Floral Cocktail (with Photo Edit Tips) from The Yard

Spring Floral Photo Cocktails (with photo edit tips)

Still from our full bloom spring (was officialy still winter) yard. Actually, the yellow flowers have been replaced by dandelions and little purple cones-like flowers. I was sadly surprised because I was just about to take some pictures of them when the gardener had been doing the lawn so they are all gone now, nothing but a flat square of grass. Too late. Here the rest of beauties from our yard.

When photograph is an art,

from layers of memories.

We can fly above reality beyond imagination.

Colors on black shadows.

Living yellow carpet.

A pair of trusty old shoes and a vintage straw hat.

When the shadows meet the light.

Sometimes I try to understand the pattern of anything.

Zooming a mini world of its own.

Some of us stand out amongst the crowd.

I am submerged into the painting.

Selfie too hehehe, hello, sunny! Facing the hope and challenge.

Put my cam on the grass and run flat to wall
(Timer selfie tips: experiment putting cam on anything but be secure. I have destroyed my previous cam because of this)

Photo edit tips: when I have photos with a boring background, sometimes I mix-layer it with another photos. It is not ment to fake a double-exposure technique. I just play around as I like, erase some part, or add more elements until desirable effect is achieved. The result examples are the 4 first photos above.

See my style blog Naty Ponders for more photos of these series here : On The Yellow Carpet Under Sunshine.

Lastly...Happy a little bit belated Easter to you who celebrate and Happy Kartini Day to all women. Kartini is Indonesian peoneer in women's rights. She is our hero. Have a super inspiring day!

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Spring Flowers Collages (Photo Edit Tips)

Photo Pimp Up Tip - Kaleidoscopes Collages

One of tips that I like to edit and play around with my photos is making the photo looks like kaleidoscope. Basically in the photo editor software of my choice, I copy one picture several times, flip up or down the copies, connect them in a row and repeat a set of row to form a pattern.

Further more, I sometimes combine it with layering technique to make it look like very complicated picture which I sometimes prefer. I add some elements from another photos and then play around with the transparency. This way I can pimp my outfit photos for example, which I often take in front of the same wall over and over again.

Turn this lil pretty Daisy into...

this pattern and then...

into this collage

Turn these black pearls...

into this kaleidoscope like pattern

then into this collage

Turn these  feathery seeds

into this smokey like pattern

this new born under sunlight

to this magical kaleidoscope pattern

from this beauty

to this beauty

Anyway, below are the rest of photos I took that day.

Little blues under the tree

petite jewels

tiny yellow fountain

baby Star Magnolias

Red hip

Purple Crocus

Gorgeous Crocus with sunshine trough

These are photos from early Spring (=last month). By the time it's Summer maybe I still share you photos from this April hehehe. Lately it has been raining almost everyday and too bad I have been being sick since before the Magnolias time! Unbelievable. It's nasty kind of cold that started with sore throat, canker sore, body ache, then running nose and now cough and sneezing marathon every morning.

Oh, what did I say. Sorry for telling you about this. I shouldn't turn off the happy mood of this flower photos. I better shut up now and wish you a super inspiring day! Thanks to you who have visited my blogs, commented and been following my blog. 

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The First Spring Bulbs

First spring bulbs have popped out in our back yard, just below our window. They about a month earlier than official start of the spring date. Hallo Spring!

I step just amongst them with my fave ugly shoes.

As a little girl I believed Thumbelina was somewhere there, so as tiny fairies.

The purple crocus are so cute

Can't wait a little bit longer to see them spreading covering the lawn.

Pretty cocktail of crocus and friends. Purple, yellow, white.

Late winter. The first spring bulbs have popped out in our back yard, just below our window. They show up about a month earlier than official start of the spring date. Hallo Spring!

I step just amongst them with my fave ugly shoes, careful not to step on them. Trusty shoes for all season especially transition.

The purple crocus are so cute. Can't wait a little bit longer to see them spreading covering the lawn.

However, all of them, crocus and friends are pretty cocktail of wild flowers. Purple, yellow, white. I would like to see some pink or red too. Or maybe orange.

Wish you a super inspiring day!

Nataya

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Lovely Walk: Sunrays, Vintage Houses, Roses and Goats

Beautiful small town stroll. Scroll down I have more!

Hi, everyone! It's big holiday in my homeland and I'm a little homesick every this time of every year. Missing especially my mom, my siblings, all family and friends, food (yes, special food!), and just the special atmosphere and tradition. I even miss my dad that has passed away more than 9 years ago. I am a home town girl at heart and loving family so much even it's not like what it may seem. ( Now I am singing Selena Gomez's Wizard of Waverly Place theme song: "Everything is not what it seems...." Yes, I love the series!).

It was Eid Mubarak but no matter what religion people have there in Indonesia it's big holiday and time for people to usually come home to their hometown, have reunion with old friends, forgive each other and cook special food! Some of them also wear special clothes and giving some money to the younger family members. I don't feel really well to talk or mention any religion in my blog but it's the same like when it's New Year, Christmas, Mothers Day or Independence Day, etc, I would like to say Happy Eid Mubarak to all people that celebrate it and I apologize for my faults. Maybe I have posted something that has hurt you in a way? 

So that's what facebook is for. A lot of my family, relatives and friends are facebookers so it's kind of staying connected and celebrating via facebook! I wrote on my status thank you for it and I wish there will be already teleport app next year! Or the magic door of Doraemon perhaps (Japanese cartoon character which has magic pocket and magic door is a door you can go anywhere you want with it in seconds)!

For a little sense of celebration, my husband surprised me with a pot of chilly plant, with a lot of chillies already on them! i love super spicy food and hot chilly. I add chillies on my dish every day! I am excited to have my first chilly picking. :)

However, I like this small town, my home town now in Austria. It's like my sanctuary especially when I am mellow like that. There's not much going on here but it's enough for feet to have a lovely walk, my curious eyes to stroll around and always discover something beautiful.

Before next post with outfit and awkward poses, I share you lovely encounters from my wandering around in...June! Yes, my photos are not always actual. Well, photograph is capturing memories and freezing time. Because I have them edited when I made this post here, I'll post them now. They won't hurt. I even hope you like them!

Sun rays shower on apple tree

Who wants to lay on bed of roses? Not with the thorns.

I like it that way, the stairs outside right away up to the attic.

Summer Breeze, Alley and Sunrays

I love sunrays photo. :)

I wore: Charles Vögel parka, thrifted ruffles top, my fave jeans bought in Jogja, Indonesia, Wild Lapland hat, Kipling backpack, Asics sneakers (with medical custom sole).