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Just having some layering fun
with an old pipe I found
coming up out of the ground!

I'll show you the Original below.

Laura E. Swan

 
  Original
Original
I was trying my hand at selective focus.
I almost entered this one "as is" but
it's way more fun to doctor images up!
(HA!)

TV 1/200 AV 8.0 ISO 200 Hand Held

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September 02, 2010

 
- Ann Coates

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  Love it Laura, this is cool!


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September 02, 2010

 
- Laura E. Swan

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  Hi Ann! I hope you got to see the B4 Image, too, and 2nd rendition. Takes a while to upload them all like I just did.

Glad you like the finished product, for sure! Thanks for having fun with me, Ann!

:)

-Laura


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September 02, 2010

 

Tommy E. Burgess
  Wonderful DDR work Laura!! The squirrel one's very funny. Now I just hope I don't have an crazy dreams about being spied on by any pipe-eyes, I'll be fine. Big brother you know?


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September 02, 2010

 

Lynne Morris
  Haha, this is great dd work Laura.


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September 02, 2010

 

Raymond Pauly
  Great work here, Laura! Hahaha!


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September 02, 2010

 

Brett Dolsen
  Awesome Laura you love to keep an eye on everything!


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September 02, 2010

 

Tiia Vissak
  well done!


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September 02, 2010

 
- Laura E. Swan

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  Thanks my funny friends! Hehe! Well I have been thinking about old black and white movies lately. Ships and Subs and Airforce...Army...the whole bit.

Tommy...think happy thoughts. :D Picture yourself on a warm beach. Laying in the hot sun...3...you can feel the warmth enveloping you....2...you are so relaxed and getting tired and will have happy dreams...(Hehe!)

I love your humor folks. Thanks for giving me back a smile! Each of you!

-Laura


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September 02, 2010

 

Nadia Paul
  So very creative - great DD work Laura!


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September 02, 2010

 
- Laura E. Swan

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  Thank you Nadia! :) Fun to have you visit!

Good night all. See you's tomorrow!

-Laura :D


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September 02, 2010

 

Douglas Pignet
  How kewl is this!!!!! Well done


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September 02, 2010

 

Gord MacEachern
  This is just super cool Laura, well done!


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September 02, 2010

 
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  Lots of possiblities! Excellent work Laura! Jeff


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September 02, 2010

 
- Bojan Bencic

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  Both are fantastic, Laura. You just brought a smile to my face. :o)


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September 02, 2010

 

Monnie Ryan
  Very creative, Laura -- I'm smiling too! And appreciate your concern, but we're in absolutely no danger of hurricane damage. The worst weather we get is lake-effect snow from Lake Erie in the winter and the occasional threat of a tornado. Right now, though, we're watching the Atlantic coast closely, not only out of concern for people we know who live there but also because we're leaving next Wednesday for Maine and will be staying (we hope) in several of the spots that Earl could hit really hard.


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September 02, 2010

 
- Millie A. Talarico

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  Very cool idea, It made me look twice, then, when I saw the name Laura,I thought yes, it has to be!


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September 02, 2010

 
- Nancy L. Green

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  What FUN!!! ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL Laura, WTG!! <><


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September 02, 2010

 
- Laura E. Swan

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  Hi Doug, Gord, Jeff, Bojan, Monnie, Millieanne and Nancy G!

This LAYERING thing really opens a whole new world for the creative mind! HA!

Thanks for having fun with me. I have a busy week ahead here but will get to visiting you as soon as I am able! Thanks so much!!! Loved your comments!

-Laura


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September 02, 2010

 
- Patrick Rouzes

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  Superb focus, dof, b/g, clarity & comp here, Laura! Outstanding camera skills here, my friend! WTG!
Seems like you have fun with the squirrel!


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September 02, 2010

 

John Connolly
  Thanks for sharing your photgraphic day with us Laura! Your creativity is outstanding, as can be seen in this fine display!


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September 02, 2010

 

Carol L. Fowler
  Kind of spooky! I also like the little squirrel stuffed down the pipe!


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September 02, 2010

 

Wm Nosal
  Ha! Laura, Wonderful Image!
Spying on Who! or What?
From The Long Grasses or is tht Grass?


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September 02, 2010

 

Ron McEwan
  Oh Laura you have to much fun. Your creations are only limited by your imagination, I don't think it will ever end. Great work.

I know you have had a big day at the park. When did you find time to post LOL.


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September 02, 2010

 

Rony Sagy
  Creativity without limits. Wonderful work, Laura.


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September 02, 2010

 
- Laura E. Swan

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  Hi Everyone! Tomorrow is the Park Ron. :) Today was the DENTIST!!!


Wm...ELVES!!! ELVES!!!! REMEMBER THE ELVES!!! HA!

Dont be afraid Ellen! It's just little me!

John...:)

Thank you ALL for the fun. I always love your visits!!!

-Laura


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September 02, 2010

 

Kitty R. Rodehorst-Hanna
  FANTASTIC DDR work Laura! These are very cute! :-) k


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September 02, 2010

 

Lorna Shutter
  LOL! My favourite is the Pipe with the Long Horned Sheep in it! Ha! Ha! ... but all the images are great! Awesome layering job, Sis! Looks like it's 3-D and the pipe is coming right out at us! Unique and fun work! :)


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September 02, 2010

 

Yulianto Soeroso
  what can I say ..love it hihi


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September 02, 2010

 

Karen Engelbreth
  Cool Laura - LOL...


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September 02, 2010

 

Renee Doyle
  Endless possibilities here Laura!!! Wonderful, creative, imaginative and fun work!


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September 02, 2010

 
- Laura E. Swan

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  Hi Kitty, Lorna Doone, Yulianto, Karen and Renee!

Still chuckling at your responses! Thanks you guys! Maybe I will enter the one with the Long Horn in it tonight? Humm...OR SHOULD I DO THE CAR OF THE FUTURE?

HA! STAY TUNED!

(Sister) Laura


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September 02, 2010

 
- Robert K. Bemus

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  Great comp and 'eye', Laura!!


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September 03, 2010

 

Carol A. Grady
  This is fantastic Laura! What a creative mind you have - the squirrel in the pipe is great also.


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September 03, 2010

 

Lorna Shutter
  It's a Long Horned Sheep, Carol. They just look like squirrels out where Laura lives! LOL! :D


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September 03, 2010

 

Ruth E. Foster-Lindsay
  Cool image Laura! Love your creativity!
You rock! :-)


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September 03, 2010

 

Karen Kessler
  Beautifully doctored...especially the Long Horned Sheep's eye in the pipe! :) Love the framing of this one as well as the eye of the pipe!


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September 03, 2010

 
- Laura E. Swan

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  Lol...Yep. That's what it is alright. Long Horned sheep. ALL OF THEM.

"Seeing" is believing! HA!

Thanks everyone. Nice way to end my day!

-Laura, Lala


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September 03, 2010

 
- Nancyj E. Hovey

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  Love your creativity.... always surprising us with another fun image!
But along the way, I am confused...a long horned sheep looks like a squirrel or a chip monk? or both? or is a squirrel and chipmonk the same animal with a long or short tail...and huge eyes! opps, and must have long horns! which for the life of me, you must be hiding by cloning them off! heeheeee....
Glad you are having so much fun on your images...keep up the great work! 8o)


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September 04, 2010

 
- Nancyj E. Hovey

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September 04, 2010

 
- Laura E. Swan

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  Ask Sister Lorna! She will tell you Mumj!!! Or go back to the image that I named "Long Horned Sheep" in my gallery this week!

Must run. I am late! :D Kiki and Leif are so much fun! Many laughs and even tears of joy! Wish you were here!!!

I have a new post! Not from our visit...

-Lalelulem


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September 04, 2010

 

Mary K. Robison
  Pom, please tell Nancy that her "squirrel photographer" is outstanding!
And, Pommers - like everyone else, I keep shaking my head and smiling at the results of your layered inside-the-pipe work. (WHEW! What a long sentence!)
I'm always impressed by where your imagination takes you!!


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September 06, 2010

 
- Laura E. Swan

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  Mare! Thank you so much! Sorry to be so tardy in responding. Not all of my BP threads alert me when a comment comes in.

I think I might dig up the other one with the squirrel in it and re-sub it. (Lorna's Long Horned Mtn Sheep Goat".)

My BP family is so much fun. I will never stop appreciating you. :D

Thanks again to all!!!

-Laura :)


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June 25, 2011

 
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