Some of My Favorite Photos

I used one of my favorite photos as the background on my husband's Facebook. It got me thinking about some other favorites. Let me share a few with you. I would like to pursue photography more, but I really need a better camera to do that; so far, I have resisted the extra expenditure. I am wondering, too, now that lithium batteries are banned from airplanes, would that apply to lithium batteries for cameras? Has anybody had any experience with that? The camera I am interested in uses lithium batteries.

Here is the photo I used on Facebook

 Some have happy memories of trips taken

 Others were taken in my community or nearby towns

 The hat I played around with Fotosketcher

I liked the lighting of this photo at Connor Prairie Settlement

A lot of them depict nature

Some are interesting items

I am thinking of making some notecards with some of these photos featured. Maybe in a few months when I have more time.

FotoSketcher

A few days ago I went from one of my regular blog reads to another blog she had listed on the side of her frame. This new blogger was raving about Waterlogue, a photo effects app for iphones and ipads that cost $2.99. Mostly she displayed watercolor effects on her photos. They were lovely. I hoped that maybe this program could be used on a pc. Sadly, it is not available; but it led me to look for something similar. What I am playing with now is FotoSketcher. This Freeware program has no manual built into it. You can get started fairly intuitively by clicking on the toolbar icons. Some of the features I do not yet understand so I will have to read the online instructions. So far, it has been rather fun. Click on the various photos to see larger versions to note the different effects.

Here is a photo of some shells I collected on Hilton Head beaches last year.

 

Here is a water color version from using FotoSketcher.

 

Here is a colored pencil version.

 

An expressive brushstroke version.

 

Black and white pencil version

 

You can add frames or text; if you don’t want to change your original photo, you can just add text and frames. I have barely started using FotoSketcher, but I intend to experiment with it more when I have more time. There are lots more effects than I talk about here. Try it.