You know the rest. So I was in one of my favorite old-book book stores a few weeks back. I started noticing some of the things other than the books. Usually, seems we are in a hurry, gotta get other shopping done, or meet someone for lunch, dinner, that sort of thing. But not this time. Any way, I look up over this one aisle, and this puffer fish is just sorta hanging out. He was huge. And by the way, we do NOT live by the ocean! So out comes my little Pentax Optio A20 camera I keep in my pocket or purse for just such an occasion, & poof, he's mine!
Now he's become a spaceship called
Possibility. Floats somewhere between land, sea, & air. He is a little bit country & a little bit city ( yeah rock & roll too probably...but that's another piece).
This is a 5.25" X 7" digital collage made in
Photoshop CS3. The surround is an 1800's vintage card with the middle masked out & an old diagram of some sort put in with a gradient. There's also a cityscape behind that. And a melding of a couple of my wave pictures with masking again. There is an old school card
that's been warped and brushed & shadow work done. I added a lighter shadow to the text to give it the look of being engraved into the card almost like stone. I did some additional brush work around the
edges of the outer surface to round it out.
I have to thank my Sister for the great eye! She's a great
lady angler/
kayaker & is always sending pics of what they catch. This eye worked great, otherwise, I would have been hunting a long time for just the right thing.
Himself & I made some good progress on clearing up downstairs for the Great Exchange of the Studio. Actually got to the point where we could discuss where my various tables could go & the computer & how 'bout some new lighting. The Lad & his lovely Wife said yesterday when they were here, that they would take the bigger sofa that's down there. So little by little it is getting there.
As You can see, its some for us, some for the birds. But that's okay, because...
there are plenty for all this year! It looks like even Harry is being tempted by the beautiful abundance of just less than sweet cherries.
And to round out cherry days, here is a cherry red flower on its last legs. It has been blooming for a couple of weeks now. I forget what it's called. We've had it for a long time but it never did much until we moved it this last year.
