The After-Before Friday (ABFriday) challenge at Visual Venturing — established by Stacy Fischer — happens every first Friday of the month. The idea is to download the given image and cast your spell with post-processing. Although I haven’t had confirmation, Kate Prior’s photograph is clearly The Cobb at Lyme Regis in Dorset. Coincidentally, Lyme and the Cobb feature heavily in Tracy Chevalier’s Remarkable Creatures as mentioned in my Looking for Fossils post. And anyone who has read John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant’s Woman, or seen the film with Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons, will know all about the area and The Cobb in particular.
I overlaid the image with two of my own textures to create a painterly effect. I can’t say I’m entirely happy with the result and if I’d had time, I would doubtless have continued to experiment.
Click here to see the submissions for August and here for the rules.
Take care and keep laughing!
First Night Design 
You do texture so well!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks, Laura!
LikeLiked by 1 person
You’re welcome. 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Wow! I can feel the cold just looking at it
LikeLiked by 1 person
That’s a lovely reaction – thanks!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Always
LikeLiked by 1 person
Noice! 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Fanks!
LikeLiked by 1 person
I like your effect very much and The French Lieutenant’s Woman is one of my all time favourites. Have a lovely weekend, and keep smiling:)x
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you, Janet! I think I prefer The Magus to FLW but it’s a close-run thing. xx
LikeLiked by 1 person
It looks like you have applied a 3d effect on it, like I need the special glasses to see it properly 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
Things are looking like that all the time for me as I’m waiting for a cataract operation!
LikeLike
Reblogged this on ' Ace Friends News ' and commented:
Nice photographs 👍
LikeLiked by 1 person
I quite like the texture of your processed version, Sarah! I can see this as the cover of beautiful notecards that visitors to Dorset would surely love as a remembrance of this special place. I wouldn’t change a thing 🙂 Thanks so very much for giving 1PF a go. Sure hope to see you back for future challenges!
LikeLiked by 1 person
I’ll be back, Stacy! Thank you so much for saying you wouldn’t change a thing – it still doesn’t satisfy my one good eye, though!
LikeLiked by 1 person
We are our own worst critics, Sarah 😉 So glad to hear you’ll be back!
LikeLiked by 1 person
We are!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Love the textures you use in your processing. In this, did you remove the one couple? Or is it a a result of the texture you’ve added?
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you, Emilio. It’s actually the result of the texture I used.
LikeLike
I really like the effect of these textures. Your treatment makes the scene look more hopeful, for some reason. The original looks rather bleak by comparison.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I rather thought so too which is what directed my choice of texture. Thanks, Ruth.
LikeLike
Beautiful texture! I’d forgotten about The Cobb being in Remarkable Creatures, I loved that book!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you so much, Kate, not least for the photograph to work on! Yes, isn’t it a fabulous book. I can’t get into anything else at the moment because it was so good!
LikeLiked by 1 person
You’re welcome. It’s always a problem to find “the next book” when you’ve read a really good one.
LikeLiked by 1 person
The texture is interesting and does add something to the image. I do think that like you said, there could be abit more work to bring out more details.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thank you, Ben. I appreciate the feedback.
LikeLike