A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels,
in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
I was one of the lucky winners and it was the most amazing lunch date I could ever have asked for!
Tutti in Piazza, Wollongong celebrates Italian Day with a food festival
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One of my bookmarks in Firefox is a technorati search of my flickr URL and it is interesting to see how my photos are used on other sites under a Creative Commons license.
Today's search led me to a nicely written article on creative framing
I would recommend a visit. For the framing of my image I used bighugelabs.com/flickr which is a wonderful resource which allows you to 'do fun stuff with your photos'.
On Anzac Day I noticed that one of the daisies growing in the garden had bloomed and it made me smile. Today I went out into the backyard and found this daisy which was partially closed and had a happy surprise in finding a fly inside the flower.
I had found my beloved 50mm f1.4 pentax smc lens and held a macro filter in front of it to get up close to the fly.
Processing included curves and levels, then the placement of an image taken of my french windows which I thought would make a nice frame, representing the view out my dining room window. I hope you like it :)
In a few months my grandson (by marriage) will be two years of age. It seems like only yesterday that I took this photo when he was but a month old. My how time flies!
Image re-edited with Topaz Adjust and some skin smoothing techniques
Roman is my step-son's step-son and in his arms he holds his one month old baby brother, Dylan. It is still such a joy to see this photo two years on. Roman is such a good big brother and I am sure the two will be great friends growing up.
I'm working on a photo book of images to celebrate Dylan's 2nd birthday in June and this is one of the images that the lighting was bad and the image hampered by colour shift into the oranges. I edited this using Topaz Adjust and then some curves and levels followed by selective blur and sharpening.
To take this photo I used a Pentax istDL camera with a manual 50mm f1.8 lens borrowed from a Pentax KM slr which was purchased by my husband Philip in 1969 from Asahi, Japan
A very rainy day last Winter exploring the Sunshine Coast. I really liked the reflections and moody feel to this image and decided it was a good candidate for editing with Topaz Adjust, a creative image editing software that is free to download and trial for 30 days.
http://www.topazlabs.com/topazlabs/03products/topaz_adjust/
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