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"So I pray, Bring me joy, bring me peace, Bring the chance to be free. Bring me anything that brings You glory. And I know there'll be days When this life brings me pain, But if that's what it takes to praise You,
Jesus, bring the rain."

Surreal image using primarily the pen tool

Irena Sendler

Irena Sendler, known to the Jews as Jolanta, was a woman of incredible strength and self sacrifice. Surrendering her life to the cause and understanding the risks of death, she was able to save 2,500 Jewish children from pending death. Irena joined the Zegota, the Council for Aid to Jews, organized by the Polish underground resistance, Obtaining a pass from the Warsaw Epidemic Control Department to enter the Warsaw Ghetto, she smuggled in food, medicine, and clothing. Realizing that she was not doing much good, and with 5,000 Jews dying a month, she decided that the most help could be done in rescuing the children. She was put in charge of a team of 25 to smuggle the children out of the Ghetto, forge documents, and find them homes. For every child she rescued she wrote the names and new identities on cigarettes papers or tissue papers and placed the papers in a glass jar which she kept buried under an apple tree. Although she was arrested and tortured, she never gave any names of any member in the Zegota, she was sentenced to die by firing squad but a guard was bribed to help her escape and fraudulently placed her name on the death list, she lived in hiding for the remaining of the war much like the children she had rescued. After the war she was able to reunite the some of the children with their families, though not every member survived, they were reunited with extended families.

"After the Second World War it seemed that humanity understood something, and that nothing like that would happen again," Sendler said. "Humanity has understood nothing. Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood." But she added, "The world can be better, if there's love, tolerance, and humility."

Ben and Eve Before

This picture was ruined by all purpose cleaner with Bleach... :(

Ben and Eve After

Using the healing tools I was able to remove most of the bleach marks left on this picture via all purpose cleaner spray... I didn't complete the background... when you see the before you might understand... it took more work than I thought and probably not the best picture to clean up for the first time...

Hannah...Dodge, Burn, Sponge, and Red Eye

Bluebeard

I was out with my friend, Ally, trying to take original photos for this class and we got caught in the rain. I know we need the rain but I am ready for warmer weather :)

Working with Mask

Doing the masks in this project was difficult for me. I tried it both ways via the C.D. and the homework link. there was a lot of similar colors and texture that the background eraser tool had a hard time picking it all up and I didn't want him to lose his furry edges. All in all I think it worked out fine but will continue to work with mask until I feel more confident about it, since it wasn't my favorite so far.

background

Gorilla

Bay of Fundy

Project 2. is a multi color, combined 2 images to add more detail to the sky.

Project 1

Duotone Project with combining 2 images...

An airport in Chicago had some issues with baggage control and a goat from Nova Scotia.