I Want To Be In Pictures

winjaffe Temmuz 03, 2022

Shirley

For today's Texture Tuesday Challenge, I thought I'd play around with this photo of my mum, as today would have been her 80th birthday.. Impossible to fathom really as for me she will be forever young. This is one of my favourites of her.. lovingly restored by my brother.. and spruced up a little more by me using various photoshop techniques and subtle layers of Kim Klassen's beautiful textures.. 'Luminous' [top shot] and today's texture challenge 'Serendipity' [2nd shot].. Textures effects need not always be dramatic to make a difference.. In both these cases.. the subtle application of texture add light and sparkle to an already glamorised image.. and give it that 'lift' I was looking for.

Perhaps taken in the 50's, the original photo has a hand painted finish as they were apt to use back then.. [the 'vintage' version of photo textures and layering] resulting in that glamorous feel evocative of film star portraits of that time.. Of course as a child I just thought my mother had been a movie star in her youth.. and I guess.. for me she was.. [the Claudette Colbert hairstyle helped too!!]

My mum's birthday and ANZAC Day fell side by side in the calendar and were jointly celebrated in our family. Perhaps ironic now, my memories of both entwined, the ANZAC Ode seems to speak of both.

So before I go..

Please pop over and visit Kim's Texture Tuesday Challenge and see what others have been up to..

I'm also joining in on Touch Up Tuesdays over at Paper Camera..
More photoshop fun to be had there

Giveaway Reminder

If you missed it.. I'm having a Giveaway of one of my prints. So far there are two to choose from but I have in mind a third which will go up in the next few days.. To enter.. visit and comment on my Easter Giveaway Post

[here]

Have a lovely Tuesday everyone

Especially my fellow Aussies who are celebrating a day off!!