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Kara Stewart > June 27, 2012 This is another quilt square from my treasured childhood quilt made by my mother. As I am now 49 and the quilt was made when I was almost 2, it has some age on it. Additionally, the squares were made from fabrics that many of which had already seen one life. This square was probably from a remnant section of a fabric store that my mother and her grandmother used to frequent. It was the fabric from which dishtowels were made and used at my grandparents' house as my mother and her siblings were growing up. I hope this square is used in the upcoming ebook quilt anthology that I am participating in.
Kara Stewart > June 26, 2012 Quilt belongs to family of W. Gray McPherson, Snow Camp, NC Today's image is in preparation for a quilt anthology soon to be released - I will give you details as I have them, but it will be sold in ebook format, and benefit the Twilight Wish Foundation. Some of my images and a piece I wrote will be in it. This is another view of the quilt close up I posted a few weeks ago http://www.kdstewart.net/Whats-New/Images-from-2012-dailies/21342710_3FH6pv#!i=1883296449&k=xD2FL2X In this shot, you can see the age of the quilt (torn, discolored) and also see the date that was stitched into it when it was made. This quilt belongs to a friend's family and they kindly let me use it for the anthology.
Kara Stewart > June 25, 2012 Samson says, "I love camping!" Except not so much for the gravel. Tough on the paws, apparently. This was our last day at the campsite and I had him get up on the table to brush him, and then he just stayed there in lieu of navigating the gravel to the camper again.
Kara Stewart > June 24, 2012 Samson loved going to Youth Camp! We just got back from a week at our annual Sappony Youth Camp, where our tribal member youth come together to have fun and learn more about their heritage. The camp is held at Mayo Lake every year and this year, Samson came along. He just loved the kids and was wonderful (and obedient) all week long. Had fun swimming after his frisbee while the kids were canoeing and camping, too! I took this shot at the Mayo Lake Education Building while we were watching the kids work on their craft projects. And now we are both happily exhausted and covered with bug bites.
Kara Stewart > June 3, 2012 dsc7520 I've been working on some quilt photos for an anthology project coordinated by one of my writer friends. It's to be an ebook about August and then in print. This image is part of a quilt that a co-worker loaned me to photograph. She found it balled up under her husband's mother's sofa. It has a date of 1893 sewn into it and is in terrible shape but it has a lot of character.
Kara Stewart > May 20, 2012 Today, I have no energy to play with images like I usually do. Why? I don't know. I have been seized by lethargy. http://www.karastewartaip.blogspot.com/ So today's image, which is actually an image from almost a month ago, has had a little crop and auto tone adjust. And that is it. It's actually an image from almost a month ago and I wanted to be sure to get at least one in from this amazing place. At the end of April, my good hearted, patient, dog-loving friend Randi made me come with her to a fabulous place in Bahama, NC. It is a specialty nursery called Architectural Trees. http://www.archtrees.com/ Architectural Trees has all sorts of nooks and crannies, specialty trees and unique items, pick your own blueberries and so many interesting vistas. I am so glad I went with Randi.
Kara Stewart > May 13, 2012 My beautiful children, taken in 2008. And this image was taken by my daughter with her cell phone! This year, for Mother's Day, I have thought through some things about being a parent that you don't hear a whole lot about (or I haven't anyway!). You can read The Secret of Mother's Day on my blog here: http://karastewartaip.blogspot.com/ Thank you all for your comments on my quilt photo. I am working on an anthology started by a writer friend of mine and I will share in summer when it is complete. As far as the changes to the Daily community, thank you also for your insight there. I found the thread on dgrin that John L started and added my personal concerns about the changes to that thread. Hope you all have a lovely Sunday evening.
Kara Stewart > May 12, 2012 Opal's Dress This is part of a quilt that my mother made for me and my sister when we were about 1 1/2 and 3 years old and moved from the Philippines back to N.C. and were staying with her mother (my grandmother Opal) and her father. I taped an interview with my mother last weekend in order to get on record the history of each of the quilt squares. The fabric was from my grandmother's scrap bag. The scraps were mostly feed sacks which had been made into various articles of clothing for my mother and her siblings, and also into household items (kitchen towels). And then there were also scraps from various items that had been made from my mother and her Grandmother Bridges' (my great grandmother) trips to a fabric store to make clothing and special projects. The piece on the top right, the blue with pink flowers, is from a dress that my grandmother had as a young married woman. She was married at 16 and is now 93, so that particular piece is over 70 years old. The quilt is in tatters now, having been well loved and used all my life, and I wish I had gotten photographs when it was in better shape. I used a Topaz BW Effects filter (Hand Tinted Chiffon) on this image. On another note, I am not liking the changes to the Dailies gallery. I noticed when the thumbs were taken away that my Dailies galleries (any gallery that I have set to feed into the Daily community) now looks different than the rest of my website. My logo at the top is gone, as is my drop down navigation bar that was in my top banner. This makes it very difficult for a visitor to navigate around my site. That means that when I share an image from my dailies gallery on facebook or twitter, a person clicking on my link from there will have no obvious way to navigate around my site. That really irritates me as I am paying for a Pro site, which all aspects of it should be customizable to what I want (and were before the changes). I contacted smug about it and they said they were sorry, but that with the changes, all they could suggest is that I create yet another gallery (a duplicate), NOT connect it with the Daily community, and double post to both the new galllery and this gallery, and then share from the duplicate gallery that is NOT connected to the Daily community. That seems like a heck of a lot of effort and again, annoys me since there WAS a way to navigate from my site before the change of taking down the thumbs. Is anyone else having this issue? Email me if you are and you have found a reasonable answer.
Kara Stewart > May 1, 2012 Strawberries My son and I went strawberry picking on Sunday. Ended up getting enough for a pie or two, strawberry soup and some smoothies! UPDATE: EDITOR'S PICK, betterphoto.com, May 2012, Catch-All
Kara Stewart > April 28, 2012 Beans, Beans This is a shot of last week's bean mix before they became ham, bean, rice and spinach soup. Serve with a warm asiago roll and you've got a warm comfort meal. UPDATE: EDITOR'S PICK, betterphoto.com, May 2012, Details & Macro ANOTHER UPDATE: Finalist, then Winner, 2nd Place, betterphoto.com, May 2012, Details & Macro
Kara Stewart > April 23, 2012 Mayo Lake Boat Dock I am so psyched! Today I was looking through my images to see if I had any more of Mayo Lake for use on our Sappony 5K Trail Run/Walk (see http://www.sapponytrailrun.org/ - it's going to be a great event!). I found this one that I took in November, 2010. The super thing is that I used this image to play with Color Efex Pro 4. Smug put out a link on their blog a short time ago offering 5 free filters to keep and a limited number of days to play with the whole thing. And I love it! I have, use and adore Topaz Adjust (both BW and color). And now after trying out every single filter, sliding the adjustments back and forth ad nauseum, and trying all sorts of experiments, I can officially say I love Color Efex Pro 4 too! If you haven't used the smug link to download your free filters, you should. No, they aren't paying me. ;) On this image, I did a black and white version, and then for the image here, I used their Skylight filter (LOVE that), then layered Indian Summer over it 2 times, then used the Polarize filter. I used Skylight pretty heavily, Indian Summer on a low setting, and then a very, very light Polarize filter. So much fun to play with! Thanks for all your comments on my Spring Tulips, too! UPDATE: EDITOR'S PICK, betterphoto.com, Nature & Landscapes, April 2012
Kara Stewart > April 22, 2012 Spring Tulips This is actually an image I took in March of 2008, and one of the ones I kept looking at since then thinking I should upload it someday . . . UPDATE EDITOR'S PICK, betterphoto.com, Flowers, April 2012
Kara Stewart > April 16, 2012 Japanese Gardens, Duke Gardens, Easter This is a quick snap from Easter last Sunday. We took our usual picnic to Duke Gardens to enjoy the beautiful weather and people watch. This is a bridge at the Japanese Gardens part of Duke Gardens. It is such a gorgeous place.
Kara Stewart > April 14, 2012 Tulip and Butterfly, Duke Gardens This was actually from our picnic at Duke Gardens last Sunday, on Easter, but I just now have had time to upload it. It was a gorgeous, fine day for people watching.
Kara Stewart > April 3, 2012 Come Set A Spell Painting This is a photo I took a number of years ago and posted as a daily (last year, I think). But today I used Corel's Painter Essentials 4 to make an oil painting of it. It isn't apparent in the regular view size, but if you look in larger sizes, you can see the oil painting effect. I then went back in and touched up some of it.
June 25, 2012

Samson says, "I love camping!" Except not so much for the gravel. Tough on the paws, apparently. This was our last day at the campsite and I had him get up on the table to brush him, and then he just stayed there in lieu of navigating the gravel to the camper again.
Kara Stewart > June 25, 2012 Samson says, "I love camping!" Except not so much for the gravel. Tough on the paws, apparently. This was our last day at the campsite and I had him get up on the table to brush him, and then he just stayed there in lieu of navigating the gravel to the camper again.
June 25, 2012

Samson says, "I love camping!" Except not so much for the gravel. Tough on the paws, apparently. This was our last day at the campsite and I had him get up on the table to brush him, and then he just stayed there in lieu of navigating the gravel to the camper again.
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