wet rain

© Sybille Sterk

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Another digital collage of images from various (vintage) resources, including some I bought, some which are in the public domain and some from The Graphics Fairy.

The quote is by Roger Miller. Companion to my The Key is Laughter illustration.

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just another rainy day in paradise

© Sybille Sterk

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Picture taken in the park a while back through the mesh wire of the tennis court. A combination of two images pieced together with the rain was added at the editing stage. 

The quote is by Roger Miller (musician) and the font is Amatic.

The image went with my mood. I've been fighting off a cold (and losing the battle) all week... hence no posts. I was too busy sneezing!

My own images plus free and bought resources.

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Snowdrops

© Sybille Sterk

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 Taken a few weeks back, I just never got round to posting the image. I love snowdrops, like cherryblossom and magnolia they're heralds of spring. These were wild in the middle of the woods.

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

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Pearls of Wisdom

© Sybille Sterk

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A photograph through the window by my computer. It's been raining and foggy or both for over a week now, with brief periods of sunshine.

The poem is my own and can be read here

another moment of 

stillness

that holds us
above the abyss

safe
for just this instant

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

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six degrees of desperation

© Sybille Sterk
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Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-00304

Inspired by the phrase 'the six degrees of separation' and my poem of the same name here

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

in dreams

© Sybille Sterk

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Image taken last weekend in Orford. Word are from my recent poem of the same name, you can read the full poem here.

the girl

who

woke with a vision

of a sky blue with clouds

that went on forever

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

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This Haunted Life

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Image to go with my poem The Glass Coffin

Model: Jessica Truscott, Faestock

All other images my own or bought stock.

Ripples

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Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-0210 

In this image I tried to re-create the 'Natural Mirror' shot I did with my Hiptstamatic camera, it's not quite the same, but it comes close. I used two shots of puddles with reflections and ripples and overlaid them plus textures and colour adjustments.
It is also part of my 1/52 project, week 17.

There's something therapeutic about looking into a puddle and seeing the reflection in it change. I always imagine it to be a crack between (alternative) universes where I can catch a glimpse of what's happening over there....

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

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Love of the Sea VII and VIII

 

The Tail End of the Storm

All my own pictures (2 photographs of the Suffolk Coast)

Credits

• Freebie Actions (Allegria) by Apples & Sisters
• 6 Faves Texture Sets 4 (Pollution and Optional) by Shadowhouse
• Canvas & Paper Texture Set by Shadowhouse
• .:Rainy:. (brush) by SaharaKnoblauch

All other images/textures etc my own.

MCN: C36NC-527EA-3J6HF

The Calm after the Storm

My own photograph (Holme Beach, UK)

Credits

• Freebie Actions (Veruca Salt) by Apples & Sisters
• Odds & Ends Texture Set by Shadowhouse
• Rich Tones Texture Set by Shadowhouse

All other images/textures etc my own.

 

MCN: CUTPQ-DH1N1-EL7VM

The series so far

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Future images in this series will also appear in this part of my portfolio. :-)

What do you do? Photomanipulation

 

 

 

 Photo manipulation to go with my poem of the same name.

Credits

Model 1 

• elegy 4 by rammkitty-stock

Model 2

• atonement2 by rammkitty-stock

Stock 

• craft glass02 by Holy-Win
• Rain Drops by okbrightstar-stock
• Drops by Aramisdream

Backgrounds and Textures

• old map by Alegion-stock
• After the rain 3 by LucieG-Stock
• sky 8 by night-fate-stock
• Medieval 18 -corridor in tower by Momotte2stocks
• Letters 3 by ph34rthecuteones
• frame 11 by Meltys
• Several textures from Shadowhouse, Heavy Paper, Rustic Charms 2, and Entropy 4

Brushes

• czchagas decorative curlys by caiojosechagas

All other images/textures/stock/brushes my own.

MCN: CB98Q-KE75G-Y9Y9G

Storm - Photo Manipulation

Illustration of the poem Storm by Autumnwind.

Credits
Model

• Longing 1 by intergalacticstock

Stock

• Falling paper pack by faestock
• Stock - Feather by AmaiFushigi

Backgrounds and Textures

• Hill and Sky Stock by phatpuppy
• STORM AT SEA BG STOCK V by ArwenArts
• Stormy  by SheisprettyStock
• Lightning  by Stock-by-Kai
• texture015  by buzillo-stock
• texture 13 by Sirius-sdz
• and more birds by mimose-stock

Brushes
Hair brush set by para-vine
Cloud Brushes HiRes Nr.1 of 5 by leboef
Cloud Brushes HiRes Nr.2 of 5 by leboef

All other images/textures my own. Purple-streak butterfly painted by myself in Corel Painter.

MCN: CR2L2-5B2L9-4ANTD