Antique Blue Willow Plate Boys Fishing Youth T-Shirt

I joined a 5-day challenge starting March 6, 2023 and the theme for this challenge was “In the Kitchen”. Here is my Day 5 – I have several antique and vintage plates and platters in my kitchen, so I decided to photograph them. Here is one of them that was in my great grandfather’s Inn close to 200 years ago in Germany. It is the only thing that my mother’s family had kept from that time. It is very special to me. It is a blue willow type plate, hand painted with a sweet scene in the middle of the plate of two boys fishing. It is in remarkable condition but has pitting and faded spots from use in the Inn. I made a transparency of the plate and placed it on a vintage leaf patterned wallpaper background processed into a slight faded blue tone, complementary to the tones in the plate, in order to make the plate stand out.
©gabyethington

Hello! My main focus is nature photography, which is my favorite subject, especially flora and fauna that are naturally around my area in North Texas. In addition, I have taken to processing some of my photographs with digital art effects which brings out an artistic flair in an abstract or painterly style. I dabble in other genre of photography such as food, architecture and road trip travels. I also enjoy pairing up my photographic art with Bible Scripture. My Photographic Scripture Collection is called 'Faith-Devotional' and is listed first in my Collections tab because I want to honor God first in all that I do in life and art. I have slowly started to paint again which I haven't done since the 1970's. I have a few of my paintings...