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All Hung up on you.

2010-02-11T02:04:00.003+01:00

Photoshop is 20 years old (the same as my nephew) and so I did a tutorial that Photoshop page on Facebook posted today. But then I got carried away and added the moon and the stars. The moon is real and I probably posted it in my Moon post a while back. And the stars were actually artificially created back when I was doing a custom background for twitter. Hope you like. :)

Avtoportret.

2010-01-21T21:10:00.001+01:00

I find, that making auto portraits really increases my ego.

Avatar.

2009-12-31T03:29:00.000+01:00

I saw this movie called Avatar the other day. And today I took some photos of myself again. And as I played in Lightroom I got an idea. I could try to make me an avatar like self portrait. And so it started. I adjusted colours to blue in lightroom and then made some hard core manipulations in photoshop. But I was not satisfied, so I returned to lightroom an did some more colour manipulation. And this is the result. I hope you like it.

Reaching up to god.

2009-12-28T14:45:00.000+01:00

How quickly I forget.
This photo was taken in the summer, but only now I had stumbled upon it, and realize, that I like it.

Jesus Died for your sins.

2009-12-03T23:50:00.000+01:00

Jesus Died for your sins. Little did he know, that now we have confessions.

Hello kind sir!

2009-12-03T15:24:00.003+01:00

Hello kind sir! I iz looking for space invaders, haz u seen them?

Biffy Clyro

2009-11-25T02:45:00.001+01:00

I was at a MUSE concert and Biffy Clyro played before that. I managed to get some photos of them, that are not completly blurry. It is hard when you take photos in a crowd of exciting people with a rubish camera.

Sunflowers.

2009-10-08T23:52:00.000+02:00

The other day I saw a field of sunflowers. Today I went and took a couple of photos. And then I had some fun with Lightroom and Photoshop (and twitter, but that's irrelevant) .

Moon.

2009-10-06T00:15:00.000+02:00

Today I went to buy some life supplies and when I came out of the store, it was already dark. I smiled and said to myself Ah yes, winter time is coming. And as I walked back home I saw an amazing sight. Full moon and clouds around it. Well actually it wasn't really full moon, but it was still round like full moon. Anyway I went home, put all the groceries in their place and went for a walk in the park with my camera and my borrowed tripod.

And this is what happened:

Light at the end of a tunnel.

2009-09-24T23:01:00.000+02:00

I was certain I had already published this one on this blog, but apparently not. But never mind that, I can publish it now, when I have no will or inspiration to take new photos, or even process the old ones...

Kava, čaj, kakav.

2009-09-14T00:44:00.001+02:00

Coffee, tea, cocoa.

Words of a poet are in my mind for several days now. And with it an idea for photos. Today I took action, and made a project around those three words.

Kava (coffee)

Čaj (Tea)

Kakav (Cocoa)

Who Dares!

2009-09-13T18:43:00.000+02:00

Who dares to steal my marmalade!

Fruit.

2009-09-11T12:08:00.000+02:00

I like fruit. It looks so delicious, but sadly it actually has no taste. I miss those times, when fruit... ok a wasp just attacked me! brb...ok it's dead. ...had taste. Even wasps don't want to eat it, they prefer barbecue now a days.

Black pearl.

2009-09-08T21:20:00.000+02:00

Restyling.

Thunderbirds, GO!

2009-09-07T23:35:00.000+02:00

It's fake and it's tilt shift. Or so it would appear. It's a fake tilt shift.
Now, WTF is a tilt shift anyway? Well it's a technique, where you take a picture of a normal size objects or even humans and you make it look like Thunderbirds. Or for those of you, who don't know Thunderbirds, you make it look like miniatures.
My experiments with tilt shift were made with photoshop, but I hear that you can buy a proper tilt shift lens (they are quite expensive, but then again, so are the normal ones). And because mine are made with photoshop, they're fake.
My first attempt was with a Slovenian national gallery building, and after that I made two more.
So, how did I do?

I need black and white photos.

2009-09-06T23:03:00.000+02:00

And I need 20 of them. But all of my photos look much better in colours or some sort of duotone, anything but BW. So far I have approved 4. Let me show you it :)

My morning coffee.

2009-09-05T19:03:00.000+02:00

Since I've discovered Irish morning, I barely ever drink coffee any more. But today I was out of Irish morning, so I made myself some coffee. With lots of foamed milk and coco on top. It looked god, so I took some photos of it. And long time ago I even wrote a poem about coffee, but It's in my mother tongue.

By the sea.

2009-09-04T15:50:00.001+02:00

Sečovlje Salina Nature Park.

2009-09-02T11:00:00.000+02:00

Me and some of my friends took a trip to the sea a while back. We went to see the Sečovlje Salina nature park. You can read all about it in their web site.

And naturally I had to take some photos:

This is a model of a grain of salt.

They load the salt on a cart an push it on the traks to the unloading place.

Loading the salt on a cart in the sunset.

Slovenia.

2009-08-29T17:49:00.000+02:00

Slovenia is a simple land. And when you need a simple vacation, Slovenia is the place to go. Slovenia is also has a variety of different landscapes, from Alpine, Panonnian, Dinaric to Medterranian landscape.

A while back me and a friend of mine took an afternoon trip to Dinaric parts of Slovenia. We visited Lake Cerknica and Snežnik castle.

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Unfortunately the castle has only two angles from witch you can take a descent photo, so most of the photos look similar.

This is a friend of mine, who invaded my view on the castle.

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Flowers.

2009-08-29T11:36:00.000+02:00

I like flowers.

I found this Lilly somewhere in the middle of the woods. I wondered, how it got there.

I found this Poppy near a pond, I like to visit from time to time. On this occasion I was there with a friend of mine.

I'm not sure, how this one is called, but I like the results. Also I saw, that my lens is really dusty and needs cleaning.

This lilly was photographed in my back yard. It was orange, but I played with Lightroom, and got this as a result.

Again played with lightroom.

I like lightroom.

Photoshopped.

2009-08-27T10:06:00.000+02:00

Occasionally I do a bit of photoshopping. The other day I tried to create an old photo look.

InfraRed

2009-08-26T16:26:00.000+02:00

Among other things I like Infrared photography. This is some of my infrared photos.

HDR

2009-08-26T10:56:00.000+02:00

A while back I was introduced to a photographic technique called HDR (high dynamic range). In this post I would like to introduce my personal favourite work created with this technique. I hope you like it:)

And I would also like to mention, that all the photos were taken in a little country called Slovenia. A land of simple people and simple life.

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Bells

2009-08-25T23:14:00.000+02:00

Hi!

2009-08-25T20:42:00.000+02:00

My name is Sophie. On the internet I can be found under KaktusKaktus.
I created this blog specificaly for my photography work. My early works can be found on my flickr account. This blog will only host my favourite photos.
All of the photos are copyright by me unless stated otherwise. But if perhaps you like any of them, you may comment, or if you would like to use any of my work, you can send me an email in which you may talk about hove much you like my work for at least 20 lines, and only then you can ask for my permission if you can use them. If I will allow it, naturally you must give me the credits.

Me.

2009-08-25T20:34:00.000+02:00

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With fear and excitement I look in to the future.