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 (19)
giulband
Very creative work !
greyone
You're right that the bottle design is quite attractive. I'll take your word for it on the scent as I really am not a connoisseur of perfumes. Excellent post work on this Andrea.
Glendaw
Excellent addition, awesome post work, and fascinating information !
Star4mation
Super image Andrea :)
jendellas
The bottle looks like a spaceship. A Lady Gaga flop then!!!
Adobe_One_Kenobi
incredibly cheap Just like lady gaga :)
wysiwig
Nice post work, dark and mysterious. When I saw the non-fiddled bottle my first impression was Goth meets art deco. From everything I've heard about the lady, she appears to be very sweet. She is involved in several charitable causes and no less than Tony Bennett compared her voice favorably to Billie Holliday and Ella Fitzgerald.
Cyve
Amazing and beautiful.
Faemike55
Wonderful postwork
jocko500
cool
blondeblurr
A great singer, I have heard her singing duets with Tony Bennett - I like the bottle design w/o the PW better. BB
Katraz
A great looking bottle and some interesting digifiddl
anahata.c
Just read Mark, and really? Tony Bennett (a superb singer) compared Lady Gaga to Billie Holliday and Ella Fitzgerald? I had no idea. I've heard L.Gaga, and she's got a sweet voice, but that good? I'll have to listen again. (I grew up on Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald---my mother had every E.Fitzgerald album ever made. I guess I haven't heard enough Lady Gaga.) (And Brigitte says that LGaga sang duets with Tony Bennett? Wow!) Well, that's not about the image: Zoomed, this thing is a big encrusted crypt of a thing, and the bottle shines in it like a sorcerer, or like one of Macbeth's "weird sisters" (the cranky old witches): Like it's conjuring spirits in the cellar. I love this. You broke up the dark with your usual "colonizations". And you made a lot of fussy intense divisions of that already complex bottle. A fitting treatment for such a lame scent: As if the perfume has a whole other agenda behind closed doors. A fine counterpoint to your bottle series---I love this!
MrsRatbag
Your wonderful postwork really makes this; I find the whole LG thing incomprehensible and forgettable.
Mark-David-Rogers
Interesting bottle, the post work here really adds a whole new dimension to the shot.
irisinthespring
Awesome abstract!
helanker
Beautiful and very mysterious :-)
auntietk
I love the light and shadows and they way your postwork played with the differences. Superb! Thanks for the original ... I got so involved in the angles and planes of this one I had no idea what the thing actually looked like. LOL! Reading all the comments, I guess I need to go listen to Lady Gaga and see what she's all about. I don't follow pop music much, and I always figure someone who is incredibly popular must be saccharine and dull. If Tony Bennett likes her, I suppose she's got merit, though. Thanks for posting this and starting such an interesting conversation!
kgb224
Outstanding work Andrea. God bless.