Yay! Cows

I love this look. Like an old painting.

flickrhivemind ~ filterforge etal

I’m really digging looking at flickr images on black

I am quite impressed with filter forge’s grunge photo filter;

It’s been a weird week. People asking to use my photos as textures and others liking the above texture as a stand alone image. I’m just happy that people are looking.

popularity

I seem to be making explore on flickr more often now that I’ve bought a pro account. Certainly is a funny beast…but if you try and understand it in database terms it all makes a sort of crazy sense

Virtual Museum tour II

virtual museum tour

Last Wednesday I went to the buoyman van beunings museum to look at the golden age art. The allow pictures without flash. Here are some that didn’t turn out too badly;

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digital paitings of Dutch Landscapes

I figured out how to take auto-bracketed pictures with my camera so that I can HDR them. Then I’ve been adding texture after messing them up a bit with painting plug-ins;

This was taken in the ‘new land’. The clouds are really different there. I think they look like van ruijsdael’s

I guess this would be modern genre art because it’s a scene I see almost every day. Sometimes there’s even a sheep to greet me.

I really think this captured the delight I feel on the local bike paths through the woods. Dig the light.

This Delights Me

This is the first macro I ever took with the SLR combined with a shot of a bottom of a pond. For some reason the mottle with the bright spot in the middle is kinda like Spanx underwear…it makes everything look better. I guess one size does indeed fit all.

Bunny with texture

I think I’ve gone off the deep end. Monday we took the bikes to Hilversum and on the way back stopped at Franskampen. I saw this marvelous scummy brown water with a bright spot in the middle and immediately thought it would make a great texture. And you know? I was right. This little guy has been a supporting bunnie in other works so I’ve decided to give him a starring role here.

Halloween 2003

I loved the way my pigtail was flying out in this picture so I remixed/rendered it;

My birds were okay;

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but I decided to work with something I felt stronger about;

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Because of this Housemartins song;

Sometimes I get so angry with the simple life they lead
The shepherds smile seems to confirm my fears
They’ve never questioned anything, they’ve never disagreed
Sometimes I think they must have wool in their ears
And when you see a can I see a crook
And when you see a crowd I see a flock
It’s sheep were up against
Sheep were up against

When I was young they used to get me counting sheep
But the counting I did was all in vain
No when I’m tired and I’m trying to get to sleep
I count humans jumping onto trains

And when you see a can I see a crook
And when you see a crowd I see a flock
It’s sheep were up against
Sheep were up against

Here’s to me not being a sheep in my Photoshop rendering…

the results of the painting plug-in smackdown are in!

I would say the winner is Snap Art, wouldn’t you?

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