Passion for Travel

© Sybille Sterk

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Inspired by summer and the holidays. Bought and free and public domain resources, a mix of vintage and new re-mixed in Photoshop. :-)

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Longing

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The words are from Inkheart by Cornelia Funke and they are so true for me. I love the sea and it always fills me with longing to watch the waves, but in some magic way the sea satisfies the longing as much as it creates it.

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

Font is Amatic.

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Excuse me while I kiss the sky

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This was taken at the fairground at the Enfield Motoring Pageant last bank holiday. I added textures and colour adjustments and of course the Jimi Hendrix quote, which seems to fit the picture perfectly. :-)

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Edited with Photoshop.

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Italian Style

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I went to the Enfield Motoring Pageant this bank holiday Monday and took this picture. I love old scooters and used to drive a Vespa a long time ago. Even though the weird balance makes them far more difficult to drive than a motorbike, they are wonderful to look at. A piece of Italian Style, which I hopefully did credit to. This is a vintage Lambretta.

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. 

Edited with Photoshop.

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the road goes ever on

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The words are by Tolkien from a song mentioned in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. There are various versions of it. The image was taken at the Gog Magog Hills in Cambridge. It's a lovely quote and it talks (to me) of adventure and new beginnings, of excitement and things beckoning. It's also a good metaphor for life, because no matter how much we want to stay sometimes, life goes on, which sometimes is a good thing and sometimes not so good, but we don't get to choose.

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Sea Shells by the Sea Shore

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I took this image of the shells yesterday when I took some other still life images for photo manipulations I have planned. I've tried a few times to get the perfect combination of shells and the light falling on them just right and this time it worked (imho) perfectly.

The water and splashes were added. Below is the original image:

I like it and it's pretty but it lacks the drama of the eidted one. I added water reflections, textures, the splashes, colour adjustments and highlights/shadows to create the drama.

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Summers Past

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Some lavender from last year's summer. I loved the simplicity of it and played around with until it looked like a pinhole image.

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The Future

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Conceptual art - what would the future be like if we could see it? Maybe it's a good thing we can't see the future clearly or we'd never make a choice. Picture of a wheat field I took last summer.

Below you can see the original image - spot the differences!

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Mystery, a new sky and colour adjustments added by me. All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

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Fly Free

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Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-00286

This image is about letting go, and in honour and memory of our cat Rodney who died last week. We're still very upset. It's amazing how big a hole such a small cat can leave. He was the best and sweetest cat ever and we miss him so much.

I just read a really good quote and I found it really reassuring. I hope it helps someone else:

everything will be okay
in the end

if it is not okay
it isn't the end

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

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Love Lost and Gone

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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.

end of days

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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.

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The High Place

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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.

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"