This was a fun swap to create for! The theme was just winter - anything what so ever goes, as long as it's a winter theme! So, what's more wintry than a snowman! This is actually a napkin that I just put on the ATC, added some text, and some glitter to create the effect of sparkly snow. Just a fun card!
And, of course, what's more winter than Christmas? I again used a Christmas napkin as the background, and then added a vintage Santa and a torn definition of the word Christmas. This one has a nice vintage feel to it.
For this last card, I used a photograph of mine as the background. I then cut out what looks kind of like a window from a template that I had, added a cup of cappuccino or cocoa, text, and there you have it! I thought it created the feel of a winter day, when you're nice and warm inside!!Enjoy!
Sunsets at City of Rocks are quite lovely, too. The above image is of the branches of a shrub (sorry, don't know the name) against the sunset sky. I just liked the way the sunset set off the branches and thought I'd capture it.
Isn't this a lovely sunset landscape? I really like the pink/purple/blue of the sky and the nicely lit clouds. And, yes, the peaky mountain off in the distance is the same one I captured in the sunrise image!
Isn't this cool? It sort of captures the essence of City of Rocks - the monoliths, beautiful sunset sky and the crescent moon above it all. Life at its best!Enjoy!
Ok, so sometimes I'm a lazy photographer! One morning, when I raised the shades in the bedroom of our RV, this is the sight that greeted me. So, I decided to just sit on the bed with both kitties are either side of me, and shoot the sunrise! What a great way to start the day!
This image was actually a few minutes before the one above, just before the sun rose over the horizon. What a glorious start to the day! Oh, and in case some of you are thinking I have such sensitive kitties that enjoy things like sunrises.....well......I hate to burst your bubble, but the kitties were sticking close to me because I'm the source of food in the morning! Really, kitties are nothing, if not practical when it comes to that type of thing!Enjoy!
One morning, we went hiking among the monoliths, and came across some fall fauna! Grasses were turning brown and going to seed. I like the above image because it's sort of abstract-y (is that a word?) and I just like the tones of the image.
Here's a close up of a couple of individual grass stems or leaves or whatever! I liked the way the blurred one in the background seems to echo the one in the foreground. Just a nice soft image.
One of the few things that were still really green (besides the trees) were the yucca. I loved the way the sun sort of reflected off the edges of its leaves - like little pinpricks of light.Enjoy!
This was our home away from home last weekend! The above image is a sort of overview of the entire state park. In the middle of some prairie-like terrain, some huge rocks just seem to spring up from the ground. They are about 20-30 feet high, so we're talking some fairly decent sized monoliths. According to the information published by the state park, there are only 6 places on the earth where this has occurred - and one of those places is in New Mexico! And, just for the record, we are not one of the white dots clustered together (those are the electric sites). If you look due right from the cluster, you'll see a tiny white dot - that's our campsite!
The above image was taken from our campsite looking up the hill. It may be hard to see in this shot (because I just wanted to capture the big sky!), but right under the tree to the right is a picnic table. That is actually a walk-in site, and the place where I took the photo of Miki from another blog entry.
I love this image, even tho it isn't one of mine. Jeff took this image with his iPhone camera - pretty good quality, don't you think? It's a photo of our actual campsite, and one of the few times you may be able to see me in the shadows with Miki - I generally don't like to have my photo taken (which is why I'm a photographer!). I thought this might give you an idea of how cool it is to camp at this state park, nestled among the monoliths!Enjoy!
This entry is animal themed and from our camping weekend last weekend! The first image, above, is of our wonderful German Shepherd, Miki, as she was sort of surveying her weekend domain. We were sitting in a walk in campsite just up the hill from our own campsite (the tree between the rocks in the center of the photo is our campsite), and Miki seemed to just enjoy sitting and looking out on all the running space available to her!
This next image is of my darling little kitty-girl, Tatoosh, as she sat on the back of the couch/sofa in the RV looking out the window at the great view she had from there. I thought it would make a good silhouette image, and I do like the way it came out. Sort of her contemplating life beyond the safety of the rig!
This last image is of one of the many birds and other creatures that flew around us while we were walking around or just sitting at the campsite. It was so quiet there, I was able to just sit at the campsite and listen to the sound of flying - the slower "whosh, whosh" of the crow/raven flying, the sort of whirring sound of the quail's wings as it took flight, and the sort of clacking sound made by the grasshoppers as they flew about. I never thought grasshoppers really flew, but the ones at this state park certainly did! I don't know if they were a different variety of what, but they definitely flew quite the distance!
Went camping this past weekend, and had some fun with textures and abstracts in nature. The above image is a photo of some moss growing on a rock, that I then applied some artistic filters to in PhotoShop!
I really like this image! There was the dead part of what I think was a yucca plant of some sort. Again, I took a close up of the dead yucca "leaves" and then applied a different fun artistic filter to it and got this result!
This one has to be my favorite. One morning when we woke up, I pulled up the shade in the RV bedroom window and just sat there with the 2 kitties on each side of me, watching the sun rise. I took this photo, even tho I knew it was a bit too dark to have the image come out in sharp focus. I thought it might turn out cool out of focus, and I think it did! I didn't play around with this one at all in terms of enhancing it or applying filters. These are the actual colors of the sunrise....and if one is sleepy enough or without glasses/contacts, I guess the hazy focus could be reality, too!Enjoy!
This was a fun swap to create for! The theme was just winter - anything what so ever goes, as long as it's a winter theme! So, what's more wintry than a snowman! This is actually a napkin that I just put on the ATC, added some text, and some glitter to create the effect of sparkly snow. Just a fun card!
And, of course, what's more winter than Christmas? I again used a Christmas napkin as the background, and then added a vintage Santa and a torn definition of the word Christmas. This one has a nice vintage feel to it.
For this last card, I used a photograph of mine as the background. I then cut out what looks kind of like a window from a template that I had, added a cup of cappuccino or cocoa, text, and there you have it! I thought it created the feel of a winter day, when you're nice and warm inside!!
