This blog is about promoting my photography, teaching what I know, and also, serving as a diary of my photographic efforts.
On April 26, 2025, I enjoyed helping to set up the flower displays for still life for Flower Portraits—Indoors and Outdoors – for the Gold Rush workshop. Susan Stoll lectured on traditional flower photography and Lynne Ellyn discussed painterly flower portraits. As I tried to help the participants, I also got to take a photo or two.
Everything went very well but very fast, and I had my attention pulled in a million directions. In the meanwhile I was able to take a photo or two. I followed the instructors direction and applied a texture on top of the flower using Photoshop. I did not put too much effort in it, but like the result.
You can see the structure of the file in the photo below.
I set the texture’s blending mode to screen and the layer opacity to 60%, then I cleaned over the flower. Different effects can be obtained with the same texture but different opacities or blending modes.
Below a few photos I took with my sell phone of the settings and people enjoying them.
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Wall Art landscapes and miscellaneous
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It is all about the light 
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