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Even MORE fun with HDR
By Silver Blue
HDR (High Dynamic Range) allows your photos to display more accurately what your eye sees. Even the top-of-the-line (and multi-thousand dollar) cameras cannot see the full range of light and shadow that your eyes can see, SO… post processing is in order.
(As a side note, the hosting company is STILL attempting to complete its restore from backups. I grew tired of waiting and so I figured out where the missing photos should have gone, and I have reuploaded them).
I love the architecture that I get to see when I go on my walkabouts. Being that I was home sick today, the only walkabouts I did was from the bed to the bathroom and back…plus the occasional downstairs to the kitchen for coffee, tea, or something to nibble. Feeling a bit better now, but know better than to push it. This blog entry, and some light emailing is all the computing work I plan on doing.
Back to the houses, however. I can’t afford to own any of these, but it doesn’t mean I can’t look!
Looks like the house was turned 90 degrees from the way it “should” be set, just to fit on the property. Still. I like all the points. 🙂
Here’s another pointy house that I like (I especially like the upstairs window that mimics the look of the roofline).
This beautiful house used to be vinyl sided before being renovated. You can see the line between the first set of double windows and the overhang — the part of the house to the left of that used to be the “mother in law” suite.I think it’s now all part of one home.
To me, Tudor style houses are quite fashionable. I rather fancy European styles, and this one is nice. (Though I’d probably have to have a riding mower for all that grass.)
This is the house that I posted here framed in a tree (taken from the next door neighbour’s yard). There’s just something classic about the large welcoming door with side lights.
Hark, do you see who I see? In this lemon coloured house, with the red trimmed door…in the upper middle window… no one but Saint Nicholas himself!
Again, I don’t understand what gets into some people and causes them to paint brick. The purpose behind brick is that it’s low maintenance. Paint it, and you’ve raised the maintenance on the house. Still, the colours contrast well here, and the copper guttering and flashing as turned a nice green patina.
Finally…
There’s always room for evergreens. Growing up in Charleston, SC and Virginia, you get used to having pine trees, evergreens, firs, and the like. (You also get used to the smell of burning pine needles because even though they’re “evergreen”, they shed like a big dog….even though most people in Virginia don’t burn their pine “straw”.)
Silver Blue, who is glad to be back blogging. Now, can someone remove the ice pick that’s over my left eye? Please? Thanks.
Various shots that made me smile.
By Silver Blue | 1 comment
1I’m a bit random with today’s post simply because I snapped whatever photos made me smile. The fact it was almost 50 helped warm me up (and tomorrow will be in the 60s…oh Mother Nature, you’re late on your HRT! (Hormone Replacement Therapy)).
Heading out the door, I see a shot through the trees. Abstract, but the muted colours (and the last remaining hanging dried blooms on this crepe myrtle) spoke volumes to me.
Moving on and through the neighbourhood, we come across…
I’ve always dreamt of owning a house with a turret. In fact, in 1980, when my family moved from South Carolina back to Virginia, one of the houses we looked at had a turret — and a spiral staircase leading to the room at the top of the stairs — it would have been perfect for MY bedroom. The downside? There were holes in the walls where it looked like someone had punched the walls in fits of anger, and the entire house reeked of cat urine. PASS! Perhaps one day I’ll get my house with a turret. (By the way, this house is NOT the one we looked at 32 years ago. That house still is standing, and has been (I would gather) kept up quite nicely. The lawn is well kept, and the house — at that time a Pepto-Bismol pink on the cedar shake shingles — is now a more demure olive green.
I also enjoy nautical themes. This isn’t actually a boat tie-off, or the edge of a pier. It’s merely a property boundary marker. Still… with the water in the background, it made me smile.
Finally…
Eat peacefully, wee birdie. No cat or squirrel can get to you in here. Two days ago, that seed bin was completely full. I’d say the wee birds have voracious appetites. (Easier to do when you know you’re not as easily marked to be someone else’s dinner!)
Silver Blue, who dreams of castles, turrets, and of being an eagle on the wing.
When Autumn Comes…
By Silver Blue
Silver Blue, who says sometimes words are not needed…
[audio:https://www.eyesofsilverblue.com/wac.mp3]Your life is a canvas, the colours are you…*
By Silver Blue | 1 comment
1One of the things I enjoy most in the world through my eyes is the variety of colours that Mother Nature provides. Something as simple as the changing of the leaves can buoy my heart.
From several Autumns ago, Mother Nature puts on her true colours. This, before the temps plummeted, turning us all… blue.
Speaking of blue, as you know, it’s one of my favourite colours. Hence, my mantel, decked out in my favourite cobalt. Some find blue to be a cold, icy colour, but I don’t. I find it calming, serene, soothing.
Silver Blue, who knows that there’s more to the rainbow than a pack of Skittles.
(*”White Canvas,” a-ha: “Stories are painted in lines on your face — misunderstandings and little mistakes…a chance to start over is all that it takes….you know if you do, your life is a canvas, the colours are you…”)
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