by btharp | Dec 22, 2017 | Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, creative ideas, extraordinary everyday, general photography, Special Effects
Day 11 – Celebrating the artist within! However you see the world around you, believe that you are creative! Celebrate...
by btharp | Oct 14, 2016 | Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, creative ideas, Processing Techniques, Special Effects, travel photography, workshops & photo tours
In May 2015, I led a photography tour to Andalusia, along with pro photographer (and my partner) Jed Manwaring. We had a lovely group with us, an enthusiastic and flexible group, and we saw so many wonderful sites! One great place was the Mezquita, the...
by btharp | Dec 22, 2015 | general photography, iphone Apps, photography, Special Effects
(Back story: When I get busy traveling a lot for workshops and tours, I simply get lost in the sea of images that create! Typically the phone pictures get left in the dust as I focus more on my ‘big girl’ camera pictures. So today I was cleaning up my...
by btharp | Mar 25, 2015 | Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, general photography, Landscape Photography, nature photography, Plug-ins, Software, Special Effects
Poppy-scape, Italy I love to travel, and I am really looking forward to my tour in Morocco and then on to Spain and Portugal, but I have to be honest: I HATE missing Spring here in northern California. It’s a time when my spirits feel renewed, when my own...
by btharp | Nov 26, 2014 | photography, Plug-ins, Processing Techniques, Special Effects, The Blog
It’s Time to give THANKS to all these companies creating such great processing software for our images! These folks have worked hard to create a series of quality plug-ins for everything from essential processing to creative processing effects for your images....
by btharp | Aug 27, 2014 | Brenda Tharp's Photo Blog, creative ideas, general photography, Photo Blog, photography, Special Effects, The Blog, travel photography, workshops & photo tours
Here’s another one from Kolmanskop mining town. I loved how the doors were hanging by one hinge, and the rooms glowed with wonderful paint colors. In its day, it must have been a very colorful, pretty place. I used a bit of negative clarity on this one to...