Welcome to Photo Art Friday!
Our virtual doors (the appearance of the inlinkz button) open here in North America at 19:00 hours every Thursday. That means that those of you across the oceans, for whom it is already Friday, can actually link up on what is Friday for you!
If you are new to Photo Art Friday, please read the guidelines for participation by clicking on the Photo Art Friday tab under my header.
This week, the optional challenge is to share a piece of photo art that you have created using images from your archives, paired with the texture pdpa Leafy Landscape. If you did not get to download the high res version of the background/texture you can find it in this post.
pdpa Leafy Landscape texture
To make my submission for this week's edition of PAF, I used the texture/background, Leafy Landscape as my canvas and added the above texture from my personal archives. I then dropped in the digitally enhanced photo (taken by my son-in-law while in Spain) of a mother duck and her baby ducklings.
Wanting to make it appear that the group of ducks had just emerged from a body of water, I used the brush tool to paint in some blue at the base of the scene.
Poster Edges were added. When making a composite, I find that a soft application of the filter 'poster edges' somehow marries all the elements in the composite together.
A couple of 'stylets' were added in RadLab to slightly enhance the overall appearance. The addition of my signature was the last step, and we were good to go! What do you think?
Click to enjoy an enlarged view.
Next week, as always, you can link up any piece of photo art that pleases YOU
OR
you can link up a piece created with the prompt, DERELICT
der·e·lict
[der-uh-likt]
adjective
1.
left or deserted, as by the owner or guardian; abandoned.
2.
neglectful of duty; delinquent; negligent.
noun
3.
a person abandoned by society, especially a person without a permanent home and means of support; vagrant.
4.
Nautical . a vessel abandoned in open water by its crew without any hope or intention of returning.
5.
personal property abandoned or thrown away by the owner.
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Thanks, Bonnie. Generally, I don't have many animal images, but I had one that worked just fine with the new texture. Can't wait to link up!
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful path Bonnie...I can imagine its beauty in each season and in transition from one to the next! Very cool work with the ducks and textures!
ReplyDeleteSo totally gorgeous, Bonnie. I'd love to walk with you here.
ReplyDeleteVery cool way to play, Bonnie!! I never cease to BE amazed and encouraged by what you share and invite.
ReplyDeleteI am so glad for this going on this evening as it gives me an oasis of simple calm and genuine fun to defuse a crazy past 24 hours.
I am going to try playing this way with textures, too. It is quite a dance!!
What an amazing piece of art with your mama duck and her babies and your gorgeous texture.
ReplyDeleteHi Bonnie, I love what you did with the ducks. Henk is on the mend and very much brighter mentally. Cheers
ReplyDeleteYour creation is gorgeous, rich and thoughtful. I love it ... You are truly an artist as I am a dabbler. I am reminded of that every time I look at your PAF posts. But, bottom line, I love this meme and I love doing the pictures so that is why we are all here, right? Now, I will wait for the linky ;)
ReplyDeleteAndrea @ From the Sol
Hi Bonnie, love how the ducks are travelling through the photo. I hope you don't mind I borrowed your bird theme this week.
ReplyDeleteI love your results, Bonnie - what sweet little ducklings with their Mama. And what a beautiful view you have on your daily walk! Thanks so much for all you do - have a great weekend. :)
ReplyDeleteLovely result! It's almost like the texture was made for the picture.
ReplyDeleteThat piece is amazing, Bonnie! It could hang on the wall in a museum. And it's nice to see you have some colour in Eastern Canada, here in the west, the wind took all our leaves before that glorious 3 or 4 days of colour we usually have!
ReplyDeletelove what you've done with it Bonnie.
ReplyDeletei found it interesting to work with and did something a little ghoulish . . .
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libbyQ
Oh, how I'm smiling . . . love your submission Bonnie, and maybe because we were on the very same wave length!! xo
ReplyDeleteLovely work! Beautiful place too!
ReplyDeleteI haven't done anything with your texture, but I am so curious to see what everybody came up with!!!
ReplyDeleteby the way, can't stop looking at that beautiful path of yours... what a beautiful place!!!
I haven't done anything with your texture, but I am so curious to see what everybody came up with!!!
ReplyDeleteby the way, can't stop looking at that beautiful path of yours... what a beautiful place!!!
a stroll along that path with you would be delightful. Thank you as ever for the texture and the prompt and giving us all a place to shine
ReplyDeleteI fully intended to use your lovely texture but it's been a challenging week...I love how you expertly used it here though, beautifully done..I can see some great Christmassy effects with this texture Bonnie :)
ReplyDeleteyour combination of textures and ducks is just lovely
ReplyDeleteYour mama duck with her babies is just wonderful Bonnie. Thank you for the new texture.
ReplyDeleteI am loving the results of how each person sees your texture in a different and yet exciting but meaningful way. How grateful we are to you for inciting our inner artist. Valerie
ReplyDeleteGorgeous texture background! I am joining in for the first time, I hope I have met the guidelines :)
ReplyDeleteGreat picture of the duck family!
ReplyDeleteI would love to be able to walk on that path every day, simply beautiful!! :)
Bonnie I absolutely love your combination of these two textures and these adorable ducks! I think that you are so talented and wish I had that ability to "see" how how to combine all of the elements digitally to make a "finished project". Are you familiar with a magazine SOMERSET DIGITAL STUDIO. I think it would be a great magazine for you to be published in.... If you cannot find it in Canada, I would be glad to mail you one, although i know it is also available digitally. Think you should enter some of your work.... You would be a shoe in! Have a wonderful day!
ReplyDeleteIs your Zazzle store new? I just noticed it... Could be that I am just slow...
ReplyDeleteI had not though of making the landscape a scene (!) but your ducks look so good under the willow tree. Thank you for this texture - it inspired a whole forest I'm afraid!
ReplyDeletep.s. love your autumn walk
I love the way you used this texture with the shot of the ducks.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the texture - it could be used in so many different way. Love your ducks!
ReplyDeleteYou have given the duck family a lovely leafy environment. And thanks for the texture - my first time trying this- i hope you can still see it!
ReplyDeleteI would very much like to stroll down your lane too:)
Wonderful piece Bonnie. I love the sweet feel it has. - This was a cool texture. I'll need to experiment with it more.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous path you walk on, such wonderful fall color.
Wow PAF has had some great participation recently.
Yes, an impressive way with leaves, very autumnal, I like it, great!. I want to walk around. Greetings.
ReplyDeleteHi Bonnie, Thank you for hosting such a fun, creative site. I like how you blended in the bottom of your photo to make it look like the ducks belonged there. I tried making a layer with a standing swan, but it just turned out looking like he was missing his feet and I didn't post it. :)
ReplyDeleteducks on parade - sweet!
ReplyDeletethis is what I like. You made a texture to suit your photo of the ducks. Really nice work.
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