Talking About Love

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Another in my Victorian Love series. I posted the other one yesterday (The Gift)

Words are from my poem Waiting

lost in a sea of
faces that are all the same
with their fear and longing
all waiting to be found
by that one
the only one

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The Gift

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I was playing around with feathers and a box full of old typewriter keys and this happened. :-)

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Martian Winter

Martian Winter I

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Martian Winter II

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Insprired by the War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells. This was taken a while ago and then edited heavily (colours and tilt-shift blur plus textures) to create the effect. I love the colours and the feeling of being drawn into the image.

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Horizon

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This was taken last summer. I love going to the seaside and could spend hours just sitting there watching the wave. I tried to pack that feeling into the picture. There's nothing quite like it but messing around at the beach (to paraphrase Ratty from The Wind in the Willows).

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Forbidden Memory

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This was an experiment with my Lensbaby soft focus lens last week on a 'camera walk'. The more I worked on it (in Photoshop) the more it reminded me of the trailer of The Walking Dead (one of my all time favourite series). The combination of the imagery (barbed wire, viewer hidden in the trees) and the textures and soft focus made me think of those memories we can't bear to look at directly, but only sideways and with a squint, hence the name.

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The world has many edges

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I love the quote by Anderson Cooper: "The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it's easy to fall off."

I only used the last bit of the quote as it was the part that mattered the most to me. It's not easy sometimes to make your way through life and sometimes it's good to remember that it is not always your fault if you fall off. However, it is up to you to get back on...

The photo was taken last week. I used a scarf to create the floating effect. The rest was a happy accident.

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Endless

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Week 8 of my 1/52 project. This time I went for more subtle lines - the shadows at the front and the horizon itself. This image has been fairly heavily edited as I had a telephone mast in there and some trees at the back which distracted from the lines. I've enhanced the colours and the depth and added the grungy vignette.

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I ♥ you more

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Poster created using True 2D font and shapes in Photoshop. I added colour and textures. The quote is by Paul Coelho from his book The Alchemist.

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Happy Valentine's Day

Together Forever

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Taken at the park. I love the way the two branches grow together, maybe with Spring (hopefully) not that far away they will grow together even more with intertwining leaves... I thought it was a lovely alternative to the usual Valentine's Day sentiments.

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Trees in the Mist

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Taken in the park a couple of weeks ago. I changed the colour and added the mist and the slight tilt-shift-blur.

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It goes with the Faerie Wood I posted a short while ago:

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More than Kisses

 

 

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Valentine's Day is not far away, so love is in the air. My favourite merino yarn twisted into letters and a paper heart. Something pretty for someone special.

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First 3 available (only a sampling as more variations are available) on Society6, 

framed picture on  Redbubble.