D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers

This week The Three Muses ask for ANIMALS. Again I did this by using my own photos, except for the background (Holliewood Studio) and for the flying black crowned crane (Okavanga).

The main star

Better to live one year as a tiger, than a hundred as a sheep.

 Madonna 

The task in Three Muses is  to feature stripes in any way, shape or form.

Elements by Holliewood Studio and Altered Emporium; texture by Kim Klassen.

Do not feed the octopus

This week Take a Word theme is STEAMPUNKERY. 

Background, pier, sign and zepellin: Mr. Whiskers; man, hat and overlay: Finecrafted Designs; tentacles: zememz (dA); texture: Kim Klassen.

Mighty Tiger & Sad Parrot

Hi, guys! I'm back! After a very tough period in job and a well-deserved vacation with DH I'm back! I guess... :)

This is  my contribution to a new and improved Three Muses Challenge which theme this week is GRUNGE/PRINT BACKGROUND. I wish to the brand new TTM all the best. These three ladies have awakened my muse who had been sleeping for 30 years! :)))

I don't know if I succeeded but I tried to add some grunginess to two photos I took recently in Jungle Island a kinda zoo in Miami. It was sad to see those magnificent animals locked in cages, although they were obviously well treated.

Other than my photos, textures by Buzzilo Stock and Mighty Backgrounds.

Wild Spirit

All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... 

the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

Chief Seattle 

Hi there! Take a Word asked for Wild Animals and as you can see I love cats, especially the big ones.

I googled everything but the texture that is Kim Klassen's.

“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.” - Alice Walker

"Os animais existem por suas próprias razões. Eles não foram feitos para os humanos, assim como os negros não foram feitos para os brancos ou as mulheres para os homens." - Alice Walker

I'd rather be an odd bird...

... 'cause it's the beautiful bird which gets caged :)

The Three Muses asked for BIRDS and I wasn't in the mood for Birds of Paradise and other beauties like this... Then I was wondering what if a Eclectus Parrot met a  Bolivian Squirrel Monkey?

The background and wings are Beth Rimmer's. The quote is a Chinese Proverb.

Time after time

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This week the theme in Three Muses is SONG LYRIC. I chose Time After Time (Cyndi Lauper & Rob Hyman). Although it is a romantic song, I thought of the mother-child relationship.

Overlay is a photo by Bethany Kimmel.