Fine Art
Last week I spent four days in Taos and the Rio Arriba County area photographing rural properties. When traveling back to Taos from a property 2 hours away in the mountains, going around a bend revealed this spectacular sunset valley view.
Read MoreThe Japanese have a custom of watching the first sunrise of the year. My first year living in Japan friends took me to a Buddhist temple at midnight on New Year's Eve and then to a beach at sunrise. I really like this custom. So this morning shortly after 7am I took my camera and tripod out onto the frosty ground and watched the sunrise over an Iowa cornfield. You can see five jets already streaking to far off destinations so early in the new year!
Read MoreThe weather forecast was right - we awoke to snow this morning in Iowa! I was still surprised to see it.
Read MoreI have not made many photographs of Cape Coral in my time here for a variety of reasons. This photo of the Caloosahatchee River at twilight is the start of a series of Cape Coral fine art photographs I will be making available for commercial license usage (on websites, in local marketing materials, etc) and also as fine art prints.
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A view of Smacks Bayou in Snell Isle St. Petersburg Florida at sunrise - 4 image panoramaKiki wakes up around 6:30am each morning wanting to go out and depending on the time of year it is totally dark or already full daylight. At this time of year, January, it usually times out so that I get a glimpse of the sunrise. Instead of just going right back into bed as I usually do, this morning I came back inside and got my camera to go and make a few photos. I ended up hand holding four consecutive shots that I later stitched together into a panorama in Photoshop.
This is a composite of two images, with a texture abstract photo blended over a pelican photo.I have a folder of abstract and texture photographs I keep for when I want to make composite images like the one above. It is fun sometimes to spice up an image by combining two (or more) photographs in a complementary way.
A blurry photo of a bookshelf was overlayed onto the photo of the pelican in Photoshop. I just adjusted the opacity of the book case photo down a little and set the blending mode to Overlay. Then I layer masked a little of the bookshelf image off of the pelican to make the pelican look cleaner. Digital Photography School has a good tutorial on how to do this if you would like to try it yourself!
Now available for purchase is this unique great egret composite print. Featuring three views of a great egret, including one in flight, all photographed in St. Petersburg, Florida.
For a limited time only buy this print at 36"x9" on 1.5" thick canvas gallery wrap for $250 including shipping. Larger sizes are also available.
This print will look great on any wall in your home, office or place of business. Prints can be ordered as gifts too!
