Yellow Flag Iris bud.Absolutely perfect blooms early to mid-May.Purple Flag Iris in bud.Open.More of K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Challenge: How Does Your Garden Grow? Continue reading Flag Iris, May’s Plant of the Month
I thought I didn’t have anything upside down; then I found this reflection of tulips down in LaConner Washington. Next thing I knew I was turning all sorts of reflections upside down – some worked, some didn’t. Then I ran … Continue reading Cosmic Challenge: Upside Down
Limbo, a place on the edge of hell. This massive orange stone in Silkeborg, Denmark, was entitled Sisyphus, after the Greek king who rolled a giant boulder up a hill every day only to be eternally defeated by gravity. I wondered … Continue reading Cosmic Challenge: The World Waits in Limbo
First off, two mosques from India, with their spectacular architecture. Fatehpur Sikri, a mosque just outside of Agra. A pattern from the walls has been layered over the silhouette of the buildings using ‘hard light’ blending. The main Mosque in … Continue reading Cosmic Challenge: Sacred Spaces
One thing I love about K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Challenge is that I get to mess around with the photos. That said, Christmas lights don’t really need all that much messing around with! Christmas lights in a mayonnaise jar brightened … Continue reading Cosmic Challenge: Christmas Lights
Some textures, mostly of plaster walls, from Mexico. Puebla. San Angel. Puerto Vallarta. The colours of this crumbling adobe and plaster wall would make a great backdrop to my Guadalajarian-style pottery. This contains original adobe bricks, now crumbling… Cholula. This one’s a … Continue reading Cosmic Challenge: Textures from Mexico’s Walls
July 2017. Where I attempt to turn my dream of a gallery/studio space into reality. November 2017. A mass of learning curve experiences later my gallery was finally ready. This is from the first night of last year’s Eastside Culture … Continue reading Cosmic Challenge: Dreams into Reality
Who doesn’t love arrays of circles arranged in a polka dot pattern. This is the original polka dot sculpture in Bilbao, Spain, cheerful but slightly grimy.This is the sculpture brightened up in the photo app Photoshop Express. This is the … Continue reading Circles A-Go-Go, a Polka Dot Abstract
I took some photos of a burgundy Calla Lily on a sunny day and was intrigued by the way the shadows of the leaves underneath changed the image into almost abstract fluid shapes. Then I ran the images through the … Continue reading Cosmic Challenge: Shapes, Shadows and Silhouettes
Some faces from recent trips to Wales, Ireland and Portland, Oregon; all edited in the photo app Stackables. The original photos… More of K’lee and Dale’s Cosmic Challenge: Faces. Continue reading Cosmic Challenge: Faces
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