My husband and I went to Ridge Vineyards last weekend to celebrate his birthday and enjoy the last days of summer. We found an open picnic table under an umbrella on top of the mountain and from this vantage point we looked over all the San Francisco Bay area. It was a wonderful mini-vacation.
A lone olive tree at the crest of one hill attached the ground to the sky through its roots, truck and canopy. The image proved a fertile jumping off point for a variety of experiments.
Passport to Another Place helps show the transporting power of space and quiet. I used apps Etchings and DistressedFX.
For Dreams, I used apps Retromatic and Instagram to take the image in a new direction that’s a bit more design oriented.
In A Surreal Place, I used Repix and Snapseed to add a layer that looks like the scenery, water stains on a photo and pixelation.
The app Decim8 helped me introduce an allusion to The Digital World in the Silicon Valley below. Ridge is much more tranquil than this but it is in part made possible by the high-tech valley success.
Lastly, by combining apps Etchings, Moku Hanga, a Japanese woodblock printing app by JixiPix and Instagram , I created this softer look with a cool grape and warm earth contrast, hence Grapes and Earth.
It’s amazing how one scene gives so many ways of exploring what the time meant, what the place looked like and what it represented. A few hours of fun on a mountaintop translated into a few hours fun on an iPad editing a photo. Not a bad payoff.
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Jennifer Hartnett-Henderson 
Nice work Jennifer. (:- D
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Thank you K C. The question, “What if….” I do this or that to an image keeps me experimenting.
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It is funny to me that some people see “What if….” as a reason to start a cycle of worry instead of a cycle of creativity and discovery. Keep doing what you do! ☼
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Good point! I never thought of the similarities before between explorations and anxiety. Wow, that’s powerful. Thank you!
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Fantastic artwork, really nice images.
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Thanks Roman! It’s amazing how many directions you can go with one image with apps. Thanks again! Jennifer
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