Ornamental

© Sybille Sterk

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I took images of the gates at Cherry Hinton Hall park on the way out from my 'park shoot'. I have a thing about cast iron work, especially the Victorian kind with its total attention to detail and love for organic shapes. This speaks to me of Victorian England and Jack the Ripper. All that's missing is the fog and blood spatter. LOL

  

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).

Note, Society6 currently has free shipping until Sunday.

Cambridge Collection: New Triptychs

Murky View

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Summer Is Here

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The Secret Language of Trees

© Sybille Sterk

Textured

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Layered

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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 

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"

More Cambridge Collection

 
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Vista

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From My Heart to Yours

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Handmade

 

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Warning Yellow

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All images taken in the Cambridgeshire countryside last weekend - the first four images were all taken around Hauxton, the last two around Haslingfield. All images were taken with Hipstamatic for the iPhone and edited in Photoshop.

Prints, framed, mounted, matted and plain, posters and greetingcards are available exclusively in my Redbubble shop. Check out the whole collection of images in and around Cambridge(shire) here.

Cambridge Triptychs

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From my Cambridge series, taken with Hipstamatic. Exclusive to Redbubble.

A juxtaposition of grungy urban texture and the lovely countryside. There’s a town and gown thing going on between the university of Cambridge and the town itself.

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I have a thing about textures and how some textures seem to have symbolic meanings, almost like a secret language. When you walk on the edge there’s no knowing what you may find…

The first one is a pathway through the park. The path on one side, the grass just on the edge of the other side.

The bottom left picture is of broken glass by the side of a pub.

The final image is a broken sticker on a lamp post. The part of the sticker torn off had the shape of a wolf, which I found amusing because the sticker was about dogs (or rather their leftovers….) :-)

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Another juxtaposition of urban grunge to lovely countryside. This time it was more about colour and texture.

The top image is of the Cambridge countryside which is extraordinarily pretty in the sunshine.

The other two images are textures I found on a wooden wall built around a building site.

Currently there’s a huge building boom going on in Cambridge and a lot of the pretty countryside is vanishing.

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These were chance shots. The first is a house number on a fence. I am never sure if 66 is a lucky number or the devil’s number….?

The other two shots are from a building site again. I thought they worked with the luck. Sometimes luck is not enough and you need to follow the rules to be safe. :-)

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Tristesse

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A sort of Jack the Ripper's London version of Cambridge. :-) Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-0224

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

All my licensing 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).

Shift Your Attitude Necklace and More Cambridge Collection

 

 

A necklace with attitude - mix of vintage and new OOAK (One of a kind).  

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Cambridge Collection 

A walk around Cambridge - exclusive print collection, get them on Redbubble. 

Train Leaving in the rain....

Spring Leaves in the park...

Rain One - my new umbrella and a puddle. :-)

Rain Two - my new umbrella again with another puddle...

Pink Ivy - ivy growing on a wooden fence with a special filter.

Pink Park - images from the park with the special pink filter again...

Park - moody rain shot.

Natural Mirror - my favourite shot of the day - reflection of trees in a puddle. I love the magical feel of this. This was also my entry for week 16 of the 1/52 project.

Moody Mill - the old derelict mill in Cambridge and the train station, with the pink filter. Love the end of world feeling in this shot.

Hazel - love the sumi-e feel of  these two shots.

Eggs - a sign I walked past on my walk.

It's so much fun to walk around and just shoot pictures from the hip. I've used the random setting on my Hipstamatic app to create the different effects and then took them into Photoshop to edit them and emphasise the feeling of each one.

Cambridge Collection

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Towers - University Buildings on Kings Parade

Windows - Buildings with wonderful cast iron railings

Reflection - Reflection in a window

 Shops - Shops on Kings Parade

Gates - Delicate, intricate cast iron gates

 

Phone Box - Iconic red phone box

Cherryblossom - Church building with flowering cherryblossom

Cakes, One - Cupcakes in a shop window

Cakes, Two - More cupcakes this time inside a coffeeshop

Coffee Break - Two cups of coffee in a coffee shop.

All images are © Sybille Sterk and available as posters, prints (framed, matted, canvas, or photographic) and greeting cards only on Redbubble. The images were created using the Hiptsamatic app and edited in Photoshop.

Cambridge Rock Festival 2011 Diary

Last weekend was the Cambridge Rock Festival 2011 - if you weren't there, shame on you, especially if you live in the Cambridgeshire area, it was a fab event. Even if you couldn't make it, you could have listened (often live) on Cambridge 105 - who were the only radio station broadcasting (mostly live) from the event starting Thursday night all the way through to Sunday night.

The weather was mixed but apart from a deluge on Thursday night the skies were mostly clear with only a little shower now and again. Perfect festival weather. (It's not a festival if you don't need wellie boots.)

Here are some pictures to wet your appetite for next year's event.

 The crowd was spellbound from Friday to Sunday - from little ones to 'rock' granddads and grandmas.... 

The bands were fabulous - from the rock 'pixie' Chantel McGregor with her bluesy rock and fabulous guitar, to John Otway who never once fails to amuse, to Larry Miller whose joy at playing live is so strong that it causes sparks in the audience to Caravan who had the audience swaying and singing along, to finally the up and coming bands playing in the 'access to stage' area, gaining confidence and fans.

Notice the rainbow over the broadcast van? (You can't see the van, only the fantastic 60 foot mast.) ;-)

Here are a few snapshots of the team that brought this even to you - if you were listening. Kipper the Cat Show (hosted by the Shellac Collective) played live (and was broadcast live) from the craft tent, and many of the members of Cambridge 105 turned up to help with all the technical bits and to broadcast live from the festival with one cool show after the other, which included interviews with the stars of the festival, live feeds from the stage, freshly prepared mushroom omelettes and rocket power coffee (the crew had to eat and often there was no time to run to the lovely food stalls), and, of course continuous rock all the way through. To find out about the latest events join Cambridge 105 on Facebook or check out the website.

All photographs © Sybille Sterk, credits to Daniel Box for his Instagram actions for Photoshop.