Category: photography

Pink floats

Cement birdbath @ the Birmingham Botanical Gardens placed in the Camellia Green house before renovations (current) The petals must be from a Camellia flower.

Peanuts & an owl

It is like one of those games where you have to find an object. Do you see the owl? I painted this. I painted every single brick in watercolor. I had a show, along with my uncle & mother, that painting was the first I sold. I took this photograph in downtown Birmingham. (Alabama) The…

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Shadows of themselves

The shadow on the leaf was cast by the branch above it. To me it looked like a “Y”, I was so tempted to put an “A” and an “M” and use the shadow’s y to spell “Amy” I still might! This is the underside of my tiny Japanese Maple tree.

Its like eating one donut too many

So sweet. I brought my cellphone, with a pic of these flowers,to Leaf & Petal to ask anyone if they knew what the flower was called. Gerber Daisy? Two say. No, the flower is soft like a daisy, but smaller… The guy who would know just went to lunch. Go see if you can find…

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this rose is from Saab Nursery

Which is why there are black at the edges. I figured out how to make red look natural. I have spent a lot of time dumping red flowers because I couldn’t make them look real. I guess I would figure it out on my own red roses. Ok, so I reduced saturation by almost 50%…

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and all I had was my iPhone

I, being the perfect daughter (dripping sarcasm, i write), visited with my mother (i am blessed) on Mother’s day. No camera, only iPhone (Ggrrr). I should know by now that I should never go home…(oops) to my parent’s house, without my (damn) camera. My mom made this piece of art (that I left behind 😦…

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