Today I will be very brief for Fine Art Friday. Whenever I am out jogging, I have my iPhone with me and I cannot come home with at least one dandelion photo. They always seem so intricate, fragile. But when I saw this one on the little screen and later on the big one, it instantly reminded me of stars, sparkling and glowing like a galaxy. Albeit without the third dimension, being a normal photo only. And yet again – color or monochrome? I...

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Welcome to my Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop!  *{  |  |  }*  “On Wednesdays all over the internet, bloggers post a photograph with no words to explain it on their blog. Hence the ‘wordless wednesday’ title. The idea is that the photo itself says so much that it does not need any description.” > Above are a few of my favorite sites hosting a Wordless Wednesday blog hop. You can also grab my button as a reminder to link up every...

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Here it is! The long awaited first video taken with my (photo) camera that I got for Christmas. Of course, what could the subject be other than… the ocean power on Bonaire?! Right, windsurfing, but since we don’t do that very much lately… Have a look at the power of the ocean and the rugged, wild beauty of Bonaire’s East coast. On a side note, yes, I will fix the typo one of these days. Why not get every new post by me...

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My apologies! Phew – how time flies at times. It is Saturday already and I missed my very own Fine Art Friday. How did that happen? Well, I guess mostly, because relaxed fun times were a little scarce lately, so when an opportunity presented itself yesterday we grabbed it. After having been kind of overcast in the morning, it brightened up a lot during the day and by afternoon it was wonderfully warm and sunny. Luckily I was driving...

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Welcome to my Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop!  *{  | 7 |  }*  “On Wednesdays all over the internet, bloggers post a photograph with no words to explain it on their blog. Hence the ‘wordless wednesday’ title. The idea is that the photo itself says so much that it does not need any description.” > Above are a few of my favorite sites hosting a Wordless Wednesday blog hop. You can also grab my button as a reminder to link up every...

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A few weeks back I showed you how to start out processing in high dynamic range photography with this HDR tutorial. I hope you had a chance to play around with it, because it really can be a lot of fun. As I promised here is now the second part, in which I will show you how I got to the finished picture in my fine art series here, and a little more to tonemapping and programs. And if you want to see how I processed this new photo you have to...

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Vintage! Somehow I seem to be drawn to vintage these days. So, here @ Fine Art Friday I am showing you another blossom, a Japanese Cherry, with bokeh to add some depth and dynamic, plus a texture for good measure. I still have a few photos of blossoms to edit, which is a good thing, because after all the rain we had yesterday and today, most of them are gone for the season. __________________________________________________________ This is...

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Welcome to my Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop!  *{ fi | s | hy }*  “On Wednesdays all over the internet, bloggers post a photograph with no words to explain it on their blog. Hence the ‘wordless wednesday’ title. The idea is that the photo itself says so much that it does not need any description.” > Above are a few of my favorite sites hosting a Wordless Wednesday blog hop. You can also grab my button as a reminder to link up every...

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