Black Orchid, Variations on a Theme for Mick Mather

Black Orchid, Variations on a Theme for Mick Mather, by Mary Stebbins Taitt. For Photo Friday.

I'm Feeling . . . Melancholy

I'm Feeling . . . Melancholy, by Mary Stebbins Taitt. Sunset through fabric of thin white tent at fall festival, Jackson MI. No Photoshop! For Photo Friday "I'm Feeling . . . " Theme.

Beauty

A truly beautiful woman, spinning. by Mary Stebbins Taitt.

for Photo Friday, Beauty.

At the Beach near Eureka, California

At the Beach near Eureka, California. I recently helped my friend Leaflady move to California, and while I was there, I took these pix and about 300 others. The first image contains a rock formation of an old India woman looking out to sea. Click images to view larger. I used the batch edit function on Irfanview to batch resize these so I hope it worked OK, I forgot to check before I started posting 'cause I'm trying to hurry! These pix are for the beach theme in PhotoFriday. Check out what everyone else posted!

Fantasy Castle

This is Grad Predjama, Predjama Castle in Postojna, Slovenia. (Click image to view larger.) At this castle, the Robber Baron held off a year-long siege by escaping to a village in the next valley through the cave for supplies--and then was betrayed and murdered in his own bathroom! There are three layers of caves below the castle and one that goes up. It's a real place, but a sort of fantasy-like place as well. My fantasy would be to spend some time here doing research and exploring and write a children's story set here. For Photo Friday Fantasy theme. (Check out what others have done on this theme!) That's Biker Buddy with the catapult. The catapults were used in the siege. They have jousting here and other fun events. And weddings! (Now there's a fantasy!)

Unfinished

Unfinished Painting of Echinacea. This is a painting I just started tonight. It is a smudge painting on Photoshop. I learned a couple new techniques for smudge painting, too, for example, turning on and off a saturation layer while working can give you more color and texture. I took this photo with the aid of an assistant (Biker Buddy). Click image to view larger.

For Photo Friday "Unfinished" theme.

Graham at the Piano

Graham at the Piano, by Mary Stebbins Taitt. For Photo Friday "Loud." This is a photograph smudge-painted on PSCS. If you click on it, you can see the details of the brush strokes.