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Digital Art & Greeting Cards
Today’s digital photographs offer much more than just the initial image they capture. In the digital darkroom the possibilities are endless and photographs represent just the beginning of what an image can become.
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.
Buck Series - two bucks discussing their position in the hierarchy.
Greeting Card Photo-Art: Slumbering squirrel nestles safely in the notch of a tree
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.
Photo-Art Folder: a mature buck stands alertly as several does and their fawns relax in his presence.
Greeting Card Photo-Art: mother doe in the front rests in the shadows of an oak tree with her clan which spans several generations
Photo-art Folder - Camouflage Series: two young buck tangle with furious determination while a mature buck, his back to the action, apparently could care less.
Greeting Card Photo-Art: Coco and Shadow taking in the rays without leaving the bedroom.
Photo-Art Folder - a titmouse, casting a long shadow, gathers feathers for a nest with all the intent of a committed architect.
Doe Series - a first year fawn looks for attention from a vigilant mother doe.
Photo-Art - a newborn titmouse finds a quiet , cool spot on a hot day in the shadows and the water left in a discarded clay basin.
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.
I Find You Simply Irresistible
Photo-Art - when Coco first met Shadow it took a full year before he would stay in the room. But due to Shadow's benign persistence and inherent charrm, they are now clearly best of friends.
Greeting Card Photo-Art: A hummingbird lifts its wings to fly from resting beneath a front yard rose
Lucca Series - Lucca loved the garden and seems mezmerized by something only a cat can see among the azaleas.
I Only Have Eyes for You.
Photo- Art - Lucca Series - A $3 shelter cat, Lucca remains one of the sweetest cats we have ever known. He was nothing but love and purrs his whole life. The best value purchase we've ever had.
Doe Series - lone doe naps beneath Manzita bush
Titmouse Series - a longe. fledgeling titmouse drinks at the fountain.
Velvet, Light and Shadow
The Photo-To-Art Series - a mature buck with imposing antlers - still in velvet stage - blends in beautifully with the filtering shadows and light of the afternoon.
Photo-art Folder: two mature bucks in battle
Honey Bee Landing on Hypericum
Photo-Art - the National Museum of Natural History and Science, Lisbon University, Portugal selected the original photo source for this line drawing for its Exhibit on the hypericum plant “One Plant - Three Perspectives”
Grey Fox Among Red Berries
Photo-Art - a regular visitor seldom seen in such an open space
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.
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.
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Great White Egret on an Alta Sierra pond
Wildlife Folder - a grreat white sits contemplatively on small island in a small pond.
WIngs, Feathers and Color
Photo-Art Folder - a anna hummingbird visits a milk thistle bloom in a world of color and texture.
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
Photo-Art - Lucca Series - Lucca will go down as one of the sweetest cats who ever lived. This simple image conveys his natural charm.
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.
Photo-Art Folder - scrub jay's are notoriously loud and energetic feathered deliquents. This fellow proudly displays a nut before flying away with his prize.
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Discord at the Fountain
Photo-Art - Robin Series: every fall robins gather in great numbers to feast on our ripening pyracantha berries. In numbers, disagrements about turf florish as is evident in this debate at the fountain.
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
Photo-Art - an active pair of honey bees voraciously collect the pollen of a chrysanthemum.
Here's Looking at You
Photo Art Folder: African Dwarf Frog looks at you looking at him.
Photo-Art Folder: a cedar waxwing intimidates a robin who already has the prize in his mouth.
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
Photo-Art Folder: a lone finch ponders its own reflection as it collects a drink from the fountain.
Photo-Art Folder: Robin Series - two robins gourge upon ripe pyracantha berries - an fall event that attracts score of robins every year
Commercial - Equestrian Folder: this photo-art captures and lazy afternoon scene in the rural California foothills.
Photo-Art Folder; three first year bambis, still sporting their spots, gather together in the shade
Photo-Art - Peter Ouspensky, a Russian esotericist, believed the patterns of the oak tree mirrored aspects of the fourth dimension. Their inherent beauty is further emphasized aganst the horizonal outline of our bedroom blinds.