Some of you who follow my other blog, Diary of a Person Being Human, or who follow me on Instagram @frieda_mouse, will know that I have been turning my attentions to transforming some of my photographic images into digital paintings. I’ve been having so much fun with it, that I have already created an ample…
The wonderful thing about having a big ol’ zoom lens is that you can get a bird’s eye view of interesting cities like Rome. It helped somewhat that I was already several stories up in the air when I took the shot. No, I’m not actually a bird. I was in fact standing at the…
I created multiple version of this image, all of which I think have merits as final prints. Below are my favourites of the batch. Bill and I discovered when we arrived in Rome at the very iconic site of the Colosseum, that it really wasn’t quite what we had been expecting. Not as we had…
Mannequins in shop windows have become another recurrent theme for me, amongst many others. In fact this little series is a marriage of several themes that tend to catch my eye when I’m out and about on my travels, windows, reflections in windows, shop window displays and, mannequins. My eyes are ever kept busy. High fashion mannequins keep…
Altare Della Patria/The Monument of Vittorio Emmanuelle, Rome, Italy, October 2016. Here’s both versions of this photo, because I was unable to decide which I liked better. Personally I like them both. I’m realising this image forms part of a series I have been shooting, perhaps unwittingly throughout my travels over the past couple years….
Travelling across the Laguna from the Lido to St. Marc’s Square. Venice, Italy, October 2016. In the last month and a half I have travelled a lot. I’ve flown to Europe twice in that time and got stranded in Iceland for a night when the airline made me miss my connecting flight back to the…
Rialto Market, Venice, September 2016.
Venice, August 2015.
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