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thanks lol -- that is not my head, it's a sunflower 
i bought some nice macro-lenses for my camera that let me get very close-up pictures, because i like the idea of revealing all these details that i couldn't normally see, or would over look (♪ looking over, a four-leaf clover, that i overlooked before .. ♫)
that's how i can get detail like this, but it means i have to keep the camera very steady, and the plane of focus is very small, so i have to be very precise, and i also have to get the lens about 3 inches from the dragonfly! it's not very easy to get a bug to sit still long enough to get a picture of it when you have a big reflective lens that close to it. *usually* takes a lot of patience!
this dragonfly was just absolutely posing for me yesterday when we went out to the car to go to church. dragonflies are especially beautiful, and especially skittish about the camera, so i dashed back into the house to get my equipment, and the little thing obliged
we ended up being a bit late for church, but we thank God for it - i don't have any other explanation for what a good subject the little critter was being other than that the Lord directed her to pose for me, knowing how much we love them.
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i bought some nice macro-lenses for my camera that let me get very close-up pictures, because i like the idea of revealing all these details that i couldn't normally see, or would over look (♪ looking over, a four-leaf clover, that i overlooked before .. ♫)
that's how i can get detail like this, but it means i have to keep the camera very steady, and the plane of focus is very small, so i have to be very precise, and i also have to get the lens about 3 inches from the dragonfly! it's not very easy to get a bug to sit still long enough to get a picture of it when you have a big reflective lens that close to it. *usually* takes a lot of patience!
this dragonfly was just absolutely posing for me yesterday when we went out to the car to go to church. dragonflies are especially beautiful, and especially skittish about the camera, so i dashed back into the house to get my equipment, and the little thing obliged
we ended up being a bit late for church, but we thank God for it - i don't have any other explanation for what a good subject the little critter was being other than that the Lord directed her to pose for me, knowing how much we love them.
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I see her smile in this shot.
Yesterday we were out in our garden and hubby wasn't sure what he was seeing. So, I turned and scared the little bird away. God was gracious, and the little thing returned.
I'm from NJ and actually remember the state bird is a goldfinch. I remember that because I grew up looking and waiting for the state bird to come near me. (After all -- state bird. Must mean they can be seen fairly easy in that state, right? lol) Last year the state bird of PA visited our garden. A wood grouse, which is very cool, since we live in a city, so, by default no woods to have wood grouse citings. Yesterday I saw my first goldfinch... and no camera! Where were you and your camera when I needed you? lol
We have photos of a hawk that visited, a hummingbird, and the wood grouse. Missed the parakeet (I think someone's pet escaped) and the goldfinch. Got a hummingbird moth once, but it's hard to see it. We get so excited, I have no idea how you still your hands. lol
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Obviously the last one is photoshopped (or kindred cgg program.) Are the first two? I'm envious of the computer-art generation. I tried Photoshop for over a year and just couldn't get it. Microsoft's old-school photo manipulation programs had a steep learning curve with me. And if not cgg, how'd you do that?
All of them were. Its just using a certain brush for the grass, a gradient for the background, a solid circle brush for the sun, and then for the clouds I would click to make a dot and then used the smudge tool to shape it into a swirly looking cloud. Then of course, I would use certain effects to give it the color it has, such as exposure, curves, and gradients on lighten (blending mode for the layer).
Ya know, I've tried. But I think something strange happened to me. During that period of time when I was into art, I was VERY introverted. And it seems that art must have been my way of saying what I really couldn't verbalize.
Now, ya can't shut me up, and I have lost both the desire and ability to draw or paint much.
Now, ya can't shut me up, and I have lost both the desire and ability to draw or paint much.
