I've decided to join in with Self-Portrait Tuesday (thanks to nudges from Andrea).
I'm not especially happy with this collage but I didn't want to just publish any of the individual pictures as they didn't feel like, on their own, they were "Personal History".
Why aren't you happy with it? I was quite intrigued, Princess Caroline :-) Look, there's a face in the sand. And is that a cat?
ReplyDeleteThis is really cool, Caroline. Glad to see you. And thank for the nice comment on my (sad) blog. You are a Lady!
ReplyDeleteGG - I didn't get the atmosphere I was after - I probably need more practise with the tools I'm using... I felt like a princess for a day when I married Jim!
ReplyDeletemerlinprincesse - thanks!
Good luck with the SP thing. Tuesday always seems to be gone before I can get around to it!!
ReplyDeleteHappy 2006 to you and yours and thanks for the company and comments on my blog over the last months.
art cheer!
Marie
Well I like it. It is a fun tribute to your self. I think I might try something like that. I'll have to dig. Most pictures are of my daughter! Well done.
ReplyDeleteThanks Marie - I thought Tuesday would be over all too soon if I kept on fiddling with this one... I think I might start doing them on Mondays, ready to post on Tuesday.... though I know what I'm like with deadlines...
ReplyDeleteHolly - thanks - at one point I realised that it was the kind of thing that if I had a daughter she might do for me one distant day, but as I've no children and don't want to wait until I'm over 70 anyway - I'm glad I've had a go at it for myself! Still not happy with it though!!!
Thanks Melba - I like to see what everyone else is up to too!
ReplyDeletelovely pictures of yourself. this is interesting because i love taking pictures, too. i might join.
ReplyDeletehave a nice day caroline!
It's lovely -- and I'm glad you took it even further than before. This is something you should print and frame for Jim!
ReplyDeleteIsay - do join!
ReplyDeleteAndrea - now that might be rushing me a bit... its tough enough seeing all these pictures of me up where others can see them... anyway Jim's got the real me!
Great to include the cat in your Personal History, Caro!
ReplyDeleteKaren and I started to do collages of all our photos. We've got about five 32"x24" frames scattered around the house full of photos of family, friends, etc...
Sorry for straying from the subject!
That cat was no stray!!! Tee hee... oh dear I'm in a very silly mood right now...
ReplyDeleteDeep breath...
Perhaps you'd consider posting some of these collages?
Would be fun to see!
This is a nice piece - I like how the ocean and beach are prominent, and I know it's not by accident.
ReplyDeleteOne of my New Year's intentions is to do some crafty stuff, and I thought I'd start with a collage. I'll have to start collecting magazines now!
Yay! Now I can leave comments! I really like this - welcome to SPT!
ReplyDeleteWandering Coyote - collage is a great place to start - lots of people chuck out magazines so you could ask them to chuck them your way!
ReplyDeleteCrafty McGee! Rosemary glad you are now comment-enabled! And thanks for the welcome to SPT.
I can seeeeeee yoooooouuuuuu ... };-}
ReplyDeleteWell they are all pictures of me... as I selected them I wondered if they were how anyone else would see me...
ReplyDeleteI think we see ourselves differently because we carry our history and where we stand here and now. It isn't a bad thing.
ReplyDeleteYes and one's personal history is so large its hard not to get lost in it when trying to express it...
ReplyDeleteGood to see the face(s) behind the blog. Does this mean self-portraiting every week? You've got a digi camera, Photoshop (?), and a bag of ideas, so you could have a great adventure with this!
ReplyDeleteWonderful to see so many dimensions of you, Caroline. I'd like to try something like this, and I think I know how to do the layering of one image on top of another, but I don't know how you did the face superimposed over the beach with the beach showing through (that's my favorite picture of you in the collage, too). Is that something you did in Painter? Then, do you save it as a jpeg? I do lots of creative stuff in Print Shop that I have no idea how to post.
ReplyDeleteCaro, great idea! Check them Collages out!
ReplyDeletejohnnynorms - the theme for SPT is set for the month and whether I manage more than one a month depends on other things... I have Painter IX, not photoshop, which I got very cheaply on ebay...
ReplyDeleteNan - the image over the beach was taken a few days ago whilst playing around with my new camera - it can do time lapse so I set it up and took lots - that way I thought a few might come out with my eyes open - but the focus was a bit soft and the exposures rather long too... I'd been playing with some settings and forgotten to set them back to auto!
In painter IX you can set images to be transparent and I did fade the beach shot too.
Cream - thanks - your collages are great!
i think the collage is great caroline. i love all the different pics and the funky borders around them.
ReplyDeleteThanks Katharine - you've jumped into doing SPTs straight away and I needed to be pushed!
ReplyDeleteKat - thanks - and right now I'm playing with sissors and glue... though I may also add in some digital effects to... collage seems to have re-emerged for me again.
Great idea and composition. Glad you joined SPT recently too.I'm still not too sure how it works (wish it was set up like illo friday).
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