I used a soft subtle texture on this sunflower for Texture Twist!
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Textured Pink Daisies | Texture Tuesday
I don’t think I’m the only one who finds flowers a little past their prime just as interesting as when they were fresh. I love the way they softly drop, closing their petals in. Also, I hope I’m not the only one who buys various assorted liquids just because of the bottle they come in. See that lovely pale pink bottle above? That was a bottle of sake! I just had to have it for that sweet, sweet bottle. My husband just sighs as I load up the cart with things bought solely because I want to use the bottle for a vase. Oh, don’t worry, we drank the sake, it’s not like I poured it out or anything 🙂
This was processed with Kim Klassen’s Tuesday texture.
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White Rose for Texture Tuesday
I don’t know if I’ve told you before, but I’m a bit of a collector. Collector – that sounds much better than hoarder, don’t you think? I think some people are born gatherers. We gather things around us that bring us joy, until we have too much stuff and then we send bags and boxes full of things off to people of need. I can’t help it, when I like something, if a little is good, a lot is better. I’m trying to get away from that mindset and have fewer, but more meaningful things.
What this has to do with this lovely white rose is the vintage salt shaker glass bottle that it is sitting in. For awhile, I scooped up vintage glass salt and pepper shakers whenever I could find them. Now, I have probably about 20 pairs of them. When you take off their silver tops the little jars make the most perfect little vases for single flowers. This is a little tea rose and the glass bottle is about 4 inches tall. They sit on my windowsill, not blocking the view, but adding a sweet bit of loveliness to it.
For this, I used Kim Klassen’s Rainy Day texture on overlay at 53%
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Pink Tulips for Texture Tuesday
I believe that I probably said this last January, but I am really going to try and participate in Texture Tuesday every week! We shall see. Again, I’m pulling from the archives here. I was hoping to stop at the grocery store and pick up a bouquet of flowers, but I was on another mission. It’s supposed to get pretty cold here this week, lows in the 20’s and teens. The problem is that I am feeding a stray cat in the back yard. This cat will not let me get close to him at all. When I bring his food out, he used to run about 15 feet away, now he runs about 3 feet away and turns and looks at me. Slow progress, but progress none the less. I’m not sure where he sleeps at night, but sometimes when it’s raining I find him in the area under our porch (our porch is on the second floor, so there is sort of a patio area underneath it). We have a homemade potting bench and lots of garden stuff (and other stuff) piled underneath it. I see him sometimes on a pile of boards right against our wall. So, today I picked up a little pet house and some bedding. Hubs is going to try to put some foam board insulation in it and then we’re going to try to get it set up over by where we sometimes see the cat taking shelter. Long story as to why I didn’t pick up a bouquet!
This was edited using Kim’s texture Warm Whisper overlaid at 45%.
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Roses for Texture Tuesday
Well, I am back from my blogging vacation and my real vacation to California! I was completely blown away by how gorgeous California was! I don’t know what I was expecting, but it was amazing. We traveled up the Pacific Coast Highway, hitting as many wine tastings along the way as we could! As my photography business slows down for the winter, expect to see California pics popping up!
For texture Tuesday this week, I have some wild roses in a blue ball jar. I used Kim’s Not Too Shabby texture at soft light. Even though the photo has a summery look to it, I think it’s icy blueness reminds me of winter.
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Geranium for Texture Tuesday
I thought I would venture away from my roses and peonies. But not too far away, still flowers. I found this geranium blown off from the plant after a storm. I left it exactly as it lay on my steps. A few petals fallen over on the step below and drops of water on the flower. In looking at it, I probably should have photoshopped out the dark brown worn spot on the bottom step. It competes too much with the geranium, and your eye doesn’t know where to go. I used Kim’s True Grit preset and her texture “Confidence.”
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Faded Roses
Once again, I am having to pull from my archives. I am simply too busy with Pamela Greer Photography to do any creative photos of my own! Fall is my busiest season. I usually limit myself to 2 sessions a week, but in October I have some weeks that I have 5 sessions (this week being one of them!) Luckily I overshoot any roses and peonies that I find, so I always have some in the archives.
For these roses, I used Kim Klassen’s Melancholy Preset and then applied her “touch of” texture.
Thank you so much to Kim and to everyone that visited me last week with my selection on her page! I tried to get buy and see everyone, but I might have missed a few! Hopefully when it slows down after fall, I will get back into Be Still and visiting all you incredibly talented people!
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A Textured Daisy for Texture Tuesday
This is a little white on white on white! I used Kim Klassen’s Rainy Day texture in soft light. Daisies are my favorite flower, so simple and sweet.
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Bee Balm for Texture Tuesday
You know how those garden catalogs sometimes package together a few flowers and call them something special – like “White Moon Garden” or something like that? Well, I bought a set of flowers that were supposed to be red for a hummingbird garden. One of the flowers was supposed to be a red bee balm. Well, something got mixed up, because my bee balm is definitely not red. I don’t mind really because it’s a lovely shade of a lavender-y pink. I’ve seen hummingbirds on it too, so they don’t seem to mind either!
Of course, I forgot to take note of what Kim Klassen Texture that I used! I must get better about noting that and I need to get on with Be Still 52!
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