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Friday, October 12, 2012

Water water everywhere

While away in Vancouver last month, I was kidnapped and taken on a cruise to Alaska with my sister and mother.  While processing a few photos from that trip tonight I changed course and went sailing away in another direction, far into the past...

The graphic elements are from a picture of a Canadian stamp, celebrating Quebec history.


The writing is from a commercially produced sheet of paper that I bought years ago without having any idea what I'd use it for.




And here's another version of the original photo, treated to a bit of Posterization in Photoshop
 (ha ha ha--Spellcheck wants me to write "Pasteurization" rather than posterization.)


This watery subject seems to fit well with Bonnie's prompt this week of "liquid" over at Pixel Dust Photo Art so I thought I might as well jump in!




I'm starting to blog about my Alaska trip over at Décolleté Glimpses, if you'd like to cruise along with me for the next little while there.  Meanwhile, all ashore that's going ashore.

28 comments:

  1. love the idea of pasturised photos!! wodnerful images and great idea to use the historic images from the stamp

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    1. Helena,
      I don't know how I came to use the stamp, really. I must have come across it accidentally while putting something away and thought, "Oh, I know what to do with you." And thus occurred the process of pasteurization.

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  2. I love how you did this. The original photo is gorgeous. Love the pasteurization ;)

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    1. Danielle,
      The original photo was inspiring, having so much open space and mood to it. I think I'll suggest to Adobe that they include a Pasteurization filter in their next incarnation (as in Carnation milk) of Photoshop!

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  3. love the simplicity of the bottom version and the words sail away showing through. but both show so well how you take from here and there and create anew. i guess you had a robert louis stevenson adventure! What fun.

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    1. Sukipoet,
      Oh, I did love Treasure Island as a kid! And the television series of it (or was it a movie?) with Long John Silver and his eye patch, wooden leg, and parrot. Alas, no piratey-looking types aboard the cruise ship. Aaargh, shiver me timbers!

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  4. the combination of text, illustration and photograph look lovely... i agree about the perfect simplicity of the second version... very dreamlike. alaska is an amazing place, i bet you have a lot of good material to work with!

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    1. Beth,
      Ah, coming from a master of combined digital imagery such as yourself, I am indeed flattered. You're right about my having a lot of good material to work with from my trip...hours of fun ahead of me...lost in a sea of photos...

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  5. I like the phantom feeling. Exploring areas of the West Coast I find it easy to sense the presence of those who have gone before, history written on the wind. The affinity is especially intense if the ghosts that think they are navigating in Quebec - they are even more lost than I am!

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    1. DCW,
      Do you know the Lennie Gallant song, "Tales of Phantom Ship"? No matter, I'm sure you're aware of how popular such stories are in these parts. Perhaps that's what inspired me to make this picture. Poor ghosts, though, mistaking Alaska for Quebec. But isn't that how North America was found--explorers way off course while seeking the exotic land of spices-- and how the natives thus became named "Indians"? Seems that compasses in those days were oftimes as off-putting as today's GPS.

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  6. Glorious pieces of photo art, Lynne. I like them both but am partial to the last with the textured shimmer you have created on the water. Always a delight to view your artwork - in its many and varied forms. Thank you for linking up with Photo Art Friday!

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    1. Bonnie,
      I was so pleased to find that my pictures timed perfectly with your prompt this week, just having got back into blogging after 6 or so weeks away. That little bit of "pasteurization" on the second version really did highlight the shimmer, didn't it. Another lucky case of trial and error-- or shall we call it creative investigation!

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  7. I love the second edit!

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    1. Pat,
      Thanks! I must admit, I'm pretty pleased with that one as well. Lots of room to travel and dream in it.

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  8. these are breathtaking. I love both edits!

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    1. Ewa,
      Thank you so much. The scene itself was breath-taking, so I had a head start with the editing process.

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  9. Love this last photo, especially saving the words 'sail away' which Suki noticed. You are re-entering your world nicely with this lovely piece!

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    1. Blue Sky,
      Yes, I am no longer feeling "all at sea" and have sailed back into the safe harbour of my little world where the creative anchor is being slowly lowered back into the depths of pixels and paint.

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  10. these are other-worldly and utterly jaw-dropping!!!

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    1. Currie Silver
      No relation to Long John Silver are you? Sorry, I was just talking about pirates a few comments up. Thank you so much for your enthusiastic response to my pictures!!

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  11. Anonymous10/14/2012


    Julie@beingRUBY

    Love that 'pasteurized' version
    Beautiful ciao ciao xxx Julie

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    1. Julie,
      Thanks for lapping up the pasteurized version with such gusto! Your comment bobbed up in my e-mail box but didn't float to the surface on my blog's horizon,so I copy/pasted it onto the life raft here.

      Ciao ciao xox Lynne

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  12. Wow you mixed just the right photo's together and created a wonderful piece of art. Well done.

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    1. Ida,
      Thank you so much. The combination was one of those surprising incidents of serendipity.

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  13. i love how you treated the photo and incorporated the stamp!

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    1. Johanna,
      A slightly different version of mail art?!

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  14. I really like the combination of photos and techniques you're put together here. The storyline is a hoot too. I am very impressed with your drawings/paintings. Looks like you can do it all!

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    1. Diva,
      Not so sure I can do it all, but I have fun trying!

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