Cinnamon Bun and Granite Cliff

These are three pictures of my dog curled up on a granite cliff on an island off the West coast of Sweden. I was going to upload them separately, but I realized how harmonically they fit together as a series. Editing, I boosted the color in all three images, changed the saturation and tint, and increased the sharpness, all with the goal of amplifying the beautiful colors and conveying the different textures in the photograph, such as my dog's hair and the pink cliff. In the first image, I like the misalignment--it looks dizzy, seasick (in a good way that emphasizes the nautical look of the image); the lines of the cliff are on multiple diagonals, my dog is lying in a slightly twisted way, and the horizon is not horizontal. The same lack of alignment is evident in the other two pictures as well, which, aside from their sameness of subject, links them together.
Tinny

Modern Ruin

I took this picture, ironically, in the parking lot next to Clonmacnoise in Ireland; most of the other negatives on this picture's roll of film were of ancient Irish ruins, and yet, this car looked worse preserved than the Viking-sacked cloister. As is often the case in Ireland, the weather was overcast when I took this, and therefore the extraction of crisp whites and blacks was difficult, even with a high filter (also, the scanner added the sepian tone).
Tinny

Puppy Love

This is an acrylic painting on 8 by 11 inch canvas that I recently finished painting. What is really interesting about this painting is that, close up, the brindle pattern of their coats does not look realistic at all. However, backing up, the coloration looks almost real. While working on this painting, I learned to keep working even if it doesn't satisfy up close because oftentimes, the answer is to step back and look again from there.
Tinny

Rawr.

Here is another shot from the Central Park shoot. This one is in colour, and I cannot decide which I like better. She is facing the camera here which I think makes the shot completely different from the other one.

~Lionfro~

Jungle Cat. Rawr.

Whilst I was in New York Tinny and I did a whole bunch of photoshoots a few of which were in central park. This shoot was the day after Tinny and I got shirts from one of the only remaining artist groups in Soho, Missfits NYC. Hers had a leopard on it. We took a few pictures and this ended up being one of my favourites. She seems to almost merge with the surroundings but not blend in. It may be a bit pixelly, after I converted file types Enjoy
~Lionfro~

Triple Threat

The two bottom pictures are variations on the topmost one. When I saw the original, I thought that when editing it, I could go two different ways: boosting the colors to make it brighter and more cheerful, or fading the color to give it a more dated appearance. Although both work, I personally prefer the second variant for several reasons. I think that the irregular angles and skewed lines, together with the distorted image in the water, give this picture a worn, old-fashioned tone--it actually reminds me of old, neglected buildings in the American West (this picture was taken, like the granite picture, off the West Coast of Sweden). Something I like about digital editing is that, with a single picture, the possibilities are numerous, and consequently, one original picture can be altered to convey several different messages and moods.
Tinny

Explanation

So I would just like to explain the logo quickly, it really isn't complicated.
I watch a LOT of videos on youtube and one of the ones I love is Frezned's Capital Loser video from which I learned about MAJUSCULE. Majuscule just means capital letter but I loved the sound so much I told Tinny. It brewed in our conversations for a few weeks and when we finally decided to make this blog, we thought it would be a great name. Since the blog is about our art, we decided on MajusculeA as in A-R-T. Minuscules as you may have guessed are lower case lettters and we thought it would be symbolic, as two insignificant people trying to make something of themselves.
As for the picture itself, it was taken on the same day as all of the other playground pictures, where we used my Sony Cybershot camera to take pictures in burst in the garden of our old elementary school. After these were taken, I chose the best ones and used photoshop to put them together.

[LIONFRO]