Photoshop: Photostrip & A Flip Book!
I’m playing around with Photoshop actions this morning. As I was sitting here going through our pictures from Saturday’s fishing trip, I noticed a Photoshop action I had downloaded a couple months ago, but hadn’t played around with yet–CoffeeShop Photostrip. With Rita’s action, it’s quite simple to create a photo strip with four photos, like
PhotoShop Actions: Perfect Portrait
The CoffeeShop Blog is one of my favorite go-to sites for anything PhotoShop. Rita has tutorials, templates and actions that she explains to you. I’ve seriously had quite a few Ah-Ha! moments over there. She has it figured out! While I wish I had time in my life to figure everything out that PhotoShop can
I Spy…
Old. Red. Wood. Another old barn! This one I spied in Mason County on Custer Road. Look at that perfect lean! It still has usefulness left to its old bones and it will continue the fight until the very end. I had forgotten I’d taken this photo. I was going through my many gigs of
West Michigan Fall Color Tour 2011
While the rest of the family was fishing, I was capturing the beautiful colors of West Michigan. There’s a little of everything–from still green leaves to leaves that have already fallen from the trees. Join me on my fall color tour…
Waiting For Sunset
Along a deserted beach, a lonely red chair just waits for the sun to set. Sunset Beach, Pentwater, Michigan Taking an afternoon drive, I found this lonely chair. It beckoned for me to stop the car and capture the moment. It was the redness of the chair and the blueness of Lake Michigan that called
A New Camera!
I’ve been an amateur photographer hobbyist for quite a few years…using a point and shoot. They are a great little camera and if you use the functions available to you, they can produce a great photo. Closeup, the macro function on my Sony DSC works like a charm. But I haven’t gotten stealth enough to
Hollyhocks in Watercolor
The hollyhocks along the back deck make the perfect prop for doing a “watercolor” painting–in PhotoShop. PhotoShop has many built-in filters that make it easy manipulate photos. But if you’ve worked with these filters before, you know they aren’t realistic for the most part. I’ve been trying to find a good watercolor tutorial. It takes
The Easter Lily
My niece gave me this beautiful Easter Lily for Easter. It was so beautiful and so fragrant. I lived with it for 10 days. Then realized it was the source of my horrendous allergy “sinus/cold/crud” feeling I had been suffering with for 10 days. Duh! It went to live with Mom for the remainder of
A Simple Tripod
What is it? Popcorn Rice All shot with a simple point & shoot camera on macro setting into a MASON JAR, using the mason jar as a tri-pod! Gardening Gone Wild has a monthly photo contest and January’s was a Mason Jar Macro theme. Check them out here. There are some amazing things that can
A Black & White (and pink) Beauty
Does looking at something put you in a happy place? Flowers, it’s flowers that put me in that happy place. While I’m no professional photographer by any means, I like to get right down there and get me some of that happy time to preserve. You never know when I might need something with some
State Capital’s Architecture
Last week, my girlfriend and I made a trip to Lansing. She had some business to do and I went along for the ride out of town! Downtown Lansing in the Capital Area really has some great architecture. It was very chilly that day, so these were taken from the car. Enjoy! A beautiful
Winter finally landed in this area of West Michigan this past week. And with Winter’s normal attitude, he did away with Precious Sunshine. But look at Miss Sunshine today – she’s overruled Old Man Winter for today… And I must say — snow, sunshine, and shadows — nothing but beautiful! Head over to for some
Joining in with today. As I stand on the dock in the afternoon light,Who am i seeing? What am I seeing? Just me and my shadowA friend who will never leave my sideWatching reflections from the autumn airWatching, feeling the grasses weaving about Thinking, deliberating. No, there’s not an absolute to these questions Daily these
This was my view this morning just some beautiful sun casting shadows on my fence and empty garden boxes sprinkled with fall leaves. I stepped out onto the deck to get some beautiful sunny fall shots around the yard. It was 20 degrees out! I do believe my mornings with coffee on the deck are
Joining in with today. Come walk with me, take off your shoes, let’s walk the beach…. It took all summer for Lake Michigan to warm up enough to take the grandbabies to play in the water….but as Fall is upon us, I really needed to share our time at the beach with you before snow
Sometimes we live our lives like puzzle pieces turned upside down. Then along comes life, and it starts flipping them over, showing us and the world who we are. This photo was taken last weekend when my brothers and nephew and their families were up for salmon fishing. Fishing wasn’t great, so I was snapping
Happy Mother’s Day To All Mothers!! A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thicken around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her
Hey Harrietis hosting Shadow Shot Sundayin Australia…. so I get to be a day early!! Shadows give a photo a new dimension, a mystery… I haven’t posted to SSS in over a month!! Why? Because you need SUN to make shadows!! The sun has finally decided to make it’s return to Western Michigan!! Join me
Please join me as I take a tour of Lake Michigan, Pentwater Lake, and Bass Lake…finding the signs of spring Fishing in the boat on Pentwater Lake Someone already taking advantage of Sunset Beach and giving the dog some exercise Sunset Beach along Lake Michigan A lonely rowboat waiting for the summer when his owner
Hosted by Peggy of The Simple Woman’s Daybook Simplicity…a break, a view, a thought FOR TODAY … April 6, 2009 Outside my window…A sunny, breezy morning, still chilly, but no precipitation. The grass in the backyard appears to be getting greener. I am thinking…Of the girls and praying for healthy babies for both of them.