ImageFiction

Found a Tree In Ephasus

2012-01-26T21:46:00.001-05:00

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Paradise Panels

2012-01-18T21:23:00.003-05:00

<- Click hereWhat is the differenceBetween picturingA truck andPonderingTruckiness?And if somethingIs trucky yet justPieces ofThings that areTrucky-likeHave we thenMerely ponderedTrucks?The truck ruins sit garaged, or barned in a place nearby to Paradise, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. And since I found it in parts… it seemed best displayed… in panels, huh?great big Canon G10, PS4, Topaz Adjust

Rockier Still

2012-01-15T10:51:00.002-05:00

<- Click hereWell, it's interesting to discover from the mail I've received about the Cappadocia Fairy Chimneys that most people were, like me, unaware of them. Fact is they were a delightful surprise when my host bought us there. Apparently Turkey has a treasure here that so many have never heard of. Unfortunately for me our schedule got us there at the worst time of day for the sun was glaring

Winter Nears Blue Ball

2012-01-14T10:04:00.003-05:00

,- Click HereWhen you’re in summer, The warm goes on foreverAnd winter’s little more thanA figment at day’s end.When you’re in winterEach wind is much colder thanThe memory of summer’sWay of making things live.Near Blue Ball, Lancaster County, PennsylvaniaCanon G10, PS4, Topaz, AlienSkin: SnapArt, Water Color, Custom textures and brushes.

Fairy Tale

2012-01-11T19:35:00.003-05:00

<- Click hereThere’s a living spaceBehind a treeDug in the rock faceWhere fairies lived.Or that’s what they sayTo explain itThere off the roadwayLong here abandoned.Empty of all proofOf the digger’sNot really beingAn ancient fairy.Some Fairy Chimneys of Cappadocia, Turkey.Canon 7D, 4 image pano, PS4: Custom textures and brushes, Topaz Adjust 5, Alien Skin: Xenofex2: Fluffy Clouds, Exposure 4:

Good Morning Florence

2012-01-09T14:24:00.004-05:00

<- Click hereAn oarsman snapsHis way along theMirrored Arno.The light enwrapsIts coat over theAncient feeling.Canon 40D, PS4: custom brushes, Topaz, AlienSkin: Exposure4: Color Slide: Agfa RSXII 100 <- My favorite film ever!

Pepper Fears Children

2012-01-02T17:45:00.006-05:00

<- Click hereIt’s seventy years sinceA nasty kid Broke off her Salt’s headAnd left him dyingIn a puddle of powder. Now she peers wildlyMaddened by the nearest giggleHoping to hide fromHands unable to tell Play from cruelty.Canon 7D, PS4: Topaz Adjust5, Alien Skin: Bokeh 2, Exposure 4: Kodachrome II (1962-1974), Custom pop-spot texturing.

The Right To Bare Arms?

2011-12-28T15:20:00.005-05:00

<- Click hereMen2Mountains: 2011... This is the Potter County, Pennsylvania hunting camp. Here's an All-American and an Eagle Scout. The guy in the blue vest's swimming record still holds at William and Mary College... the guy mugging it up in the orange hat's just earned his Eagle Scout. BTW, that's my buddy Chris Herr in that blue vest... Looking healthy and happy just a handful of time back at

Chris Left This Morning...

2011-12-22T09:14:00.005-05:00

<- Click hereMy friend Chris’s body stopped this morning…But a spirit in motionstays in motion.RIP, Chris Herr 1939-2011In the Blue Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey (June, 2011)Canon 7D: Extreme crop (20%), PS4, Alien Skin: BlowUp3, SnapArt3, Oil. Custom textures & Brushes.

Euro!

2011-12-12T22:31:00.005-05:00

<- Click hereKübler-Ross model: Second stage of grief….Canon 7D, PS4: Custom textures * brushes, Topaz: Adjust 5, SnapArt3: Stylize.

Hope Hardens

2011-12-04T10:07:00.003-05:00

Angels pardonUntil they’re staidThen hope hardensThen dreams fade.Have you noticed that regardless of its profundity, an idea clearly – unambiguously – rendered is likely to be dismissed as a banal cliché? Critics cherish ambiguity…Images… Backyard fantasy light, Lancaster, Pa. 2011Canon 7D, PS4: Custom textures, AlienSkin Bokeh2 to simulate Canon 50mm f/1.2 @f/1.2, AlienSkin: Exposure 4,

AlienSkin Demo

2011-12-02T21:38:00.007-05:00

<- Click hereThe folks at AlienSkin have asked me to test a number of the pieces of their wonderfully integrated family of filters. The most recent I received is Exposure4 which allows me to mimic the grain/dynamic range of dozens of classic B&W and polychrome films. I've also recently received their powerful upgraded version 3 of SnapArt. Previously I showed you how their BlowUp allows a virtual

Antalya to Konya

2011-11-29T21:11:00.007-05:00

xa9lIDk3Fe4/TtWQ8ph4b4I/AAAAAAAABRs/nQrB2Pzeubs/s1600/turkeyroad_sml.jpg"><- Click hereSomewhere in the hillsOf Turkey liesThe debrisOf wanderingCivilizations.Turkey well on the road to Konya from Antalya. Canon 7D, PS4: custom textures, AlienSkin: SnapArt3: Crayon, custom brushes. My classic Ford truck.Of course that's my cool desktop TOY1931 classic Ford Model Aclassic, right?NOW FOR SOMETHING

It's Beginning To Look A Lot...

2011-11-20T09:06:00.009-05:00

<- Click hereSoon the bells will startBut the wonder-filled sight that will springIs the glow that will quietly ringDeep within your heart.Sometimes they cloy… but we can’t help it because… Darn… we clutch at hooks to which we can hang an order, a map, an understanding…. a life. Here’s my moose-ical hook.I found this little orphaned-guy on the shelf at a Goodwill shop years ago. He was tattered..

Basilica Cistern

2011-11-14T20:47:00.003-05:00

<- Click hereLost for centuries beneath the streets of Constantinople the Sunken Palace was rediscovered by the Ottoman Turks to water their magnificent Topkapi Palace. Built from parts from his collapsing Western Roman Empire by Justinian in the sixth century, the structure absorbed the work of over 7,000 slaves.Fed by a twelve mile distant aqueduct and still a working engineering masterpiece,

Catty Story

2011-11-10T18:56:00.003-05:00

<- Click here(H) air conditined? Izmir street story... Does it tell itself?Canon 7D: PS 4, custom brushes and spot textures, Topaz

Fairy World 2

2011-11-06T16:50:00.002-05:00

<- Click hereThe ancient fairy chimneys of Cappadocia, Turkey. Squint as the sun sets and you can almost see them flitting among their homes.Canon 7D: PS4: 3 frame pano, Topaz, custom brushes and sky texture

Halloween Hand

2011-10-29T21:59:00.005-04:00

<- Click hereCan the Costumes of Daytime Become theMagnets of The nightTimeStalker?Bwa-Hah-Hah-Haaaaaaaaaa!Canon 7D, New York City, All sorts of PS/Topaz/AlienSkin/Textures... Wheeeee!

Birthday Tale

2011-10-24T20:17:00.008-04:00

<- Click hereNothing special I guess, but I needed a birthday card for a child that could later be framed for her room. Of course if you gave it to your friend, child, grandchild... You'd make up the story to tell which will be remembered every time the card is revisited. I imagine it in a frame on a bedside table that will support a trip to dreamland, over and over... :-)

Technicolor Sunrise

2011-10-23T16:33:00.008-04:00

Click here--> The mosquitos were big as birds as the sun rose over Chatham beach here on Cape Cod... Well, that's how they felt. The buggers seemed to hit like bean bags as they drilled into me. I'd been out of my car maybe four minutes as I grabbed at this pano then dashed back ahead of the snarling swarm. I still can't decide if they resented my arrival or welcomed it like a hungry lion herd

Dream Keeper

2011-10-10T22:19:00.004-04:00

<- Click hereThere’s a place that you keepAll your world that it seemsGlows dark as you sleepFilled full with your dreams.Fall: East Denis, Cape Cod, New EnglandCanon 20D • PS4: custom textures/brushes, AlienSkin: SnapArt, Watercolor

Almost Autumn

2011-09-24T22:20:00.004-04:00

<- Click hereIn momentsIt seemsThey’ll burst.Leaves afireTo searYour eyes.And your heartBut notTill then.In moments?***Chatham, Cape Cod, MassachusettsCanon 7D, PS4: pano, Topaz, Custom feelings

To The Soul

2011-09-19T21:51:00.007-04:00

<- Click hereIn a momentWhen lightsCatch.Eyes windowOutwardIn.Izmir, TurkeyCanon 7D, PS4: Custom filters, Topaz, AlienSkin: Bokeh2, BlowUp3 (Beta), Custom textures.Now for the fun. Here's the virgin image from my FlashCard. Okay... Now... NOTE: While I do not work for them, I was invited to beta test by AlienSkin. Their not-yet-released BlowUp3 allowed me to carve an approximate 20% section from

Bosporus Bustle

2011-09-05T12:52:00.003-04:00

<- Click hereGilt party boatsCrazy swayIn waves and wind.A two arm gapOver anAncient alley.Istanbul, behind the Blue MosqueMixed Media, Canon 7D, PS4: custom brushes and textures, Topaz, Alien Skin: SnapArt: pastels.

In Konya There's An Emerald

2011-09-02T21:09:00.005-04:00

<- Click here The sky was lit by the splendor of the moon So powerful I fell to the ground Your love has made me sure I am ready to forsake this worldly life and surrender to the magnificence of your Being. – Mowlana Jalaluddin Rumi In Konya there’s a museum Its emerald glow Remembers its poet. Its poet remembers The moon… Open the love window. The moon won’t use the door, only the window.  –

Dawn At Whalebone Mansion

2011-08-27T12:45:00.005-04:00

<- Click here Wealth from whales They thought – was Forever. Hope unsullied by Knowledge of Scarcity Or pain. Momentary hope without Maturity or experience Is nestled upon Ignorance. Sunrise The Penniman House A captain’s mansion Chatham, Cape Cod, Massachusetts We vacationed in New England last month, just before flying to Turkey on what was more a business trip. Of course dawn on Cape Cod

Antalya, Turkey

2011-08-22T21:07:00.002-04:00

<- Click here The old town’s Ancient port Bobs atop the Mediterranean. Antalya, Turkey Canon 7D, PS4: 8 image pano stitch, Topaz

His Eyes

2011-08-20T20:28:00.002-04:00

<- Click here Hot day Fresh air Fresher… Gaze. Izmir, Turkey Canon EOS 7D,Canon EF-S17-185mm, f/5.4, 1/160, ISO 400, PS4

Her Eyes

2011-08-19T23:01:00.002-04:00

<- Click here "If only He’d put away The damned camera AAARGH!" Antalya, Turkey – Duden Waterfalls Canon 7D, PS4: custom brushes/textures, Topaz Now of course if he had a Canon, he’d be taking pictures of her, right?

Hagia Sophia

2011-08-18T20:24:00.003-04:00

<- Click here Constantine built it Fifth century. Muslim repurposed it. Now it’s a museum. Making history is Making a future… We are part of The future’s past. The Hagia Sophia, Istanbul, Turkey Canon 7D, PS4: custom brushes, filters, Topaz. Very dim light… mysteriously pierced.

Turkey Notes - Istanbul Morning

2011-08-14T09:05:00.005-04:00

<- Click here The morning call Echoes from Mosque to mosque. A soprano melody Along the city bustle Melody line. I took notes – with my Canon. Jotting onto FlashCards: my feelings. And of course in Istanbul, you feel the morning pull you awake. Is the city always sunny? dunno... but we never saw rainy clouds in July anywhere in the country. Of course it was mid summer and it was hot.

Back From Turkey

2011-07-29T20:58:00.008-04:00

<- Click hereGolden…The morning.Constantine mightRecognize his cityAs his church turnsGolden.Just back… from ten days straddling two continents..The Hagia SophiaIstanbul, TurkeyFrom the roof of the Ramada hotelCanon 7D: PS4, Topaz, AlienSkin: SnapArt, Oil Paint, custom filters, textures, and brushes.Okay... after writing all of that Andreas Manessinger broke it to me that this is NOT the Hagia

Whuuuump!

2011-07-07T07:42:00.005-04:00

<- Click hereOkay around hereOnce a yearWe go to hearAnd peerAt things that goWhump in the night…Lancaster, PaCanon G10, PS4, Topaz, AlienSkin: SnapArt, oil paint, Custom brushes and textures.

A REAL Photograph?

2011-07-03T16:51:00.004-04:00

Click On The ImageIt’s called by someThe Simple LifeWhat the Amish have.On a Summer dayRiding Lancaster’sBackroad farmland hillsI wonder if simpleCaptures what it meansTo live here like this?Hmmm… Some have wondered if I still take “pictures”? I’m guessing they mean, photographs? In fact friends wonder if I can still take pictures? Okay… here are the basics, right? It looks like a picture, a

In Intercourse

2011-06-20T21:26:00.005-04:00

<- Click hereBeside the road this weekend. Stopped my bike. Grabbed my Canon G10. Brought it home. No more story.

HULP! Need help for Turkey!!!

2011-06-11T22:32:00.002-04:00

*Whee.... I've been invited to a Turkey writers/journalist conference for nine days in July (17-25/2011). Fly in on 7/17 then visit Istanbul (7/18-19), Antalya (7/20), Izmir (7/21-22), Cappadocia (7/23), Istanbul (7/24), Home (7/25).*Scheduled sites:*_Istanbul:_ Miniaturk, Topkapi Palace, Sulfaris Synagogue, Hagia Sophia, The Underground Cistern. Blue Mosque, Hippodrome, Sahara Restaurant,

Abruptly Dieter Understood

2011-06-01T08:43:00.005-04:00

<- Click hereWhen the ancient safe was cracked there was only the letter. Vaguely it hinted of treasure. Hidden? Buried? Lost?Lost.. except the letter spoke of “the hand’s lifeline.”What? Every hand has a line, right? RIGHT?For year’s he searched the old city of Lancaster. Almost giving up until the shot barely missed him.Why? Was there something? Where was someplace still as old as that letter?

After Her Paint Faded

2011-05-24T07:44:00.003-04:00

<- Click hereMemories are dreamsWhen they’re the onlyWay to repaint aHope seared of colorBy the flame of choice.Canon 7D, PS4, Topaz, AlienSkin: SnapArt, Impasto, Custom filters & brushesSomewhere in the Appalachian mountains of Pennsylvania.

Para & Noid & Noid

2011-05-21T11:13:00.003-04:00

<- Click hereWas the room random?Was the night darker?Was the world hidden?Were the watchers un-Bidden?Is alone everWhere a man can be?Or is the night justA place where watchersSpy in?The thing about para-Noia is that youMust have secrets whichAre worth the big costsWhich make them way im-Portant.There are more para-Noids than there existSecrets that are worthThe costs of their sur-Veillance.Pity

Mada Caress

2011-05-19T17:58:00.006-04:00

<- Click herePanic sweatsCome at nightLike fingersEerily Squirming atThe story arcOf your grimDank fearings.NY, NYCanon 7D: PS4, Topaz, AlienSkin: Snap Art, colored pencils, Custom filters & brushes

Searing Mid Day Dixie

2011-05-10T18:14:00.002-04:00

<- Click hereNightmare DaylightSearing light bleachesColors and inksBlack shadowsExcept whenIt doesn’t.Tybee Island, Ga.Canon 7D, Canon EF-S 10-22mm: PS4, AlienSkin, Bokeh2: Custom textures & brushes. Thanks to Distressed Jewel.

Spring Breeze

2011-05-07T09:18:00.004-04:00

<- Click hereSunlight is gold,Not golden.Squint,Dazzle,Glare…It’s the choreOf SpringBreeze cleaningWhatever theNocturnals leftThat’s flyable.Amish Farm, Lancaster County, PaCannon G10: PS4: Topaz, AlienSkin, SnapArt, Watercolor: Custom brushes & textures.

Steel City

2011-05-05T20:53:00.003-04:00

<- Click hereIt rides uponThree river waysAnd like aBoat at nightIt rocks!Pittsburg, PACanon 7D, Canon EF-S 10-22mm @12mm, PS4: Topaz, AlienSkin, SnapArt, Oil Paint, Custom brushes and textures

Suppose...

2011-05-03T21:07:00.001-04:00

<- Click hereSuppose that skyMet the waterExactly whereA barnMet themBoth…Once upon a time.West Dennis, MA – at high tide, low cloud and old barn.Canon 7D: Canon EF-S 10-22mm, PS4: Topaz, Alien Skin: SnapArt2, Custom filters & brushes.

When We Were Rich (er)

2011-05-02T15:46:00.003-04:00

<- Click hereCoudersport, Pennsylvania is a very small town. And right in it’s dead center there’s this house. Built when Coudersport’s was nostalgic for the future. Now, like the house, the nostalgia seems to... peer in the other direction.Canon 7D, 10mm, PS4: Alien Skin, PopArt: Topaz, Custom textures & brushes

Nope

2011-05-01T12:01:00.005-04:00

<- Click hereY'know? Sometimes craft is all that happens. Look at this image. The guy's a manager for a traveling carnival. Normally artists seem to look among carney workers for grim metaphors about the meaning of life. They try to reveal the workers as lost souls, teetering on the edge of societal doom. In fact I've discovered them to be ordinary folk who sort of like it that they are

The Line's End

2011-04-25T21:19:00.007-04:00

<- Click hereShe still stands there waitingA whistle or smoke,She still stands there waitingHer lines thronged with folk.But her tracks now are rustingWith weeds grown to chokeOff the chance to leave searchingFor dreams that aren’t broke. *New Columbia, PACanon 40D/Canon EF-S 10-22mm (f3.5-4.5): PS4/Topaz, AlienSkin:SnapArt2, Watercolor, Custom brushes/textures (Thanks, Distressed Jewel)

Emporia Tanked

2011-04-22T12:55:00.003-04:00

<- Click hereSunrise burnsPepsi quenches.It is notA tanklessJob...Emporia, Canon 40D: 40D: PS4: AlienSkin, Bokeh2: Topaz: Custom textures & brushes

New Hope

2011-04-17T20:16:00.003-04:00

<- Click hereFor some New HopeIs a place whereThere is anExpectationOn the part ofSome that they willNot ever needTo conform toWhat others think That they have toDo with their livesFilled with new hope.Canon 40D: PS4, AlienSkin:SnapArt: Topaz, Lucis Filters, custom brushes.New Hope canal, New Hope, Pennsuylvania

Not for sale...

2011-04-16T18:26:00.004-04:00

<- Click hereWhat not to do at a wedding. Don't know about you, but friends sort of expect that I'll take pictures at weddings I'm invited to. And at the same time, they've hired a hard working pro. Now, I haven't done a wedding professionally in over 35 years. Maybe longer. And I won't. They don't stimulate my creative juices. Um... what I mean is that they are a commercial challenge. It's

2011-04-09T19:51:00.001-04:00

<- Click hereSidewalkedA vendorHawked hisCarvings.TabletopShe screamedAt crowdsLeaving.She was thenFor sale.Carved artIgnored.Directly in front of the doors of the New York city’s Whitney museum, a street vendor’s table sat filled with carvings. Strangely, the seller was nowhere around, yet none from the jostling crowd seemed to want to steal his stuff.Canon 7D: PS4: Custom brushes/filters, Topaz

Martini - Shaken

2011-04-05T21:39:00.003-04:00

<- Click hereI stood aboveChris’s Lotus.And IRealizedHow heat…Rises.Canon 7D: PS4, Tabletop, Topaz, AlienSkin: SnapArt, Colored Pencils, Custom: Textures & Brushes

FWOOOOM...

2011-04-04T22:49:00.004-04:00

<- Click hereChris loaned me his 2007 Corvette.It's very ... very ... quick. Especially atop a table.Canon 20D: PS4, Topaz, AlienSkin: Bokeh2 & SnapArt: Water Color

MoonStruck

2011-04-03T21:24:00.004-04:00

(Click on image)And whenHe didMusicShe Glowed.Susquehanna Tree, Columbia, PACanon 40D: PS4 Topaz, AlienSkin: SnapArt, Colored Pencil – Custom brushes/textures/filters

Cave Painting

2011-04-02T13:35:00.003-04:00

<- Click hereThere is an urgeTo deface space.Like a dog’s needTo mark his placeWith primal dung.To boldly claim,"This is my thingSee I’ve been here."To scream aloud“It’s about ME!”The spray can isMightier than:Maturity, orHistoricalAdhesive.The spray can isWhat happened whenThe stone age childRan out of stone..Via Dei BonizziFlorence, ItalyCannon 20D; PP: PS4, Topaz, AlienSkin:SnapArt:Colored

Roman Time

2011-03-26T15:30:00.005-04:00

<- Click hereTime exists so thatEverything doesn'tSeem to happen atOnce.In Rome I noticed that different things seem to change by different clocks. Change needs time, but time is an oddly capricious engine. I wonder though if that big... big... window, unlike the nail-chewing lad, has figured out how to waste its time? Hmmm.... maybe that's what makes us different from everything else that exists

What I Did At Spring Camp...

2011-03-24T19:00:00.009-04:00

<- Click hereThis image of me is sort of for my buddy Andreas Manessinger since he and I have this slightly, um, different conclusion about America's Second Amendment. I was invited by my friend Chris to attend the annual Men2Mountains at his private hunting lodge and compound up in Potter County, Pennsylvania last weekend. The place is about a 5 hour drive over sometimes primitive roads into the

Carney • Child's Play

2011-03-15T17:15:00.007-04:00

<- Click hereSwirled showSqueal lightRide glowExcite.Part of a small city carney series I’m slowly working upon.Lancaster, PACanon 40D, 17mm.PP: PS4/Topaz/AlienSkin: Bokeh2, SnapArt: Water Color, Custom

Carney • Zipper

2011-03-14T17:37:00.003-04:00

<- Click hereSomething whippédComes This Way.Part of a small city carney series I'm slowly working upon.Lancaster, PACanon 40D, 10mm.PP: PS4/Topaz/AlienSkin: Bokeh2, SnapArt: Water Color, Custom filters/textures/brushes.Some may recall this posted here before the Bad Apple (see explanation on the sidebar to the right) snapped it away.

Carney • Air Chairs

2011-03-12T20:45:00.003-05:00

<- Click hereInspiration happens...When yourMemoriesCome unpluggedFrom reality.Or vice versa...Part of a small city carney series I'm slowly working upon. Lancaster, PACanon 40D, 17mm.PP: PS4/AlienSkin: SnapArt: Water Color, Custom filters/textures/brushes.

Carney • Wheel

2011-03-11T20:52:00.003-05:00

I'm just saying... Emotionally charged?Part of a small city Carney Series I’m slowly working upon.Lancaster, PACanon 40D, 17mmPP: PS4/AlienSkin: Xenofex2, Bokeh2,Custom filters/textures/brushes

ImageFiction?

2011-03-02T21:06:00.003-05:00

In what senseIs fiction true?If truth is ObviousSilence isA lie!Canon 7D • 300mm

City V Townspeople?

2011-02-26T22:53:00.002-05:00

<- Click hereThere's a differenceBetween city andTownspeople.Their waking hours.

Hudson River Meadow

2011-02-25T23:15:00.004-05:00

<- Click hereAlong the HudsonThere are meadowsFertilized withMoney.

Tired Tonight - Yawn

2011-02-21T21:59:00.004-05:00

<- Click hereLong day. Taking a week off from the gym. Put the two together and ... Uhhhhhhh. Eyes drooping... Nope! Gotta keep them open. Which reminds me of this guy whose trying hard to look awake.Canon 40DRhinebeck, Upstate NY

Composition

2011-02-20T20:15:00.005-05:00

The world is sweet, mysterious, and beautiful. Sometimes.Middelbury, VT.Here's a second take on the image... I'm trying to find a 1920's feeling here in the stillness.

Andreas Does Duomo

2011-02-19T13:53:00.004-05:00

Each momentCaused by the lastEach tensionedWithout the last.What momentFar from the lastIs finallyFree from the first?Once upon a very early morning Andreas Manessinger and I went to find art among great art that would be different from the art it was among. And it occurred to me that the artist is always a part of the art that is found, but too often not pictured there.Or something like that?

Strange Mysterious Feeling

2011-02-18T22:39:00.003-05:00

Click!Florence, ItalyStreet scene(s)

Assisi

2011-02-13T20:26:00.004-05:00

<- Click hereHmmmm…. Do artists have a novel way ofseeing?Or do they see novelthings?Assisi, ItalyPS4: Custom brushes and textures

Terrible Frozen Beauty

2011-02-06T14:37:00.003-05:00

Non Textured Texture

2011-02-04T22:13:00.006-05:00

<- Click hereThere was so much texture in the scene, I can now file my nails on the image. Wuddaya think?

ValenTime

2011-01-29T23:30:00.002-05:00

<- Click hereFound her fading on the wall of an antique shop. Something about this time of year seemed to moan out for restoration, paint up... and fix up... Right?

Night Grit

2011-01-26T22:14:00.004-05:00

<- Click hereVic left the club at eleven. He was late... It was the night that was early.No filters, no textures. It is what it is....

OILY - A Tutorial

2011-01-22T13:19:00.011-05:00

NOTE: all images in this posting can be enlarged by clicking upon them.... <- Click hereHow about some tutorial? Or comparison? Or review? Or - wuddever of what I was up to here. Let me type out some thoughts about the what and why of this image of my grand-niece Katelyn Rose. You'll recall I raved about the quality of low-light images that come from the Canon 7D, even at 3400 ISO. Well, that's

Peach Spa

2011-01-18T21:11:00.003-05:00

<- Click hereWe lookFor hooksTo whichWe CanHang anOrder,A map,An underStanding.NYNYCanon 7DCanon 7D, NYNY

Over There: See?

2011-01-16T08:12:00.004-05:00

<- Click hereBrambles always return. We are only so far in front of life’s jungle. But as long as we’ve got the energy and tenacity to keep ahead of the suckers…. To whack ‘em off when they’re little more than scratchy stubble – Well, it is as if civilization’s here to stay. But it takes a bunch of individual effort – an every-day-thing.Because the jungle’s really just below ground, and sometimes

Underneath

2011-01-12T20:58:00.003-05:00

<- Click hereKatelynRose and Rocco. Sweet stuff, babies and doggies. Too easy?

Storm

2011-01-11T20:40:00.005-05:00

<- Click hereWhen the heavens open in the tropics - it's as if the air abruptly becomes solid.

Hopper Sunday Morning

2011-01-07T20:52:00.004-05:00

<- Click hereHopper revisited as I continue to study and grow from his haunting work.... From high up Edward Hopper smashed light against substance – to invariably watch substance flinch. In buildings he found his fears and desires. Or did he release ours?He revealed in the struggle between light and substance outcomes that mattered. But… but… even dreadful stuff matters. And somehow, in his

Watercolor Dreamy

2011-01-05T08:08:00.003-05:00

<- Click hereChristmas cannot bear too much reality. Or... or maybe I can't, and Christmas fends it off. Once a year I want a quiet reverie in flickering candlelight where my inner-child gets in touch with me. Failing that, I find an outer-child to get the peaceful glimmers flickering. Y'know? GEEK STUFF: Canon 7D at ISO 6400/f5.6-1/30sec. PP: PS4:Topaz, Alien Skin: Bokeh & SnapArt2: watercolor,

Moment

2011-01-01T21:47:00.003-05:00

<- Click hereHere's my wife's grand-niece KatelynRose on Christmas day. Magical moment. But doubly magical. As you can see it's naturally lit, primary from window in front on cloudy morning, and filled with tungsten light from the room. I balanced them in PS4. Simple operation there. But the magic was from my new Canon 7D. I used my 17-85/mm cranked out to 85mm at f5.6/.30sec. at an ISO of 3200.

2011 - Merry

2010-12-30T22:29:00.003-05:00

<- Click hereMy little buddy Rocco suffers through New Year's Eve. Lancaster has a midnight fireworks show atop a parking garage a block or so away from our home. We usually sit out front and watch it explode above us - adult beverages in hand. Unfortunately my fuzzy guy is NOT a hunter. He's been bread to be a watch dog, suspicious of the odd noise. He suffers from fireworks overload. Which

Pacem In Terra

2010-12-12T16:42:00.008-05:00

<- Click hereAnd away they all flewLike the down of a thistle...But I heard him exclaimEre he drove out of sight,"Merry Christmas to all,. And to all A GOOD NIGHT."We're at a moment of worry with respect to things economic, with a real possibility that a gale of creative destruction will whip through our places in 2011. We face a moment of challenge which this time I hope will see, as that gale

History's End

2010-12-11T21:37:00.004-05:00

<- Click hereThere’s only one track nowComing to orGoing from?Castel Gandolpho.Where once the PopesRuled the WestIn summer heatThat hasn’t cooled.Though historyHas…I wonder if this track is there to fill the now tiny town or to empty it out? I wonder if the devil lies, as they say, in the details? That is to say that the devil dares to lie anywhere near a papal palace.Geek StuffCannon 20D, Post

What To Call 1 & 1/4?

2010-12-06T22:13:00.005-05:00

<- Click hereI'm hearing a lot about diptychs. This is their big fashion moment. But I didn't have a diptych... just a dip and a quarter. Or is that a one and a quarter tych? Well anyway... there's a thing about winter. It's always pushed into the city by a big storm. On one side of the thing it's fall, and winter on the other. A couple of days ago was on the other side of the storm. Then it got

2010-12-05T20:41:00.003-05:00

<- Click hereA Hindu friend once explained dars´san to me. "I go to temple not to worship Ted, but rather for dar´san. – to see divinity. Dar´san can be taken or given Ted. It is a blessing that comes from the sacred." Okay, now I do not have my head around that concept. But I'm wondering if it has something to do with why our lenses are tugged toward objects like this? Is there an instinctual

Sunday In The Park

2010-12-01T21:08:00.004-05:00

<- Click hereThe lad comes with his mom and dad... his receiver. And he tosses with all his might. Aiming high and far, the thing spins like a bullet. And he tosses and tosses. And dreams...Geek StuffMy Canon 7D through the long, long Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM Lens, Then afterward I searched for my feelings in PS-CS4 with custom brushes and textures.

Melancholy

2010-11-29T20:12:00.004-05:00

<- Click hereAutumn sometimes gets me down. Rita and I were homebound this weekend. Missed a nice evening at friends' home. It is true, Autumn is a time when one starts to miss things, huh?Of course this is a rework of an image I did some Autumns back at East Dennis on Cape Cod. The first freeze came this morning and killed the flowers. Some seemed startled in their crystal casings especially the

SIZZZZZLE!

2010-11-21T13:36:00.006-05:00

<- Borrowed my friend Chris's Bugatti last Sunday and took it to Musser Park nearby to my home here in Lancaster. Wanted to pop this beast out of the rich lighting. I'm not a MotorHead. But the art of design makes me twitch. And the Veyron ... well now this is one manly beast! And probably a chick magnet, huh?GEEK STUFF Here's Chris's Bugatti Veyron shot with my Canon 70D through the Canon EFS 17

Playin' W/Texture

2010-11-20T16:22:00.003-05:00

<- Click hereNothing profound, deep, or even thoughtful powered this thing. Nope. Probably pretty shallow actually. My last post was an effort to pull mood from an idea through the use of textures. And the response has been amazing. Thanks to everyone who sent me email both ere and from the other forums where it's appeared. The reaction actually made me want to investigate texture technique

2010-11-04T18:01:00.003-04:00

<- Clic hereChill breeze puffsThe day before aFirst frostCrackles summerAway withThe boat forWinter.GEEK STUFF: Chesapeake Bay, MD. • Canon 20D: Canon EF-S 10-22mm (f3.5-4.5), PS/CS4, Topaz, AlienSkin/SnapArt/Watercolor, Custom strokes, textures, brushes, filters.

Wish You Were... Hear?

2010-10-27T20:44:00.003-04:00

<- Click hereI'm wondering what comes between imagination and mumbling, "FINISHED!"And I'm thinking that the crack between the two is where talent lives. "FINISHED!" is what you are capable of doing with what you imagine. Hmmm... do I mean 'talent' or do I mean skill? And where does creativity make its appearance? Suppose you can imagine a reslut but can't execute it.... reveal it. Or... or... is

2010-10-26T19:21:00.005-04:00

<- Click hereVisited Adamstown again. You probably know that it's the antique capital of this part of the country. There are scores of dealers, probably hundreds and many display their stuff in glass cases where central attendants hold the keys. Toys are particularly popular this time of year as retailers from NYC, Boston, Philly, Baltimore, Washington, and Atlanta shop for their holiday

Fall Before The Fall

2010-10-24T14:30:00.009-04:00

<- Click hereThis soon may be gone!Rode my bike through the Pekway region of Lancaster County yesterday. Fall’s come onto the Amish farms.Next month the EPA will begin enforcing rigorous standards here to clean up the Chesapeake Bay. Runoff from these farmland’s had an impact upon the Bay which people downstream claim is negative. Even though this is a record year for the heavily fished bay area,

Show Poster

2010-10-15T21:42:00.007-04:00

<- Click hereI've been invited to do two shows: one at a gallery, another in a grand public mansion. Frankly, I dunno if I have another show in me. It is so much work. And they are expensive. I figure I'll need at least twenty prints carefully mounted and probably framed. And perhaps one or two will have to be of a large size. And for what? It was a terrific ego trip to do my last show a couple

The Legate Abruptly Returned

2010-10-08T23:07:00.006-04:00

<- Click hereNo one expected him so swiftly. No… the Pope imagined his envoy would require years to subtly study the curious beings on their exotic world.Yet here he came to the Door of Time’s Tunnel. And curiously this legate who moved always midst a whirl of attendants returned… alone.•••Castel Gandolfo, Italy. Canon 40D. PS/CS4. Alien Skin:Bokeh. Custom brushes/textures.

Ben Again

2010-10-06T22:02:00.005-04:00

<- Click hereI started with a clear idea of how I wanted to present Benjamin. Every now and then you hear an author claim that the characters took over the story. And that's what happened here. Benjamin decided that this is the he way wanted me to present him. No, I don't mean the boy who stood in front of that flag. Nope, I mean the character Ben in this image. As the process developed, this is

Restoration • YEA!

2010-10-02T17:13:00.004-04:00

As you know (or can find out by clicking upon "Rotten Apple Explained" on the right-hand sidebar. See it?) a massive number of my blog's images were deleted as a result of the caprice of Apple, Inc. Sigh. Well anyway... I'm slowly but surely restoring hundreds and hundreds of postings and doing it by portfolios. So... I hope that you'll visit them as the come back on line by clicking on the

Katelyn Again

2010-09-28T21:27:00.004-04:00

<- Click hereDo our eyes grow smaller, or our heads larger? Hmmm?

Nude And Descending Staircase

2010-09-27T15:06:00.009-04:00

<- Click hereAmong the lost art (See Rotten Apple Explainedup there in the right hand column) was an image I created during a visit to the National Gallery of Art in Washington. But today I wondered how that image would look as my own artistic take on the art that we (American taxpayers) own. So I wondered reeeeeeely hard and ----- POOF! Lookit this! Now I'm not wondering.