. . . . . Lesson 4
The summer of 2014 was busy in many respects. There were photographs to take, like the ones of the bees and insects I have used and I've busy scanning old slides. I have spent hours and hours scanning photographs taken in the 1960s and 1970s using Kodachrome and Ektachrome film. Immediate reaction to some left us with the question, “where was that?” The final settlement to this question sometimes took more than one day, even sleeping on the question at times. On top of that, I decided to do something with my disorganized storage of photographs. Photographs are just scattered all over the hard drive. In preparation of an all out assault on my photographs by Lightroom, a major overhaul was necessary. Oh, by the way, there were at the start over 11,000 duplicate files. That is surely cut back but I am not finished.
I am including here some photographs of flowers found around our house in Guam. Some have been digitally “painted” with the Topaz Impression™ filter in Photoshop. Beth brought this filter to my attention and I found it very much to my liking.
There is one more, not of flowers or of Guam. The original photo was taken in Thailand at a cemetary probably of Chinese origin or influence. It is sort of a wall cast of concrete or carved of stone and then painted. This is a digital painting of a painted dragon. No preview as a thumbnail, just click here for the Painted Dragon.
