Off Season and Decayed

This week, we challenge you to show us what off-season means to you. It could be the shuttered ice-cream stand in the Southern Hemisphere where winter is drawing near. If you live in the Northern Hemisphere it might your snowmobile peeking out from beneath its tarp, or your Christmas decorations arranged neatly in the attic. Feel free to interpret this theme loosely — consider objects at rest and unmoved, places that are stagnant or abandoned.

Can’t wait to see how you interpret this challenge!

This is Krista’s challenge at the daily Post this week. I struggled to think of anything until I re-read the last sentence and then it fell into place.
The paraphernalia of the world of fishing and the sea shore fascinates me, I have no idea what most of it is, but I do like to photograph it. So here are some photos taken in winter on the beach at Budleigh Salterton in Devon.

If you would like to join in visit Krista here.

Playing with a seedhead photo

In a local park there is a sensory garden, filled with fragrant flowers and plants that are lovely to touch. I’d love to be able to capture the scent, but the best I could manage was this photo of a seedhead on my phone.seedy1st

Inspired by Jude’s bench challenge, I’ve been dabbling with editing a again recently and this pic seemed like one to try. seeds4

So I sent it to my tablet and opened it with Pixlr, dropped it four times into a collage and tweaked the colour slightly. seedyThe last thing I did was to pick the creative option, Gadelf, before sending it back to Photoshop on my laptop., where I simply used enhance/auto level to get the result above.

Simple Meg?