Distorted Rose - For Ken

smiling out loud ...

Jim, great present - that looks cool! Armadillo on the half shell?? You do know that I'm in S Texas, right - not in BC?? I'm FROM BC, but transplanted to Texas. I will be in BC the end of March, though, so you either have to get here soon or wait for mid-April. Looking forward to the party!

This is not fair. Do you know how long it takes to drive from England to Texas? hmmm do ya do ya? lol... 43 bottles now

Krista - Bente is flying in from Denmark ..... you won't be left out .

Krista - I'm thinking that you're already in TX and working on those bottles, as you counted wrong! :-) At this point, now, it should be much lower than 41!!

mmm... party seems to be slowing down... don't suppose it was the hors d'oeurves do you?

Did we ever decide a date for this party? I need some prep time - have to clear some ground for the circus tent and start gathering firewood for the campfire.

Late May I'm thinkin ............ before the chiggers come out .

Sounds good, Ken - the cover will be off the pool and the water should be warm enough to swim.

Down to 41 bottles of wine at this point....and going fast...I'm not sure, that is a fine time of year here in Oz, Autumn, Grape season, have to help with harvest and all, but hey, that pool does sound good.....Oh darn, life is sooooo hard some times....Struth ! *R*

40 bottles, Roger, and counting (down).

And no one is even going to ask what chiggers are - hmmmmm ....... Well, if they are a problem, I guess we could handle it the way the monkeys do - you scratch my chigger, I'll scratch yours - that could be fun.

Not being from the Lone Star State, did not want to sound like a raceist....Chiggers........ is what you call.....mites ? (God, Roger, get THIS one right or the entire Texas Airforce will strafe your little cottage.....Struth !)

This whole series is really outstanding. I can't believe I've never had the pleasure of experiencing your image creation until today! A remarkable set of images building on flowing, organic color and form. Can't do much better than that. I'd like to keep returning to your gallery page to see what other remarkable images you've created. Your whole portfolio is a striking example of the power of photography to enhance and transform shape and color graphically. Thank you very much for sharing this with us!

Wow, thanks Philip. The distortion series is one of my favorites, too. I have at least three times as many as you see posted here as I didn't want everyone to get sick of them. I have printed these out on canvas paper and they look like abstract paintings. I do love Photoshop! :) Thanks for visiting.

I don't want to ignore the woman behind the curtain! Please give us a clue to this wonderful process for creating distorted flowers. I have thousands of floral images I'd like to try this with. I promise I won't flood the site with them if you feel the secret will be safe in our hands? Hope the wizardess will confer her knowledge on us! "If I only had a brain"!

I will email you, Phillip.

My my - has it been 3 years already? ...

My, how times flies when we're taking pictures!