Linda's Photo Adventures

Friday, August 19, 2011

I Like It, I Love It

It's fair time in the Antelope Valley. There's always children and cotton candy!

~ Jose Castro
The kids definitely like it. I'd say the cotton candy is the most popular thing in here. That and the hats. People like those a lot.

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Thursday, August 18, 2011

I had the privilege of doing a family photo shoot at the beach. I haven't had so much fun in so long, although I think we were all worn out when all was said and done. Everyone in the family had such a great attitude! That in itself was amazing because there were 4 teenagers! The family had a collection of beautifully framed black and white and sepia-toned surf photography in their home. One of the goals of the day was to recreate some of these photos to add to their collection. This is an example of one of the photos before and after! Usually, as a photographer today you're taking scratches OUT of a photograph...not putting them in!!!

All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change it's meaning according to who is looking at it"

John Berger (English Painter, b. 1926)

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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Rolling In the Deep

Well, as summer comes to an end it's only fitting that I put up a couple of surfer pictures.

"There are no more committed people on the planet than surfers. We fall down a lot. We turn around, paddle back out, and do it over and over again. Unlike anything else in life, the stoke of surfing is so high that the failures quickly fade from memory."
— Gary Sirota (surfer)

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I think that this is probably every guy's dream of "Little Surfer Girl."

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I used a Photoshop technique for this one.

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

You're a Mirror I Cannot Avoid

I got inspired to do a Photoshop art piece the other day. A lot of the time when I do this kind of work I realize that my art can be strange. I also realized that this is the kind of art I prefer.

"Happiness is: Looking in a mirror and liking what you see."

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Anonomous

Monday, August 15, 2011

Hidden Sun

Wow, it's been a long time since I've posted to this blog. My plan is to get back into the groove. This was taken at Apollo Lake in Lancaster CA about an hour after sunrise.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Buddah

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Always the Quiet One

Here's my Photoshop piece for the week.

A quiet mind cureth all.

Robert Burton

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Friday, December 3, 2010

Memory

In Bodega Bay, California the crab pots are stacked and ready to go.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

Francis Bacon

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