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The Crowning Glory of Spring

© Sybille Sterk 

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I love magnolias. They are so amazing with the big blowsy and waxy blossoms in all shades of pink, lilac and cream, and some of them looking like stars. It doesn't get much better than that. :-)

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

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Love Me in Spring

© Sybille Sterk

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This was taken at the same time as the other spring pictures, just took me a little while to upload it. LOL It's a Japanese quince and I love their bright colour amidst all the soft pastels of Spring. Textures and colour adjustments added, but mostly as is. :-) 

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Yellow Explosion

© Sybille Sterk

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Forsythia image taken yesterday, very little editing except for some level adjustment and a texture.

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All new totebags on Society6

Spring Magic

© Sybille Sterk

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Found these lurking in my garden and couldn't resist, especially with all the snow this morning and the cold this time of year. You wouldn't believe it is Easter if not for these littel guys hiding away or the buds on the trees... Brrrrr....

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Available on Society6

Summers Past

© Sybille Sterk

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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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Red Winter Berries

© Sybille Sterk
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Red winter berries, taken a week ago. I love that there is still colour, even in the midst of winter, if you know where to look. :-)

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Lonely Winterberry

© Sybille Sterk

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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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A Touch of Frost

© Sybille Sterk

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Taken in my garden. I have no idea what this plant is - it's probably a weed but it looked totally magical covered in frost. The picture on the right-hand side is of the frost collected on a wheel barrow. It might be cold but it's pretty. :-)

No textures, just cover adjustments and a little cropping. All my own images edited in Photoshop.

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Icy Needles

© Sybille Sterk

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Taken in my garden a few days ago when it was cold rather than raining. I love the icy needles on the gooseberry leaves. They look like glitter. :-) The images were taken with a macro lens and then edited with curves and colour adjustments in Photoshop. No textures.

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A Sprinkling of Sugar

© Sybille Sterk

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Taken in my garden yesterday morning. There's a wild rose bush in my garden which I haven't had the heart to cut down because it's so pretty both in summer when it's covered in lovely pale pink flowers and in winter when it's covered in rosehips and provides some much needed winter colour. I've been using a macro lense to get a closeup of the frozen frost on the rosehip and the leaves. Some cropping and colour adjustments, no textures.

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Winter Blossom I

© Sybille Sterk

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This was taken in my garden in the fog a couple of days ago. I am not quite sure what this winter flowering shrub is but it looks very pretty with its waxy pale pink flower baskets. I love the way the stark bare branches look against the pale winter sky. It always reminds me of the beginning of the Snow White fairy tale.

"Once upon a time in the middle of winter, when the flakes of snow were falling like feathers from the sky, a queen sat at a window sewing, and the frame of the window was made of black ebony. And whilst she was sewing and looking out of the window at the snow, she pricked her finger with the needle, and three drops of blood fell upon the snow. And the red looked pretty upon the white snow, and she thought to herself, "Would that I had a child as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as the wood of the window-frame."

(Read the whole tale here.)

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Rosehip

© Sybille Sterk

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This was taken in my garden yesterday. There was a low hanging fog that made everything a bit vague, a little faded. This is not a rose but a rosehip where the outer skin has burst and is now hanging off in strips so the rosehip looks like a rosebud, rather than a rosehip. Seemed poetic somehow. :-) I've edited the colours and added a texture and vignette but otherwise it has been left untouched.

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). You can now also get most of my images on cushion covers (go to Society6 for these).

Winter is coming

© Sybille Sterk

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I love the Game of Thrones series (and, yes, I did read all the books, can't wait for the new one). This image was taken in my garden last week to try out my new wide anlge lens. I had a play with it in Photoshop and that is how it came out after lots of colour adjustments and a few snow textures.

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Christmas is coming

... get your cards now. :-)

New Christmas Cards

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Some of the designs will be available without the writing after Christmas.

Willow and Autumn Leaves Triptych

Willow Triptych

© Sybille Sterk
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Autumn Leaves Triptych

© Sybille Sterk
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Three images of an autumnal willow. I love the detail on these shots. And three images of the wood in autumn. I love going to the woods and seeing all the colours any time of year, even in winter when the colours are mostly black and white. There's something so peaceful about a forest.

All six images were shot last weekend by me and have been edited with (bought) textures and actions from Apples & Sisters in Photoshop.

Either or both would make a great Christmas present. :-)

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Into the Sky

© Sybille Sterk

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It's funny how much a place can change from one season to another and how the beauty is different but still there. I love architectural plants, like this (what I believe to be) angelica. It looks so pretty with its umbrella spine baskets and the little tatters of flowers and leaves left on it.

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Ivy - Autumn

© Sybille Sterk

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Pictures of ivy taken yesterday at Byron's Pool in Cambridgeshire. I love the beautiful heartshape of ivy, and although this part of the ivy was dried rather than juicy and green I loved the copper colour against the rough bark.

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Sunlight

© Sybille Sterk
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Taken with my new Lensbaby Composer Soft Focus lens. I am still experimenting with it and trying to get to grips with it. It's not as easy as it looks, but I liked this one. These are actually the leaves of a winter jasmin but with the lens they came out yellow and full of sunlight. Almost like magic they showed all the sunlight they stored up over the summer (this was taken a week ago, in October).

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every leaf speaks of bliss to me

© Sybille Sterk

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"every leaf speaks of bliss to me,
fluttering from the autumn tree."
Emily Brontë

Taken at the park a couple of days ago. I couldn't resist the wonderful colours. :-) More to come.

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