Autumn in St. Louis

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.
- George Eliot



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Location:Along the Morgan Ford

I can't believe God put us on this earth to be ordinary

It's really a railing on a little bridge , along the River Des Peres Greenway. I walk along this urban/suburban trail almost daily; for exercise and inspiration.


I love photographing the ocean, mountains, National Park sites , and beautiful cities, but this is where I live, just an ordinary neighborhood in an ordinary city. I get to visit those extraordinary places, but I want to shoot photos daily.


And that's the challenge, finding a unique shot or taking an ordinary photo and altering it with photo aps to my heart's content .


Photoshop Express, Camera Bag, Photo Studio, Best Camera, Photo Wizard.


I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary. Lou Holtz

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Location:Where the sidewalk ends South St.Louis City/County

St. Augustine Lighthouse

Road trip to the Museum of Southern History in Jacksonville, Florida. A nice collection of artifacts from "the War Between the States". Great conversation with the staff and volunteers. A great place for research if you are in the area.

Photo ops in St.Augustine and a drive back to New Smyrna Beach along the coastal highway.

More photo metamorphosis!
Photo HD, PhotoStudio, CameraBag.










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Location:Florida Ave,New Smyrna Beach,United States

New Smyrna Beach

My iPhone has become my art journal. At least one of my art journals. It's fascinating to me to see what I can do with an ordinary photo shot with my iPhone, then processed through various photo apps.

The finished product above "morophed" from these images below.

Begin by adding vivid color and brighter images in "image correction" with PhotoStudio. Perform cropping and saturation adjusting with PhotoShop Express.



Save each edition of your photo as you shift between photo apps.

Using CinemaFX select the color comic option and use the slide bar and strike circle to make adjustments .

Take a final spin through Photo Shop Express to sharpen your image and one more turn through PhotoStudio, selecting "art" "burnt colors".

The finishing touch is to add text using Ransom Letters.

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Location:Flagler Ave,New Smyrna Beach,United States

Portals - Echo

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open. - Alexander Graham Bell



St. Louis, Missouri - Oak Hill PCUSA



Payton and her summer art project.


door near Atlanta, Georgia


Washington, DC area, Iwo Jima/Rosslyn
Check out the Echo project , click on the link on the sidebar.

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The Gospel

"God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees and in the flowers and clouds and stars."

Martin Luther


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Location:Florida Ave,New Smyrna Beach,United States

Pink Tractor

Heading southeast to the Florida coast. We spent most of the day on the road, no time for photos.



But lurking right behind the Best Western, here in northern Georgia, a pink tractor. Of course I edited it through several photo apps , but it started out pink, well almost pink. Pink enough...it looked pink, honest!

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Location:Rocky Face Cir,Dalton,United States

Remember

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Touch Understanding

"Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, as a moth brushes a window with its wing."

Photo edited with Camera Bag, Lo-Mo, PhotoStudio.

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Just When I Thought I Had Tried Everyhing

Just when I thought I had tried everything...well most everything, Pam Carriker introduced hand carved stamps into the art mix in her 365 Journal class!

Using images and photos from previous journal pages , I traced cone flowers and lettering and combined them with some doodling to create this stamp. Transfer the image to the linoleum block and carve...


Of course we have to take photos of everything, and then in turn I have to edited photos with assorted iPhone apps.


We start with your basic stamped image and then apply PhotoStudio.....


And no photo editing is complete without a trip through CinemaFX


Back to the drawing board!

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Celebrating 57

Playing with photos and iPhone apps, a great way to finish a great day.





















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Neon along the Morgan Ford

It's addictive, iPhone photography...I can't just take a photo.


























I can't just crop it or adjust the contrast.






















So many photo apps.... And only 7 gigs of space remaining.























Time to weed the collection.


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Artful Blogging - that's my photo!

A confession: as I write there are 3,562 photos on my 16 gig iPhone. Yes, I've saved them to my computer, but I can't bear to delete them from the phone.




























This photo was taken in Washington D.C. During the great blizzard of 2010. It was taken outside of The Natural History Museum. It had just started snowing.

I love the iPhone Camera and all the photo apps. I think I have 27. Most every photo I take is processed through at least two apps , and usually more. Which explains the enormous number of photos on my phone.

This photo was posted to Chrysti's and Susan 's Echo challenge. A biweekly photo prompt. My photo represents "dim". You can see more Echo photos by clicking on the Echo link in the sidebar.

I am honored to have it included in Chrysti's article in the Autumn 2010 Artful Blogger Magazine. My copy arrived today. I have been stalking the mail carrier since August 1.





























I have a wonderful Digital SLR Canon EOS 30, that I enjoy using. I also enjoy editing with Photoshop Elements, but there is something about the immediate gratification received while shooting and editing and blogging with my phone that I am unable to resist.

Warning to family and friends, I'll just happen to have my copy of the magazine in my possession for the next several weeks. Bear with me. Thanks!
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Fun iPhone editing

More iPhone editing fun from the OHP mission trip to Georgia. Posted from my phone, later I'll edit from the computer and make the photos larger!

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