musings

Sunday, September 28, 2014

I'm trying out a new "painting program" from my favorite software developer Topaz Labs.

This is a totally new direction from what I currently have by them,

and I'm still trying to decide whether or not to purchase it.

The program allows me to choose numerous styles, brush strokes and size,

amount of paint, opacity, lighting direction, canvases and canvas size.

Impressionist style

Oil paint style

The photos were take at a cutting event at the end of August of JC and Joel Carson.

I was out of town four days

and was amazed to see how so little time

could make so much of a difference!

Fall is definitely in the air!

In a blink of an eye we went from summer to fall.

The garden courageously hangs on

as the roadsides and fields burst into color!

when the garden sprints into high gear!

I drove to Moriarty on Saturday to watch of Carson family compete

in the cutting event and saw touches of fall along the way.

Or at least I consider yellow flowers that bloom along the roadside and

crisp, clear mornings as the first signs of autumn!

Below are the originals before I started rendering!

I had just finished watering the patio, the sun was setting,

and I loved the play of light/dark on the geraniums.

So I grabbed my camera and took a couple of quick shots ...

(Photos have been rendered with Topaz filters)

For the first time I didn't take a camera on my trip.

For the first time it was wetter then usual.

Yet it remained a glorious, relaxing trip.

(All photos were taken with an iPad rather then a camera, edited in PSE & Topaz)