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.

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

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© Sybille Sterk

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

All my own images.

The photo was taken in Cambridgeshire (near Balsham) and edited in Photoshop with my own textures. The quote is from graffiti I saw on a chimney a while back. I always loved it.

I couldn't decide which version I liked better - colour or black and white, so I am posting both. I felt that each had a different message. For me the black and white image seems to come from a place of despair and the quote seems to be a last ditch attempt to save what can be saved, whereas the colour version seems to carry a feeling of excitement and the quote appears to be full of wonder.

What do you think? Which version do you like better?

You Just Are

© Sybille Sterk

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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.

More Snapshots

... this time from Houghton Mill in Cambridgeshire.

 The inside of the mill complete with the wonderful golden light you only seem to get in some, usually old buildings.

 

 The mill pond and the lovely wake of the the water splashing out from the huge wheel.

 

 

 

     And I finally managed to take some pictures of birds.

 

 

 

The village of Houghton and its gorgeous church.

 

 

 The gravestones in the church graveyard.

 

 You can just vaguely see the lovely angel in the centre of the gravestone. I took many more pictures and in some way or other they'll probably make it into my art or my stock/texture gallery on DeviantArt. :-)

Trips Number 3: Granchester Meadows

Just after Christmas and before the new year we had a little outing to Granchester Meadows which is round the corner from where I live (well, almost). It's very pretty there (even Pink Floyd thought so as they wrote a song about it). It's especially lovely in the Summer when you can sit either by the river or in the Orchard - a lovely place to drink tea and eat homemade scones with clotted cream and strawberries.

However, it was too cold to sit outside, although we did go for a walk and, of course, I had my camera with me. Here are a few of the snap shots I took:


This is a few up the river towards Cambridge, so is the one below. The light was really beautiful and golden.

I am fascinated by trees and I love willows. They're probably my favourite trees (next to birches).

The reflection of this willow in the water is particularly clear.

Then I went on to grasses and reeds.


The drops on the grass were so large and pronounced. Not like diamonds at all, they are far too round and organic! Here you can see how muddy it was. Muddy with a capital 'M'.

The sun set really early and it began to get dark at 3 in the afternoon. This is a view over the trees towards the sunset.

Here, a similar view of the river as the ones at the beginning but with light fading fast.

I couldn't resist playing with the next lot and applied several filters including a Sumi-E filter. I think it works really well.


The last two are of reflections in the water. The bottom one looks almost like some secret writing - hieroglyphs maybe...