P52 - the Dreamer

the dreamer

Its starts off with a burst of energy

You continue to pound away at it with your enthusiasm

knocking any loose stones out of the way as you go

there are ups and there are downs

And long flat parts that seem to go forever

you continue to knock those stones loose

you feel like giving up

but see the end in sight and just know you can make it

and knock away a few more stones

something inside you pushes you

its that finish line in your sights that gives you strength

until finally there are no more stones

for this is your dream

you have reached your finish line

Until your next dream

this weeks P52 theme is by life with my 3 boybarians (see sidebar for link) is I dream the dream this is my interpretation

edited to add:  I had this post already to go and poof gone grrr  so in closing I just want to say as a teenager I use to write a little poetry I thought I might try writing a little more now and again and came up with this bit using a runner as a parody

the steel statue represents a big race we have here called bloomsday  since it snowed and was a blah day I added some textures by french kiss and an overlay by shadowhouse  did a bit of light rendering and added a border  

CHANGE

added some shadowhouse masks and overlays to create this then added words

meet me under the stars

a distraction from my vacation photos to play with some editing today.  I did this for a edit challenge over at my refflections of something.  the original photo was during the day and I thought i would make it a nighttime shot since I remember going to the fair and riding the ferris wheel at night. 



for those interested here is what I did.


linked up with  http://meriak.blogspot.com/2011/09/share-joy-thursday-oops.html

textured light

well last week I was gone and kind of screwed up the order of my posts so my texture Tuesday didn't post on Tuesday but Wednesday.  ugh.  here is this weeks post.  I used the ceiling of one of the casinos in Vegas that I loved and added a couple different textures from kim klassen and a frame from shadowhouse. 

below is the original.

21 WOW

A break from some of the garden pictures for a special occasion.  21 years ago was the happiest day I have ever had.  I gave birth to my son Kris.  We can't be with you today to celebrate but you are always with us in our hearts and minds. 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SON WE LOVE YOU

This is a recent picture of him sporting some new shades that his just launched new company is going to be selling and his famous smirk.  The website is up and running so if you have a skateboarder, snowboarder, teenager or someone young at heart you are sure to find a cool shirt from him at http://royalcityclothing.com/

we are so proud of you son love and miss you.

happy 4th of july

I added some shadowhouse textures to make this flag stand out a bit more and look more striking and to symbolie how through thick and thin it stands through the test of time. 



this is the orignal picture. 




taken this spring while back east in Frederick, Maryland

Hope everyone is having a safe and happy holiday

this photo can be viewed on the creative exchange by lisa gordon photography.  AWESOME SITE
http://www.lgordonphotography.com/2011/07/creative-exchange-july-4th-8th.html

editing fun

this is my completed edit for the my reflection of something submission

original photo is:

here is what I did what isn't explained that I used the clone tooled out the toys and added a layers adjustment and second layer to brighten the sky.  I used textures from shadowhouse, pixie dust and french kiss (my new favorite)

seeing stars

a brief stop to see another project I am working on:

Meet some of my stars.  Are you here??? well it doesn't take much to get on my star page.  all you have to do is make a donation on my leukemia fundraising page found here:

http://pages.teamintraining.org/wa/nikesf11/llokx7

As many of you have seen my sidebar ------------>

I am taking on a couple new challenges.  Participating in my first marathon and raising funds for leukemia. 

Did you know?::

An estimated 957,902 people in the United States are living with, or are in remission from, leukemia, Hodgkin lymphoma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma or myeloma. Every four minutes, someone new is diagnosed with blood cancer. Every 10 minutes, someone dies.

Leukemia causes more deaths than any other cancer among children under the age of 20. Lymphomas are the most common blood cancers and incidence increases with age. The survival rate for myeloma is only 38.5 percent. Incidence is nearly twice as high among African Americans as for all other races

p.s. I created this in photoshop elements using the shape tool boy was that a challenge really had no clue what I was doing.  I added a shadowhouse bokeh to it using the screen mode and really liked how that turned out. 

ok now back to my regular blog post.  thanks for taking the time to let me show you another side of me.

lilac in waiting

Spokane is the lilac city and the month of may is our celbration with lots of parades and activities.  Normally by the first few days in May they are all in bloom.  Not this year here it is the end of the first week and may and this is all my lilac's are still not near full bloom.

I finally figured out, thanks to gail of digital photo walk taught me how to do a screen print yeah..  I have also placed a link to her page where she describes this in my tips page.

so anyhow here is the recipe for the ablove picture.   As you can see I have Kim Klassen's warm sun texture and shadowhouse's oil painting with some masking done and lastly another shadowhouse mask on top.  All done if photoshop elements 9

and for refrence here is the original picture


as you can see the original is a bit blurry and blah.  seems we can't have a bit of sun without wind these days. ugh.


and for my sweeet shot of the week for my 3 boybarions: 

sad

today's song challenge is a song that makes you sad.   This was a hard one to think of but then I heard this play on the radio and knew i had to do it for my song.  I know this is going to be an easy guess for most of you.



pretty ovious don't you think? 

hearts

a jar

Christina Perri??

Got it now???

Jar of Hearts

what is a song that makes you sad??


Hope you are enjoying the blog hop of songs still time to join in if you like.  Just let me know and we will add you to the list.  Please visit the list to the right for more songs.

snowflower

taking a break from my Vegas shots I played with texturing again.  still don't fully understand it but playing around helps.  created this with some shadowhouse textures. if you want to play with textures on your photos I highly recommend this site.  the textures are free and pretty cool.



the original photo looked like this: