The Sky Above

The Sky Above

© Sybille Sterk
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Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-00280

The image was taken at Holme Beach in Norfolk, England. Poem to go with the image is here

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).

Scent of Roses

© Sybille Sterk
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Image created for the Facebook Group/Project 1/52. This is week 34.

I combined 3 images of a reflection of a rose in a water butt and played heavily with the colours/curves, added textures (bokeh, ripples and scractches) and the barbed wire.

The idea behind this image is that some memories, no matter how beautiful are just too painful to remember, but sometimes something like the scent of roses will make you remember anyway.

I wanted the area behind the barbed wire blurred  and vague but with bright distinct colours to show the dreamlike quality of memories and the way they are distorted by how we felt at the time or feel now.

Edited in Photoshop, all my own images.

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).

Soirée

Soirée

© Sybille Sterk
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All three images were taken at Sheringham. I was so pleased with myself as I managed to get really close to the seagulls. The tide was just coming in and I got wet feet but it was so worth it. I love the reflections of the birds in the wet sand. There was also the most wonderful sunset (more picture coming) that evening.

All photographs my own, edited in Photoshop. Background texture from Shadowhouse, Darkworld.

Special Print Sale

You may know that I have recently joined Trillium Gallery, and now they're holding a special print sale where you can get 5 of my images in their special print sale. Feel free to let your friends know about it. :-)

Check in out here

Here are the images:

 A Little Piece of Heaven

 Caught

 House by the Sea

 Love Found

This is the Sea

© Sybille Sterk
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Love Lost and Gone

© Sybille Sterk
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Photo taken recently in the Norfolk countryside near Langham. The words are from my poem of the same name, you can read the whole poem here.

"Forgotten the scent of roses
Lost the warmth of the sun
Cursed the moment it began
Such is the tale of love lost and gone."

Photograph edited in Photoshop.

I wish I could fly, I'd never be afraid of falling

© Sybille Sterk

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Taken with Instagram for iPhone. Crow feathers, a twig and some flowers from a plant that self seeded itself in my garden. Combined and edited in Photoshop, textures and curve adjustments added.

I have vertigo so I always wanted to be able to fly so I wouldn't fear heights any longer. I think it's a matter of feeling in control of things. Sometimes I wish I was. LOL

end of days

© Sybille Sterk
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This is an image I took at the end of a long hot day. The simplicity and light seemed to perfectly complement the poem of the same name that I wrote.

The extract reads:

everything's right here
and it's up to us
to make something worthwhile
to paint our life
in many shades of grey
in all the colours of the rainbow
to live through the ups and downs
to love all we can
until the end of days

 You can read the whole poem here.

All images and words used are my own, edited in 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).

Cherished Memories

© Sybille Sterk
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This is a photograph I took of a mobile I made a while ago. It was a prototype and still hangs in my living room window and every time I look at it, it makes me smile. The heart is from seaglass and it's a real sea urchin shell found on a beach somewhere in Turkey.

To me the image just speaks of memories, maybe of a treasured holiday on a magical beach somewhere.

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

Boat Love

© Sybille Sterk

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Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-00263

The boat is a sculpture by Matt Brown I bought as a present at the Cambridge Open Studios. It is created completely from reclaimed materials found at the beach.

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

Waiting for the Tide

© Sybille Sterk
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Photo I took a while back at the Suffolk Coast. It's one of my favourite shots, especially with the new curves I used on it to give it this almost (for me) ethereal feeling. I am so in love with this. :-) This is the kind of place I imagine when things are bad or I feel sad. I am sure you have a place like that, too, if not, you can share mine. :-)

Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-00267

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).

New Fawns and Deers Collection Ready To Buy

The new collection is available in my Envelop shop. Fawns and Deers as totebags and cushion covers...

and also as prints (framed, matted, mounted and on canvas), posters, greeting cards, t-shirts, hoodies, baby and children's clothes, iphone, blackberry and Macbook,iPad and laptop skins and cases.

Check them out here:

On Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6 and Bluecanvas.

the things I allow myself to think

 

© Sybille Sterk
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Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-00161

The image has been edited slightly from the original and my words from the poem the things I allow myself to think have been added:

the things I allow myself to think
are few and far between
like a necklace of islands in the ocean
never precise and harsh
like the cries of seagulls by the beach

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).

Cambridge Collection: New Triptychs

Murky View

© Sybille Sterk

Summer Is Here

© Sybille Sterk

The Secret Language of Trees

© Sybille Sterk

Textured

© Sybille Sterk

Layered

© Sybille Sterk

All images are taken on my iPhone and Hipstamatic and edited in Photoshop with textures and my curves preset available for free on DeviantArt.

  All my images are available on Redbubble prints (plain, mounted, framed), cards and posters 

Unfinished Story

© Sybille Sterk
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Now and again the story of my first love comes up again in a dream. It's, oh so many years ago, but still sometimes I remember it. Do you have a love like that?

This is the illustration to my poem of the same name which you can read here:

All my own images and words. Edited in 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).

We Are

© Sybille Sterk

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

All my own images, no stock used. Words are my own, too:

connections
lighting up
one by one
like stars in the night sky
weaving the web
that ties us together

The full poem can be read here

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).

Kiss

© Sybille Sterk

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Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-00261

Wooden print blocks forming the word Kiss. I loved the texture of the old wooden print blocks and added them to a picture of a wall covered in a virginia creeper vine. I love the softness and feeling of movement. The brushes used to create the swirls are my own.

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).