Photo-Art
Often after I take a photograph, I process them through a series of my own customized digital presets that transform the photographic image into all forms of art – watercolor, line drawings, paintings and anything else I can do or think of with color, shape and digital’s boundless form and dimension.
The results often reveal an image reborn in a new an unforeseen way - with a charm and appeal all their own. They lend themselves to uses ranging from framed wall art to greeting cards. Sometimes a caption or a simple word adds a dimension that tells a story, makes us laugh or compliments the image to reveal messages implied but not spoken.
Please explore this photo-art – images from photographs – and see what you think.
Time Out
Greeting Card Photo-Art: Slumbering squirrel nestles safely in the notch of a tree
Mourning Dove Camouflage
Commercial - Equestrian Folder: a horse sublimely submits to a gentle request and comforting touch of its trainer to lay in complete repose - a less than natural position for a horse.
Trust
Photo-Art Folder: a horse sublimely submits to a gentle request and comforting touch of its trainer to lay in complete repose - a less than natural position for a horse.
Cedar Waxwing with Pyracantha Berry
Photo-Art Folder - every year that the berreies of our pyracantha bushes ripen, flocks of robins, joined by beautiful cedar waxwings, come and gorge on the berries. Here a waxwing pauses for a second to hold the berry in its beak before swallowing it whole.
Late for the Meeting
Greeting Card Photo-Art: Robin Series - Robins gather at our front yard fountain seemingly intent on some mutual priority.
Petals & Wings
Greeting Card Photo-Art: A hummingbird lifts its wings to fly from resting beneath a front yard rose
Bumble Bee on Chrysanthemum Bloom
Photo-Art Folder - chrysanthemums in full bloom attract an enthusiastic visitor.
Painted Lady on Purple Bloom
Photo-Art Folder - a Painted Lady butterfly cannot resist the full bloom of the compelling chrysanthemum.
What's Going On?
Photo-Art - when turkeys meet deer there is usually not too much interaction but on this day there appeared to be a local point of focus that they shared in common. it turned out to be a screaching hawk unsuccessfully trying to capture a squirrel.
Do You Know Where Your Friends Are.
Photo-Art Folder - Daisy is oblivious to what would normally be an instant chase - the hungry grey squirrel behind her.
WIngs, Feathers and Color
Photo-Art Folder - a anna hummingbird visits a milk thistle bloom in a world of color and texture.
Bored
Photo-Art Folder - on hot days squirrels often lay flat to cool themselves and stay that way for up to an hour. This female finds the railing of our deck an apparent relief on a typical scorching July day in Alta Sierra, CA
Male Nuttall Woodpecker
Photo-Art - a fast moving male nuttall woodpecker with his red cap rests for a minute allowing me record his image and celebrate it in an artful form.
Room for One More
Photo-Art - Robin Series: a yellow finch looks for landing room at the crowded fountain dominated by the much larger robins
Here's Looking at You
Photo Art Folder: African Dwarf Frog looks at you looking at him.
Unable to Share
Photo-Art Folder: a cedar waxwing intimidates a robin who already has the prize in his mouth.
On Guard
Photo-Art Folder: Four cedar waxwings sit like sentinals guarding the ripe pyracantha berries from throngs of robins who want their share
In for the Landing
Photo-Art Folder: a wild goose puts on air brakes as he comes in for a landing on a local pond
Alone with You
Photo-Art Folder: a lone finch ponders its own reflection as it collects a drink from the fountain.
Dining Out
Photo-Art Folder: Robin Series - two robins gourge upon ripe pyracantha berries - an fall event that attracts score of robins every year
Blind Branch
Photo-Art - Peter Ouspensky, a Russian esotericist, believed the patterns of the oak tree mirrored aspects of the fourth dimension. Their inherent beauty is futher emphasized aganst the horizonal outline of our bedroom blinds.
