Thinking Aloud: creative images

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Friday, December 24, 2010

A Festive Post

a few festive images from my recent collection .... just in time to wish everyone

a wonderful Festive Season.

Gena D Images and {Gena D Photography} for thinking aloud

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

In honour of a great old building

I decided to go with architecture today and creative digital manipulation, so the first
three images are all the same, just different effects.

These are some of the photographs I've taken of the facade of the old Post Office
Building in Johannesburg. It has a very interesting history - built in the late 1800's

and situated in the first market square of the then up and coming city.   It's built in
various architectural styles and has had some structural changes through the years,
including the change from bell tower to clock tower (see images below).

It was declared a national monument in 1978 and continued to be used as the Post
office up until 1996. The idea was to restore the building and continue to put it to
good use. Sadly it remained empty and was subjected to extensive vandalism.
Then about a year ago it burnt down and it's future still remains inconclusive.

the same image - 3 different creative effects .....

a view of the building whilst awaiting restoration - late 2008

and here - detail of the clock tower after the devastating fire of late 2009.

A MidWeek Blues post

and Sepia Scenes post

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Road Trip

I've realised that as an avid photographer, I shoot away in any setting, place and time ....

The problem, you ask?

Well it's that I end up with too many pictures, which need to be previewed, at

times editted and "used" in some format, otherwise what's the point???

All of which, I might add, takes time..... So why am I telling you this?

This selection is from a country trip I did in mid May this year, (point in case) to

the wonderful area of Chrissiesmeer - South Africa's lake district. Not a very well

known place and normally only noticed if you are on your way to Swaziland,

(which is how we found out about it).

So without further ado, here is a selection of images taken in and around this

small, but breathtakingly beautiful, country place

I will post more on the actual venue that we stayed at soon!!

Previous Posts on Chrissiesmeer:

Old Stone Church - click here

Dawn over Stone Barn click here

Stone Church - click here

Friday, September 3, 2010

Wisteria Dilemma

For some reason I battle to capture a decent image of Wisteria. I deleted most images

from last year and don't think I have used one pic to date. This year, no real

satisfaction, so far, no "aha" moment yet ....

I'm not sure if it's the detail (too much) of the hanging flower, or the fact that they come

out in Spring at that time when the wind is still around, making it difficult to capture

perfectly. Anyway, I managed this shot yesterday and have "played" around with

exposure to make it less dark, and hopefully show up more detail in the process ....

I love the simplicity of it, but am still not 100% convinced that this is it, so have picked

a branch, which I can now manipulate and am going to try a few other captures,

let's see what that brings!?

Monday, August 30, 2010

Blue Daisies

a couple of weeks ago I posted some pics taken of the vibrant African Daisies

which abound just before spring .....

I "played" around with colour settings and came up with these as a

different version.... perfect for a {blue} Monday .....

Have a great day and an awesome week everyone

a Macro Monday post here and here

and a Blue Monday post

Monday, August 16, 2010

Agapanthus Seedhead

For those of us who know the agapanthus flower, we normally associate it with a

vibrant tall spike of purpley blue flowers, or occassionally white also.

But today I grace you with the remains of the agapanthus flower head... the last

few seed pods and seeds (black bits) of the season.

I'm a bit of a sucker for abstract forms in nature, I find the shape, texture

and colour of seedheads/ seed pods, truly fascinating....

I also attempted to play around with exposure on this image - above is a

slightly underexposed version, whilst below is the slightly over exposed

version - which to you prefer?

Friday, August 13, 2010

"Field of Flowers'

Whilst visiting the annual herb festival on the gorgeous Doonholm property,

I found a few interesting angles from which to try

something 'different'. Here is one example, where crouched behind

the bed of blue indigenous Felicia (forefront), I managed to capture the

trees and flowers just ahead ...... making it appear like a field of flowers,

with a lot more distance and depth than there was in reality ....

Friday, April 30, 2010

Through the Fence

I captured this image one afternoon on the way home - a row of

vibrant kalenchoe growing through and around the fence.

Part of Fence Friday on Flickr

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Vintage Binoculars

a vintage pair of binoculars that I found in some thrift store a good many years ago ...

decided to do something with them ....

and here is the Sepia version

View more Sepia Scenes here

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Abstract Reflection

This image was part of a photography assignment - creating an abstract image.

A vintage book with wonderful curlicue details, a pewter pear (curved shape),

a lamp for lighting and of course the right angle...

click here to view more Ruby Tuesday posts

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Linen Rose

a floppy petaled climbing rose in a textured effect

one of my creative images - click here for previous posts on creative images

and also visit My Flickr.

view more Wordless Wednesday posts here

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

{Echo} Illuminate

Another word photo challenge - this time the word is Illuminate

See more of my previous Echo Challenge Images here

Also see more Ruby Tuesday posts here and here

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Signs of Pilgrims Rest

Images of some of the vintage and historical signs at Pilgrims Rest

- a living museum mining village in Mpumalanga.

It's the original mining town of the region and is still a beautiful place to visit.

For those interested, it's close enough to Mac Mac Falls (see post below), God's Window and even the Kruger National Park - for more info on the town, here is a link.
I hope to be posting more of the gorgeous and quirky signs over the weeks to come.