Back From Holidays...

Just about on top of things again and will be posting real soon. A fav photo of our trip from a field of flowers at Fonti's Pool.

Wisteria in Full Bloom - Over the Back Fence.

I don't know how many of you were ever lucky enough to grow up around the magnificent dangling vines of  Wisteria, but some very fond child hood memories of mine are of what seemed to be giant big Willow trees with the most splendorous display of the deepest hues of purple Wisteria growing all through it in what appeared to be the most blissful harmony to me at the time. 

At the time I just loved to immerse myself in it all by lying under the big old tree's and letting the wind sway it all from side to side with those streaks of light just shining through to keep one reminded that the day was only young and there was plenty more to do!

Well today I chanced to see some Wisteria albeit not quite the same colour but equally as pretty on the back fence of an old homestead Nino and I have been restoring over the past 3 years during a photo shoot we were attempting before the next big project commences next week with the outside landscaping.

Needless to say I was distracted as I easily am with a camera and off I went to get some quick shots before I got busted - so I hope you like them and they may have some sweet memory for you too with Spring so deperately on it's way.

Picasa and 'Dud' Photo Saving

Here is a quick photo I took today with my 'just arrived' in the mail  'Mega Macro Lens' of some random flowers in my kitchen. The actual photo shown below wasn't really to my liking at all, as it has just a little macro detail in one corner and blur everywhere else making it an overall 'dud' and  usual 'delete' for me. However I figured I had nothing to lose but time and played around a little with it in a program called 'Picasa'  I had just downloaded in recent days on advice from some firends. Well I am quite excited at the possibilities of this little 'dud' now and all the options I had to play around with. For now it all seems quite endless to say the least. I found myself quite excited how this and so many more photo's could nicely become a background piece in any mix media  / journaling / ATC or even custom jewellery with some little extra fun. The mind boggles as I like being able to create work from my own art work if you know what I mean. O no I feel another urge to go head on into another 'some thing' in the pursuit of creativity - photo editing and mixed media where does it all end I hear you say?

This is the original photo to compare to the 'edited' one above. I actually continued to play around with some more basic creative tools with the edited image as a background and created a collage of our baby conure 'Chu Chi'. Not quite what I have planned for the new background piece but thought I would share another feature of Picasa being the collage feature with you here. However I placed some lovely text on the image and it has not come through into Flicker for me. But you can see it properly here in Picasa online - Enjoy.