Bubbles in Fountain at Gateway Gardens 5-27-2015

There was a modern statue with a fountain at  at Gateway Gardens, GSO, NC.  These bubbles in the water were fascinating and thought it might be a great pattern or texture.  These are not exactly the same image but taken at the saeme place...but bubbles are ever changing..  The one on the left I did a "smart fix" in PSE 11.  The right one  I used Camera + post editing.: clarify, the tint lab with green color and to me it looks like a lot of jade gems.  The bubble facets are more distnct in the right image.   .  

Clematis Fronds/Whirls - Gateway Gardens, GSO, NC 5/28/2015

I am always looking for patterns or texture when I am out and about taking photos.  These fronds/whirls are after the clematis blooms. It is not the same plant as the one posted yesterday and no blooms present.  This one was in Gateway Gardens in Greensboro.  It was climbing up a fence. It had golden colored leaves and the image shows more of a golden color of the fronds than my eyes saw.  It looked more beige.  I did enhance with midtones but not to extreme because would have been too golden. Taken with Camera+ HDR mode. Minor editing in PSE.

Clematis with Different Variations

My neighbor had these clematis blooming.  It is weird how the one in the forefront is a different variety than those in the background.  If a cultivar maybe reverting to one of the previous cultivars.  I waited till evening--maybe too late to capture the image because would have been blown out with the sun.  I had to do some cropping and editing -so more digital noise and cannot always remove with a denoise filter.  Did some cloning of artifacts.  Taken with Camera + .  Editing with PSE 11.

Rosemary for Remembrance - Red, White & Blue for Veteran's Day

Monday was Memorial Day.  I took a picture of this red, white & blue bow secured to my Rosemary plant in a pot.  Rituals of remembrance for the dead are known to have involved rosemary in a variety of cultures. In Europe and Asia, rosemary has been planted at grave sites and sometimes used as mediums to communicate with ancestors. Rosemary wreaths are associated with Remembrance day. The backdrop was a beige cloth I  used over my banister on the deck.   Every day veterans and those serviceman who have serveour country, or those currently enlisted should be honored for giving us our freedom. Image shot with Camera +. Editing and text message done in PSE11.  

Mediterranean Style House - Hamilton Lakes Development

This Mediterranean style house was on a tour May 16th.  The iPhone with a small sensorand has trouble with distortion.   I did not do any correction of this image. Used Camera+ HDR mode.  It might be one  to use an  app that would help to correct this.  I sure did not see that distortion when I looked through the view finder and at the LED screen.
There are leading lines to the front door.from the way the lawn was moved  This showsed up since light coming from the left. & behind me.      

Magnolia Macro Sepals and Blossom Conversion to B & W

Magnolias are in bloom in NC.  Have tried different times of day and different poses.  The image on the left was actually one I picked and used a dark green cloth to lie the magolia blossom on it.  This allowed me to pull away the front petal so I would have a macro shot of the sepals.  Tbe petals are
really a soft texture. The image on the right was orginally taken in color.  PSE 11 used post processing.  I cropped, used clone tool to remove some dust artifacts, convereted to
B & W - then increased the contrast more after the B & W conversion as I wanted more black tones.
May have done too much.

Pizza Food Truck -Greensboro Hamilton Lakes House Tour

Food trucks are all the rage these days.   I went to the Preservation Greesnboro House Tour last weekend.  This Pizza Truck was at the first house. In a public place you cannot always choose your background and you may or may not want to include people in the scene. I don't like the red car  back in the street and the rod in the foreground.  I just saw Emil Pakarklis talk about Touch Retouch app but have not had time to work with it on an image of mine.  This could be a test.  If it works, may be able to post under comments.  When my sister comes to visit we want to do First Friday in Greensboro and there may be more opportunities then to get street scene images.   Minimal editing in PSE 11, cropping, darkening roof which had highlights really blown out.
It is not like a cell phone is going to give you the "blinkie" warnings.  .