My orange pictures this week are of another favourite holiday place, Katoomba which is in the Blue Mountains, 100kms west of Sydney. It is called the Blue Mountains because it is an area of dense Eucalyptus gum forests and the vapour emitted gives the area a blue haze.
Katoomba has been a popular holiday place since the end of the 19th century when people would travel by steam train and stay at one of the grand hotels, the Carrington and the Hydro Majestic. Today you can still stay at the Carrington (the Hydro Majestic is being redeveloped) and enjoy the atmosphere of old world grandeur. We celebrated a wedding anniversary there one year.
The Three Sisters, at Echo Point, Katoomba, is a huge rock formation which is now listed as a World Heritage Area. It is the most beautiful sight and is visited by a multitude of tourists every day. The first image shows the blueish haze behind the rock formation. If you look carefully you can see people on a little footbridge which leads to the first of the sisters. You have to climb down a lot of steps to get that far as well as not being worried about heights!
And then my "orange-ified" Three Sisters. Unfortunately I don't remember the processes I used in the first image since I did it a while ago. But in the next three I combined poster edges filter and photo filters.
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| Magic Wand selection. Desaturation of selected area. |
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| Magic Wand selection. Colour fill of selected area. Fade fill, overlay. |
As you can see, I also made a brooch and a pendant inspired by the Three Sisters. The brooch is a print on wood and the pendant combines hand painting with the print.
Linking up with Paint Party Friday, Weekly Top Shot, Your Sunday Best, Mellow Yellow Monday, Favourite Photo Monday
46 comments:
you sure have made those ugly sisters beautiful.
Katoomba can be in so many faces.
In your heart, and our eyes.
I have driven past the three sisters during sunset and they have turned the most vivid shade of orange. I think you have captured them beautifully.
The blue mountains are one of my favourite places to visit (but jeeze I had the bells line drive from Sydney to the central west!)
What a lovely place - great job with the photos.
It sound like a miraculous place to visit. The jewelry that you were inspired to create is amazing too. Blessings!
Terrific artwork and loving all your fab jewellery. Happy PPF, Annette x
I love what you did with the three sisters. And that pendant is so beautiful!
Great place and great artwork!
Lovely photos very creative , happy MOM Lorik :)
I can even see the faces in these three rocks...excellent digitals and the jewelry is spectacular!! One of the only colors I can't wear is Orange...yet I love love love it! My skin doesn't!! Awesome artwork!!
Have a great week!
Hugs Giggles
Your artwork is beautiful!
Great artwork!
Beautiful work!
oh my gosh this is amazing, your jewelry is beautiful as well!
great art work of a very special place. truly inspiring! congratulations :) xxo
Great effects on this NSW icon!
Thank you for hosting.
Wonderful editing... Thank you for sharing on Weekly Top Shot #57!
Love all the colors here and the jewelry too!
Very pretty.
Oh I love the Blue Mountains and used to visit often, there is a pair of champagne glasses at the bottom of the main look out in Katoomba. Love the processes you edited with and the jewellery is fabulous. Cheers
The 3 Sisters make a fabulous photo! No wonder they inspired your art!!
love your processing! these look like paintings on canvas. well done!
I am so glad to learn about Mandarin Orange Monday since orange is my FAVORITE color! I will have to try to participate soon, but for now I will have fun checking out some of these wonderful links!
oh yeah, these are my favorite colors and the jewelry is fantabulous :)
I always liked this color combination of orange, dark yellow and purple! Am curious now how this scene looks in reality!
I love the soft blue background in the first picture. That was my favorite until I saw the orange and purple at the end ... stunning. Love the effect and as I just spent the weekend with "three sisters" who had a surprise 50th Anniversary for their parents, it seems like something of a coincidence ... a very nice one.
Andrea @ From The Sol
Beautiful work! Have a fabulous week.
Liz @ MLC
Amazing rock formation, simply breathtaking! I love your necklace too. You are so talented....Christine
The three sisters are beautiful and look great as a pendant. I have never seen them but will definately put this place on my 'must vist' list:)
Hello, this is my first time to link here, thank you so much. I've visited this area decades ago from North Ryde. Blue Mountains by its name seems enchanting to me then. I guess it is not only the emissions of the gums which make it blue, as all the distant forests are blue because of the colors which are absorbed and which are emitted.
Wonderful photos, creative processed, beautiful oranges.
Hi Lorik, Love the mountains in their orange glory! Thank you for having me on Mandarin Orange Monday!
Great photos, lovely to see.
Happy MOM to you!
I love the name, "Three Sisters." :)
I love that they're called "the three sisters" and I love the orange color scheme, beautiful!
The three sisters could be in our National Monument area in western Colorado! Pretty.
Beautiful photos! Small world, there's the 3 sisters in Oregon and I used to live in a eucalyptus grove. By the way, your jewelry is quite lovely.
Wow! What nature provides is awesome ~ Fantastic photography ~ ! ~ (A Creative Harbor) ^_^
Hi Lori! This is great!Lovely photos!!!
I just wanted to drop in and "WELCOME YOU" to Inspiration Avenue!
I look forward to seeing more of your art!
XO
Kim
Imgirlwithoutwings.com
Love all this orange!
Lovely pendant! Thank you for visiting my blog :)
Thanks everyone for visiting and your inspiring comments. It really is an interesting place and I see that some of you have already visited the Blue Mountains.
Kirstin that is long way to travel...and on a road with one lane each way!
Kayene we will all look out for your champagne glasses!
Andrea, did the 3 sisters wear orange? :)
Emille, the first link (Blue Mountains) will show you what they really look like...
Andrea, you travel about the same distance as I do to get there:)
LadyD..another coincidence- eucalypts and another 3 sisters!
Thanks again everyone. I hope some more of you are able to visit the Three Sisters one day.
This is totally stunning ...Love all the textures and the colors :) I am drooling over those pendants :)
This is totally stunning ...Love all the textures and the colors :) I am drooling over those pendants :)
wonderful, very magical!
Oh wow.. Amazing - and very superbly done :) - I am too late, again!!
http://www.starhouse.nl/star4/?p=553 is my contribution - during the summer I can't get in time to do things :( - Sorry...
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