Catching a budding photographer

This photo was taken during an outing to the National Arboretum. Although the original photo was very colorful, I decided to apply some filters and mute the colors to almost monochromatic to focus in on the camera and the photographer's face. This particular photographer often wandered away from the group to use her old faithful Cannon Rebel G. So I decided to document this annoying/funny occurrence.

Foliage

At the request of a friend of mine I broke out my water colors, sadly they haven't seen the light of day in a while. In the quest to develop my Photoshop Godessness, painting was pushed aside. I have had a little more time lately so I'm starting to put those painting and drawing skills to use! I am not the greatest foliage painter, but I tried a different approach (lots of little washes, instead of wet into wet). Having not painted in a while, I was happy with the result. The line from a childhood song 'In the leafy tree tops' comes to mind when I look at the tree in back of the hosue. Now I'm on the lookout for my next subject...

The Tele

In honor of the rain, here's a painting I made while in London. My sister took the photo I used as a reference. Apparently the phone booth smelled pretty awful inside. Perhaps someone used it as a loo?