Catching up

My lovely, wonderful, beautiful Mum passed away on 29 December.  She had been ill for a long time and she died peacefully and is no longer in pain or suffering.  I contracted a horrendous viral infection on the 30th December which made me extremely ill – and still off work recovering from it.  My family and I had so much to do and I was so ill throughout it all that had no creativity.
But I started working on photos last week again and loving it so much!  Have been on a roll!
So delighted to have a few of my photos featured both in Pixels and CreateHive!




Found out about two new fabulous apps which I have been using in my new images – Painteresque and Modern Grunge.  Loving them.  Below are other images I have created this week

Of Lines and Shadows

Syon House is about 5 minutes cycle ride from my house and it is so beautiful.  It has the most amazing Conservatory.  I took this photo in the summer – the light, lines, shadows are magnificent!  I could go visit it every day!
Took this photo with ClassicPan and cropped a bit of the edges with Crop Suey.  Did a bit of processing with Snapseed and then took photo into PhotoToaster where I added the blueish filter to it and the frame. 
Anyhow, very chuffed it has been featured in Pixels today! 

Here is the original photo :

If you are ever in West London you should go visit Syon House!

Syon House at Syon Park

Just 5 minutes cycle ride from me is beautiful Syon House in the Syon Park estate – here is info about it http://www.syonpark.co.uk/history.asp
A few weeks ago on a rare very hot day in England (dont get many of those!) I decided to go visit Syon House (basically to cool down lol).  It was late in the afternoon and not many people visiting.  Here is a photo of the beautiul courtyard.  Photo taken with ClassicPan, then used AutoPainterII and Iris.