Dictionary.com defines lace as “a netlike ornamental fabric made of threads by hand or machine”. In September 2011 while my sister and I were holidaying in Sydney, we went to an exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum which featured artworks created around the theme of lace. These beautiful pieces were so delicate and we were admiring of the many hours of intricate work that had gone into their creation.
But as is the case in any art exhibition there were some pieces which were unusual or weird or that we simply didn’t understand. We decided to undertake our own study of lace during the rest of our holiday and began taking photos of lace in nature. Often one of us would stop suddenly, call out “Lace!!” and start taking photos of something quite inconspicuous. It became all-consuming and we amused ourselves greatly!
These photos were all taken in the Blue Mountains and were our attempts to capture the delicacy that is nature.

Looking down on the forest in the Jamison Valley. The black dot is the shadow of the Scenic Skyways cable car.
I LOVE the lace clothing. Isn’t it fantastic when you take a photo and months/years later its perfection is appropriate for something else?
ps how does one get one’s name onto the actual photo, you clever thing you?
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I use Picasa to edit the photos. When you click export to save them to a folder it gives you the option to reduce the size, which is good because it’s much quicker to upload them to WordPress, and also to add the watermark. It’s quite a basic watermark though. I’ve seen other people’s which are much fancier, but I’m not that clever, so I’ll just stick with what I know for now!
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There are also several online photo editors which will do this for you for free. I use http://www.picmonkey.com
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Thanks Ruth. I will check it out.
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Wow Ruth, that’s amazing. Thanks for sharing.
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I looked at http://www.picmonkey.com as Ruth suggested. mrscarmichael, you HAVE to try it out. It’s so easy and I have had lots of fun editing the photos for Justin Beaver’s next post. He has a very cool watermark now! And you can reduce the photos to any size you want.
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ooooh I love them all. What a fun project! I love the wisteria, and the lace the best!
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We had a lot of fun finding lace photos to take and we decided that we did a better job than some of the people who entered the exhibition!
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YEAH! that doesn’t surprise me. 🙂
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What a wonderful collection of ‘delicate’ photos. It’s hard to pick a favourite.
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Thank you Elaine. My favourite is the cherry blossom, because it wasn’t just one tree. Every street in the town was lined with them and they were all loaded with flowers. It was an ocean of pink and so beautiful.
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Wow – beautifully delicate! What wonderful images for the challenge 😀
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Thank you Dianne. Part of the joy of the challenges for me is going back through photos to find the perfect ones.
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They must bring back some amazing memories 😉
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