Connie's Ramblings

Another member on NAPP challenged me to a one on one battle in which we bat images back and forth between each other keeping at least one element from the previous to create a new image. The battle is for 5 rounds and so far I’ve done 2 – below are the images I’ve created.

First here are the starting images I used for the first round. The image of the girl is what was served to me.

Completed image.

And here is my 2nd round.

Hard to believe I haven’t posted since 24 August… Well actually maybe not… I lost a harddrive in there right before Labor Day Weekend… No data was lost – luckily I regularly backup… but it did take awhile to get things back up and running smoothly.

Battle 131 started with:

I rendered some cylinders in Illustrator and then set the image as the surface to come up with with the fireworks. The wicks were made with a custom brush I created in Photoshop and the fire was simple painted:

Then there was Battle 132‘s starting image:

I used the pen tool in photoshop to trace several of the front petals and then took 3 of the petals and morphed them into a butterfly wing. That was then duplicated and rotated about the horizon to create the butterfly…

Finally, last weeks (Battle 133) image was:

The framing on this was created using another image from stock-exchange of a bamboo ladder.

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…