Sunday Still - Pink Tulips

The challenge is to shoot flowers from overhead.  I had this shot in my mind all week and had to make a trip to two stores just to find pink tulips.

And just for fun, here's a shot of my set up.

Thanks for visiting and have a great day.

Easter Blues

When my children were young, it was a tradition in the house to dye Easter eggs on Good Friday. Now that they're grown with families of their own, I decided I would quickly dye a dozen for the center of the table for Easter dinner. Wanting to keep it simple, I used food coloring from the cupboard and a little vinegar. I'm not sure what I did right or wrong but I really liked the tie dye look that they took on.

In trying to make them look like speckled eggs I spattered on a little acrylic paint.

 

A few yellow tulips from the grocery store and my Easter centerpiece was complete.

 

Hope you all had a wonderful Easter.

String, Tulips and Texture Tuesday

Yesterday I was showing you my new string project.  As you can see it's progressed a little. It's also Texture Tuesday at Kim Klassen's and this weeks challenge is the color pink.  I love pink in photograph's so it was an easy choice to add pink tulips to "the project". All photos have had a layer of Kim Klassen's embrace with the blend mode of multiply reduced to 50% - 75%. The texture was slightly removed from the flowers. .

My string project has been winding and gluing string around a jar to create new vases. With the theme of "Modern Cariboo" decorating for the house, these little vases will fit right in. It also brings new life to pickle and other little jars that would have been destined for recycling. 

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Once I finished a few more jars, I'll post new pics to show you the completed project.

Spring for $3.99

The weather in Alberta the past week, to put it mildly has been frightful.  The temperatures have been averaging around -25C ( -13F ) with wind chills down to -40C ( -40F ).  It's looking better for the upcoming week but it's now starting to snow.  While picking up a pizza for supper last night, the grocery store had bundles of tulips for $3.99.  I don't get a lot of flowers in the garden until May when we make a trip to the greenhouse to pick up bedding plants, so I thought $3.99 was a pretty cheap price to bring a little bit of spring into the house.  The tulips haven't started to open yet so they should be good for a few days of daily shots.  All photos have been edited in Photoshop and NIK Color Efex 4 with a layer of Kim Klassen's textures added.