Dream }{ Texture Tuesdays

"Once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return." - Leonardo Da Vinci


This week's Texture Tuesday's prompt was dream. I am nothing if not a dreamer. 


And how I miss the beach and dream of it!

• tweaked original image's level and curves
• Kim Klassen's "loveinlayers" on multiply @20%
• Kim Klassen's "dream" on multiply @30%
• added quote (Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali poet)

As you can see, I'm back participating in Texture Tuesdays. I've truly missed it.


This image is not my usual style, but I wanted to try something outside of my comfort zone. I'm not sold on it, but again, I wanted to stretch myself.

Fog }{ Texture Tuesday

This week's challenge over at Texture Tuesday involved using this texture called "yesteryear."

Fits my mood.

I've been pensive, thinking of places I've been and memories made (mostly happy). And how it all disappears into a fog in the recesses on our mind.

I wanted to work with that, with the dreamy fog, with memories. I've getting more and more experimental with my texture play, though I also love clear, well defined photos. This is just play time.

a place dear to my heart with lots of memories over many different points in my life

• Adjusted levels, color curves, and sharpness of original. 
• Copied background layer and converted to BW on soft light @100%
• BW gradient map on overlay @80%
• copper gradient map on overlay @25%
• solid navy blue layer on exclusion @ 23%
• Kim Klassen's "yesteryear" on linear burn @20%
• Kim Klassen's "yesteryear" on luminosity @30%

some fun with friends ended up giving me this frozen in the air look

• adjusted levels, color curves, and sharpness of original
• Copied background into a new layer, decreased saturation 25% and added gaussian blur
• Kim Klassen's "yesteryear" on liner dodge @30%
• Kim Klassen's "yesteryear" on soft light @35%

I honestly don't remember what I did for this one. Serves me right for not writing it down, oops.

How about your happy memories? Are they clear or do you get lost in a fog?