Flowers

It happened again... - I went out to take a picture for my 365 project and came home with yet another flower photo (and to be honest not just one but several...)!

Somehow, I feel strangely uncomfortable with shooting anything else than flowers these days and I was giving myself a hard time about that fact. But, hey, with the challenge of low light months just around the corner and the prospect of having to deal with my tripod and taking pictures indoors, I decided to surrender to any flower that throws itself in front of my camera... ;-)

Have a wonderful Sunday!

Macro Friday

I can't believe it's Friday again - Macro Friday at Blogging from Bolivia.

After a week of feeling really low and avoiding my camera and blogging I decided to give it a go again today, touching my camera, taking a photo. I'm curious what great macros are waiting for us over at Laura's blog - go, have a look, too.

I wish you a wonderful Friday and a happy weekend.

Happy and Stunned

Yes, I'm absolutely stunned and totally happy! What a start into the weekend! It's Macro Friday again at Blogging from Bolivia and just as I was thinking about what to take a macro of today to submit I heard the news that I won last week's challenge! Woohoo!!

Thank you all so much for your encouraging and sweet comments, thank you Laura for providing the platform and Hannah for selecting my photo! I'm still totally beside myself! With a happy smile on my face! :-)

So here is my entry for today: it's a Murano glass tea light - I put a candle in today to brighten up a really foggy day.

I wish you a happy Friday and a lot of fun with your macros!

Creative Exchange

With that very clingy sinusitis (I try to take that with a little bit of humour...) there is not so much photography at the moment, let alone working on my computer. But I played around over the day in bits and pieces with this rose I shot the other day and a texture from Flypaper Textures to add it to Lisa's Creative Exchange this week.

I know I did texture work last week already, but who knows - maybe the Creative Exchange becomes my weekly reason and opportunity to play around with PSE and textures...

I wish you a creative Tuesday!

Macro Friday

It's Macro Friday at Blogging from Bolivia and I took the opportunity to have a go at this amaryllis. It was a quite a battle with the tripod and I'm not completely satisfied, but this one is the best I could get. I'm looking forward to seeing your macros at Blogging from Bolivia!

That sinusitis has come back rather fiercely, so I'll be signing off now for the weekend and wish you a happy and healthy Friday! Enjoy your weekend!

Last Ode To Roses?

Maybe not yet...!

I was out trying to take a few photos of those colourful maple leaves when I was attracted by these roses. Several large bushes of roses still displaying their beauty despite the cold and rainy weather of the last days and some of them still ready to bloom!

I decided to let them have the stage today to honour their beauty and stamina, wishing you a wonderful Thursday!

Creative Exchange

This is my submission for Lisa's Creative Exchange. It started yesterday and you should really go and have a look - it's fun!

For this photo I used a texture from Flypaper Textures and played around a bit with my Photoshop Elements 6. I'm not so experienced with that software and normally I rather like to spend my time taking pictures than editing photos on the computer (or rather learning how to handle PSE...). But today I wanted to create something special for the Creative Exchange and it was raining anyway, so I didn't miss much outside. I enjoyed playing around with the photo and hope you like the result, too.

Have a wonderful Wednesday and enjoy your creativity!