... Autumn teases us

Celebrating as lovely Autumn teases us with her cool breezes.

Mandala in desert colors III

Created in Adobe Illustrator and filtered in Photoshop. I used a combination of these filters: high pass, equalize and plastic wrap.

slices of a yummy July day

First full day of Summer, 2006

Midsummer's Eve Mandala

June's poppies Composed

Gourd Mandala

The Original


I grabbed an interesting photo of a gourd that my daughter had taken while visiting the local farmer's market. I did a bit of cropping and cutting away of the part of the image I didn't want and then rotated the portion I did around a center axis point.

The Mandala

Spiraling into teal-ness

mandala for the middle of May

Orangey-goodness Mandala

Orangey-goodness Mandala
Originally uploaded by calypso Dragon 13.

Cosmic swirl

Cosmic swirl
Originally uploaded by calypso Dragon 13.

Here's a quick little swirl I did 'on the fly' when I needed an icon for my ID on Yahoo Messenger.

glyph - unadorned

glyph adorned

Autumnal Virginia creeper

This is the view out our dining room, filtered through Photoshop's Ink Outlines filter.

Mandala 23 -- Multiple variation

Mandala 29 -- Variation VI

Mandala 29 -- Variation V

This includes using Photoshop's poster edge filter.

Mandala 29 -- Variation II

Applying some gradient colors and using some Photoshop filters.

Dramatic in black

This is mandala 23 - Variation IV.

Mandala 29 -- Variation I