Where Did The Day Go?

It's just as well I don't have to make school lunches, put people on the bus or think about making dinner too often these days.
The hours have passed today, too many to count precisely, and most of them spent, pen on tablet, fussing over pictures in Photoshop.
but.... I daresay that if it did not 'float my boat' then I would not do it......

I've pretty well foresaken using stock photos for my digital work, relying solely on images that I shoot myself.
The downside is that I often spend many hours backtracking, keywording and cataloguing photos taken over the years to make into a useful library.  Oh the value of hindsight!

The upside of trolling through files and folders to organize (as well as create) is that you find images that you thought you had forgotten and somehow in the fresh light of day they foster some fine inspiration!!

Both pieces above are composites (one more obviously so than the other!)
Winter's Light is comprised of 3 different photographs as well as (home grown) textures a whole bunch of adjustment layers and Receeding Waters is a composite of 4 photographs plus sundry other goodness.

And yes......if you thought I was working on some new class files you could be right!

Comments

[Ibukun]

You have a way of making these pictures tell a story. Thanks for sharing. Keep them coming!!

[Seth]

These images are gorgeous. You have captured the light so well in both and the colors are so warm and rich. Definitely worth the time it took to find all these images!

[karen burns]

These images are exquisite, Marie ~ no matter how you came about them, I am there for this class :-)
Yes, I need to learn more, and more, and more :-)

~K

[Chris]

It always amazes me when composites are made and they wind up so beautifully integrated and smooth and intense and rich like these are! It is apparent from your recent blog posts that you are really busy, and with intricate, focused work. But I was thinking it might be nice to collaborate on a sketchbook. We could swap it back and forth and do our own thing on our pages. And since I'm NOT a photographer, the variety would be interesting, I think.

[Joanne Thieme Huffman]

Absolutely stunning. Looking forward to news about the new class.

[Cindy Lane]

Truly lovely images Marie - so full of "soul".

I daren't ask how many images in your digital library....

[Bren]

I could get lost in Winter's Light, it's extraordinary! You do amazing things with photos so I'd say all that organizing is worth the end results :-) Cataloging, keywording could use a course on this!

[Chantal]

New class files> keep us posted Marie