The Road Ahead

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A nasty cold has prevented me from doing very much this week. However, here's one I prepared earlier. The image was taken in Cambridgeshire, edited in Photoshop and furnished with a quote by Lewis Carroll. The font is Pacific Northwest by Cultivated Mind.

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The Right Road

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Quick pic taken a while ago. I have a thing about horizons and roads. I find them enticing and forever fascinating. The quote is by Dejan Stojanovic, a Serbian poet.

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On the Road Again

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Country lane in Cambridgeshire, UK. Inspired by the song 'on the road again' by Willie Nelson. Country music is not my thing normally but there are exceptions and this seemed to fit perfectly.

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Edited with Photoshop.

Grunge Texture by Vanilla Spring

Arrows, Sample Me by LaRue & Com both from CreativeMarket

Font Bella K. Hopeless

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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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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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Lonely Winterberry

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Merry Christmas everyone! Have a lovely holiday (even if you don't celebrate).

This was taken last week when I went out to coffee with a couple of friends. I couldn't resist the red berries against the foggy background. I seem to have Snow White on my mind all this winter. LOL

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You Just Are

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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.

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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.

Cambridge Triptychs

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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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