Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flowers. Show all posts
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Sugar Hill, New Hamphire
Tom and I spent a long weekend (for our Anniversary) in Sugar Hill, New Hamphire -- mainly to photograph the lupine. I follow the lupine blooms via Harman's website every year, but it was great to get there this year!
We stayed at the Rustic Log Cabins, right along the stream.
We ate at Polly's Pancake Parlor all four mornings -- if you have never been there you are missing out! MMmmmmmm!
We ate at Adair Friday night, photographing their grounds during the day. Great food, but worth a visit even if you do not eat there.
Common snipe, at Polly's
Female red winged blackbird, at Polly's
We took hundreds of photographs of this pair of bluebirds feeding their young with a plethora of insects and worms.
We stayed at the Rustic Log Cabins, right along the stream.
We ate at Polly's Pancake Parlor all four mornings -- if you have never been there you are missing out! MMmmmmmm!
We ate at Adair Friday night, photographing their grounds during the day. Great food, but worth a visit even if you do not eat there.
The lupine were very different than the last two times that we were there, but there were lots of flowers out -- and so many different colors and color combinations. Sunday morning we photographed for three hours in a light mist and were well rewarded with great color saturation and water droplets.
This was the only moose that we saw :-) but we did see a lot of wildlife...
We saw a variety of wildlife: three bears (one up big one close), deer, turkeys, a porcupine, a common snipe (right across from Polly's pancake parlor all day), bluebirds with babies, a great blue heron, red winged blackbirds (with babies), a kingfisher (caught a fish and beat it on a branch before eating it), lots cedar waxwings, a pair loons (very close one morning), etc.
Common snipe, at Polly's
Female red winged blackbird, at Polly's
Female red winged blackbird, with baby, at Pearl Lake
We took hundreds of photographs of this pair of bluebirds feeding their young with a plethora of insects and worms.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Mohonk Mountain House
We went to the Mohonk Mountain House for lunch and a massage, but we did find some time for photography as well. The flowers were just fantastic. Here are a few of Tom's images from Mohonk. Tom used my Sigma 180mm Macro lens which he now hogs, but I do have to admit that he is getting some really awesome images with that lens. Tom even has some photographs that are even better than these, but he has earmarked some of them for competition so we will show them later :-)
Monday, July 14, 2008
A few photos from NECCC
Here are a few photographs that we took up at the NECCC conference this weekend. The weather was great, but the photography and the comrade were excellent!
In the warm glow of the evening light on the way to the George Lepp keynote speaker.
Tom was walking ahead of me so I photographed him while he was photographing the tower. I kept my aperture open to keep him sharp and the background soft.
At the fine arts center I just liked the way that this sculpture frame the flag.
The brick building made a pleasing background against the petunias. That evening light was just wonderful!
OK, I just had to play around with black and white and color...
same photo, cropped and then a B&W adjustment layer and then a mask painting back in the colors of the flowers.
I just love the color of this flower.
I had to try it with black and white and color as well, here are two variations, one painting with black and the second with 50% gray.
Sunday morning the horses were very handsome. There were lots of people around so I tried to create some tight images.
converted to B&W
This young lady was with her father and the Caballos de Paso.
The "Caballos de Paso" is a group of Paso Fino horses that travel all over New England giving
demonstrations and parades. The Paso Fino horse is a Spanish breed known as the
"smoothest riding horse in the world" due to their unique four-beat gait.
http://www.pasofinos.com/ has further breed information if you are interested.
She needs a red flower in her hair to balance this image, but I love her dress.
We have lots more and will post some more horses later this week. Tom got some good ones of the horses galloping towards him.
In the warm glow of the evening light on the way to the George Lepp keynote speaker.
Tom was walking ahead of me so I photographed him while he was photographing the tower. I kept my aperture open to keep him sharp and the background soft.
At the fine arts center I just liked the way that this sculpture frame the flag.
The brick building made a pleasing background against the petunias. That evening light was just wonderful!
OK, I just had to play around with black and white and color...
same photo, cropped and then a B&W adjustment layer and then a mask painting back in the colors of the flowers.
I just love the color of this flower.
I had to try it with black and white and color as well, here are two variations, one painting with black and the second with 50% gray.
Sunday morning the horses were very handsome. There were lots of people around so I tried to create some tight images.
converted to B&W
This young lady was with her father and the Caballos de Paso.
The "Caballos de Paso" is a group of Paso Fino horses that travel all over New England giving
demonstrations and parades. The Paso Fino horse is a Spanish breed known as the
"smoothest riding horse in the world" due to their unique four-beat gait.
http://www.pasofinos.com/ has further breed information if you are interested.
She needs a red flower in her hair to balance this image, but I love her dress.
We have lots more and will post some more horses later this week. Tom got some good ones of the horses galloping towards him.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Our Backyard
I took photographs of our yard and gardnes on Monday. Yesterday Tom got out there early in the morning and photographed some of the flowers that were blooming. What a difference a week makes!
This is one of the flower gardens that we put in. The Bee Balms have really florished, in fact they crowded out all my poppies :-( and the cone flowers are over five foot tall!
We put this 4th flower garden in late last Summer as a "baby garden" because we had gotten a whole bunch of little baby plants from Mary Lou and we were afraid that they would be choked or shadowed out in the larger gardens. Well, some of these plants are not HUGE and will need to be transplanted this year. This little bird house in the Butterfly garden had Carolina Wrens last year and this year cute little house wrens. Sunday the 4 little ones fledged and Tom got photos of them about to fledge (I will post these separately).
The white gooseneck loosestrife is about to bloom. This year i found some PINK variants being sold for cancer fund raising and I put two of those in.
This was a little baby put in late last year as a small single plant -- it really took off!
The bee balm are growing and multipying like crazy, but they look so pretty and they do attract the hummingbirds. They bloomed a week earlier than last year and they are twice as wide and twice as tall.
This year I tried pink geraniums on the planters near the driveway, more delicate looking than the red ones I usually put in.
These couple day lilies were the only flowers here before we moved in. SOME DAY I am going to runa whole row of day lilies and daffodils along the front property line. The daffodils come up early and then just as they start to look scraggly the day lilies will be lots of green and then they will bloom for the rest of the summer.
We have been hearing these hawks in the backyard for the past three days -- really loud and for long periods of time. Yesterday Tom borrowed my 500mm lens and set out in search of the nest (ther has to be babies because there is too much noise). He found the mom calling and calling but did not locate the nest.
We put in our first real in ground veggie garden this year. We bought an easy to install raised bed garden from Gardeners Supply http://www.gardeners.com/
Dad gave me some cucumbers and a whole bunch of tomato plants.
Tom also took a few photos of some of the great little birds at our backyard feeders. Here is a cute little tufted titmouse.
This is one of the flower gardens that we put in. The Bee Balms have really florished, in fact they crowded out all my poppies :-( and the cone flowers are over five foot tall!
We put this 4th flower garden in late last Summer as a "baby garden" because we had gotten a whole bunch of little baby plants from Mary Lou and we were afraid that they would be choked or shadowed out in the larger gardens. Well, some of these plants are not HUGE and will need to be transplanted this year. This little bird house in the Butterfly garden had Carolina Wrens last year and this year cute little house wrens. Sunday the 4 little ones fledged and Tom got photos of them about to fledge (I will post these separately).
The white gooseneck loosestrife is about to bloom. This year i found some PINK variants being sold for cancer fund raising and I put two of those in.
This was a little baby put in late last year as a small single plant -- it really took off!
The bee balm are growing and multipying like crazy, but they look so pretty and they do attract the hummingbirds. They bloomed a week earlier than last year and they are twice as wide and twice as tall.
This year I tried pink geraniums on the planters near the driveway, more delicate looking than the red ones I usually put in.
These couple day lilies were the only flowers here before we moved in. SOME DAY I am going to runa whole row of day lilies and daffodils along the front property line. The daffodils come up early and then just as they start to look scraggly the day lilies will be lots of green and then they will bloom for the rest of the summer.
We have been hearing these hawks in the backyard for the past three days -- really loud and for long periods of time. Yesterday Tom borrowed my 500mm lens and set out in search of the nest (ther has to be babies because there is too much noise). He found the mom calling and calling but did not locate the nest.
We put in our first real in ground veggie garden this year. We bought an easy to install raised bed garden from Gardeners Supply http://www.gardeners.com/
Dad gave me some cucumbers and a whole bunch of tomato plants.
Tom also took a few photos of some of the great little birds at our backyard feeders. Here is a cute little tufted titmouse.
Monday, May 19, 2008
The Scott Kelby No Bobble Head Seminar
We are always learning new and faster techniques, both in the camera and in Photoshop. Tuesday I went to an all day Photoshop seminar by Scott Kelby (http://www.scottkelby.com/). I LOVE his books, enjoy his blog, etc. but truthfully I was a little worried about staying awake for an entire day of sitting on my butt. As a professor I am used to lecturing, less so to sitting and listening all day. And since I am used to going and going and going like the energizer bunny sometimes when I finally have a chance to sit down in a dark room I become a "bobble-head" regardless of how much I am interested. I was very pleased to leave there without a sore neck from bobble-heading ;-)
However my fears were unfounded as Scott was entertaining, lively, and full of jokes as he combined this humor with LOTS of useful tips and ways to speed things up. The first part of the day I knew how to do almost everything he showed us -- but not necessarily as fast as he did it (and time is important so that we can (a) get the photos back to all of you as quickly as possible and (b) so that Tom & I can enjoy some times without a keyboard/wacom.
At the end of the seminar Scott showed us some neat gallery/presentation type effects. Immediately upon coming home I went through these and made actions for them. Here are 5 photos "beforeSK" and "afterSK". Thank you Scott! I would happily go to another of his seminars!!
Some people walked out stating that "their brains were full" or that there was too much information but I disagreed! He had something for everyone and ALL of the information was in a very thorough booklet that came with the seminar. Personally I think that he could have easily made money selling the booklet because it had almost as much information in it as some of his books. It was the best $79 I've spent.
Some people walked out stating that "their brains were full" or that there was too much information but I disagreed! He had something for everyone and ALL of the information was in a very thorough booklet that came with the seminar. Personally I think that he could have easily made money selling the booklet because it had almost as much information in it as some of his books. It was the best $79 I've spent.
Lisa's Bleeding Hearts -- "BeforeSK"
Lisa's Bleeding Hearts -- "AfterSK"
I just love this filtered edge technique -- and the possibilities are endless!
Watercolor of Daffodils -- "BeforeSK"
Watercolor of Daffodils -- "AfterSK"
Tom's Bleeding Heart -- "BeforeSK"
Tom's Bleeding Heart -- "AfterSK"
Sunflowers, orton effect -- "BeforeSK"
Sunflowers, orton effect -- "AfterSK"
I really liked his concept for the "movable picture frame". I can definitely see us using this for our weddings! Like many of his lessons I made an action for this one because I know that we will use it a lot.
Daffodils from a chipmunk's point of view -- "BeforeSK"
Daffodils from a chipmunk's point of view -- "AfterSK"
Peyton @ Two Years Old -- "BeforeSK"
Peyton @ Two Years Old "AfterSK" -- Hollywood effect
Socrates (our cat) "BeforeSK"
Socrates (our cat) "AfterSK" -- Hollywood effect
Tulips in the morning light "BeforeSK"
Tulips in the morning light "AfterSK"
-- Painting "in" your photos
This technique reminded me of when I was a kid where you would color using red, gree, blue, etc. crayons and then cover everything with the BLACK crayon and then take a paper clip and remove the black from certain areas to uncover waht was underneath and make a colorful picture as the end result. Except it is easier and quicker (I make an action that has one Black layer and one white layer so I can choose which to paint in from) with photoshop.
Tulips in the morning light "AfterSK"
-- Painting "in" your photos
White layer on top, flowers painted back in
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