Lost Aussie on the loose

Pushing Some Pixels

I spent the better part of the afternoon crafting a new banner from some 15 different images sent to me by my Vision and Verb pals from around the world ....and this is the result.

A little more tweaking here and there but on the whole I am happy, and so apparently are they - Phew!  Taking on commissions of any sort can be a bit of a challenge as you never really know whether you are going to please the "client" or not and wait with bated breath until you get the thumbs UP!  Probably even tougher when they are your friends too...!!

I've also spent some considerable hours today weeding through photo files from 2006 to now.  Junking about 2000 of them and coming across the odd gem or two and working a little more on two that I had on the simmering plate, one from Morocco and one from Venice.

They are both coming along a whole lot better than yesterday's effort which I was not pleased with at all, and have since thrown it in the bin and trashed the offending blog post too. 
These will probably end up in the keeper folder after a little more rounding off!  I'm not happy with the balance of light in the Venice piece so will have to work on that further!!!!

Making Brushes from Tiles

When I was in Morocco there were so many fascinating textures and tiles everywhere it was hard to know where to look.  Some of the pictures I took will work beautifully just as textures for Photoshop but these little pretties I thought would make fabulous brushes.

Now if you subscribe to the Love To Photoshop newsletter, you will already have downloaded these no doubt.  If not, you can go and grab them HERE

♥♥♥♥.... A little freebie brush love from me to you ......♥♥♥♥

Painting Memories

The first night I was in Essaouria I shared a fabulous dinner with a Kiwi Girl who was part of my photo tour group.  We found this tasty bar that overlooked the Port and Beach, called Taros  - we actually ended up venturing there a few more times during my stay.

That first night though, there was and English couple sitting behind us and from the get-go I was entranced by the girl's red dreads and lovely face.

I plucked up the courage and asked her if she would mind if I took her picture, which, thankfully she said - yeah, go for it.  And I did.

I think if I was 20 something again I might paint my hair red and revel in the luxury of gay abandon!...

Just sort of gives letting your hair down a whole new meaning.....

Morocco - Noir et Blanc

Sometimes less is more and it's always interesting to interpret images in black and white!  Tiles, plants, boxes, herbs and adornments .... taking the colour away and abstracting the image somewhat makes you think a bit harder!