Sunset - Let's Do 52 - Week 18

My Beloved Cherokee Marsh at Sunset
One of my favorite places in this wide world.

This one is a little lighter.

Photo Processing :

Layer 1 : Background photo of Cherokee Marsh

Layer 2: Kim Klassen's Serious Magic Texture - Soft Light Blend Mode at 39%

Layer 3: Black Box-2 Texture by Jerry Jones at Shadowhouse Creations - Soft Light at 17%

Layer 4: Crane Brush

We did see cranes and other birds there, flying into the rook for the night, bit not caught on camera.  Hence the magic of PhotoShop to capture what we did not in real life.  

It's amazing how the black textures "develop" the light, and make the light pop!

Once again, I am participating in Denise Love's 2018 "Let's Do 52 : 52 Weeks of Photo Prompts" to kick start the lull in my photography.   If you'd like to join us, find out more at the link above.  The more the merrier!

Sunset : Week 4 Let's Do 52

From the Archive.  Both these pics were taken just a few blocks from my house.  It was a beautiful May evening.  I was working on framing my pics in the camera. 

I am participating in Denise Love's 2017 "Let's Do 52 : 52 Weeks of Photo Prompts" to kick start the lull in my photography.   If you'd like to join us, find out more at the link above.  The more the merrier!

Cormorant at Sunset

At least I think it's a cormorant.   Maybe it's a duck, after all?

Recipe for this image in Photoshop :
Layer 1 : Background image, cropped.
Layer 2 : b4 Texture by Sirius_sdz     Multiply Blend Mode at 19% opacity
Layer 3 : 2 Lil Owls Delicate Paints 4 Texture - Multiply 46%
Layer 4 : 2LO Delicate Paints 4 Texture - Soft Light 100%

Posting to the Texture Artists FaceBook Group.

Sketchbook Challenge : Ordinary Objects

Piper Cub at Sunset
The original was done in gouache watercolors on some heavy watercolor paper (What a difference that makes!). I'm going to give the original to my best buddy J (Shhh! Don't tell her ...) since this is a silhouette of her plane, a Piper Cub.

This summer, she flew across the country, from Rhode Island to Idaho, to start her dream job as a wildlife biologist, tracking animals with radio collars (among many other things). She did stop to see me in WI. ;-)

Although seeing one of these little planes, and even flying in one, is a rare treat for most of us, this is an everyday thing for her. See how I'm shoe-horning it into the August Sketchbook Challenge theme : Everyday Objects?