Orange

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Orange It’s no secret. I like roses. :D
And sure the Internet is flooded with pictures of roses, but I don’t really care. :meh:
This rose was really special. So many petals and such intense color.
I just have to share it with the world. :fairy:

Something old

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Old roses I did some digging and I’ve found a stack of photos I’ll upload little by little. Starting today with these old roses. :D
I’d forgotten I’d taken this picture so finding it again was bit of a treat to myself. <3

I simply love the colors of autumn. I remember now that it was very cold when I took this picture. A few days later everything was frozen, I think. :)

I also took some other photos on that day. One of them need to shake hands with Photoshop and some magic before it’s done so I don’t know when it’ll show up in the portfolio. Same colors though.
Aww, I like! :aww:

Catahya bookmarks

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A while back I did these bookmarks for Catahya. They’re meant to represent different genres that falls beneath the Catahya raven’s wings of protection. ;)
Briar RavensHaunted RavenSnow RavenSpace RavenSteampunk Raven
First out is a classical fairytale theme with briars. Then we have the spooky horror bookmark followed by a raven in the snow that doesn’t have a genre really, but lampposts in the snow is very much Narnia to me so maybe it can be the average fantasy mark. :gig:
The forth bookmark is set out in space and represents sci-fi. No questions there, I’m sure. And then the last one which is a steampunk mark. I don’t really know if it’s a big genre or not, but I really wanted to make something steampunkish. 8)

Catahya will use the bookmarks as marketing and a bunch have already ended up in libraries here and there in the country. That’s neat. :D
Here’s a photo of how they look in real life:

A new CD

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Pretend Tomorrow Will Be Different Pretend Tomorrow Will Be DifferentHere’s another cover for my CD collection. It’s another blue one, but I like blue and it suits the mood on the CD. :)

What color should the next one be? Hmm… :?:

Anyways, this CD (or playlist if you will, since I make a playlist before I burn the actual CD) has a very carefree sound to it, I think. It’s that kind of music that makes you feel good about yourself and life in general, but not without a touch of that feeling you have after being through a rough time yet you still dare to believe things might be better tomorrow. :music:

The lonely ghost girl

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The lonely ghost girl Search your folders and you shall find things you’ve forgotten to upload! Seems to be a golden rule. :)

This is a picture with a grave in it. And a ghost. Yup, yup. Deep. :roll:
The background is a photo taken (actually in broad daylight) in a cemetery in Paris by myself. :sun:

I could imagine a sad, little ghost girl sitting on top of that huge, ivy covered grave, but I never found the time to dress up and do a second photo to patch together with the first so I used a stock by Lisaken-stock instead. Many thanks. :nod:

B-day

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Catahya will be 7 on Sunday and to celebrate this I’ve made a new birthday skin for the website. The skin is called B-day 7.
It’s a cold, dark blue theme. Makes me think of New Year’s Eve or a really chilly midwinter night with lots of stars.
This skin is a sequel to the Birthyday Party skin I made last year. :)

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Autumn in retrospect

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I was going through some folders and found a lot of unsorted photos. A few of them I felt like sharing with the world. :D
I find myself missing autumn and all its colours when I look at them. But winter is here – hopefully to stay. It’s currently snowing and I hope it won’t melt away. Snow is lovely. <3
Winter pictures coming up some time soon as well. ;)

WordPress theme for Michal MediArt

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Michal.se IndexHere’s a new WordPress theme I’ve made for Ulf Michal and his website Michal MediArt.
This is essentially one theme with a bonus theme included. The blue theme is the default and the green weeding theme is the bonus. Ulf wanted to keep the wedding photos apart from the rest. :)
Loads of templates make this theme work. It was quite a handful to get to work properly, but I learned some new tricks. Works in the latest versions of IE, FF, Chrome, Safari and Opera.

(Old browsers are an abomination! If you’re still using Internet Explorer 6 upgrade it – NOW!) :evul:

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Gandalf vs. Dragon

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Gandalf vs. Dragon Well, I figured I had to end up in Tolkien’s world eventually and I’m pretty pleased with the result. :)
It looks kind of like a painting, doesn’t it? It’s actually a photo – or rather a bunch of photos – that I’ve edited in Photoshop.

Here’s the original to the right. :point: Dragon photo

The real Gandalf is an about 3,5 cm high game figure I received as a present from a friend last Christmas and the dragon is a normal toy that I’ve used before. Some might even recognize it. ;)

Halloween 2009

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Well, no, this is not my Halloween costume from this year, but the picture has a Halloween theme thus I choose to post it today. ;)

I’m really fond of the Harry Potter world and I’ve collected props since last Christmas to create this set. :)
A few weeks ago it finally clicked when mom harvested the pumpkins and I came around realising this idea I’d been thinking about for so long. :D
I must say it feels good. And I think I will return to this theme – with or without pumpkins. Happy Halloween! :pumpkin:

PS: No, Slytherin is not an evil student house. It’s the house that values ambition, cunning, leadership and resourcefulness. I’m apretty sure I’d end up being sorted into Slytherin if I enrolled at Hogwarts. Or maybe Ravenclaw, but if that’s what I have to choose from I think green and silver suits me better. ;)