Good Fences #48 and Photo Art

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Let's get started today with Theresa's (The Run-a-round Ranch Report) meme:  GOOD FENCES.

It's been a pretty nice week here weather wise.  The sun has actually been out almost all week and temps in the low 50's.  I can't complain.

Coleen and I walked to the park on Monday as she had the day off from school.  We took my mom's dog, Pixie with us.  Along the way I looked for fences to photograph.  I spotted this one and just had to take a couple of pictures.  Does this not remind you of a home you might see near the ocean?

Of course the nearest ocean to us is about a 6 hour drive.  I just liked the grasses near the fence and how they looked.

Since the optional theme for Nature's Footstep Digital Art this week was, Sepia I converted the above photo into Sepia tones and added a bit of texture to come up with this art photo of the same scene.

So which do you prefer....color or sepia?

Cherie from the Froelich Diaries hosts a new art meme PHOTO ART THURSDAY and I've also created something for that as well. At the moment her link for this isn't up but I'm posting anyway. 

It started out to be my Sepia piece but I just couldn't leave it in sepia tones so here is the original (SOOC) and the altered version.

Good Fences#47 and Photo Art

Welcome!  -  Gosh it seems like I just can't seem to get caught up visiting all your blogs and I apologize for not commenting as often as I'd like to.  Just know I so enjoy all your blogs and the fact you stop by mine as well.

So let's joining in on the fun of GOOD FENCES hosted by Theresa from, The Run-a round Ranch Report.)

Last week we had a bout an hour where the sun actually came out and I took advantage by taking a little walk around the neighborhood.  I knew there was this neat looking wall/fence that I wanted to photograph so that's where I went.

This is what it is made out of.  Concrete Blocks.

Here is part of it.

Looking down the full length of the fence towards the street.  I too this shot from the alley.  YOu can see how muddy it was due to all the rain we'd had.


The best part of the fence though was what I found at the end where it connected with a little storage shed.........

I thought the gate was super cool looking.  What do you think?

 

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So now for some digital art.

Joining in with NAF this week where the optional theme was birds.

I chose to use a photo of Pelican's taken last summer.  I edited the photo using the Posterize feature on PicMonkey

 Original below:

I cropped the photo first and then used the Posterize feature and also bit of color adjustment, added sunlight and the Urbane look from PicMonkey to get the finished piece.  I rather like how it turned out.



Also joining Cherie from The Froelich Diaries again for her new photo art meme (Photo Art Thursday).  Please stop by her blog and view her work.  It's pretty awesome.  I'm not really versed in using layers and such so my piece is nothing that fancy but it was fun.

This is the original photo.  Coleen and I spotted this bottle tree and a few other interesting things in a yard recently so I stopped and snapped some photos.





Next up I played around with the photo and got this version:

Finally after playing some more I ended up with this:

  It totally changed the look of the original for sure.  I hope you have enjoyed the Good Fences and the Photo Art.  Have a great day.