Take one red sunshade umbrella and add pixel magic

Deb set us a challenge to transform her photo and add a quote

Now that was a challenge that I couldn’t resist so once I received the image from Deb I set too with PSE.  The red is, well, very red so I removed it by turning the photo sepia before adding textures.

then I decided to add some red back as it is the defining component of the sunshade.

I was intrigued by the strong lines and pattern of the internal structure so I decided to play some more using these structures to create an abstract piece.  I added a photo that I had taken on the river just before I read Deb’s challenge

and then duplicated and flipped the image to create a kaleidoscope effect which really uses the strong structure to create patterns

and repeated with 3 other blending modes and order of flipping

and found some good kaleidoscope quotes to go with them

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities (Jean Houston)

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope – a slight change and all patterns alter (Sharon Salzberg)

Thanks Deb for a fun challenge and looking forward to seeing what others do with the red sunshade.

blogland baby shower for Cate

When Deb sent out an invite to an online baby shower for Cate I was intrigued, mostly because I’ve never attended one.

Deb’s idea was for us scrappers to create the basics of a page, using Cate’s favourite purple, so that Cate could then add a photo and some words and have a lovely album of her newest baby. Well I have plenty of purple stuff so putting together a page was fun.

I didn't really send her the photo of Carrie, me and Deb! I just preferred the photo of the page when I had a photo in place and that one was on my table when I made this in late April.

I though that Cate could use the ‘5’ in various ways – 5 days, 5 weeks, 5 favourite something, 5 facts, a hand or foot closeup (5 perfect digits) etc

So raising my glass to Cate and her new baby and to Deb for organising the shower and off to check out what else is happening for this blogland baby shower

Look up Look down on a dune

With some lovely sunny days at the moment, Dad and I went for a walk through a local protected reserve between a golf course and the sea. Our turn around point was the top of a sand dune where I captured my up and down

The signpost in the down photo says ‘footpath and points up the dune.

As you can see it was very windy

sculpture park with cameras

yesterday for my birthday we visited a local sculpture park

Me, Dad, my sister and her partner all had our cameras so we all have plenty of photos of photographers (Mum stayed in the cafe)

the park has many large amazing and intriguing pieces spread through the woods

and my favourite – sculpted grass mounds that you can walk around, by Charles Jencks