http://www.anitrone.com/blog Life, Photography, Horses and Digital Art! Fri, 11 Jul 2008 03:50:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was in a lot of pain and discomfort today after pulling fencing wire and driving tpost in the ground yesterday. I think I yanked a little to hard and caused a flair up in my herniated disc on my c6/c7. Anywhos I am feeling pretty crappy and didnt get ... http://www.anitrone.com/blog/2008/07/11/salad-for-lunch/ We had lamb shanks, the pups and pixies had chicken...YUM! I just had to take these of the lil ones sleepin off their full bellies. These are Tuki going out and about after a full meal! http://www.anitrone.com/blog/2008/07/10/dinner-and-a-snooze/ Last week Rick, Tuki and I went on a road trip to Whidbey Island; the island was beautiful and the sunshine made for a great ferry ride. We stopped for lunch at the Mad Crab which was very pricey for fried Halibut and fish tacos and the crab cakes had ... http://www.anitrone.com/blog/2008/07/02/whidbey-island/ A quick smudge painting of Tuki...did same sort of technique as previous post but really over did the highlights to give it a metallic look. He looks so tuff in his green bomber jacket :) http://www.anitrone.com/blog/2008/06/22/tuki-grunged/ I've been playing around with Adobe Lightroom's development and Photoshop's painting features and am really getting a knack for this new style that is developing...here is one from today; worked on it off and on throughout the day and was going to add horses, chipmunks, etc. to it and decided ... http://www.anitrone.com/blog/2008/06/13/this-old-barn/ I haven't done anything artistic in a long time so after watching some tutorials that Scott Kelby recently did I am feeling inspired. Messed around with the development settings in Lightroom then smudge painted in Photoshop. I really like the grungy effect and saturated colors on these.   http://www.anitrone.com/blog/2008/06/11/rick-painterly/ Rick's bday is coming up and his brother Darren sent him an early gift and as always a gag gift for knee slapping giggles:) Below Rick, the Pixiebobs and Tuki model the special gift! http://www.anitrone.com/blog/2008/06/04/modeling-pixies-and-a-tuki/ Our neighbor has asked me to help him sell his horse Buckwheat (Quarter horse/gelding) that he absolutely loves and adores but unfortunately no longer has the time to take care of properly. I am now looking for a loving and caring home for this big, beautiful guy. Intially I wanted ... http://www.anitrone.com/blog/2008/06/02/meet-buckwheat/ I was feeling a little creative after looking at one of Rick's favorite pics of Jack and decided to create a smudge painting of it...below is the result. I only used Photoshop on this one, it is not perfect but I really liked the way it turned out for a rush or ... http://www.anitrone.com/blog/2008/05/20/jackie-2/ Rick and I took the twin pixiebobs out for a walk this evening and they came across their first snake! Tuwa was very curious but Rio could care less!   http://www.anitrone.com/blog/2008/05/19/pixiebobs-a-snake/ So last week I brought Saku in for the night and he sunk his claw in my neck, the next morning I noticed a small pea like bump behind my right ear...didn't think anything of it until later in the day when the lump got bigger and was painful to ... http://www.anitrone.com/blog/2008/05/09/cat-scratch-fever/ Today started in a weird way...I started feelin' kinda crappy after giving Indy breakfast this morning because she was givin me maritude like months prior to us starting Parelli. So I decided to get a really good workout done after cleaning the barn followed by an hour of P90X stretch...I ... http://www.anitrone.com/blog/2008/05/01/playing-parelli-games/ I spent a fairly decent amount of time reading about Kindle: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device yesterday and I'm thinking why didn't anyone invent this amazing new device earlier!? I would have saved tons of money on all my photography books! Vacation would of been like being at home...work away ... http://www.anitrone.com/blog/2008/05/01/amazons-kindle/ Dontcha just love this poster..the new Batman movie is set for release on July 18 of this year and I think it will be truly darkalicious! http://www.anitrone.com/blog/2008/04/29/the-dark-knight/ Rio with Tuke at the helm... 'Brothers of Destruction' Rio On His Own http://www.anitrone.com/blog/2008/04/26/rio-does-river-walk/ Forgot to post this one from a few weeks back... Old barn on the highway to town. http://www.anitrone.com/blog/2008/04/20/winter-madness/ Rick and I fell in love with Tuwa soo much that we knew we would have to get him another playmate besides Tuke...after all Tuke will be just around 4-5lbs and Tuwa could grow up to be much like his papa Waco Bob weighing in at a whopping 22lbs. So ... http://www.anitrone.com/blog/2008/04/16/stone-islands-rio-bravo/ Well it looks like spring is almost upon us here in the great PNW, we had our first warm day (80 degrees) to be exact. So Rick, Tuke and I loaded into the truck and took a drive to Flower World on a mission to seek out some citrus fruit ... http://www.anitrone.com/blog/2008/04/13/flower-world/ We took Tuwa and Tuke for their first hike today...Tuke unfortunately got sick in the dog backpack carrier so I had to bring him home. Tuwa on the other hand explored with Rick, Dante and I along the river and through the trails leading to the back of our property. ... http://www.anitrone.com/blog/2008/04/06/tuwas-first-outing/ Rick and I went to Canyon's today so I could get my Turkey Burger fix and then stopped at Pet Pros on the way home to have the boys fitted for harnesses today. It was a nice break away from work...here are some quick snaps of Tuwa playing and wearing ... http://www.anitrone.com/blog/2008/04/06/stone-islands-grand-teton-tuwa/