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

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

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!

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.

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.
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.

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.
Here’s a photo of how they look in real life:

Here’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.

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.
The background is a photo taken (actually in broad daylight) in a cemetery in Paris by myself.

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.

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.

I was going through some folders and found a lot of unsorted photos. A few of them I felt like sharing with the world.
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.
Winter pictures coming up some time soon as well.

 

Here’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!)

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.

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.

 

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.
I must say it feels good. And I think I will return to this theme – with or without pumpkins. Happy Halloween!

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.