Trader Joe's Flowers

Every time I go to Trader Joe's store I always look at the flowers..I always take a few photographs with my IPhone ..There were some tulips in my favorite colors:

I then took this photograph into corel painter essentials 4 and made a impressionist painting out of it:

The Silver Creek Country Club

I went to the Silver Creek Country Club happy hour.. I was intrigued by the stairs..Pretty fancy
Here are two IPhone photos taken and processed in various apps.

Car Show at the villages

This month I went to a car show at " the villages" in San Jose, Ca.... I am not really a car show buff but I enjoyed looking at the very old cars... There was a "Henry J" car and a "Stutz".. they played 50's music and I got to even dance a few dances... Here are a few photographs I took with my IPhone:

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Now for the "Stutz".. My dad owned one during the depression..

The steering wheel was on the right side.. I had a lot of fun taking photos of the gages on the dash. .. I think they make neat subjects.:

There were some 50's cars ..The first one is a TBird convertible interior

This 50's car is set up like it was parked at a drive-in

Tree Blossoms on the way to Hollister

I was moving my 5th wheel trailer to Picines,ca..While driving into the town of Hollister, Ca. I spotted these cherry tree blossoms... I pulled over and took a few photographs with my pocket camera.
It's always fun to stop and take photographs of various subjects you spot along the way.

Lunch at Jardin's Restaurant in San Juan Bautista

I like going to Jardin's restaurant in San Juan Bautista, Ca...They have a very nice patio and garden area.  Now the cactus are in bloom.. Here are a few photo's I took with my IPhone 3gs and then worked on them in Photoshop. The first one is the full flower..love the colors:

The second one is primarily all white, including the border:

I always like to try and get a back-lite view from behind the flower:

Then I walked down to the San Juan Mission. I took another photo of the Indian (workers) graveyard. ( With my Panasonic fx150 point and shoot camera)

Oak trees and mustard greens

As I was driving to Paicines,Ca I spotted the following oak tree with mustard greens... I pulled over and got my camera ..When I walked across the street I sunk into the mud up to my ankles..My new shoes were a mess and I had to come home bare footed...The landscape photograph really wasn't worth all the cleaning I had to do to my shoes and clothes...Oh well nothing ventured..nothing gained:

 On the way home I took a photo of two deer and one turkey hiding in the grass:

April moon photographs

On April 5th I was driving around and spotted this beautiful moon.. All I had was my Fuji f80 pocket camera..Took quite a few photographs but only liked this one (click to enlarge):

Decided to try and make it more painterly in photoshop :

I decided I wanted to add a new moon from my moon file to the above photograph and do my Topaz magic to it and this is the result (click to enlarge) :