Nice UF Fridays - May 14, 2007

Unfortunately, Michèle has found that increasing obligations in her life have necessitated ending this challenge; hopefully circumstances will permit her to revive it at some future date. Thanks very much for the themes, Michèle; they were a great prod!

Nice UF Fridays - May 11, 2007

Michèle's theme for this week is the musical instrument, the "organ".

This one has me stumped, so I'm going to have to put this one aside for a while until an idea for something that fits strikes me.

Nice UF Fridays - April 27, 2007

Michèle's theme for this week is "birthday". She's also switching from weekly to every second week due to time constraints, so I may actually catch up!

Nice UF Fridays - April 20, 2007

Michèle's theme this week is "triptych"; here's my effort, weeks late. As always, a larger version can be viewed by clicking on the image.


... and, because I often have trouble making just one version of an image and then settling on just one of the however many I end up with, here's a coloured version of the above image:

Nice UF Fridays - April 13, 2007

Michèle's theme this week is "thirteen", with the additional proviso that the image contain some black. This one took me a while; I'm not superstitious, but wanted to make something that perhaps felt a little spooky. To reflect "thirteen", I used Damien Jones' excellent "deluxe clipping" transformation formula to divide the image into thirteen parts; using this transformation in such a way is not an original idea of mine, rather, it's a technique I learned in Janet Parke's simply outstanding Ultra Fractal Masking course.

Edit: I forgot to mention that the image title comes from the children's book of the same name written by Maurice Sendak (link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_the_Wild_Things_Are).

If you'd like to see the full-size version, just click the image.

Nice UF Fridays - April 6, 2007

Michèle's theme this week is "self-portrait"; here's my take on the subject. For a larger view, click the image : )

Nice UF Fridays - March 30, 2007

Michèle's theme for the week is fish. I'm more than a little late on this, but here it is; as usual, click on the image for a larger view:

Nice UF Fridays - March 23, 2007

Michèle's next theme is Egg, and the challenge is to produce images containing one or more coloured eggs; the image background is to be greyscale. Here's my entry:

Nice UF Fridays - March 16, 2007

Michèle issued her first challenge last Friday, asking for images that represent "spring", and include the colour yellow. This is what I came up with (clicking the images will provide a larger version of each):

First post

Whew! I figured out enough to get started; I expect to learn more of the nuts and bolts as time passes ...