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March 7, 2010

More Free Textures Added

I have two new free textures for you to use on your photo manipulation projects! The photo started out as a shot I had taken at the park, you can sort of see the horizon line with super blurred out trees on the right. Below the horizon, which is/was the city of Syracuse NY, on the right side was ice covered water, the left was snow!

If you use this texture in your work, I’d love to see it, please post a copy in my Flickr comments!

Enjoy!

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March 3, 2010

The White Witch

By Susan

I had taken this photo last October or November up in Baldwinsville, New York. I was trying to capture the rolling hills that you sort of, well almost see in the background. Fortunately or unfortunately the sun was high in the sky and obscuring the hills! I took it anyway in the hope that I could use the open field and lone tree as a background for an image – which I did!

Titled “The White Witch” the final image has been added to my gallery over on RedBubble. When I added the image to my gallery I also posted a question. Since I post a lot of images on both Flickr and RedBubble I also spend time looking through all the images submitted by fellow artists and I’ve noticed that a lot of artists create images that are inspired by the written word – poems, stories, lyric etc. That started me thinking about writers and if they are inspired by images.

Well, someone answered my question with a wonderful poem based on my image! I’m really thrilled, the poem is so full of longing and sadness which is something that I was not attempting to illustrate but when I look at it with fresh eyes it is there for all to see!

If you would like to read the wonderful poem please click here.

The image is also available as a greeting card and various size prints if you’re interested!

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February 4, 2010

Bubbles, Fairies and Witches

By Susan

Ok, so this was not taken at Onondaga Lake. I have enough images from the park…well at least for now! Its been cold and gray here lately so I decided to see what was happening over on Flickr. I have a lot of fun entering images in the various competitions that are held in the various groups I belong to. I guess I was pretty bored, I entered 3 contents! Well, I liked the individual images that were selected to use as a base so that always helps.

How the competition works depends on the group.

In one group I belong to the winner of the competition selects a texture image from the pool of images in that particular group, then you create any image you want as long as it uses that texture. Or in the case of the image above, the image to be featured in the competition is selected from another group – Creative Commons group, then you choose a texture image from their group and create your image.

Creating the image bubble image - “The Fairy Godmother”

The per-selected image was of the field and an open sky. The texture I chose from their group has sort of a moss green hue with some very interesting edges and tones – is here, it’s actually one of my favorite textures!

I had found the model image – the fairy – on Deviant Art a couple days earlier and knew I wanted to use her in a image at some point in time because its a simply a fantastic shot! So I found the image on my hard drive, dragged it onto the top of the field photo and it landed, so to speak, in the sky area. Humm…I sort of liked the way it of floated up there. So I made the sky much larger or higher actually – it was a little less than half the size it is now. But then I thought, I can’t just have someone floating in the sky!! Had to somehow relate her to the sky or the field or something, she can’t just hang there!

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January 16, 2010

Abandoned Shack

By Susan

Is winter over yet!! Ugh, we have about 2 months of winter left to go where I live – insert eyeroll here. If the sun would just come out and stay out for a couple days I might not be as grumpy as I am right now….so come out, come out where ever you are!!

This photo is another of my “drive by” photos. I went over to Onondaga Lake Park a couple weeks ago, took some photos of the lake – another shot from this day is here – then decided to drive around to the other side of the park – camera at the ready in my lap as I drove. Why? Read More »

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January 6, 2010

A Little Bragging

By Susan

I’m so thrilled! Last week I had two images displayed as Featured Images on two different Redbubble group home pages! It’s such an honor to have an image selected, there are so many wonderful artists on the site and to see my work side by side with their images… well it’s just mind blowing!

My image “Winter Arrives at Onondaga Lake Park” in on the Grunge Gallery page – 2nd row, 3rd image from the left. My image “Dream Caster” was featured on The Women Photographer group home page – 2nd row, 2nd from left.

Winter Arrives at Onondaga Lake Park image is HERE.

Dream Caster is HERE.

Oh, and my little Bobblehead Snowman image won a competition over on Flickr in the Imago Fabulae group, I’m so thrilled!!

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December 31, 2009

New Print Available!

By Susan

This is another version for my Winter Arrives at Onondaga Lake. Difference shot than the other one I posted earlier this week and a totally different treatment has been used.

This is available as a framed print, a greeting card, a matted print and more:

Winter Arrive…

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December 30, 2009

Winter Arrives at Onondaga Lake Park

By Susan

Winter Arrives at Onondaga Lake - Landscape

I’m not a “winter person”. I don’t ski, I don’t ice skate (at least any more) and I don’t like driving in snow. But I have to say the the first “real snow” (more than just one or two inches) is beautiful. The way it sits on the trees and seems to cover everything with a light silence, it’s just perfect. We had our first real snow yesterday – about 4 or 5 inches fell. I had decided not to go into the office since most of the snow had fallen in the morning and I didn’t want to be out driving in it with all the crazy morning traffic. But around noon I had to get out, the sun had just started to come out and the snow was just gorgeous! Read More »

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December 22, 2009

My Favorite Christmas Decoration

By Susan

I love this little bobblehead Frosty. I saw him a store a couple years ago and had to have him. I don’t even put him away after Christmas, he sits quietly on a shelf. He just makes me smile!

Photo is my own, textures are also mine.