Snapshots

... well, maybe snapshots isn't quite the right word. :-) The images have been edited quite heavily with textures shot at the same location.

Days out...

Mildenhall (church)
We went to visit Radio Zeta 105.3 in Mildenhall... and to pass the time I took some pictures. I also got a little tour of the church and a view from the roof:

This was a door near the church.

This was one of the entrances to the church, with a small graveyard in front of it.

 I had to climb 144 steps to get close to this... all the way up a narrow winding stairs with VERY steep steps....

Holme Beach
Yesterday's outing included both Holme Beach and Sheringham.

The view across the wash.

 The view towards the sea across the tide lines.

 Another view across to the sea.

 Sheringham
Sheringham is one pretty town.

View across the beach. It wasn't as deserted as it looks. With a little patience I managed to get a shot without people. :-)

I love the starkness of the breakers against the blue of the sea. :-) The day wasn't as sunny as it looks, but very hazy and overcast. The magic of editing and textures. :-)

 

This is actually a mix of four different shots - 3 seagull shots (the little beasts just vanished whenever I had my camera out), and a shot of the sea. Plus several textures. :-)

Click on each image to see more detail.

These are just a few of the (many) images I shot. Some will make it into my stock/textures gallery in my DeviantArt gallery, others will be available as prints.

With each of these images I've tried to capture the spirit of the place and how it made me feel rather than giving an 'exact' replication of what's there. 

My favourite ones are the last two. Which ones do you like best?

Alice in Wonderland - 20 years later - Photo Manipulation

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Alice looked around. She'd found the right rabbit hole, but this is where the similarities ended.

The rabbit was grey not white and he looked old and sleepy not excited and in a hurry. The doormouse was on the pot, not in the pot. The Cheshire cat left a trail with its tail not its grin. And the magic bottle was empty.

It had all been so easy, long ago, when she was little and full of magic herself.

What was she to do? she asked herself. Go back? Stomp her foot and cry?

Alice closed her eyes tightly and wished....

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Credits
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Stock Images

• 'Alice' - Cutoutstock10-Gotherina05
• Cat 001
• Mouse stock 49
• Rabbit 8 from Oh Mr Rabbit_Pack 1
• Tea Pot Stock 2 
• Top Hat I
• Stock- Gold Pocket Watch, open
• Apothecary Bottle 2
• FREE STOCK, Key 2
• FREE STOCK, Playing Cards 2 edited with Sundel Backblech 01 (see below)
• FREE STOCK, Playing Cards 3 - edited with Sundel Backblech 01 (see below)
• Old door
• Curtain 01

Textures and backgrounds - used on the 'room' and some of the objects

• Aged Vintage - Background (bottom half)
• Premade background 11(bottom half)
• Art Nouveau Pattern Texture (for wall)
• Red Gold Floral Background (rabbit's waistcoat)
• Texture 26
• Texture 49V4 (one of the unreleased textures of one of the texture packs)
• Backblech 01
• Paint on window texture
• Texture 10

All other textures are mine. Image created with Photoshop CS4 and Painter X.

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