The Light Bloom Left Behind

 

It looks like the Desert Botanical Garden acquired one of the Light Bloom sculptures that were on display in 2024 and 2025.  This will be pretty when it's lit up at night.  You can see my photos from that exhibit here and here.

I used a photo editing technique on one of those older photos and gave it a pastel look that I think turned out very well. That color combination is pleasing to the eye.

In the Same Spot for Years

 

I took the photo above back in 2012 and the one to the left just two weeks ago when I took that surprise walk at the Desert Botanical Garden.  

This ceramic vase has been sitting in this same niche in a wall for many years now and you can see a bit of wear that it has endured.  

I did some photo editing to see if I could spruce it up a little bit.  It looks good in this marble look.

A brass exterior looks pretty good on it too.  

The garden is doing some work very near where this ceramic pot is located.  It will be interesting see if it remains in that same spot.

Super Humans

 

As a follow up to yesterday's post, I decided to do a little more playing with that editing app to see what other "Superman" images I could conjure up. 

This one is from a photo of me with Tower Bridge in the background.

It looks like the River Thames has been paved over!

This one is also a photo of me standing next the Tardis from Dr. Who.

In this one it looks like Superman has brought along the instruction manual for operating a Tardis.

And, here I am sitting on the front patio of my friend Glenda's house.

Just look at those muscles!

I tried the same effect on a photo of an angel statue and this one turned out rather strangely.  There is a sort of sinister look to this guy. I think he might be about to cast a spell.

Artistic Expressions

 

I was playing around with one of the options in my photo editing app and discovered one particular option that intrigued me.  I used a photo I posted back in 2024 of an artwork at the Celebration of Fine Arts.  You can see the original piece in my photo here.  I loved this version of that same art work created by my editing app.

When I'm working with a photo, this option gives me multiple versions but in order to see each option I have to select the each of those samples at the bottom of the screen one at a time.

Once I've selected them all, I can choose the one I like best to download.  Once I download the one shot, this page closes and I have to repeat the whole routine if I want another version.

Even though it can be a bit tedious to repeat the process to get a second or third option, I still enjoy using this particular option because of the variety it produces.  There is always one with a metallic look like the one to the left.

There is always one option that produces a 'Superman' themed image.  That particular one always makes me chuckle at the way it incorporates Superman into the image.

I enjoy playing with this option.  Especially when I find the perfect photo to work with.

The Watercolor Treatment

 

I hadn't played around with some of my photo editing tools for quite a long time but this last weekend I decided to see if I could find an interesting photo to play with.  I remembered this photo that I posted at the end of January.  

 It is a good candidate for the watercolor treatment.

Then I tried the same technique with this photo that I posted two weeks ago.  

Of course, I didn't stop with just the watercolor effect.  I tried a few more.  I found this one appealing.

And this one was interesting too.  

I forgot how much fun it is to play with different styles.  I'll have to do that more often.