Uploaded: October 05, 2009 00:15:49
Is This A Trick or a Treat?
(It's a TRICK! How? Well, the base image is a DDR'd photo I Made As a SCREEN SAVER! THEN I held a ball up to the computer and took macros!) HA! The orange is the reflection of my dining room lights behind me! Lol!!! BONUS!)
Hope it's also a treat!!! The finishing touches were done in PSE7 with the smudge tool. This is named: "Looking Glass"
All Of Us Stood, At The Forest Gate. Filled With Reluctance. We Hesitate.
I Look Down, Into The Grass BEHOLD THERE LAY, A LOOKING GLASS!
Upon Holding It Up, Close To Me Vested With, THE POWERS THAT BE
It Said We Are Safe, The Gate To Enter BUT FALL WOULD TURN, INSTANTLY TO WINTER.
Little People Would Wait, For Us There,Who Would Help Us Out, AND SHOW US CARE!!!
Exif: F Number: 2.8, Exposure Bias Value: 0.00, ExposureTime: 1/15 seconds, Flash: did not fire, compulsory flash mode, White balance: Auto white balance, FocalLength: 4.60 mm, Model: Canon PowerShot SD800 IS
Tiia Vissak October 05, 2009
very creative! #1188149Ann Coates October 05, 2009
Wow Laura, this is so cool. Clever lady. #8008504Kirsten Kiki Kjaer October 05, 2009
OMG, SSSLala - this is FABULOUS!!!!!!!!!Brett Dolsen October 05, 2009
Great DD work and creativity Laura!!Halloween wouldnt be the same without you!!Brett #8008513Jyri Vissak October 05, 2009
Very creative! Well done. #8008541Laura E. Swan October 05, 2009
Hi Tiia, Ann, SSSKiki, Brett and Juri!!! ISN'T THIS GOOD NEWS???!!!Yes, SSSKiki...FOR NOW we are safe! We must get out of the woods by midnight however, and to the HAUNTED HOUSE for the HALLOWEEN PARTY so I hope the LITTLE PEOPLE can show us the way!
Thank you all for staying close in a group while we take this journey together!!!
You guys sure make this fun for me, too! #8008550
Dominick M. Dimacale October 05, 2009
Great image and composition here, Laura.
Dominick #8008598
Paul E. Earl October 05, 2009
You are a very creative little Swanee!! Fantastic image!! #8008610Tammy M. Anderson October 05, 2009
Very creative and cool image, Laura. #8008679Tess L. Yee October 05, 2009
Wonderful artistic creation, Laura! #8008711Avril Young October 05, 2009
you are so creative Laura...looking forward to you halloween photography...lovely composition. #8008757Michelle Alton October 05, 2009
You are SO strange, Laura...(that's a compliment)! I'd love to live inside your head for a day or two. #8008827Colette M. Metcalf October 05, 2009
Very cool and creative!!! #8008884Douglas Pignet October 05, 2009
Very different and great imagination.. #8008912Jeff Robinson October 05, 2009
An Outstanding creation Laura!! Jeff #8008955Ujjwal Mukherjee October 05, 2009
Wonderfully creative image,Laura!! #8009061Monnie Ryan October 05, 2009
Whoa -- fabulous, unique work here, Laura! Outstanding! #8009660ROLAN NARMAN October 05, 2009
Fantastic job sister! Very creative! Love it! #8009785Nadya Johnson October 05, 2009
Laura, this is TREMENDOUSLY creative and unique! This has a very frightening aspect to it -- as in, "Ohhhh, Nooooo! Help me!" She seems entrapped in time somewhere, about to vanish - well, through the looking glass! It is both highly imaginative and very well done! #8009915Margaret R. Barry October 05, 2009
Fantastic creation, Laura. Very imaginative! #8010104Jack R. Perry October 05, 2009
be careful Laura!“May she be granted beauty and yet not
Beauty to make a stranger's eye distraught,
Or hers before a looking-glass, for such,
Being made beautiful overmuch,
Consider beauty a sufficient end,
Lose natural kindness and maybe
The heart-revealing intimacy
That chooses right, and never find a friend.”
Yeats #8010485
Karen Engelbreth October 05, 2009
Cool and creative image, Laura... #8010617Laura E. Swan October 05, 2009
WOW! Where do I start? I see our group just got larger...Thank you to everyone who so kindly said this was creative and and different and MORE! (Outstanding and FABULOUS? WOW! THANKS!!!) HA! THIS was so fun to make...
Michelle...Only for two days? Why not hang around in there? Just not at 60 dollars an hour, okay? Hee hee!
Nadya, don't be afraid. The rest of us are right here...WITH FLASHLIGHTS!!! :)
And now we come to Jack...
Jack...
Thank you for your bit of Yeats
Spoken at the Forest Gates.
A warning for your little friend
To only on kindness do depend.
Beauty truly is only skin deep
Outwardness we can never keep.
If any truly needs be whole,
It must come from the pure of soul.
-Swan
HA!
Thanks all and see you at the little people we learned of from the looking glass! #8010671
Lorna Shutter October 05, 2009
Wow Sis! I just had to drop by to see what adventure you would lead us on! The images so far are fabulous! ... I especially like this one! Awesome DD work and poetry! Can't wait to see what comes next! Hope those "little people" are littler than me! :) #8011211Laura E. Swan October 05, 2009
Hi Sissy!!! Yes. They are small than us, my twin. Hard to believe but they are! HA! :) I think I can see them hiding in the trees. Can you see them too? #8011283Tammy Espino October 05, 2009
Well, well, love this!! :) You are one of a kind!!!! #8011367Nancyj E. Hovey October 05, 2009
Your poem and photo sure are amazing talent....wtg... keep up the great work, Laura... much talent here! I love this one! 8o) #8011389Renata Gusciora October 05, 2009
THtas awesome,Laura!Your creativity always surprises and never bores me!Super work!:-)Have a good night sleep!:-) #8011429Robert K. Bemus October 05, 2009
Super DD and image, Laura!! #8011625Barbara Waldoch October 05, 2009
There is one small problem before we can be safe. Whose midnight do we take to leave the forest? There is midnight somewhere in the world all the time! #8011641Stefania Barbier October 05, 2009
I'll stand in that part of the world where midnight doesn't arrive :0) very creative Lala! #8011700Maria Warren October 06, 2009
omg wow sis. this is awesome way cool I like it alot great work!!!(((hugs)))♥♥♥ #8011747
Tommy E. Burgess October 06, 2009
Outstanding DD work Laura!! Very cool! #8011967Jack R. Perry October 06, 2009
Well said Laura #8013569Stephen Zacker October 06, 2009
This is Cool. You are getting very proficient in that DDR stuff. #8013642Mary K. Robison October 07, 2009
Oh, dear, I'm getting behind on the images and discussion threads, Lauramary. Not to mention the cool poetry...Julianne Bradford October 07, 2009
One more time kudos!!! Artsy and wonderful and poetic too. That's you! #8016667Christine Lobsinger October 09, 2009
Good Morning Sister Lala...Laura E. Swan October 09, 2009
Hi Tammy-G, Mumj, Renata, Robert, Barbara, Stef, Maria (((hugs))), Tommy, Jack-P, S.Z., Maralaury, Julianne and S.Christine.What a thrill to see you all here. The Queen of Kewpie has promised to take care of us in the Forest.
No needs to worry NOW...RIGHT?
Unless one of us gets at the back of the bunch!
STAY CLOSE!!!
Lauramary #8022780
isabel C. Zepeda October 09, 2009
Hi LauraVery interesting photo like all you gallery.
Have a great weekend
Ysa... #8023547
Laura E. Swan October 09, 2009
Thank you, Ysa! :) Keep your flashlight on!-Lauramary #8023551
Graham Robards October 13, 2009
No, DON'T FOLLOW!
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Christine Lobsinger October 13, 2009
OH MY... WHAT TO DO... OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....HELPMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEMMMMEMMM MIMI....YOUYOU
SCARED OF EVERYTHING HERE....
GOD>>> HELP MEEEEEMEMEMEM MIMMMIMIMI
#8032906
Laura E. Swan October 13, 2009
Youyou, I am here! Mimi the great QUEEN OF KEWPIE will t you through this.HERE IS WHAT WE DO! WE MUST concentrate ONLY on the pretty music. The haunted music is JUST an illusion.
CONCENTRATE YOUYOU...CONCENTRATE!!! YOU CAN DO THIS!!!
Sister PAT Mimi is here with us to help us through!!! WE CAN MAKE IT...
JUST THE PRETTY MUSIC...Listen hard! #8033932
Laura E. Swan October 13, 2009
Uh oh! The pretty music went away...NOW IT IS JUST SPOOKY MUSIC...WHERE IS Mimi? Did she go on without us?
Gulp... #8033938
Graham Robards October 13, 2009
Hee hee little wee white witch!I returned Mimi for but a moment so the music changed accordingly.
... NOW for the next chapter, will Mimi die?
Or did she go without you all???
Hmmmnnnn
Or will I need to change the music once again? Hmmmmmm.....
#8035054
Laura E. Swan October 13, 2009
WHERE IS THE MUSIC???WE NEED MUSIC!!!#8035066
Graham Robards October 13, 2009
AWW the music changed and then my website went down.The first time for years so there must be something wrong with the server as the music is playing from there.
#8035077
Laura E. Swan October 13, 2009
HUGE BOO-HOO here. You added a WHOLE NEW DIMENSION to our Halloween story.:(
Well it was fun for a day! #8035083
Christine Lobsinger October 13, 2009
AWWW I miss the scary music girls...Annette Carr October 15, 2009
Very beautiful creative expression! #8039220Laura E. Swan October 15, 2009
Thank you Christine!!! IT'S BACK!* * *
Thank you Annette! You're a sweetie! #8039959
Christine Lobsinger October 15, 2009
OMG I-----T-----'------------SSSSS
CHRIS
SMILING #8040225
Laura E. Swan October 16, 2009
No need to fear little Sis...NOT YET.Just take my hand. We get to go on a fun little walk through the pretty forest now. Right?
That's what I'm thinkin'!
:) #8043787
Christine Lobsinger October 16, 2009
OKAY... this music makes me wanna sing for joy...no goblins/no blood...I'm not scared anymore... MIMI....CHRISSY #8044057
Nancyj E. Hovey November 01, 2009
BEST OF THE MONTH SERIES!!!
ALSO: C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S
on your well deserving EFP! 8o) #8092984
Laura E. Swan November 01, 2009
Huge smiles here ladies...Shaking my head.Filled with joy. Thank you! SO MUCH!
(STILL SHAKING MY HEAD!) #8093577
Cassie L. Woodlee June 20, 2010
This is Fabulous!!!!! AWESOME WORK on this, Laura!! #8707004Laura E. Swan June 20, 2010
It's a lot to look at, Cassie, and I am honored that you did! :)Thanks so much!!!
-Laura #8707396
Yulianto Soeroso June 21, 2010
wow cannot thing where this focus be but so genius catch hahaa #8707721Stephen Zacker June 21, 2010
This is really neat. Like your title #8707800Ruth E. Foster-Lindsay June 21, 2010
Aewsome work Laura! This is so cool!Laura E. Swan June 21, 2010
Hi Yulianto, Steve and Ruth!!!This one was part of my Halloween Series. Thought I'd re-enter it for fun.
Thanks for your words of encouragement. I really appreciate them.
-Laura :) #8708767
John Connolly June 21, 2010
The Queen of Halloween has struck again! Brilliant creative work here Laura and amazing text! #8709212Carol L. Fowler June 21, 2010
Striking, creative image! #8709329Tammy Espino June 21, 2010
Awesome!!! :) #8709435Kitty R. Rodehorst-Hanna June 21, 2010
Incredible work on this cool image, Laura! :-) k #8709679Julianne Bradford June 21, 2010
WTG Laura. Great for MT. I hope this brings you a big award :-) #8709693Irene Colling June 21, 2010
Very creative and evocative image Laura. #8709756Tommy E. Burgess June 21, 2010
Wow outstanding DD work Laura!! #8709897Wm Nosal June 22, 2010
Very Cool Image, Laura! #8711029Laura E. Swan June 22, 2010
Thank you VERY MUCH John, Carol, Tammers, Kitty, Julianne, Irene, Tommy and Wm!I love your work, too!
-Laura :) #8711032
John Rivera June 22, 2010
Great creative work Laura! #8711227Karen Kessler June 25, 2010
This is REALLY COOL, Lala! I love what you did with it! WINNER, WINNER, WINNER!!! #8716556Laura E. Swan June 25, 2010
Thank John! Very much!*
Hi Kalena! Thanks dear heart! Have you applied for that job as a BP judge yet??? I will give you the best recommendation EVER.
#8716648
Mary K. Robison August 30, 2010
This was spooky then, and it's spooky now, Pom ~ but in a GOOD way! You're getting antsy for October, I can tell!Laura E. Swan August 30, 2010
Thank you Mare! HA! I don't know if I have the energy to do HALLOWEEN all over again but I have been thinking a lot about it!!! LAYERING!!! LAYERING!!! It was so fun last year but really took time and energy. We might all have to take a vote and take turns??? :DThank you for coming back to see this one! Good to have you here. (I saw you coming in my looking glass BTW! HA!)
-Pomamary #8871128
Patrick Rouzes August 30, 2010
Creative, unique & beautiful work, as always, Swanee! Outstanding image indeed! WTG! #8871249Nancy (Peaches) Harker August 30, 2010
I had tried something like this with my late Barney, you did a AWESOME JOB, LOOKS LIKE A WINNER TO ME! #8871359Shelly A. Van Camp August 30, 2010
Super creative and work, Laura!! #8871369Nancy J. Locke August 30, 2010
Laura, you have OUTDONE YOURSELF WITH YOUR CREATIVE POWERS!!!!SENSATIONAL. Hello, dear.
Hugs, Nancy J L #8871391
John Connolly August 30, 2010
Awesome work here Laura! A superb image for this months theme! #8871438isabel C. Zepeda August 30, 2010
LauraVery nice and diferent composition,great MT.
Ysa... #8871472
Laura E. Swan August 30, 2010
Good Afternoon all. Last Halloween was such a blast. This was fun to make. If anyone wants to know how I did any of this just ask. :)Happy to hear from each of you and I also hope it was a good entry for the MT!
Thanks for stopping in. I will try and catch up soon but have company coming from Denmark! HA!!!!!!!! Cleaning house! #8871495
Tammy Espino August 30, 2010
Well I thought I missed this, but see I commented...still awesome..lol #8871750Laura E. Swan August 30, 2010
Old age Tammers. Old age. It's a drag being 29, isn't it???HA!
Thanks funny lady!
-Sister Lala, Canada Branch
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Kitty R. Rodehorst-Hanna August 30, 2010
Awesome DDR work on this cool post, Laura! :-) k #8872005Brett Dolsen August 31, 2010
Great entry and DD Work Laura!! #8872406Carol A. Grady August 31, 2010
Love this Laura - your creativity and imagination, skill with DDR just amazes me throughout your whole gallery. WTG! #8872516Ujjwal Mukherjee August 31, 2010
Wonderful creative work,Laura!! #8873257Rod Partington September 01, 2010
This is Awesome Laura! Very creative!Laura E. Swan September 01, 2010
Hi Kitty, Brett, Carol, Ujjwal and Rod!Thanks for you super comments and support. I really appreciate it!
YOU guys are very talented TOO! :D
-Laura #8875440
Julianne Bradford September 02, 2010
I hope we see this one again Laura! This is exceptional!Please re-enter this one in DD if it doesn't win for MT :-) Totally cool! #8877533Laura E. Swan September 02, 2010
Gosh THANKS Julianne!!! Wonderful comments and if you say so, I will!!! :DThanks so much!
-Laura #8877612
Emile Abbott October 13, 2011
Exceptional and creative Laura. Your talent amazes #9732511Gina M. Savage October 15, 2011
Great MT image...so cool, Laura! #9737331Laura E. Swan October 15, 2011
Hi Emile and Gina!The BG is actually a photo of me that I had as my lap top back ground image. So what you are seeing here is a photo of my lap top!
I then held up the glass ball to the lap top and shot this as a macro.
The edges were done with the smudge tool in PSE7.
All simple little DDR tricks. A few people wrote me to ask what the effect was on my forehead. Can you believe it? THAT is the reflection of the hanging lights in my dining room! Lol...I just positioned the computer screen to reflect it there before I held the ball up and clicked! :)))
Thanks for the kind comments and visit!!!
-Laura :D #9737439
Heather Loewenhardt October 16, 2011
Oh my gosh Laura this is so ingenious and sooo creative. I do believe I have entered a warped time zone. I am starting way to far back to follow this, like reading the ending of a book first although I never do that. Will keep going. #9738572Laura L. Gonzales February 23, 2014
So SOOOO cool!! Your creativity never ceases to amaze me! This is fantastic sis!!! Awesome work Emmy! ♥ #10984070Laura E. Swan February 23, 2014
Hi Mr Tree! Hi Heather!! Hi Laura LeeLee!I have been remiss! What happened??
First I must say...your poem has me wanting to tap my feet and dance, Mr Tree! Goodness, such talent! :D
And Heather, I have always meant to put the Halloween story back in the right order. I wonder if my little brain could still do it? It makes me want to switch over to the other style of gallery where we can make CHAPTERS sort of...and then I can compile the story like a book? Hmmm...sounds like work. Lol...I will try and organize them here one day and then will let you know if you are still interested! :))))) Thank you!
And Laura LeeLee I had so much darned fun making this. Creating is so relaxing for me. I miss it and need to get the ball rolling again.
Thanks very much you three. And ALL OF YOU here.
-Miss Rose, Laura, Lala, and Sis :D #10984080
Mary K. Robison February 25, 2014
How time does fly, Pom! From first visit in 2010 to tonight...an entire lifetime for some little critters. Luckily, not for us!Laura E. Swan February 25, 2014
I love you Mary. That is just all my little heart can say right now. :D(That really WAS an exciting adventure wasn't it??)
I loved the part where the LIMO was going through the ice forest and a few of the BPers were gettin' Frisky under the blankets while SOMEBODY was running for her LIFE to get in the LIMO!
Ahahahahaha! WHAT A GROUP. You guys make me laugh and laugh.
Thank you. :)))))) I'll keep the other gallery type in mind. I'd be tempted to do it JUST for the two Halloween stories I did and the one year of just spooky creations.
Big hug!
-Pommy Doodles All The Day During Halloween :D #10985651
Stephen Zacker March 26, 2014
Very bold showing your inner self :-) This is Cool! #11008610Lydia Williams March 26, 2014
This is awesome, Sis Laura....YOU are so creative...I keep trying to have a 1/4 of your creativity...Love it! #11008725Sign up for an interactive online photography course to get critiques on your photos.
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