French castle
A french castle (one of the many to be found there) we visited two years ago. Somewhere in Normandy.
It had lots of wild flowers in front of it. And all kinds of sculptures. Sjoerd and I toured the outer premises, Margot and Imme took the tour inside the castle. Which to us was a bit too lengthy, and kind of boring. I don't think we missed much.
Margot and I really made up for this castle the year after, when we visited a couple of (beautiful) castles in the Loire region. Chambord and Chenonceau are highly recommended.

Been playing again
Fractals, PaintShopPro, BladePro filters

Church in Oosterbeek
The church in Oosterbeek has withstood history for hundreds of years. Including the second world war. And, as you can see, it's still standing.
It is a remarkable little building. Every time I walk or bike past this church I am tempted to make pictures.
This one was taken yesterday during a hike we made. The night before it had snowed again, which always creates a special atmosphere, a special mood. I made this picture with my Nikon Coolpix 4500 - that is a compact camera of maybe 6 years old. But despite it's age it is still capable of taking good pictures. And, it is a very versatile little camera.

No, this really is how it looked. Didn't do anything to the picture apart from resizing.

Beeld en Geluid
I made this strip today. Used a picture I once took inside the Institute for Beeld en Geluid (Movie and Sound) in Hilversum. I used it as a starting point for playing with in Paint Shop Pro. Applied the Redfield - Lattice composerfilter. Even with those filters you can achieve quite different effects as you can see. In the middle you see the original, the other two images are still recognizable I think. It turned out as a colorful composition indeed.

Church
The starting point for this image were churchwindows. It's already a couple of years ago that I took this picture. When you look really hard you can still see remnants of windows. Now, looking back, I can't tell anymore what exactly I did to the picture. I used Paint Shop Pro and a lot of filters, that I know. This is what I finally ended up with. Hope you'll like it.

Fog
I took this picture yesterday during a bike trip we made. The snows were gone by then and it suddenly looked like it was fall - it was kinda foggy which created this moody atmosphere. How quick weather changes. The only thing I did was using a "radiant filter" in Paint Shop Pro to enhance the fog effect a little. Hope you'll like it, enjoy!