Seaside Living

© Sybille Sterk  

Do not copy, or publish in any way without my permission.

Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-00262

I bought a few wooden print blocks and letters a little while back and took pictures of them from different angles and in different positions. This one, when I looked at the S on its back, looked to me like it would make the perfect house. :-) The beach image was taken at Holme Beach, UK. I'd love to live there and always wanted to live in a really unusual house with higgledy piggledy rooms and secret stairs. LOL

Created with my own photographs in Photoshop, no stock used.

All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6 and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas).

Fawns and Deers Collection

© Sybille Sterk

Available as tote bags and cushion covers in my Envelop shop soon. (I'll post a notice when the designs have been approved).

© Sybille Sterk

Available right now as prints, posters, card, framed and canvas prints, iphone cases and iphone and ipod skins, ipad and laptop skins, baby and kids clothing, adult clothing (hoodies, tees, baseball tees, organic tees, girlie fitted tees etc), and stickers.

Get the prints, tees and iphone/laptop skins and cases here:

My Redbubble Portfolio

My New Society6 Shop

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(as soon as they are approved) 

Envelop Shop

Tempest

© Sybille Sterk
Do not copy or publish this in any way, shape or form without my written permission.

I was trying to portrait the emotions that sometimes shake us when we have to make a decision and all our choices seem to be bad ones. This is not a matter of  good vs. evil, but just the feeling when you're not sure what to do for the best.

The stock images are of the beautiful 

Jessica Truscott:

Bite Me
Bite Me5
Bite Me6

All other images my own including a new brush I haven't posted yet of grungy swirls. Edited in Photoshop.

Always

© Sybille Sterk
Do not copy or publish this in any way, shape or form without my written permission.

The image without the poetry is part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images – use this code: SYST-00254

My own image and my own words:
always struggling against the odds
belief and hope our only armour
how else would we fight for Dulcinea
and hope to win a heart at the end?

See the rest of the poem Always

Created with my own photographs in Photoshop, no stock used.

More Freebies: MM Moody Gradients Preset for Photoshop

The last one (purple/blue) is perfect for that vintage/hipster feel. Use the Exclusion blendmode - a play with the opacity might be necessary - and add a cool grungy texture. :-) Or use one of the colourful gradients with Screen blendmode over the top to create light leaks like in a polaroid. 

Download them here.

Have fun!

The High Place

© Sybille Sterk
Do not copy or publish this in any way, shape or form without my written permission.

This is a mystical high place where we make our choices and where everything is possible. There is mystery and hope and possibility and magic.

The image has been constructed from my own photographs using Photoshop and one of my freebies - Cool Vintage Curves available here - (I used golden sunrise). The original image had a boring sky so I added more clouds and the birds and played around with colour and textures.

Freebie - Photoshop Curves Preset Cool Vintage

Here's a totally free curves preset for you. I'll add some gradients soon too. Instructions are included in the zip file.

Download them here.

Enjoy!

Happy Birthday!

... you know who you are. :-) 

Was told I had to keep it a secret... but here's a picture of the cake to commemorate this special day anyway.

Chocolate cake recipe from Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes.

Camera Magic

I bought a couple of new (old) cameras at a street fete stall two weeks ago and finally got round to taking some pictures of them. There's something magic and fabulous about vintage cameras, a bit like there is about old cars. There's character and there's and attention to detail in the simplicity of the designs.... I could go on forever, but why don't I just show you how I feel?

A Popular Brownie 620 ca late 1930s, early 1940s.

© Sybille Sterk

A Kodak Brownie 127 from the 1950s

© Sybille Sterk

Both of the brownies together, Popular Brownie 620 and Kodak Brownie 127.

© Sybille Sterk
Do not copy or publish any of the pictures on this page in any way, shape or form without my written permission.

How is that for some eyecandy? Or do you need to be a photographer to get that?

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6 and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas).

You Just Are

© Sybille Sterk

Do not copy or publish this in any way, shape or form without my written permission.

A combination of two images (the original field image didn't have a pretty horizon) and textures and colour and other effects added in Photoshop.

All my own images.

My own words, from my poem, you

as you dance each step of your life

to the melody in your head

and the rhythm

made by the passing

of the seasons

A celebration of who we are, of our uniqueness and the path we've come already and the mystery of where it will lead us.

Summer Hills Blues

© Sybille Sterk

All my own pictures. Taken in Cambridgeshire.

Words from my poem 'Blue':

"hold on to the memory

count each single lash

and the look in my eye

when we first met"

Seeds

© Sybille Sterk

To go with my poem of the same name seeds

Model

Jessica Truscott

Brushes

Hair brush set by para-vine

BLACKTHORN brush by fiendallah

Thorn & Thistle Brush Set by Kendra Schaefer

Story

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MCN: C13W5-YE71G-EUMHK

Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-0248

Scrabble tiles on a 'found' wall of wood. That's all a story really is, isn't it? A beginning, a middle and an end? What makes a story? What makes a good story?

Here's my poem Fairy Tales Are Lies to go with the image.

Created with my own photographs in Photoshop, no stock used.

Love Found

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MCN: CHAWD-E8534-LVCEN

I am so pleased with this image - the letters are from a vintage Junior Scrabble the background is as is except that I changed the colour and added more texture, however the arrow and the little peeled off heart were already there. I thought it made the perfect image together.

Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-0247

Created with my own photographs in Photoshop, no stock used.

This Haunted Life

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MCN: C56MV-BW51L-963T4

Image to go with my poem The Glass Coffin

Model: Jessica Truscott, Faestock

All other images my own or bought stock.

Cupcake

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MCN: CB512-MP3RL-LW6HQ

This is a handmade cupcake pin cushion I bought a while ago from a fellow blogger. I took a picture of it and had a play with it and this is what happened. I love the spotlight effect that makes it look like a memory island. It would make a perfect (and calorie-free) poster for people who (really) like sweets. :-)

All my own images and textures.

All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go to Bluecanvas).