
The final Monday Bouquet of the Year

Although this picture of Sunday blissfully enjoying her favourite spot in front of the fireplace will be family to many of you from Photography 101, I felt it deserved a reappearance for this week’s Photo Challenge: Warmth.
This has been an interesting four weeks experimenting with Photoshop Elements for Robyn’s One Four Challenge, as you can see. The original photo is of the skyline of Vancouver’s West End against the North Shore mountains as the sun was setting on December 1st. The first image was the result of pushing the Gaussian Blur to the limit with a surprising result. I then continued creating layers with differing degrees of colour saturation and lighting levels. I could have used a number of variations but chose these four. It will be interesting to see your favourite if you contribute to the poll.
I hope Santa was good to you 🙂
For this special Christmas Edition of Leanne Cole’s Monochrome Madness, the last of the year, we are all adding a splash of colour. To see all the great submissions visit Leanne’s blog and enjoy a wonderful potpourri of great images, all with a touch of colour.
Best wishes for the holidays everyone, and thanks Leanne 🙂
For Robyn’s One Four Challenge – 1 image 4 different ways over 4 weeks.
Look out for all four images together with the original after Xmas 🙂
The brilliant yellows of the murals of the Musée National Fernand Léger, Ville de Biot in the South of France.
My favorite complementary colors, yellow and violet, make today’s Monday Bouquet the
perfect way to send Complements of the Season to one and all.
Happy Holidays everyone 🙂
This collage featuring Olga Korbet, the golden girl of the ’72 and ’76 Olympic Games, will be familiar to those of you who follow my Monday Bouquet.
Her never-to-be forgotten gold medal performances and a smile that is as heart warming and magical today as I remember it in 1972 are worth re-visiting in this official YouTube video from the International Olympic Committee: http://youtu.be/c2NGqI6FqeQ
For Krista’s Photo Challenge: Yellow, and Ailsa’s Travel Theme: Golden