3 From Here and There … O’My Have I Been Gone Too Long
Our prompt this week comes from beautiful Sarah: “her.“
“The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
“The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.”
~ Audrey Hepburn
Prayer
Her true beauty is not in her image … rather, it is the image of Whose Spirit she holds within radiates her glow. ~ A.Hutchinson
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The young lady in these photos I love very much. Her heart and spirit are true and her love of God glows in her! Do you see it?
Blessings Loves, Thank you for stopping by. Leave me a comment, I’d love to know what you think.
** Quotes obtained on BrainyQuote.com **
Still Life in Spring
Yaaayyyyy! It’s Friday and beautiful out! And … it’s Foto Friday over on Lori‘s Blog! Photography Life … Pop on over to check out the guidelines for this fun photo prompt!
Today’s Prompt …
“Still Life”
All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!
~ Robert Musil
Morning on the Sun Porch ~ Spring!
My friends and I had our Meeting of Likeminds on Julie’s Sun Porch this morning …
Taken with my iPhone
with my Instagram App; this is SOOC, so to speak.
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold:
when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. ~Charles Dickens
A true depiction of today … so warm, almost hot in the sun … and a chill breeze in the shade. Simply lovely today.
Also taken with the iPhone … SOOC.
Both photos considered “Still Life” … neither of the first two have been edited or processed.
I did play with the first in PicMonkey. Yaaayyyy for PicMonkey!
Exposure … Clarity, Unmasking … Color and Sepia and Vibrance and of course the Mock Polaroid Framing!
Still Life
Hope you’ve enjoyed my iPhone and Instagram play!
I certainly did!
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
~Ansel Adams
Blessings Loves <3
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… but I don’t have a GREEN thumb! | Foto Friday
It’s Foto Friday {well a half hour ago where I am!} … and I really wanted to participate! So I’m doing it late Friday night, or very early Saturday morning, if you prefer.
- Link the URL of your blog post, not your home page, to Photograph Life: Foto Friday
- Include the Foto Friday button or link back to me.
- Follow the week’s theme or submit what you like.
- Photo must be taken by you.
- Visit other blogs with words of encouragement, and leave a comment.
- Foto Friday begin’s each Friday morning at 12:01am and ends Sunday at midnight, Central Standard Time.
I just sent home, to their new home, plants that my friend entrusted me to care for. Needless to say my bookshelves seem sad and empty now, as they were so full of vibrant life for four months.
Not naturally a green thumb, with the help of my friends instructions; and her great trust, I was able to keep her lovelies, lovely! And I have to say I am looking into a few of my own … I do have her list of instructions still.
Earlier in the plant’s visit I took photos as proof of life, for fun, to post to facebook! They were my inspiration for this week’s prompt:
GREEN
Green
Plants cry their gratitude for the sun in green joy.
~Terri Guillemets
I had only one problem during this task of love … my friend’s Orchid did not make it, and it broke my heart to have to tell her. However, I was able to replace it with this lovely … and I’m thinking, even with the delicate demeanor of this beauty of God‘s design, I could nuture one myself with my friend’s instruction … Do you think I should try?
Orchid - Green
I think that if ever a mortal heard the voice of God it would be in a garden at the cool of the day.
~F. Frankfort Moore, A Garden of Peace
There you have it … my two offerings for Green @ Foto Friday! Do join us and show us your green inspirations!
Blessings Loves!
All my quotes came from Quote Garden {very fitting for this prompt, don’t you think?!} (=
Boys Vintage | EditMe Challenge – Week 11
Welcome to my third attempt at the Edit Me weekly photo challenge.
Again I was able to really treat the photo with love at PicMonkey.com! I am very happy with this edit of a darling photo of three little boys, by Belle Hess.
I do hope she likes what I’ve done with her photo:
Boy, n.: a noise with dirt on it. ~Not Your Average Dictionary
By: Belle Hess - SOOC
Children are one third of our population and all of our future.
~Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981
Boys| Edit by: A. Hutchinson Photography
My edit work: Crop, adjustments to exposure, color and clarity. B/W then Sepia, Cinemacratic, and Vignette with simple framing to create a vintage feel. Wish I had textures to apply but I’m sure that PicMonkey will soon get that up and running. Looking forward to it!
Blessings Friends!
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Pic Monkey … Foto Friday and On The Water!
Hello my Photog Groupies!
All of you who love photography and [like me] follow the weekly prompts for those who love us enough to entertain us with them!!!
I am so glad you’re here today I have two fun announcements and a Photo Prompt entry tonight … YES!
I know I’m late but I’m glad I waited … because while I was waiting, frustrated with my editing of my photos …
#1 Announcement: PicMonkey went live!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PicMonkey Is Here!
For those of us mourning, or feeling abandoned by Picnik’s closing down to work with Google+ (which at this point I have yet to find Photog friendly!), fellow picnikers, with the technology, built us a photo editing site for the rest of us!
PicMonkey is doing what they can to give us all a new home to edit and make great art of our photography!
I, for one, am grateful! And as soon as I got the notification that they were up I clicked over as quickly as my touch pad would take me and edited a photo for ….
#2 Announcement: Foto Friday has a lovely new and dedicated home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Foto Friday is now in its new place and I’m very excited about that!
My friend Lori welcomes everyone to Foto Friday at Photograph Life!
Lori’s Guidelines are:
Link the URL of your blog post, not your home page.
Include my button or link back to me.
Follow the week’s theme or submit what you like.
Photo must be taken by you.
Visit other blogs with words of encouragement, and leave a comment.
Foto Friday begin’s each Friday morning at 12:01am and ends Sunday at midnight, Central Standard Time.
So to celebrate PicMonkey’s opening day and Lori’s Foto Friday’s new home on to the prompt:
“On The Water”
The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a fine fringe on their edges, with here and there a blue mountain, like amethyst jewels set around some jewel of the first water, – so anterior, so superior, to all the changes that are to take place on their shores, even now civil and refined, and fair as they can ever be.
~Henry David Thoreau
Gliding On the Water
The First Lake in Forked River, NJ … yes we have a river too and yes she is forked. But we also have 3 beautiful lakes where these lovely Canadian Geese habitate. Sadly I was packing up when a Blue Heron flew by magnificently! I plan to visit and wait on him soon!
Edited lovingly and with great ease and comfort in PicMonkey with these tools: Cropping; Exposure, Color and Clarity adjustments with Vibrance applied. Framed in Drop Shadow [so glad they have that ... it's my favorite framing style!]
Take a jump over to the two sites and show some love! Take a picture, edit it in PicMonkey and join us over at Photography Life and show us what you’ve got!
Blessings <3
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Spring in a Field | Edit Me Challenge | Week 10
Original: Amy Sands @ Little Adventures
Welcome to A. Hutchinson Photography.
Where I showcase my photography, as an amateur photographer; and where I relax with Photography Prompts and Challenges.
I first joined the talented people over on Edit Me Challenge last week, inspired by my friend Lori over at Photograph Life. Please take the time to check out both blogs and show some love!
Todays challenge is to edit a photo of a beautiful chestnut brown horse in a vibrant spring flowered field. Amy’s original photograph is top.
A man on a horse is spiritually as well as physically bigger than a man on foot.
Now my edit:
Spring Field
Heaven is high and earth wide. If you ride three feet higher above the ground than other men, you will know what that means.
~Rudolf C. Binding
I’d like to thank Lori for inspiring me and Edit Me Challenge for offering this really fun and helpful challenge. Join us, it really is fun.
Photo Edits: Cropped. Exposure, Saturation and Clarity adjusted. Processing included Vibrance and Hardness adjustments and Cross Process was applied. For effect I layered Matte over the Vignette at the edges and framed the photo with Drop Shadow.
Edited in Picnik - which will soon be closing. But check out the great Picnikers over at PicMonkey.com and like them on Facebook for their opening date! Personally I am really intrigued by the people who will be offering the Lost Picnik community an alternative that we can recognize!
Today’s quotes are from Quote Garden; Check them out at: www.quotegarden.com
Blessings. <3
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An Adventure in Forgiveness… a wordless wednesday post.
Life is an adventure in forgiveness. ~Norman Cousins
Let me just say I’ve had a hard several days. I allowed my feelings to be hurt. I allowed that voice in my head to, once again, out of thin air, say these words …
“See … You ARE invisible. No one has time for you!”
Right there began the spiral, for two days. The spiral of wounded feelings taking me deep … too deep into my wounded place.
… and now I must forgive.
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. ~Lewis B. Smedes, “Forgiveness – The Power to Change the Past,” Christianity Today, 7 January 1983
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. ~Mark Twain
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury. ~E.H. Chapin
The Power of a Praying Woman by Stormie Omartian
May I encourage you to consider this book. Forgiveness is only one area covered in this power packed teaching about prayer. We do nothing outside of our communication with God and prayer is how we commune with Him.
Blessings Loves. Thanks for taking the time to read my heart. Please, I would love to hear from you … I long to hear your heart.
Blessings again.
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Edit Me | week 9 … A New Photograph Challenge for Me
I’ve decided, on a whim, to enter a new photog challenge @ I am intrigued as they give you the photo to edit, it is not one that my eye chose. I think it quite the challenge to edit the portrait of what someone else saw.
I must thank Lori @ Photograph Life for posting her entry and inspiring this early morning creativity.
FYI : with Picnik going away :( … I have been forced to experiment with other online editing suites (free) and I found iPiccy.com and find that so far it is closest to the tools I am used to working with. I do miss the storage of Picnik and the ease of use. Ah well … learning is a good thing.
iPiccy is the program I used to edit the portrait of Jonah … isn’t he adorable!
Jonah SOOC
Jonah Edit
Like I said … I’m learning to use this new program and it lacks some of the editing tools I am used to having … so it may not be my greatest work … but I believe this challenge will help in my learning.
Blessings.
Foto Friday with Lori … Is In the Basket
So glad to announce that my friend, Lori, as of next week, will be hosting Foto Friday over at her new Photography Blog: Photograph Life! Follow the link and check out her new Photography space!
As for today’s prompt … It’s in the Basket.
“Poetry isn’t a profession, it’s a way of life. It’s an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.” Mary Oliver
In the Basket
This is SOOC with only autofix and croping! My Picnik is merging with Google next month (not thrilled as I find Google+ very hard to navigate, especially the photo part.); so I have been experimenting with new online photography editing sites … I used FotoFlexer for the picture … if you use online editing check it out.
I must say, I am happy to be back to blogging and photography. Life has had me hostage lately and I was what this quote says:
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