Philadelphia Museum of Art (and the Rocky Steps!)

Didn't realize it had been so long since my last post... 

Anyway, last month I went on a little road trip... first stop: New Jersey with a little field trip into Philly! First stop in Philly- the Museum of Art/Rocky Steps!  I love love LOVED this building and all the little details...

ranunculus

These are my new favorite flower!  They're so pretty!  

They're not my favorite images, but here they are anyway...

I do love the colors here though:

ah, the first macros of spring

I didn't think I'd want to do any more macro flower photos, but I shot some today.  The daffodils in our back yard started blooming yesterday.  And I suppose since I started my macro stuff last summer, I didn't get a chance to photograph any of the spring flowers.  So maybe I'll shoot a little more until I come to the flowers I've already macro-ed...

This batch is the first edit of what I shot.  The more I look at them, the more I'll probably edit out.  A few are pretty similar... but for now, these are my favorites.

Happy First Day of Spring!

PS: no heavy Photoshop here, just some minor levels and color adjustments... (the only exception is the last image, which was pretty underexposed, so I played a bit with it.  I kinda like how it came out)

stick figure portrait

Last night I painted a teeny portrait of my nieces.  Stick figure style.
The teeny canvas is 3x3 inches.  The orange is for scale.  :)
I dig these little canvases.  I might go grab some more...

a project and a half: glass tile photo magnets

For Christmas gifts this past Christmas I made some glass tile magnets with some of my images.  It was pretty much a giant. pain. in. the. neck.  It was A LOT of trial and error, but I like the results.  And so did my lovely, appreciative friends and co-workers!
I'm thinking about maybe putting some in my etsy shop...
What do you think?

One inch glass tiles and one inch mini photos...

turned into mini pieces of art:

I packaged each set of 4 magnets in a little gift box.
(fancy, fancy-paper covered boxes not shown here)


















The "Wonder Birds" magnet is one of my favorites.
I'm usually very much anti-cropping my images, but I do like this image square...