Forbidden Memory

© Sybille Sterk

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This was an experiment with my Lensbaby soft focus lens last week on a 'camera walk'. The more I worked on it (in Photoshop) the more it reminded me of the trailer of The Walking Dead (one of my all time favourite series). The combination of the imagery (barbed wire, viewer hidden in the trees) and the textures and soft focus made me think of those memories we can't bear to look at directly, but only sideways and with a squint, hence the name.

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Grunge and emotion added in with Photoshop.

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Velvet Leaves

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Taken in my garden a couple of days ago. The leaves grow through the back of a bench and I just loved the way they'd arranged themselves. Heavily edited with colour adjustments and textures.

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).

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).

All other images/textures/brushes my own. Edited with Photoshop.

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Scent of Roses

© Sybille Sterk
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Image created for the Facebook Group/Project 1/52. This is week 34.

I combined 3 images of a reflection of a rose in a water butt and played heavily with the colours/curves, added textures (bokeh, ripples and scractches) and the barbed wire.

The idea behind this image is that some memories, no matter how beautiful are just too painful to remember, but sometimes something like the scent of roses will make you remember anyway.

I wanted the area behind the barbed wire blurred  and vague but with bright distinct colours to show the dreamlike quality of memories and the way they are distorted by how we felt at the time or feel now.

Edited in Photoshop, all my own images.

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Dream

I wanted to have a play with a soft focus (lens baby) type of image. Unfortunately I haven't got a lens baby BUT I found the perfect image to play with...

Here's my interpretation of a dream - romantic and peaceful. (Not the kind of dreams I usually have, which are more vivid and often totally weird. LOL)

Credits

Model

• Soft Focus 13 by AimeeStock

Stock

• Seagull in flight moewe2 by archaeopteryx-stocks

Textures

• mr youngstrom by CKdailyplanet
• glitter texture 1 by Tracie76Stock
• Photo Tints Overlay Set by Shadowhouse
• 6 Faves Texture Sets 1 by Shadowhouse
• NF Texture Set by Shadowhouse

All other images/textures/brushes etc. my own

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