Ab.... stract!!

Went shooting around Olympic Village yesterday with my old work buddy, Maggie. We were quickly chased away by the rain but we set ourselves the task of choosing our favourite five photos from the shoot. Here are mine -- all weirdly abstract.


First one includes a piece of red sculpture - made the other triangle b and w

This next is part of an ugly bird sculpture, but you can tell what kind of day it was!!

And this was shot across False Creek, looking at BC Place Stadium, but using my 'signature' deliberate camera movement. 

We wandered away from the Olympic Village and I found this piece of graffiti and shot through the branches of a tree. So sweet!!:)

Was quite taken with Martha Sturdy's studio door

As always comments are always welcome, especially critique!! Email me at judiangel@gmail.com

Myanmar travels

Hello Friends,

Yes, it's been a while and Colin and I have truly been exploring. We had a wonderful trip to Myanmar, formerly Burma, arriving Christmas Day and staying for 3 weeks. This isn't really a travel blog, but suffice it to say that the weather, the sites, the countryside and particularly the people were all welcoming and delightful. And, of course, it was a photographer's paradise....

I've already posted a few portraits on Facebook and you can see others if you choose to follow this link to see about 50 other photos.  Judi's Myanmar Images

Below are some with a different feel than the others.... if you prefer full colour, you should head off to the link above. :)

And on that little piggie note......

I plan to be back blogging more regularly as I'm now taking an advanced Photoshop course where I'm excited to be learning more about layering, masking and getting completely creative with my photography.

Meantime, as usual, if you'd like to get in touch, the blog comments don't work properly, so email me directly at judiangel@gmail.com

Painterly... or messy?

It was a beautiful sunny day yesterday and as I drove by, a red maple bush was just catching the sun. I got home but the bush kept calling my name, so I took my camera down the street and took some long exposures, moving my camera to deliberately blur parts of the photo. Tonight I tried layering a few of them - painterly, beautiful or just a big blob??? What do you think?

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En français, s'il vous plâit!

Hello Friends,

We have just returned from a month in rural Burgundy, France where (surprise) I took loads of photos. From 2000 + I've edited them down to around 70. Click on this link if you want to see the whole album of edited pics...     France photos

Colin doesn't really get my interest in cemeteries, (although he happily went looking for them with me)... well I don't fully understand it, either.... but I was really drawn to them. Every small village has its own graveyard, some of them very old, most of them set high on a hill. I think I like the dramatic settings. I guess it's nice to have something to pursue when doing other things on holiday.

I had intended to do lots of Photoshop while I was away, but alas friends, wine, food, hiking all got in the way. :) So that's next on the photo agenda.

Hope some of you get the cemetery thing...

About Feedback...

As I go about life, I meet some of my friends who are following this blog and realize that people are sometimes actually looking at it. That said, I'd just like to make it clear that any comments you might make by 'replying' to a notification email, aren't getting to me.

So, if you do want to make any comments on anything you see in the blog, it's best to email me directly at

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Thanks. :)

Summer Musing

Here's some of the things I've been up to this summer...

I'm still working on learning more about compositing...combining elements from different images... 

Here are a few more early results... The 'flying carpet' was actually a learning exercise with someone else's images.. ... but the mind boggles with the possibilities... 

In the first image, the so-called 'super moon' taken on the Sunshine Coast, just didn't look big enough to me, so I made it larger, but then also had to increase the size of the reflection in the water. 

In this picture I added all the flying birds which I had photographed separately from the original shot. 

And finally in this exercise, I put in the square picture of the clock, but then distorted its shape. Notice how I also created the corresponding shadow and changed the flying carpet so it was darker underneath and lighter on top. The birds were also layered in independently. 

Still loving photographing the grandkids. And why wouldn't I? They are so cute!! 

Hannah

 Emmy

Cormac

Aidan

A whole new direction... Compositing

Don't ask!! I do love made up words, but this one seems to be designed for Photoshop. I'm reading and trying to teach myself more about how to layer different images in ways that make for a more interesting final product. Still lots more to learn, but I was happy with the way my first effort turned out.

A Sunny Window on the World