Images of the arty kind

[Paddy Tobin]

Good one, Robin

[cohan]

These needle and cone textures on a pine tree looked like a canvas in the morning light. 

yes, nice textures
 i really believe that carrying a camera around a lot/looking for images makes you see quite differently...

[Ragged Robin]

These tiny Dianthus splashing out amongst the rocks reminded me of drops of blood and pricked my conscience to become a blood donor.

[Paddy Tobin]

Lois,

Welcome to the forum with the first of many postings hopefully.

Your first photograph is very close to a stained glass image, very nice.

Paddy

[Maggi Young]

Hi, Lois! Where did your photos disappear to?

[LoisRichter]

(Trying a third time to get this post right! Photos #1&2 are too fuzzy, but my better ones were rejected for size.  Guess I'll have to re-compress things to fit this forum.)

Hello, all --
I just found your SRGC forum -- I was searching for how to spell the German name for the "Acorn Jay" and got into one of the threads here -- and saw the arty images thread.  That's my thing!  I take lots of photos and LOVE to mess with them.  Hope you will enjoy the ones below, all variations of a red rose photo.

[Paddy Tobin]

I didn't take them!

Paddy

[Paddy Tobin]

Hi Lois,

The general practice here is to reduce image size to 640 on the longer side. It may also be necessary to drop the quality to ease uploading.

Paddy

[Maggi Young]

Ah, now I see 'em! Yes, Paddy, I see what you mean.... stained glass comes to mind.... and I am very fond of stained glass so these images appeal to me!
Lois, try sizing your images at around 780 x 580 pixels and  under 300kb for this forum, it'll make life easier for you  and we find that folks generally like to view the images without scrolling   

[LoisRichter]

The first two images should look LESS like blurry stained glass and MORE like pencil drawings.    The third one is closer to the image as it's printed. 

Thanks for the compliments!  (I'll need to re-size most of my other work to send to you.  That will take a while.)

In the meantime...
Below is the first "haiga" that I ever did.  (Haiga is a style which combines a related image & haiku.)  I got started writing haiku this year, when Rick Daddario turned me on to it.  Haiga was a natural home for me, since I'm very visual.  There is a haiga challenge each month at the World Haiku Association -- http://www.worldhaiku.net/haiga.htm -- where folks can upload their creations and have a haiku master critique them.  The best ones are shown on their website.
I submitted this flower haiga to the February 2009 challenge. 

[Maggi Young]

Lois, you'll find lots of like-minded folks here..... we shoot flowers, we're not all Scottish, ( one of our German forumists could likely help you with your "Acorn Jay" spelling, since many of us are also birders), some of us are also involved in radio gardening programmes, are artists..... .........bless me, you fit right in! 

[Ragged Robin]

I submitted this flower haiga to the February 2009 challenge

Hi Lois, I love your flower haiga and wish you lots of luck in the Feb 2009 challenge!

On the web link you posted I thought there were some really interesting and thought provoking images and words and I love Haiku too ....distilling thoughts in words is such a powerful way of communicating ideas and emotions.

Looking forward to enjoying more of your creative work in this arty thread 

[Paddy Tobin]

Following on Lois' example.

Paddy

[annew]

Photography is not really my thing, but here are some images of mine from the garden today. No2 is Aquilegia grahamii, no 5 is white chives, no 7 Iris Teal Velvet.

[Paddy Tobin]

I like the camassia, Anne.

One for cliff!

Paddy