Hi, I'm Andrea, and I'm interested in creatures and plants both wild and tamed, and people of all sorts. I only use a compact digital camera ,as I love being able to get it into a back pocket, and not have to cart heavy kit about. I carry a Panasonic Lumix TZ series, binoculars and a hand lens almost everywhere.Most of my outings are with the dogs so I only use point and shoot.
I am getting the hang of Photoshop, thanks to some very kind folk on RR!Â
I have a wildlife garden in Bournemouth, Dorset, in the UK, and spend a lot of time there . I retired from teaching art to teenagers a while ago.
I'm now getting some good results with my digi compacts; it took me a while to make the switch from my old film camera, an 1960 ish Pentax Spotmatic, but the mistakes are much cheaper! Â
I have 4 lodgers, 3 dogs and a parrot who, as at 2017, I have had 40 years.
I has so far had 19 dogs, mostly rescues.
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Comments (28)
ronmolina
Wild!
TECHNISTRATIONS
Love this! I have one of these balls in fern green... I keep mine backlit on a stone pedestal by a frosted bathroom window next to a glass horse sculpture in the same color... always got a lot of nice comments about them. I have always loved art items in transparent glass. Nice abstract capture by the way!
helanker
A super shot and fiddle :-) If just it could collect ALL the dust in the house, I would pay alot of money for it :D
emmecielle
Excellent work! :)
alanwilliams
interesting treatment
Adobe_One_Kenobi
Hehehe! Love the name "Dust collector"
kgb224
Superb capture Andrea. God bless.
Faemike55
very nice image - love the digifiddle
moochagoo
Nice postwork for this glass ball.
auntietk
LOL @ Helle! I'd never thought of that aspect before. Some knick-knack that collected all the dust in the house would be valuable, indeed! I've got a glass ball with me here in the motorhome ... I hadn't thought of photographing it ... hmmmmm ...
Mark-David-Rogers
Great idea Andrea, this piece works so well, this would also look nice if you could isolate it with a white background and fire different coloured lights at it.. and either capture the reflections or the object itself.
Cyve
Excelent !
johndoop
Beautiful!!!!!!!
goodoleboy
An artificially constructed moon, consisting of variously sized bubbles, orbits the digifiddled benign planet below, in this splendid image, Andrea.
anaber
WOOOW! Beautiful image! How so well, you turned dust in beauty, Andrea:))) I agree totally with Helle, but i would need at least 100 around , lol:)))))))))) very well seen and done!
wysiwig
That's what my father used to call my mother's knick knacks. Scientists just announced that there may be an earth-like planet 12 light years away so who knows. Wonderful image and post work. It does look the part.
whaleman
Very nice work! I don't really need one of these to collect dust, I'm already pretty good at it.
Katraz
A very pretty dust collector.
anmes
Wow Wow Wow. Just love it. I've a similar green paper weight...when I'vw left the S of France I must try it
jayfar
This looks as bubbly as you are Andrea.
dakotabluemoon
Now this is a really cool piece of art lady love it.
Rob2753
It looks like it's hovering :) very creative work :)
MrsRatbag
Your own private planet...wonderful work!
jendellas
I have a few dust collectors :o)
Jay-el-Jay
It has been said that there are worlds within worlds.Fine image.
danapommet
A beautiful collection of bubbles and I am partial to this style of paper weights!
three_grrr
I love these glass orbs with all the bubbles in them. I have one, and not managed to get a good picture of it. YOu've gotten a wonderful shot of yours, and your digifiddling is superb as always!
anahata.c
Andrea, I have to go now, as I started here around 7:15 our time and it's now close to 9:15, and I have chores to do (in this lovely freezing weather). So I'll end for now. I'll be back for more during this commenting period...But I end with this---all the way back in early November (god, so LONG ago, and we were all so young then!!!) because I just love it. More of your wonderful edge-work in the window and in the areas around the big ball. And in the window---because there's so much empty space---the colonies of color are just wonderful. In some cases, they're like highly articulated metal surfaces...I can't tell if all those spheres on the glass ball are actual dust, if they're dust exaggerated by your postwork, if they're bubbles in the glass (or plastic), or what---but visually, they're just great. A real explosion-of-a-piece, and yes, it's icy indeed. And the areas in front of the ball are much more lit, and resemble continents on a map. A terrific piece, with many of your elements of design; and lots and lots of fun. Also, the green in the whole foreground is terrific. Love this piece! Love it when you do this. I'll be back, but it's just great (as always) to comment here. Hope you're having a good week. Your digifiddles remind me that I have to do that more, with photography. I don't mean big "panel" things, just doing it with pictures. I still feel 'new' to photography, so I tend not to mess with single shots too much. It's time. I just love what you do when you do this.