The Red Chair – Book of Wisdom

Continuing on with a different red velvet chair (belongs to a friend of mine), and another owl, I created this fantasy piece. The Book of Wisdom sitting so close to the Tree of Knowledge, this must indeed be a wise owl. I even had fun playing with specialty stamp brushes in Photoshop to create the…

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Mount Sunday (AKA Edoras) – Day 7 – Re-Post

As much as I really enjoyed this day trip, I doubt it is something I could not physically do now, so if we ever get back down this way, it’s something I will pass on, so happy I did it though! Woke to relatively clear skies again, as we were picked up and headed out…

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The Red Chair – Midnight Agenda

I recently created some bird image packs for my website, I actually got inspired to create some new art from some old images. I really seem to have a bit of a thing with owls on chairs at the moment. This is my gorgeous red velvet chair in the studio. I had actually used the…

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Akaroa – Day 6 – Re-Post

This was our first real taste of the Southern Isle, we had our own car and could stop and start whenever we wanted. Even though the weather was terrible this little town found a spot in my heart. Actually I loved the whole area. I think Christchurch was one of my favourite towns in NZ,…

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Share Your World – 28th April 2020

It’s a little strange, so many people complaining that time is moving so slowly, but I am finding there still aren’t enough hours in the day. Or is it I am just getting through my do-to list slowly? It’s almost the end of April, the mornings are getting really chilly and so are some of…

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Rotorua – Day 4 Continued – Re-Post

When we went back in 2019 it was so sad to see this building (The Musuem) closed due to earhtquake damage a few years before. I had hoped to grab more iamges, as did Hubby, but sadly it was all baracaded off) After lunch the clouds that had been threatening on and off released the…

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How to give faces that extra pop in Luminar 4 — Photofocus

Giving faces that extra pop in Luminar 4 is so quick and easy, whether you’re using Luminar as a plugin or as stand-alone software. The new Portrait panel makes for easy work of quick touch-ups with the AI Skin Enhancer and AI Portrait Enhancer tools, a little Orton Effect and even some of the Dodge…

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Share your images for At Home with Photofocus — Photofocus

With so many of us still staying safe at home, we’ve decided to change up our Photographer of the Day feature for the month of May. We hope you’ll join us for At Home with Photofocus! Share your photos from home Fellow author Julie Powell and I are taking over the Photofocus Photographer of the…

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Share your images for At Home with Photofocus — Photofocus

With so many of us still staying safe at home, we’ve decided to change up our Photographer of the Day feature for the month of May. We hope you’ll join us for At Home with Photofocus! Share your photos from home Fellow author Julie Powell and I are taking over the Photofocus Photographer of the…

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Monday Musings…

I was supposed to be having surgery on my shoulder this morning, but that got cancelled…again! So it’s on-again, off-again, who knows when! I did spend the weekend tidying up some loose ends, I have two new online classes, one is all finished – have been working on it for months, it is actually to…

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