Playing With Photoshop

For years I've been playing with photoshop and manipulating digital images I've taken with my various cameras. This is a sky at sunset in Chico just before Christmas a few years ago, a frame that I created in photoshop and a cucumber beetle that landed on my hand as I was sitting outside eating my lunch.

Once in Santa Rosa, we were walking through Coddingtown Mall and I became fascinated with some manikins that were in a shop window and took a multitude of pictures of them to use in various ways.

They were fun to play with.

The woman was a small doll in a store window along Main Street in Mendocino, about 6 inches high. The professor with the magnifying glass was one of my grandkids toys.

The lizard image was taken at The Living Desert Zoo in Palm Desert near Palm Springs in southern California. The fly and the rose were both residents of Caspar. The background is a sheet of copper that I textured by roller printing in my jewelry studio. Follow this link to see more about roller printing. ROLLER PRINTING

A mandala constructed from one of the multitude of flowers images I have collected.

The Presbyterian church in Mendocino taken through greenery from near the ocean and played with in photoshop to make it more like a drawing.

The flower to the right had just fallen off it's parent plant on a deck at our house in Caspar.
Shortly before I had taken the cricket picture with my new digital Nikon that I had bought to take images of our jewelry. I hadn't even learned how to turn the flash off and it flashed, which was lucky since the reflections on the crickets surface created an interesting aspect to the image. Normally it's hard to get close to crickets but this one had only one rear leg so couldn't move very fast. After a series of portraits, I put it outside and wished it well.

Created mostly in photoshop with a few underlying texture layers from camera images.

Here I am behind the swinging door. I got out eventually and went on with my life.