USA and Canada

Black and White Recap

The One Four Challenge is on a month’s recap / break so I thought I’d have a little play with a few more black and white edits of my previous […]

California

Chagall Returns to Venice Beach

This 1996 mural is a revised repainting of ‘Marc Chagall Comes to Venice Beach’ (1991), after the 1994 earthquake forced the Israel Levin Senior Adult Center to make building repairs that […]

-Arizona

What a Butte!

“Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.” -John Ruskin Bell Rock, a 1,499 metre tall butte of rich red sedimentary rock, that makes a truly eye-catching sight just outside […]

Black and White Challenges

Hand- and Foot-Made

This is such a simple idea, and so popular – less is more, as they say. Linked to Man-made. Copyright Debbie Smyth, 30 May 2015

California

Walt Disney Concert Hall – week 4

It is the final week of this month’s One Four Challenge and this is my last edit of the Walt Disney Concert Hall. I had intended to do a black and […]

Florida

This fantastic Dalíesque clock, inspired by his famous painting The Persistence of Memory ( La persistencia de la memoria), adorns a slightly wonky bench outside the Dalí Museum in St Petersburg, Florida. This is […]

Buildings

Walt Disney Concert Hall – week 3

It is week 3 of the May One Four Challenge and it’s raining at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. For this week’s edit, I have had some fun with the free online software at Picmonkey. […]

Buildings

Walt Disney Concert Hall – week 2

It is week 2 of the May One Four Challenge and I’m still working on The Walt Disney Concert Hall. For this week’s edit, I have made a tighter cropper and added some […]

California

Walt Disney Concert Hall – week 1

The Walt Disney Concert Hall opened In October 2003 in Downtown LA. Designed by Frank Gehry, the sinuous curves and shiny textures of the stainless steel exterior make the building instantly recognisable. The […]

-New York