I would like to invite you all to join with us here in Georgiana’s House to participate in yet another fun, interactive, speedy photoshopping, visual conversation.
This visual conversation was inspired by a conversation recorded here with our new friend LetThemEatArt.
The Victorian Photographers who faked pictures of Spirits and Ectoplasm did so with out the advantages of digital cameras, computers or photoshop…..putting ghostly faces and figures into works should be so much easier for us today.
So let us now Speak with Spirits. Here are a few examples to get you started (ghosts of pomegranates and other fruit allowed)
The ghosts of my giant cat Louis. He was so well loved that there had to be two of him
A firey representation of the day my great grandparents wed
A bit more fire and some slimey sea creature type of stuff – and of course…..Spirits…..
Ready?… Set?…. Go!….
Anne van Alkemade
Kathleen Cameron
astral traveling from my bed of roses
persephone of shadows
Kathleen Cameron
littler ones… :-)
Soxy Fleming:
thanks Kathleen they are wonderful. very spooky
Zolton
This is my lovely great aunt Violet in 1933. She grew up in a family of wild country boys and I’m sure that her responsibilities to them were huge for a woman in that day since their father abandoned them and moved to a shack on the beach. All her brother’s fought in WWII and safely returned to live healthy long lives, but Violet died young.
Soxy Fleming:
Auntie Violet loved to go to the seaside but she was always spooked by the things she found on the beach…
Zolton
I love the slimey candle thing. The eye one puts you in a trance! The Persephone image is wonderful. I need to get me some flames and disembodied heads now.
Soxy Fleming:
she is a lovely Auntie Violet floating there over the rocks. I have some more family ones but just can’t find them…and when I start looking in boxes….oh dear the other things you find
Soxy Fleming
Auntie Violet was always haunted by the thought that if she didn’t wear the rubber gloves her hands would be ruined for life…
Murphyoso
Auntie Violet pick has inspired me …
and possibly someone else too.
Murphyoso
Soxy Fleming:
oh Murph. how ghostly! I think I will have to get out a picture of Muriel Bernice on her wedding day
Soxy Fleming:
Great Auntie Hazel had a special gift for fruit arrangements..
Murphyoso
I think this is the kind of ghost I would like to meet on a day like this. Why should we only ever see them at night and in the dark?
Zolton
Ha Ha. You guys are great.
Zolton
Okay… I only get 1/2 hour for lunch!
Soxy Fleming:
“Pomegranate Christmas comes to the Slimey Sea Creature Thing and its Spirits”
Cathryn Swanson
Mary always felt she had a pirate connection….but only in the night and when her dreams allowed it.
Soxy Fleming:
thankyou for joining us, welcome aboard Pirate Mary!
Zolton
Hee herher hee hee hee. I just had someone show me the opacity setting in Photoshop today. Been using it for 15 years, but it never came up. (I hate reading manuals – boo) Good fun!
Soxy Fleming:
well get into those 47% opacity ghosts. (Zolton I have never read the manual either, I’ve been using photoshop for about 2 months and I am now better than the 11 year old who taught me in the first place!) Glad you are getting a giggle. I’m hysterical…
Cathryn Swanson
These are all great by the way :)
Pirate Mary was all I could come up with (the one eye thing), I think she needs an eyepatch….
Soxy Fleming:
you are very welcome to put one on her and/or come back with something else…the ghost that rides on aeroplanes?
LetThemEatArt
Here’s an old family photo taken in 1904. When it was developed an old Indian chief was seen standing on the right, believed to be Standing Bull, my Great Grandfather’s Spirit Guide. You can clearly also see the ectoplasm emitting from my Grandfather’s mouth!
LetThemEatArt
My family has a long history of psychic powers and paranormal activity. My Grandmother was descended from Irish Gypsies, and inherited the gift of clairvoyance. In this slightly later photograph of my Grandparents, taken c.1918, an hovering spectre is visible behind my Grandmother.
Soxy Fleming:
OOhh how spooky, and obviously real, thank you LTEA
Zolton
Here is my great grandparents’ wedding day. (He’s the one who left his eight children and wife so I thought it would be all right to make some fun)
Soxy Fleming:
with a face like that I’m surprised she didn’t leave him first! and she being such a stunner and all, looks very young too, didn’t know what she was doing obviously
Zolton
Oh heck. Does anyone? He seemed like a prominent pumpkin. But my family wasn’t personal friends with the ghost of Standing Bull or anything like that.
Soxy Fleming:
no you are quite right. in a discussion I had with a relative about this topic I learnt a wisdom…what people think they are doing is having hope (and that is quite a nice thing, though it wasn’t what I was doing- I really didn’t have a clue)
And with your talents you can always just shop in a famous ghost
Zolton
Oh, me either…How’s this? : )
Soxy Fleming:
oh dear…you can’t choose your family and I guess you can’t choose your family ghosts either (you are hysterical! why haven’t we been featured in daily wrap or something yet?)
Rob Milsom
Because some people don’t appreciate genius when they see it!
Soxy Fleming:
thank you, you are a real comfort