Skull with Curly Hair

Skull with curly hair. Model: Magdalena

I’ll admit that this portrait is shot using artificial light. I might also have altered the image slightly using software. If you ever come across a woman looking like this, then quickly head for a new horizon..

Check out Paula’s post for more B&W Sunday stuff or WordPress for more horizons:

• https://bopaula.wordpress.com/2016/12/11/black-white-sunday-artificial-light/
• https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/new-horizon/

The Changing Seasons: July 2016

My changing seasons post this month is a scheduled post.

I don’t have many photos from this month (yet) and the ones that I do have is basically just different takes on the same scene. I went nuts on the post-processing, but it was fun and I don’t regret it! Hehe. Hopefully, after the summer, I’ll have plenty of landscape photos and lots of portraits to share with you.

July: Cityscape and flaming sunset.

I also had time to create something artistic for the V2 (version 2) part of the challenge this month.

This is a double exposure (post-process) of a nude model that I shot in a studio and a monkey skull I captured at a scientific museum (Yes, I’m a geek that sometimes do “boring stuff” like visiting museums).

What’s this «Changing Seasons» blogging challenge?

«The Changing Seasons 2016» is a blogging challenge with two versions: the original (V1) which is purely photographic and the new version (V2) where you can allow yourself to be more artistic and post a painting, a recipe, a digital manipulation, or simply just one photo that you think represents the month. Anyone with a blog can join this challenge and it’ll run throughout 2016. It doesn’t matter if you couldn’t join the first month(s), late-comers are welcomed. These are the rules, but they’re not written in stone – you can always improvise, mix & match to suit your own liking:

These are the rules for Version 1 (The Changing Seasons V1):

• Tag your posts with #MonthlyPhotoChallenge and #TheChangingSeasons
• Each month, post 5-20 photos in a gallery.
• Don’t use photos from your archive. Only new shots.

These are the rules for Version 2 (The Changing Seasons V2):

• Tag your posts with #MonthlyPhotoChallenge and #TheChangingSeasons
• Each month, post one photo (recipe, painting, drawing, whatever) that represents your interpretation of the month.
• Don’t use archive stuff. Only new material!

Links to participants:

• https://tishfarrell.com/2016/07/20/changing-seasons-julys-the-time-for-ladys-bedstraw-up-on-windmill-hill/
• https://andytownend.com/2016/07/21/changing-seasons-v2-seven/
• https://michellelunatophotography.wordpress.com/2016/07/21/july-2016-the-changing-seasons/
• http://lisadorenfest.com/2016/07/22/july/
• http://lessywannagohome.blogspot.no/2016/07/hypnose-gratuite.html
• https://mylifelivedfull.wordpress.com/2016/07/25/changing-seasons-the-lost-month-of-july/
• https://teepee12.com/2016/07/25/the-changing-seasons-july-2016-rebirth-and-drought/
• https://emiliopasquale.wordpress.com/2016/07/27/cardinal-guzmans-changing-seasons-july-2016/
• https://patriciasplace.me/2016/07/27/july-in-my-neighborhood/
• https://thebeespeak.wordpress.com/2016/07/28/july-the-changing-seasons-v2/
• https://robynsfineart.wordpress.com/2016/07/29/june-and-july-behind-the-scenes/
• https://zimmerbitch.wordpress.com/2016/07/29/the-changing-seasons-july/
• https://playingwithmyfirstdslrcamera.wordpress.com/2016/07/31/the-changing-seasons-2016-july/
• https://maraeastern.com/2016/08/01/changing-seasons-712/
• https://thestorytellersabode.wordpress.com/2016/08/06/changing-seasons-2016-july/
• https://cornwallincolours.wordpress.com/2016/07/30/monthly-photo-challenge-july/
• https://lingeringvisions.wordpress.com/2016/07/31/the-changing-seasons-july-2016
• https://thebeespeak.wordpress.com/2016/07/28/july-the-changing-seasons-v2/
• https://musingsofafrequentflyingscientist.com/2016/08/23/beautiful-brisbane-july-2016/
• https://michellelunatophotography.wordpress.com/2016/07/21/july-2016-the-changing-seasons/
• I’ll add links to your posts here every now & then…

Also make sure to out my spreadshirt shop:

Norwegian shop (NOK):
https://shop.spreadshirt.no/1123203/

English (EURO):

http://shop.spreadshirt.no/100035802

Kjærlighet – Love

At school our teacher told us to play with fonts and gave us an assignment: replace one of the letters in any chosen word, with a symbol. (Yes, it was art school). Kjærlighet is what I came up with. «Kjærlighet» is the Norwegian word for “Love“.

Kjærlighet – Love

Ink/pen on paper.

 

New Year, Same Face, New Gravatar

I’ve had the same Gravatar for a while now, so I figured out it was time to make a new one.

Self portrait with tie, by Cardinal Guzman.

Here’s some of my old ones. As you can see they all play with the same theme:

The Ace of Spades, by CardinalGuzman.wordpress.com

Three versions of the same one:

burning skull self-portrait

Skull self-portrait by Cardinalguzman.wordpress.com

Skull self-portrait by Cardinalguzman.wordpress.com

I wasn’t satisfied with this burning head, so I never used it as a gravatar:

burning head self-portrait, by CardinalGuzman.wordpress.com

Trivia: The English word “skull” is probably derived from Old Norse “skalli” meaning bald, while the Latin word cranium comes from the Greek root κρανίον (kranion). (Wikipedia)

Here’s one more: http://artishorseshit.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/the-cardinal/