SUSAN TUTTLE INSPIRATION

August 16, 2013

Who is Susan Tuttle, you ask? She's a digital SLR photographer, iPhoneographer, digital artist and author. You can see a variety of her art here!  Primarily a photographer, I love her art...especially the way she creates pieces with her photos and  iPhone apps!! She's the artist to inspire participants this week at Flicker's online art group, DIGITALMANIA. I wanted to show you just how inspired I am by her ph0tography... I manipulated some photos in photoshop, reminiscent of her style...

 

 

 

By playing with colors, lighting, shading and filters as well as using a combination of  your everyday photos (taken with iphone, ipad or regular camera,)  you can make wonderful pieces of art!! I'm working on that...

One more challenge blog piece for THINK MONDAY-THINK ATC whose theme had to do with "legs..." a fun piece!!

 

 

Enjoy your weekend. Hope to see you sometime next week!

Thanks for stopping by...

 

Hugs,

abbyj 

 

Travel (real and virtual,) The Beatles and Blog Challenges 
August 5, 2012 

"Pursuing passions for photography and travel..."

"For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity." 

Henri Cartier-Bresson

French photographer,  Father of Modern Photojournalism  

Hi Family and Friends,

Happy you've joined me for this posting. I must say that I haven't been busy with my usual art playing as I've been learning my new camera. It's a bit heavier and larger than I would like, but the quality is worth it! I tried the smaller cameras because I wanted to downsize and carry less weight, but there is a difference in the quality of the photos. Here are some pictures from my new camera...I took them in Asheville, North Carolina this weekend where we celebrated our dear friend Joanne's birthday! We visited America's largest home, THE BILTMORE. It's the home of the famous Vanderbilt family and  uniquely American. With the Blue Ridge Mountains as a backdrop, George Vanderbilt worked with the best architects and craftsmen of the era (1890's) to develop his vision of a self-sufficient estate. It was opened to the public to help Asheville's tourism industry during the Depression (and to bring in money to preserve the estate) in 1930.

A view of the estate from below in one of its many gardens

Two of the Vanderbilt children...loved the photo

The cathedral where the Vanderbilts worshipped

The weekend before this, we were in Toronto visiting with our daughter and her children... always a good time! Our season subscription to the city's theater series took us to the Royal Alexandra Theatre to enjoy BACKBEAT...the story of  the birth of the BEATLES. The show was just okay...until the end when the "stars" played several favorite Beatle tunes...they did well and we all loved it! It was interesting to learn how the Beatles got together and how they became such important names in pop music history! This is my tribute to the show...

BLOG CHALLENGES this week include 'Windows and/or Doors" from THE THREE MUSES...

THINK MONDAY-THINK ATC offered a challenge to  participants to include a "garden gate" in their art piece...

On the Art and Sole POSTCARD CHALLENGE 2012, Darcy, our host, challenged us to take a virtual trip to Denmark... a small country that, surprisingly, has more pigs than humans. Danish ham is a huge export product!  It has the oldest state flag in the world that's still in use by an independent nation; LEGO was invented in Denmark; Hans Christian Andersen, the children's fairy tale writer, is a son of the country; Denmark was the first European country to abolish the slave trade (although it was the state of Vermont that actually abolished slavery) and they were the first European country to legalize same-sex marriages. Here's the art... 

As Bugs Bunny says,  "That's all folks!" Hope to see you next posting and hope, too, that you stay well!!


Hugs,
abbyj

PLAYING HARD...

VALENTINE'S DAY & BEYOND 

February 12, 2011

With Valentine's Day around the corner, several of the art blog sites I regularly visit have issued challenges...not only for Valentine's Day but looking past the day to further inspirations.  Answering the calls of these blogs, I've posted the resulting art I've done over the last couple of days... 

For 4X4 FRIDAY... http://4x4friday.blogspot.com/

For SUNDAY POSTCARD ART...http://sundaypostcardart.wordpress.com/

  (I know that traditionally, Valentine's Day is for romantic loved ones, but I've enlarged the circle of love and included our dear daughter, Michelle!)

FOR ART CREATIONS FRIDAY...http://artcreationsfriday.blogspot.com/

 And here's one more...this one is based on a photo I took for a photo art journal online art group. The task was to illustrate a "word of intention" for the coming year. My word...PATIENCE!

FOR PHOTO ART JOURNALS...http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/photoartjournals/

Thanks for looking at my art and photography... such fun to play and answer challenges put forth by other artists. It's wonderful to see how everyone interprets the challenges...all different, all unique!

Please stop by again...HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!     XOX, abbyj

  

Finally, A Snow Storm...

DECEMBER 6, 2010
Red Boots in the Snow

"Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,

Arrives the snow and driving o'er the fields,

Seems nowhere to alight;

the whited air Hides hills and woods,

the river, and the heaven,

And veils the farmhouse at the garden's end.

The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet Delayed,

all friends shut out, the housemates sit Around the radiant fireplace,

enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of  storm."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Very late this year, the snows are finally upon us, stretching  feathery, glistening flakes across sky and earth. It's time for roaring fires,  hot chocolate, hot apple cider, soft jazz and good books. I welcome the cleansing facade.

  
These snow scenes are around and near our home in snowy Central New York.    XOX,  Abbyj