Claim Your Artistry by Adding a Watermark
Did you know a kid, when you were growing up, who had those perfect little labels sewn into her shirts when she went to sleep-away camp: “Susie Nitworth”? Those shirts were not going to show up in someone else’s cabin! Watermarking your photos is kinda like that.
A watermark is your first line of defense when it comes to unauthorized use of the photo by someone who discovers it on the web.
Butterfly @ Dusk
Went on an errand run (feeding Dad’s cat) with my love and asked to stop by an old childhood haunt, the Club House in Pinelake Park. Those who live in Manchester, New Jersey will know exactly where I am talking about!
We had summer camp there … and swam in the creek, like fish on a hot day!
Today, I think, they restrict swimming … why? I don’t know, probably because in today’s world it seems dangerous somehow. It’s terribly sad, for decades children played and swam there, unharmed and frankly better for the fresh air and sunshine!
Oh what a fearful world we live in.
But today I enjoyed (carefully) descending the steep, sandy slop to the creek, which was fraught with thorny vines and green-head flies, just like when I was a kid; taking pictures of my childhood, somehow, from the future.
I realized that if I’m going to go on these treks I best wear sneakers; my flip flops were not exactly the greatest footwear for this. But the stop was spontaneous! 
So here are just a few of the shots I got this evening at the beginning of dusk. There are more to edit and post … soon. I promise.
Club House Bridge, Upstream
Butterfly
Oh, the summer night
Has a smile of light
And she sits on a sapphire throne.
~Barry Cornwall
Club House Creek
Divine Inspiration …
You know it is said that God speaks to us … he speaks to us primarily through His Word the Bible. Yet … oftentimes he speaks to us through others. Yes those people who join us on this journey of life. And sometimes when he speaks it is profound. Through some very hard circumstances this week I have been spoken to by God through the people in my life. With that I was inspired to either work artistically through my photography and design gifts with their inspiring encouragement, words and faith … This is the result of God using boldly those I love in my life … I thank them and God for the inspiration.
“I do all things through Him who infuses inner strength into me, I am self sufficient in Christ‘s sufficiency.”
———– Philippians 4:13————
Grateful
Be Strong
I honestly hope you enjoyed my therapeutic works today. Blessings my friends.“… and hope does not disappoint.”
Night Sky …
Been forcing myself to blog today … Luckily I am attached to some awesome bloggers who offer up prompts for those of us who are failing in our calling…
My very favorite photo prompt is Foto Friday over at Lori’s Photograph Life.
Today’s Prompt is: “Taken at Night”
Winter Night
Hope you enjoy it … Join Lori and all of her photographically talented friends! Show us what you’ve got in your lens’ sight!
Blessings Friends!
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
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
Quotes found @ QuoteGarden.com
… 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!
An Early Spring Orchid … Happy Wordless Wednesday!
Orchid
White Orchids SOOC
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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