Photography and other creative stuff.

[Carlwashere]

I agree! 
I'll jump in on this. Forgive my amateurishness with a camera.
I guess I'll also post some new pictures of what I've been doing artistically between all the exams and homework.

P.S. Please don't call me a pansy. 


Anyway, my grandpa plants and takes care of roses right in front the general view of my window, which is why they get drawn a lot by me.
They're what I see right outside my window!

He takes pretty good care of them in my opinion. Very good care. They're rather beautiful.

The one on the right is the one I'm drawing. It's the closest to the window.

Here's a view of that entire plant.

Oh one more thing, I got a nice picture of a frog. Looks pretty sweet. It's awesome and clear also. Even if it centered.
Because from what I know, that's pretty much death in photography.
I think it's a cool picture.

Captain froggy! 

Here's a nice overview of my art desk. You can see the paper I use if you look hard enough. XD
It's sitting on top of my computer. That's a mouse pad at the edge of the picture.

And some of my more active projects.

This is the first portrait I'm doing in color. I'm finally putting that set I got to good use. 

And a pretty much done portrait in b&w.
I think it's pretty dang good.   

[caffeinated.joy]

Thank you! I love playing with my camera. I have a few more to share (not of my garden, though), I just have to finish getting them off my camera and cleaning them up.

Carl, that colour portrait you're doing is looking promising! I can see you playing with the colours, which is awesome! The hair in the b&w portrait is really good. The variation in texture and light, especially at the front of the hairline, is well done! I also love that frog! LOL.

[Katie]

Those were really good too!!

I like the drawing in b&w of the girl, it's really good!

[caffeinated.joy]

Here's some more of my photos. I love to wander around and take pictures of trees and landscapes, since I live in such a beautiful area. I won't plaster them all in here out of respect for those of you with slower connections.

We have a lot of old growth forests around here and these were taken in a park with a lot of old, interesting trees. I had to get some close ups of a lot them because the old twisted trunks made some awesomely interesting shapes. Note: all the colours you see are really there. The only editing I did was to fix the lighting and contrast.


This tree was actually about five feet in diameter and had long ago fallen over. The roots were about three feet tall. LOL. So I had to climb up to take a picture of this hollowed out section.


Another old tree I thought was interesting. I'm not squatting down to take a picture of the top of the arch in the trunk. I'm just over 5.7", so you can get an idea how tall it was. You can see in the top right had corner the stabilizing rod they put in.


The same tree, around the other side, close up.


Another tree, close up.


Same tree, further back. I love the shapes in the trunk. It looks, to me like a bunch of faces.

Like I said, I have more, but I won't put them all in one post.

[Katie]

<3 Trees.

 

those are great!

[caffeinated.joy]

Thank you! I have more trees. These are taken when my mother and I went on a hike in a forest nearby (less than twenty minutes away from my house) on Mother's Day. Again, there's no colour manipulation, just light and contrast fixes.


A tree blown over by one of the many wind storms we get.


Evidence of the logging that used to take place here. On some of the stumps you can still see pieces of the cable they used with the steam donkeys to haul away the logs. A spark from one of the pieces of equipment started a fire in 1931 and when they finally got it out, they stopped logging. It's now a protected research forest.


A lightning struck tree.


Same tree, different angle.


The sun shining through the canopy


The same. I love the reddish halo that showed up around the edge of the photo.


And that's it, until my next excursion.

[Katie]

I love that last one the most! I love when the sun does odd things to a picture!

Your really good! 

[Carlwashere]

Wow. That's amazingly scenic! 
I REALLY like the moss covered tree. It's so awesome.
Those are some HUGE trees.
I wish they had big old tree like those where I lived. But what we have here is pretty much a young forest.
There's a lot of trees, but most are not NEARLY as old as the ones in your picture.

Thanks Katie!

[HATTERS]

gorgeous pictures everyone! Especially the forest and truck ones!

Carlwashere- I so wish I could draw like you, your amazing!

Ok, I'm not going to re size them because I like them big. So here are the links:

http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll99/TwE321/Photograpghy/inthedaylight011.jpg
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll99/TwE321/Photograpghy/dahbeach072.jpg
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll99/TwE321/Photograpghy/thisisnowhere007.jpg
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll99/TwE321/Photograpghy/Iwontletthisgo006.jpg
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll99/TwE321/Photograpghy/withluck.jpg
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll99/TwE321/Photograpghy/inthebackofmymind060.jpg
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll99/TwE321/Photograpghy/11410014.jpg
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll99/TwE321/Photograpghy/DecemberBlizz024.jpg
http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll99/TwE321/Photograpghy/hurryup010.jpg

[Katie]

They really aren't that big... I only saw the first, it's too ificult to see, expecially on slow browsers...

[caffeinated.joy]

Actually, anything over 600 x 600 is too big to post here without resizing.   A lot of those pictures are.

They're lovely, Hatters. I especially like the picture of the barbed wire.

[Carlwashere]

Think so? Thanks!

I like the window shots myself.
I also really like the shot with your hand in the sun. But I've been out for a BIG part of my weekend, but I haven't had enough of the sun yet!
Eh, I'm going to be forced in a sunless classroom in about... 17 hours anyway.
I've done a good bit of work on that colored pencil drawing, looks pretty amazing so far.
I'll update when I get a picture of it. 

[Glamily]

Love the pictures Carlie and joy!

I'm not completly sure if poetry is creative enough.. I think it is.
Just be warned... If you don't like sorta depressing poems that mention slightly mature content, then I suggest not reading the poems titled 'Please', 'Hiding', 'Creeping Darkness' and 'Despair'
Most of my work is pretty dark.. And I should have more up soon. I'm on a roll recently.

[caffeinated.joy]

Thank you! Poetry definitely qualifies as "creative stuff", so feel free to share!

[Glamily]

Awesomeness! I think its easier for me to just post a link to my DA gallery..
http://deadly-nightshade666.deviantart.com/
I hope you guys like them.