more 3H images

continuing with images i've created for 3H; most of these were specifically taken for the blog, the aim was to arrive at a portrait image format which looks presentable when displayed in blogger's smallest size - which is almost ''thumbnail''. as 3H is intended to be daily, i'm finding it tough to collect enough images i'm satisfied with so i'm going back into the infamous trash can archive to review previous rejects. some time ago, i read an article by a professional which contained the advice; never throw anything out! i'm beginning to appreciate this piece of wisdom.

also i've decided to post on Soup in blogger's largest format from now on, and i don't know why i didn't begin that way! seems i must have followed the pack on that one.

plane

pig

snout

heads

loco

patriot

sly

chook

shades

spiral

fruits

gate

truck

the month that almost got away

seems i've been letting this blog slide - two whole months missing! well, this will take care of november 2006. september will have to remain the month that never was. i have been taking photos all through but have been lazy at processing.


skive

3H images

early in october I began yet another blog which combines three of my favourite idle interests: scribbling, photos and haiku. that's why I haven't posted many pics on Soup.

these few photos are some of the ones I used on the new blog. because of the format, the aim is to get a portrait style image which looks good in blogger's ''small'' dimensions - and one a day.

conkers

bench

the road through minch common

windfalls in weed

floppy

the allotmenteers

keith's coffee & tea shop

murph

icon

scanography

Images made with a flat-bed scanner from random materials collected during this afternoon's walk in the park... and one from the random drawers.

scatterings

carnage

stoicism

jettison

nightsailing

the glorious twelfth

rambles about town

'tis the end of august and this, the final bank holiday weekend before christmas, and i'm trying not too hard to get the winter blues. it's my perception that the oddments of time we pick over, after everything else has devoured its share, do not amount to enough hours to inspire great creativity.

also the weather is conspiring against us this weekend; the diminishing patches of blue sky wrestle with the grey billowing clouds and the air smells faintly of rain.

i have an art course beginning next month and, with thoughts of this, i walk into town to buy pencils and stuff, and gather these few images on the way.

riverside walk

shop chook

walking man

cloud break

teach yourself harmonica

coxwell street

hal is cool

gimme

duckfest

duckfest 2

got a light, mate?

leaf and stream

red admiral

comma

delete nothing

there's a rule I picked up from a professional: never throw any images away.

it's true that some pics that didn't make the grade might be reused in other ways. i've been admiring some photoshopping artwork recently and it got me thinking; i don't really try much of that stuff (apart from the odd tweak and enhancement). these two images use photos that i took a while ago - the kids in the stream is just a simple tonal and saturation shift with added noise, followed by an overlayer with an airbrush pattern, blurred.

the montage below is built up of several layers of old images i'd taken then blended with the layer transparency controls and finally the eraser tool, toggling between layers. finally an overlayer with an airbrush pattern, duplicated and the second layer colorized to a complimentary, mirrored, then blended with gaussian blur.

if i don't type this now, i won't remember tomorrow. ;o)

strolling the churn

the woolgatherer's door

dig this

zakynthos pics!

paper leaf

orange net and boots

two boats

white cat on a yellow chair