Photography - Naturemanipulated

Such beautiful colours: - in Michelle's shop are some gorgeous black and white photos as well - check them out.



Who's Behind Nature Manipulated?
My name is Michelle and I am the owner/designer of Nature Manipulated. I started taking art classes at a young age and continued my art studies at LaGuardia High School of Music, Art and Performing Arts. After completing high school, I began going to a small art college. Shortly after starting, I felt like I was loosing my passion for the arts. It was becoming a chore, or rather, homework. I took a break from creating things, although my love for photography never ceased. I continued taking pictures. After several years, I started dabbling again with my colored pencils and paints. (colored pencils were my favorite in high school.) …..I really enjoy creating things again and enveloping myself in the artsy world. I am glad that my childhood passion did not fade away forever. Sometimes when you take a little break, you come back stronger.

Lots more info at:
http://naturemanipulated.blogspot.com/
http://facebook.com/NatureManipulated
http://twitter.com/NMArt
http://naturemanipulated.etsy.com/

Thank you Michelle

Photography - Ellen at Theeye

Isn't this just the loveliest thing!!

I don't have much information about Ellen at Theeye, but I do know that she has one heck of an eye for a beautiful picture. She very kindly allowed me to post some here for you to see.

Do go and check out her store and blog, there are some gorgeous pieces.

Her Etsy Shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/theeye

http://ellentheeye.blogspot.com/

http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Eye-Fine-Art-Photography/171747866752

Photography - Svetlana of LanitaPhoto

Some absolutely stunning close up photos here - don't you just feel like you could touch them?

If you would like more details of these pictures, click on the photos and it will take you directly to her shop on etsy.

My name is Svetlana, or Lana for short. Yes, your are right it's Slavic name, and for everybody speaking Russian and other Slavic languages, my name strongly connects to light and purity. Definitely kind of prophecy on side of my parents, since from my early years I was attracted by painting and other forms of visual arts, astonished by simple magic of light, color, form. No wonder, that I choose graphic design as my first occupation, while photography stayed a mere hobby for long time. A year ago my life has changed dramatically: I got married and moved to new country. And photography now becomes more and more my main job — yet another great change!I hope you share my passion to wonder of color and light, and will enjoy browsing through my photos as much as I enjoyed taking and processing them.Some technical details: all the images here have been shot by myself using Nikon D100 and lately Canon 20D cameras. More or less PhotoShop have been applied to produce pictures and collages presented here.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/LanitaPhoto

Thank you Svetlana - Good luck with the photography and the new life!!

The life and times of an obsessive!

So I have been busy beavering away, feeling really happy. Lovely bits and pieces around me and for once a nice bit of time to design. If only that was all there was to it. So today, all I have done from 10 this morning is photo related stuff. Started off taking the pics, then uploading them. My computer memory is rather full so started going slow - very frustrating. Then comes cropping and adjusting. Then uploading to etsy, having converted the prices first. That's very time consuming - writing the descriptions, tags and waiting again for the pics to upload. Then over to paypal to make the buttons for my site, then over to picture trail to upload the pics there for my site. In between catching up with twitter, facebook and hotmail, and the odd forum or six. And here I am at 2 am writing on my blog! So here is what I have been working on today.

To see more details - either click on the picture or go to

www.somethingextraspecial.com.

Photography - Matchstickgirl

I caught site of France's photography by chance while looking through Etsy, and what attracted me was her whimsical nature. A lovely imagination and the skill to make that into a visual. I have shown three pictures here, focussed on Thumbelina. Is there any little girl around who doesn't somewhere deep down in their soul wish they had a tiny little friend, and does that really go when we get older?

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=18942956
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=13132428
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=13136031


To visit her shop click the link below
http://www.etsy.com/people/matchstickgirl

"New Zealand born photographer ,Frances Melhop has been shooting since she was 12 years old and was given her first hand-me-down camera...she created a darkroom in the kitchen at home and set to work. Often seen in her high school years, running with the school skeleton from the biology lab to the art room(read "makeshift studio") across the hockey field..... macabre picture...

Her professional career began 18 years ago when she moved to Sydney Australia after studying (psychology,political science,german language ,culture and history,and religion) at Canterbury university and (photography,graphic design,sculpture,printmaking and life drawing) at Christchurch Polytechnical College followed by assisting cinematographers and photographers in New Zealand for 2 years.... "
Read more about her at:
http://www.etsy.com/people/matchstickgirl