Connie's Ramblings

It has been a while since I’ve posted… life has been… interesting… we came home from vacation to find problems with our water well. Three weeks later and a new well pump, things seem to be working again finally.

Next step was to actually do our ‘Summer Project’ of refinishing the deck. So we pressure washed it, scrapped it, cleaned it up, painted it and it rained… and rained… so we had to sand that off and repainted today. Hopefully it will dry and be done now!

I’m several battles behind so yesterday I wanted to try to figure out a way to bring Battles 126-130 altogether… and they had so much in common! NOT….. 126 (ruins) 127 (surfboard beach shot) 128 (pin cushion) were all quite easily added… Had a bit more problems with 129 – the metal piece… so I inverted, converted to polar coordinates and then use the distort twirl to it and it became wall art… This week’s image (130 – the old paper) was set to multiply over the images in the tv screen itself.

All other elements were designed from scratch in ps… obviously the most time was spent on the etch-a-sketch type TV…

Here are the originals.

And here is the composite.

We went and visited family in Tucson and Seattle July 1 – 15 so I managed to get behind on some of the NAPP battles.

Battle 123 started on July 4th and I knew what I wanted to do with it as soon as I saw the starting photo:

Here is my image:

I photographed the prairie dogs at the Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum on July 5th.

I also missed the Battle for week 124 but I had no idea what I wanted to do with the image for it:

So I combined it with this weeks’ (Battle 125) image:

And did this up as a combined Battle 124-125 image…

Here is this week’s starting image.

I did up something really quick as we are leaving on vacation on the 1st…

The information on Skyscapers came from wikipedia…

Here is this week’s starting image…

And here is my image…

I wasn’t quite sure what I was going to do with this one until we went to the zoo on Wednesday. Then I decided to try to incorporate some animal images I’ve shot into the image… All of the animal images are photographs I’ve taken myself either at Disney’s Animal Kingdom or the National Zoo in DC.

The sky was created using an old photoshop plugin called KPT Sky Effects.