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Bravo Lake Is All Filled Up

April 9, 2013 by tchistorygal

Sally Pace and I walked around Bravo Lake for the first time together on February 12. It was so empty. I darkened it to show you how sad it looked, and wrote my name in the sky so you’d know the sky wasn’t really that color. The amount of water is real. Water managers turned on the faucets and filled Bravo Lake over the weekend. Today I picked up trash along side of five middle school students, and their teacher, […]

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Categories: Experience, clouds, Tulare County, mountains, Photography, people, Photoshop • Tags: photography, Marsha Lee, Vince Ingrao, Bravo Lake, Woodlake Botanical Gardens, Walk for Hunger, Kiwanis Club of Woodlake, real estate

See how blue the sky is. This photo is untouched by Photoshopic hands.

Photoshop Sky – So easy!

March 31, 2013 by tchistorygal

Of course we want reality in our lives. That’s why we put on make-up, and fake nails, hair, clothing that slims, clothing that builds up, paint our fences, and I could go on. So the reality was that the sky was beautiful on Friday. But the truth was that my picture didn’t show it right. Here is your proof – Paul Bunyan standing around in Three Rivers. This picture shows perfectly blue sky with no filter necessary. And right […]

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Categories: clouds, Philosophy, Photography, Photoshop • Tags: Marsha Lee, photography, Photoshop philosophy

Weekly Photo Challenge: Changing Seasons

December 9, 2012 by tchistorygal

A dear friend gave me wool yarn from Australia to make a warm sweater as a departure gift from Colorado Springs. It was summer, and even in Colorado we weren’t thinking about cold weather, but certainly not in Tulare County where the 90 degree temperature recorded at 5:00 a.m. almost persuaded us to find a job elsewhere. I wondered if I would ever need a sweater! Was I ever naive! While the temperatures rarely get below freezing, sweaters are VERY […]

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Categories: Experience, clouds, Tulare County, California, mountains, Photography, WP Weekly Photo Challenge • Tags: Tulare County, Marsha Lee, featured blog, WP Photo Challenge, changing seasons, Justice for Raymond

Seattle Warwick Hotel

November 20, 2012 by tchistorygal

From this downtown Seattle Warwick Hotel handicapped room, I was not hampered from taking a few pictures from the window from my 9th floor room. I like this picture because it almost has a 1950s art look about it. It was chilly, but not raining the first day of the National Council for Social Studies Conference. You can see the rain spatters on this picture, and I don’t know if they are new or used spatters, but I like what […]

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Categories: CCSS, clouds, hotel, NCSS, Photography, Travel, Washington State • Tags: Downtown Seattle, NCSS, Warwick Hotel

Mowing the Cotton Field

November 17, 2012 by tchistorygal

When the mountain stopped me and asked me to take a picture of it, I had no idea that right across the street something was begging me even more to take its picture. NO, it took more than a mere field of cotton. You guessed it – farm equipment doing its job. It looks small and innocent enough from this vantage point. Wait till you get closer! You can see why the air gets so dusty in the Central Valley. […]

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Categories: agriculture, clouds, mountains, Photography • Tags: Central Valley, Cotton, fall, Mower, photography

Can you guess what lush crop is growing at the foot of the foothills?

Under the Grapevine

November 13, 2012 by tchistorygal

Grapevine is a place, a town at the southern tip of the San Joaquin Valley. I learned when I first moved here that when you start to cross over Tejon Pass you say, “I’m crossing over the Grapevine.” It is quite a climb in just a few miles to the 4, 000 foot pass. In the summer you are warned to turn off your air-conditioning so that the car doesn’t overheat. That was not a problem on Saturday morning. My problem […]

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Categories: agriculture, California, clouds, mountains, Photography, Travel • Tags: Agriculture, Grapevine, mountains, photography, San Joaquin Valley, Tejon Pass

Fall in the Foothills

November 13, 2012 by tchistorygal

Come white misty fog Dusting the sun-brushed hilltops Polishing the air. You know fall has finally arrived when the fog greets you in the mornings. This picture looks fake, but believe me, the only Photoshop touch on this picture was to give my husband credit for taking it. By evening the flowers were drinking in the last rays of sunshine at about 4:00 in the afternoon. The cats look like they have gained 10 pounds. It’s all fur. “Check out […]

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Categories: animals, clouds, Tulare County, California, mountains, Family, Photography • Tags: photography, flowers, fall, fog, foothills, nature

Photoshopped Foothill Peach Tree Orchard

November 9, 2012 by tchistorygal

Yesterday you voted on possible covers for a Kiwanis magazine published in the foothill communities of Woodlake, Three Rivers, and Exeter,California. Thank you so much for your input. At one time I took a series of fruit tree pictures, and I couldn’t find them. I did find one picture, but I hated the sky. So I tried a Leanne. I tried to made major changes to it. Please tell me whether you think my work is believable, and if it […]

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Categories: clouds, Tulare County, California, plants, Photography, agriculture, art • Tags: Photoshop, Kiwanis, clone tool, brush tool, lasso tool, color tool, fruit trees, peach orchard

Watch your step; 133 steps to the lookout point!

The Needle (Not the Haystack)

November 6, 2012 by tchistorygal

Before I start this post I want to thank you all for coming to visit my site, reading all my posts, making wonderfully encouraging and engaging comments, and in general, addicting me to y’all. This is my 200th post. Today, I may go over 9,000 views. Who knew when I started this adventure that even ONE person would want to read my thoughts. I am so grateful. Secondly, I don’t want to get so caught up in my blogging that […]

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Categories: clouds, Hawaii, mountains, parks, people, Photography, Travel • Tags: Hawaii, Iao Valley State Park, Maui, The Needle

SUNDAY POST : Wonderful

November 5, 2012 by tchistorygal

I would really love to learn to do animation, however, for now, that skill is just going to be left for the future. I thought this was a wonderful picture of a wonderful sunrise that my husband snapped. What I have learned to do with Photoshop I think also borders on superbly wonderful. Let me share them with you as well. This first layer played with brightness and contrast. This next layer builds on the last layer by remodeling the […]

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Categories: clouds, Tulare County, Photography, Sunday Post • Tags: photography, Adobe Photoshop, Image editing, Photographers

Sunrise in the South San Joaquin Valley

September 25, 2012 by tchistorygal

As I listen to my new audio books, I can hardly think to write. My first listen is David Copperfield. To think I missed this when I was in high school, or even college. The result is that I am going to share with you the beautiful sunrise pictures my husband took a few weeks ago..

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Categories: clouds, Photography • Tags: San Joaquin Valley, sunrise

Airing My Views

September 3, 2012 by tchistorygal

I don’t usually keep my views to myself, but these are a few I haven’t aired. Granted they are not the best quality, but I thought they were worth taking up cyberspace to air them. I hope you will agree. These kept me propped up for about 45 minutes from Visalia to Ontario, California. An ocean of air as seen through the venetian blinds of a propeller. Surfing anyone?

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Categories: clouds, Experience, Photography • Tags: flying, Ontario California, prop plane, Visalia California, Window blind

Lee Skywatcher

May 26, 2012 by tchistorygal

What fascinated me today was the sky. On the way home from work in the west was a block of grisly gray from high in the sky to the ground. On the east was a dust devil. That just seemed wrong, but what was really wrong was that I didn’t have my camera. So I got it out when I came home. Fortunately for me, the sky stayed diverse long enough for me to get tired of taking pictures. By […]

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Categories: California, clouds, Experience, Tulare County • Tags: clouds, Eucalyptus, gray, photography, sky

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Bravo Lake Is All Filled Up

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Photoshop Sky – So easy!

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Changing Seasons

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Seattle Warwick Hotel

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Mowing the Cotton Field

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Under the Grapevine

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Fall in the Foothills

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Photoshopped Foothill Peach Tree Orchard

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The Needle (Not the Haystack)

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SUNDAY POST : Wonderful

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Sunrise in the South San Joaquin Valley

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Airing My Views

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Lee Skywatcher

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