the last 2 hours

i have been photo shopping 2 photos.
the pioneer woman set up a weekly assignment, texture.
i decided to spend some time adding texture to a picture.
i started out with one and was going to add it to the flickr group, but felt like it wasn't enough, so i did another one.
i find it funny it took so long to work on just 2 photos.
i'm not much of a photo shop person. i prefer the lighten a little, sometimes make one black and white, burn the edges type, of photos, but never spend this long on only 2 photos. but since i'm suppose to be going out of the box, this is what i came up with.





all of the photos used were ones i'd taken before. i decided not to take ones special for this.
if you wanna know how to add texture, go here.

new project!

well it's not much of a project but it's an idea.
it'll take a couple of weeks though and hopefully it'll be amazing.
i'm calling it the fall project. creative right? ;]
so jc and i were driving home from school and i yelled (rather loudly) look!!! the leaves have started changing!!!
fall is definitely my favorite season.
then as i was driving home from the library i really looked at the leaves, trees, and our street as a whole and had an idea.
so i ran inside, grabbed my camera, and went for a walk.
i'm not going to reveal everything but, will give you a sneak peek.
just uploaded, fresh off the press!





i love the details. the criss-cross texture on the acorn, puddle of water on the leaf, the bokeh, contrast of the green, and the leaves tinged in red. i can't wait for the finale!

inspiration

wow. i was looking at a great blog, http://www.paperpony.net/ and i was thinking about how i love her pictures, because she is really creative. the diana+ pictures are some of my favorites. i love imperfections, to the max. i don't see why people always have to have everything exact and straight and this and that. i especially don't understand perfection in what is suppose to be your creative outlet. try something different this week. go outside of the box.
that's my goal as well. i don't always do that, and i really try. there shouldn't be rules for photography or music or knitting or whatever else you can think of. it's how you feel about what you create, not what others think.

my current favorite song.
melody by kate earl


no matter what has ever come to me
i got my own brand of company
i got da da da inside my head
and i play songs back to back until i got to bed

wake up by myself inside an empty room
theres no body next to mine to oooh
but my skin is warm and my heart is full
its the do do do do do do

walking waking on a crowded street
with my headphones loud
so my hips can swing, so my head can nod
to the rock and roll to the boom boom beat

& i find that im never alone
& i find that my heart is my home
& the music within makes me whole
a world that i built on my own

& i know that im never alone
& i know that my heart is my home
every missing piece of me
i can find in a melody

no matter what has ever come to me
i got my own kind of company
i got ba ba ba inside my head
and i sing songs back to back until i go to bed

theres a river in my mind thats never still
swirling , soothing all the time gives me a thrill
swimming in the notes that go
oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

wandering, waking in an empty wood
it is quiet here, i am powerful
i look down below serenade the world
from inside my soul

& i find that im never alone
& i find that my heart is my home
& the music within makes me whole
a world that i built on my own

& i know that im never alone
& i know that my heart is my home
every missing piece of me
i can find in a melody

when the walls begin to creep in
and the sky is fallin down
when im swallowed up in feelings
i get lost inside the sound...