Thank God For The Beauty

Deborah planted some cone flowers in our garden last year. I had some pretty nice images of them.

They are blooming again, and yesterday after I got our grass cut, I grabbed a camera and wandered out to

see what I could do with them this year. Made some nice images, and then I looked up and beyond the cone flowers and these leaves caught my eye.

I thank God for the beauty He has placed around us. Sure helps offset the some of the ugly, and there is way too much of that.  And don't go blaming all the ugly on Him, cause we create most of it ourselves.

And Now For Something Totally Different......

I guess I have been spending too much time in Photoshop here lately, but I shot a nice tight face shot of our little orange cat last week, and immediately saw possibilities.  I knew I wanted to put human features on her little fuzzy face.  I started thinking about various images I had to be the donor.

I settled on the photo of Kimberly Uso that I had shot a couple of years ago.  She has some awesome eyes

and I remembered the cool makeup. I got the two images as close in size as I could, then grabbed the parts of the face I wanted from Kimberly's photo with the lasso tool, copied and pasted them into the cat photo. 

This created a new layer on the cat photo, so I added a layer mask and blended the human features into the cat's face using the brush tool. 

Now, to do some real work.