Mandarin Orange Monday will be on holiday from 23rd Dec until 6th Jan.
My inspiration for Mandarin Orange Monday week was a challenge - hosted by Inspiration Avenue. The challenge was to make art inspired by the traditional song, Twelves Days Of Christmas. My entry was this funny little image with an Australian flavour - a kookaburra in a "pear tree" instead of a partridge. The pears were easy - I had them in my kitchen. The kookaburra pic was in my archives - a kookaburra sitting on a telegraph pole in the street behind my house.
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| 12 Days of Christmas. My entry for the Inspiration Avenue Challenge. |
For MoM I decided to continue with this theme, Twelve Days of Christmas, but take Australian angle a bit further.
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| Quick Selection tool to isolate image. Nik Silver Efex- Classical. Overexposed. Color Efex - Photo Styliser. |
Instead of pears, I used cherries, from my kitchen...
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| Quick Selection tool to isolate image. Nik Color Efex - Vignette |
and a Christmas decoration from my Christmas tree.
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| Quick Selection tool to isolate image. Nik Color Efex - Glamour Glow and Photo Styliser. |
Christmas Pudding which was in my cupboard. I can't wait to eat it! Will we have it hot with custard or brandy butter (as is traditional) or cold with ice-cream?
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| Quick Selection tool to isolate image. Nik Color Efex. Topaz Adjust 5. Nik Col Efex - Graduated User Defined |
And my very favourite "Christmas fruit" - apricots. They were lined up on my kitchen shelf for ripening.
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| Quick Selection tool to isolate image. Topaz Detail - Fill Light. Nik Color Efex - Burnt Siena. |
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| Quick Selection tool to isolate image. Topaz Simplify - Cartooned. Selective Colour. |
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| Quick Selection tool to isolate image. Topaz Adjust 5. Nik Color Efex - Colorize. |
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| Topaz Clean - Cartooned. Topaz Adjust 5. Nik Color Efex - Photo Stylizer. |
And of course the gum tree I see from my sunroom window - now an orange "Christmas fruit" tree!
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25 comments:
Really like your take on the 12 days. You used a lot of clever effects with these, I still struggle to simply load pictures on my computer from my camera, let alone do clever things with them...lol. Wishing you a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.....ann.
Hey Can I climb that tree and have my share of goodies :) Love the magical things you do with these pictures :)
How cute! That is really effective! Love the Aussie Christmas theme. Thanks for dropping by my blog
Very nice effects in this series!
Thanks for sharing.
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Lovely series of objects - wish I could do more with photo editing! Love your pears in a pear tree! Happy PPF and Merry Christmas
Love the effects.
Your effects are lovely! I love the tree!!!
o dear, you had a lot of fun. :) To bad that you did not take a bite in one of the pears. It would have been fun. :)
Wow I am sitting here with my mouth open...you are very talented using all these effects to get your wonderful Christmastree...looks very cool! I would grab all the apricots and cherries and would sit under the tree with a big smile and a full tommy ;) Wish you a wonderful christmal and see you in january ♥
I just love your response to the 12 Days of Christmas Challenge. I love the Australian flavor. My favorite is the kookaburra in a pear tree but it's all just delicious!
LOVE these shots... so wonderful! Love the apricots and cherries... Thank you for sharing on Weekly Top Shot #61!
Great idea! I do like your photos.
Thanks for hosting.
Very original. Your tree looks wonderful and I love the kookaburra ☺
Beautiful! So fruity and delicious looking! Merry Christmas to you and yours! xx
Hi Lorik thanks for visiting my blogpost. By the way as always love your series of photos so artistic.
Wonderful series with great effects. Love the warm colors of the cherries and apricots, along with the festive tree and special bird. Merry Christmas, Lorik!
Beautiful photos, I like the fruits in the tree.
What a cool creative orange Christmas tree!
Beautiful! I would love to have some of your fruits.. Have a merry, merry Christmas :)
Here's mine:
http://www.cassandrasminicorner.com/2012/12/colorful-weave.html
wonderfully creative post ~ Wow ~ such variety ~ well done ~
(A Creative Harbor) ~ aka ArtMuseDog and Carol ^_^
Really cool.
Oh my goodness! This is all so wonderful! Lori, your creativity is so inspiring to me. Hopefully when you start Mandarin Orange Monday up again I will get my act together and be a participant instead of just a viewer. Have a wonderful holiday break!
What a wonderful series of creative and lovely shots!
A sweet surprise out of Christmas.
Thanks everyone - it was a lot of fun doing it! Especially since they are favourite foods:)
Nature Footstep - you're I should have taken a bite and added it! Actually I ate the whole pear the next day with my oats:)
Happy Christmas/Holidays and see you all in two weeks!
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