Wedding bouquets

I helped daughter no. 2 with some wedding photography last weekend.

 

 

 

 

 

Alpaca Project and other stuff

Each Tuesday morning we congregate in the art department at the Sherwood campus of Deakin University at Warrnambool.

Below is an assortment of alpaca fleece spun by Jill.

Jill decided to experiment with the brown and white plied yarn and dye it blue. These are the results. The verdict is still out.

Jill bought in her Majacraft spinning wheel to show me. She loves it and now it is on my wish list.

Here is Georgie warping up for her first alpaca piece. Georgie is concentrating on lace weaves for her theme.

THE OTHER STUFF

The flower ( not sure what it is) was photographed for an assignment on ‘composition’ for the Photoshop course I am doing.

And these birds are corellas. There are lots of them around at the moment, having a distinctive squawking noise. They also seem to be public enemy number one in many parts of Victoria for the damage they do to crops and the environment.

Photo shoot

Kayla, one of our Year 12 VCE art students, did extremely well with one of her folio pieces. She needed some photographs of her creation for publication. She asked and I was happy to do it. We went bush early the other morning and got some great shots.

Kayla designed, made and modeled her creation beautifully, along with plenty of support from her teacher, Annemaree.

Weaving and Roses

The seashell themed honeycomb weaving, blogged about here, here and here,framed with watercolour paper.

 

And a perfect rose photographed in my mother’s garden.

Passing opportunity

Just happened to be going past Mum and Dad’s front yard tonight when I noticed these great shadows.

And of course I had to have a fiddle in Photoshop.

This, to me, is more dynamic with a slightly abstract edge. I like it. I like the hard copy too.

Just one more…

Love the softness and lushness of this image.

Sorry T – large file size again. The reason for this is that one day soon I am going to turn my blog into a printed book and images such as these need to have good resolution to print out effectively. I want to record my blog in case, for some unknown reason, it disappears into the blogoshere one day. Having a book will then sooth my angst as I will still have a hard copy of my blog. The plan is to do this at the end of each year.

Therefore, any images that are ‘art’ images need to be a decent file size but all others that are merely record shots I will reduce for quick downloading time.

Guess who got an Ipod for Christmas

I bought myself a new ipod for Christmas since my old one is now classified as ancient and was, in fact, playing up. I have now re-discovered podcasts. And I really don't need another thing to spend time on. I subscribe to Photoshop podcasts, plus yoga, plus food. Truly, there is not enough time in a day. Here are a few results of fiddling in Photoshop after watching a podcast today.

Somewhere in South Australia

Coffin Bay National Park

London Bridge, Shipwreck Coast, Victoria