In my part of the world, it’s pretty hot. Maybe you can splash in the ocean or a river or a pool. If you’re coping with a heat wave, there are also other ways to chill out…
~ a cool app for organizing your schedule and projects…
~ a cool coneflower from Beverly…
~ great resources for keeping your cool from Leo Babauta and more free articles here
Wishing everyone a great weekend, whatever your weather.
This image was taken a few years ago on a trip to Copenhagen. On the right is Nyhavn 17, a bar/cafe/restaurant in a 17th century waterfront building that just oozes history.
I recently processed the image with some Radlab filters to try to capture the feeling I had when I was there.
I get a kick of looking at other photos of iconic places I go to see the way other photographers perceived the same scene, how they shot it and how they processed and presented it.
What about you? Do you ever google the places you shoot either before or after you make your images?
What am I nostalgic for?
I was in the big city of Toronto recently. I used to live there in my early twenties — when all things were still possible and the days and nights were long and full of fun, friends and intellectual and cultural stimulation. Art house movies, live music, plays, eating out, exploring and discovering…
I spent a lot of time on the subway in those days, roaming the city. I loved it. I still love the subway, and its speed. I love observing people, listening to their conversations, and chatting with them from time to time. I love letting my imagination run wild.
I had the strong urge to make pictures in the subway on this visit, lo these many years later. When I saw how this image turned out, it grabbed me. It reminded me of me — and captured so well how I felt in those days — and how I remember those days now.
Sharing this with WordPress’ Weekly Photo Challenge.
A great way to celebrate the Canada Day weekend is sailing on Lake Ontario near Toronto.
Hope all my Canadian friends and family had an enjoyable and safe weekend!
Creative Live training videos: Free while live, and extremely useful…can be addictive
The Good Life Project interviews with Jonathan Fields: informative and entertaining – check out the ones with Lissa Rankin and Susan Piver
How to make a smoothie: yummy
My Manifesto: I kinda like it. Thought you might too.
Have a great weekend all, and for my fellow Canadians, wishing you a great Canada Day!
Linking with Nancy’s Random Five Friday.
Biscayne Bay, Florida
Linking with Kim Klassen’s Texture Tuesday.
Thirteen tall ships were in Brockville, Ontario, last weekend as part of the 1812 Tour.
We had the chance to go out in the St. Lawrence River on the Empire Sandy, the largest of the tall ships there — and I believe the largest in Canada. (It’s 203 feet long.)
It can be hard to convey the “tallness” of these ships in a photograph, which have masts over 100 feet.
I wanted to get a shot that told a story of what we experienced that beautiful June day.
Luckily, it was breezy, so we had a chance to see the crew hoist and lower the sails. Hard work, that is!
I managed to get myself positioned below one of the crew members as he was straddling the boom, in an attempt to flake the sail (put it down). I saw him look up, and clicked the shutter at the right time. The lines on each side of the mast are called “ratlines” and they are what you climb to the top of the mast if you needed to.
Here are a few other images from the day….
Shared with Weekly Photo Challenge, June 21.
A little while ago, I promised a tutorial on how to make orbs in Photoshop.
If you arrived at my blog from Toad Hollow’s 88 Amazing Photography Links… on Lightstalking, WELCOME! I’m very glad to have you. I hope you enjoy this tutorial. Feel free to stay awhile and check out some of my other posts on photography. If you like what you see, you may want to subscribe to the blog so you don’t miss any posts.
And without further ado, the tutorial…
Start by selecting an image and cropping it to a square. Say, like this.
Now, make sure your image is in 8 bits per channel, not 16, or the rest won’t work. You can check this by going into Image > Mode.
The next step is to go into Filter > Distort > Polar Coordinates.
Click on Polar to Rectangular and OK.
The result.
Then you’ll want to flip your image vertically by going Image > Image Rotation > Flip Canvas Vertical.
The result.
Then go back to Filter > Distort > Polar Coordinates…
Only, this time, click on Rectangular to Polar and OK.
And there you have it! Easy peasy, right?
Now you can apply whatever other effects or textures you want to tweak the image or you can frame the image…
Play to your heart’s content.
Have fun with this technique, and if you feel like it, share your images with me in the comments, and I’ll post some on my blog.
Bokeh ball
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