This is from a photoshoot in the park. Like the post below, I was messing with some photoshop stuff, but it is hard to improve on the cuteness that is Tyce-and-Lane.
Monday, June 21, 2010
Cheesers!
This is from a photoshoot in the park. Like the post below, I was messing with some photoshop stuff, but it is hard to improve on the cuteness that is Tyce-and-Lane.
Aerie, Aerie, quite contrary...
... how does your garden grow?
In spite of the nearly continuous rain that we have had for the few months, the garden has begun to produce, well, produce. Most of these babies have been carefully nurtured since, gee, Groundhog Day. After reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle last year, Dad and I decided to do as many heirloom plants as we could. My Christmas gift from Dad was the most amazing contraption he has come up with to date. A Rubbermaid that had the intended purpose of horizontally storing wrapping paper was instead filled with an assortment of PVC pipes, chain, and grow lights. When fully assembled, it held about 25 large yogurt containers of seedlings, and had a frame that held an adjustable grow-light overhead. Ingenious. The fruits of that contraption and my labor are pictured below.
I am also in the process of demo-ing a photoshop program (PhotoshopC5, or something like that) so these pictures have been "shopped" to the extreme. So, I'll be giving you a guided tour of my plants along with a brief discussion of my new addiction to photoshop.
These are my "cut-and-come-again" greens. I love this seed packet. Purchased from Stargazer Nurseries in Summerville. Delicious lettuces that grow and grow until the heat gets 'em, which it has yet to do this year. Lots of phyto-nutrients too, none of that plain green stuff for me!
This photo has been edited with my new favorite effect "edge burn." Doesn't that make it look fancy and the lettuce look even tastier and more gourmet?
I spend most evenings gazing longingly at my tomato plants. They are blooming! And I had never noticed how beautiful tomato flowers are until these heirloom tomatoes began producing blooms of various sizes and shapes. I believe this is from the Silver Fir Tree Tomato, but since my popsicle-stick labels all got blown away in the wind, it will be a surprise.
Photo was sharped and again with the edge burn.
Look at that beauty! The first tomatoes are beginning to emerge! This is a variety called Amish Salad Tomato that I absolutely cannot wait to try.
This photo effect is called "Old West" and I love it! Doesn't it make the wilty old flower on the tomato look like some kind of vintage lace dress instead? A bit dramatic, yes, but it's a veggie, it needs some drama, right?
My lavender. I tried to get a picture of the bees working, as they have been so busy doing lately, but they were headed home for the evening, I'm afraid.
On this photo, I think I was a bit heavy-handed with the photo shop, but it's really quite hard to make lavender look ugly, so I threw it in anyway.
Clementis after-flowers (I assume this is going to turn in to some kind of seeding device, but I know next to nothing about clementis).
This photoshop effect was called "vintage". Looks a bit artsy, and shows the beauty of the shape of the plant.
Clementis bloom. Macro setting on camera with just a touch of sharpening from photoshop, otherwise untouched.
More clementis after-flowers. Swirly-whirley balls everywhere!
Brightened the photo and burned the edges again. This one makes me happy.
Oh my! A photoshop effect called "Ethereal and Lovely" on a pea plant. Flower in the foreground and a scrumptious pea in the background. Gobbled up shortly after this photo was taken.
More lavender. Totally overdone on photoshop. I can't even remember all the things that I did to it, but I like how it turned out kind of grainy and stark.
In spite of the nearly continuous rain that we have had for the few months, the garden has begun to produce, well, produce. Most of these babies have been carefully nurtured since, gee, Groundhog Day. After reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle last year, Dad and I decided to do as many heirloom plants as we could. My Christmas gift from Dad was the most amazing contraption he has come up with to date. A Rubbermaid that had the intended purpose of horizontally storing wrapping paper was instead filled with an assortment of PVC pipes, chain, and grow lights. When fully assembled, it held about 25 large yogurt containers of seedlings, and had a frame that held an adjustable grow-light overhead. Ingenious. The fruits of that contraption and my labor are pictured below.
I am also in the process of demo-ing a photoshop program (PhotoshopC5, or something like that) so these pictures have been "shopped" to the extreme. So, I'll be giving you a guided tour of my plants along with a brief discussion of my new addiction to photoshop.
These are my "cut-and-come-again" greens. I love this seed packet. Purchased from Stargazer Nurseries in Summerville. Delicious lettuces that grow and grow until the heat gets 'em, which it has yet to do this year. Lots of phyto-nutrients too, none of that plain green stuff for me!
This photo has been edited with my new favorite effect "edge burn." Doesn't that make it look fancy and the lettuce look even tastier and more gourmet?
I spend most evenings gazing longingly at my tomato plants. They are blooming! And I had never noticed how beautiful tomato flowers are until these heirloom tomatoes began producing blooms of various sizes and shapes. I believe this is from the Silver Fir Tree Tomato, but since my popsicle-stick labels all got blown away in the wind, it will be a surprise.
Photo was sharped and again with the edge burn.
Look at that beauty! The first tomatoes are beginning to emerge! This is a variety called Amish Salad Tomato that I absolutely cannot wait to try.This photo effect is called "Old West" and I love it! Doesn't it make the wilty old flower on the tomato look like some kind of vintage lace dress instead? A bit dramatic, yes, but it's a veggie, it needs some drama, right?
My lavender. I tried to get a picture of the bees working, as they have been so busy doing lately, but they were headed home for the evening, I'm afraid.
On this photo, I think I was a bit heavy-handed with the photo shop, but it's really quite hard to make lavender look ugly, so I threw it in anyway.
Clementis after-flowers (I assume this is going to turn in to some kind of seeding device, but I know next to nothing about clementis).
This photoshop effect was called "vintage". Looks a bit artsy, and shows the beauty of the shape of the plant.
Clementis bloom. Macro setting on camera with just a touch of sharpening from photoshop, otherwise untouched.
More clementis after-flowers. Swirly-whirley balls everywhere!
Brightened the photo and burned the edges again. This one makes me happy.
Oh my! A photoshop effect called "Ethereal and Lovely" on a pea plant. Flower in the foreground and a scrumptious pea in the background. Gobbled up shortly after this photo was taken.
More lavender. Totally overdone on photoshop. I can't even remember all the things that I did to it, but I like how it turned out kind of grainy and stark.
Monday, June 14, 2010
My favorite photo-op!
It seems as though it takes some kind of special alignment of the planets and fortune cookies for me to get my two kids in close proximity, happy and smiling, and happen to have a camera nearby. But, as I was snapping away today while the kids were in the bathtub, I realized that I do this ALL the time. Bathtub photo sessions! So, I decided to dig back through all the old files that I have within easy clicking-distance on my computer and put together a "through the years" homage to my kids in the bath. Fingers crossed for chronological order and correct dates...
March 2007
May 2007
October 2007, Laney is almost one and a new walker!
April 2008
June 2008, Feet!
February 2009, Tyce is four, Laney is two
July 2009, After trip to Hawaii and addition of Skippyjon
September 2009
December 2009
January 2010, Tyce is five, Laney is three
March 2010, hey, there are some extra body parts in this pic!
May 2010
June 14, 2010
June 14, 2010
Now, seriously contemplating buying photoshop software, so my photos don't all look like they were taken in a bathtub. Any suggestions?
Jan 2007, Tyce was two years old, Laney 2 months
March 2007
May 2007
October 2007, Laney is almost one and a new walker!
April 2008
June 2008, Feet!
February 2009, Tyce is four, Laney is two
July 2009, After trip to Hawaii and addition of Skippyjon
September 2009
December 2009
January 2010, Tyce is five, Laney is three
March 2010, hey, there are some extra body parts in this pic!
May 2010
June 14, 2010
June 14, 2010
Now, seriously contemplating buying photoshop software, so my photos don't all look like they were taken in a bathtub. Any suggestions?
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