in Adelaide.

Up in Palm Cove in Queensland they got to see the full eclipse.

 

 

Back in Ye Olden Days my Dad showed us how

to watch an eclipse safely by projecting the sun's light

through a very small hole in card onto a sheet of paper.

You get to watch a tiny solar eclipse image on the paper.

 

You should never look straight at the sun

as it will cause immediate and irreparable damage

to the retina in your eye

 

I used a 2mm knitting needle (US size zero)

to make the holes in my viewer.

 

 

13 November 2012 - Billboard, Photoshop & Artrage Banner

 

Internet provider Internode is using a sun-inspired image

in their summer marketing campaigne.

 

I used Photoshop to switch my blog banner

that was made in Artrage

for their billboard ad.

 

It's nice to know that someone out there is getting

paid to create sun-inspired images.

 

I took these photos at the Caledonian Hotel

on my way home from work today.

I didn't stop in at the pub!

10 November 2012 - Lid, Tops & Painter Kaleidoscope

 

A little stack of honey jar lid, water & juice bottle tops,

with a kaleidoscope pattern added in Painter.