autofantasia's photos with the keyword: smiling

Another in my "Dogs At Car Shows" series of images and once again taken at Newby Hall Classic Car Show back in 2013. This beautiful German Shepherd may have been feeling the heat, but still looked ever so alert.

Another in my "Dogs At Car Shows" series of images and once again taken at Newby Hall Classic Car Show back in 2013. Looked like this one was a good age, but still enjoying life ... sad to think though that 3 years on it may now have passed away.

Well, we had the angry tree, so I guess this is the happy tree! The central character was crafted from a shot I took a while back of some carved wood. To get to this stage it's been modified in many ways ... 'orbified', mirrored, etc. As for the background. that was based on a shot I posted a while back of some autumnal leaves.

Mr Smiley does like it when it snows - even if it's just a little bit!

I had so much fun with this week's Sunday Challenge , which had the theme of selective colouring , that I ended up with several possibles and here's the last of the ones that nearly made it. This was a candid I took at a car show and is probably one of my favourites. Not only because of the girl's beautiful smile, but because of how I came to get the shot in the first place. I'd been taking photographs of some Opel Manta cars on what I assume was a club stand when I noticed this pretty girl using the mirror of her car to check her look and apply some hairspray. I thought it would be a great candid, but either I was too slow or she was to quick in realising what I was up to. So I missed the shot I was actually after, but ended up with this, which as I say is one of my favourite candids.

I had so much fun with this week's Sunday Challenge , which had the theme of selective colouring , that I ended up with several possibles. Here's another of those that didn't get used and, once again, featuring Mr Smiley. He sure does like to go climbing. First, it was the tree in our front garden and now here he is climbing up the back wall of our house!

This is my entry for this week's Sunday Challenge which had the theme of selective colouring . For anyone that likes to know about such matters, I use PaintShop Pro whenever I'm doing this kind of exercise: although I know there are loads of other options available. I start by getting the original image tweaked to the point where I'm happiest with it and then create a duplicate layer, which I sit above the original image. I then convert the duplicate layer to mono/greyscale before deleting out the area I want to highlight, which then lets the coloured original underneath show through. Finally, all I need to do is merge down the two layers to form one single image ... job done! This particular shot was taken a while back, but I'd never gotten around to posting it online and I felt it leant itself well to this week's challenge. Mr Smiley always makes me smile when I see him and hopefully he'll have the same effect on anyone visiting my photostream.

This is the couple that own the lovely Mk1 Scirocco I posted a shot of recently - VRH 845W. So now you know why they look so happy!

Border Collie steals the show!

I know what you're thinking ... that's one happy looking dog. Well, if you'd seen his mistress then you'd understand why.