PWL - Reflections

This weeks assignment was Reflections - having taken some lovely shots at our local canal last year, it immediately came to mind for this assignment. Thankfully the weather was on my side tonight and I got some lovely summer sun reflections ;-)

PWL2 - Light & Dark

This weeks assignment was to play with shadows. It was a tough challenge for me, and I spent the week desparetly looking for shadows and finding none! I had an idea that I wanted to try some in a graveyard, and finally got a willing victim to come with me and be my shadow.


Loss




Ghost




Celtic Cross

PWL 2 - Leading Lines

I'm so excited this week to have started Cheryl Johnsons new workshop - Painting With Light 2. Our assignment this week is to take images with "Leading Lines". We have to submit 3 final images. Now I just have to choose......

Wine Glass




Liberty Hall




Flags




Car




Bird

Jills Make Up Trial - Photoshoot

This weekend I was in Cork for a make-up trial for Jills wedding. I suggested that I do a mini-shoot for the girls. It was so much fun getting all the girls posing for me. They are such beautiful girls, it made the job a rather easy one!

The Bride to be - my lovely sister Jill




Bridesmaid, Gillian




Bridesmaid, Fleur




The Mother of the Bride, Eithne




Group shots,

Cheryl Johnsons Bootcamp

I'm just recovering from an amazing weekend at Cheryl Johnson's Photography Bootcamp. I booked this so long ago, that it felt like ages away. And when it came it went by so quickly.

I had the best weekend. Cheryl is an amazing photographer and generous teacher. Lesley, her lovely assistant, was the best fun and so patient with sharing her photoshop knowledge. The girls (& boy) attending were a hoot. And even the weather was perfect.



If you are at all interested in photography I seriously recommend you check out some of Cheryl's classes over on her site. I've just signed up for Painting With Light 2 - which promises to be another fantastic course.

For homework we have to upload out 3 best images from the course. I have 2 ready and still need to do some editing on the last one.

We had a wonderful model for the studio work. Here is my original shot straight from the camera.



Here is the version after I edited in Photoshop.



I can definitely see how I could improve on the editing, but since I've never attempted editing a person in PS before I'm pleased with the results.


My second image is this flower - out of camera....



I couldn't see how I could improve much with editing, so all I did was sharpen the image slightly for my submission piece.



But as I was having so much fun in PS I decided to see what else I could come up with and put it on a black background.



Now I've only got another 1,798 photos to share with you.......

Anns Birthday

I got his great stamp from Carrie and have been having so much fun playing with it - its so versatile.



Belated Happy Birthday Ann

Debs Tile Challenge

For her tile theme Deb choose Tropical Sea. I had in mind an idea using distress inks in blues and oranges, which went horribly wrong! LOL. Then I found this fun image from an old Craft Stamper and it brought to mind tropical plants.....

I hand dyed the linen on a recent play date with Carrie and have been 'dye-ing' (groan ;-) to use it.

The beading is hand stitched and there is a little padding to soften the look.