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 (20)
paul_gormley
this is a marvellous image and the thumbnail doesn't do it justice, really love the posterisation, it has real impact
Juliette.Gribnau
cool PW (buzz-pro??)
wysiwig
Fantastic fiddle. It looks like its melting. Your friend Audrey is amazing and the perfect example of what my stepmother means when she urges people to keep moving.
Hendesse
A fantastic looking effect. The POV is great too.
Mark-David-Rogers
Interesting capture and post work, bet dear ole fritz has a mighty workout with those steps in the other shot. Maybe at times he has to be picked up as short legs and steps tend not to go well together.
jendellas
Both pics a super, love the digifiddle. Little Fritz climbing all those steps with his little legs.
auntietk
I would be carrying an extra 15 pounds up those stairs with me. (In the Flickr shot.) Mandy wouldn't make it up more than two or three! Your pov on this, as well as the digifiddle, is superb. It pulls me up and through, and makes me feel like I'd like to be outside walking rather than sitting here at the computer!
bmac62
Like it...and you are inspiring me to do some digifiddling...it has been awhile.
Faemike55
Very cool postwork Andrea
Adobe_One_Kenobi
Your post work looks like they have stripped the walls and are waiting to repaper them. Nice.
kgb224
Superb capture and post work Andrea. God bless
goodoleboy
The Town Hall stairs and walls appear to be waterlogged in this wonderfully digifiddled rendition of the photo. A tonne of various contrasts and shades of gray really enliven this scene.
jocko500
cool
three_grrr
there's that saying, those that move, keep moving, those that don't move, don't. Your friend Audrey is proof positive of that! Both images of the stairs are wonderful. Love the digifiddling of this one, and abosolutely love the flickr one with Audrey and Fritz!
Cyve
Fantastic result !!
Digitaleagle
Interesting POV and effect, very nice!
MrsRatbag
Great POV; I do love a good fiddle!
aksirp
I like the DOF and the post work fit great!
danapommet
Great to see Audrey and Fritz on the other side. A very nice fiddle on this side of the vortex!
anahata.c
The flickr version glows like a shot out of paradise. And all that decay/lichen/mold (whatever it is) on the stairs only adds to the overgrown paradise feeling. The light is almost otherworldly...But THIS piece---someone here spoke of posterizing filters; but even if you use them, there's stuff you do WITH them that makes your postwork unique. I've never been able to get this. It's broken into a million colonies and islands, and you have them most where the surfaces call for them---basic good design work. And your hues draw us up, then the walls lighten everything in their pale greens and blues; and I love how the stairs in the very top are whittled down to some simple black suggestions of stairs. The deep browns on the bottom (left and right) are perfect contrasts and accents; and the light grays on both sides are great balances. This is so simple but so complex, and it's a marvelous tour through one of your many styles. You made a simple gray-ish stairwell into a whole bristling world. I luuuuv this shot! (It would wonderful if we could reverse the worlds---live in a world of postworked reality, and then view non-postworked as the "artists'" view. Subject for a tale...)