Over the last year or so I’ve been working on diptychs – playing with a combination of opposites and similarities. I initially called them Natural, Unnatural, the majority being macros of tree bark (natural) combined with eroded urban objects (unnatural). … Continue reading Using Opposites for Diptychs
Moving into an apartment means I no longer have a garden, but lucky me, the city has planted a shade garden just outside the back door. Shade gardens aren’t as breath-taking as ones basking in the sunshine, but if you … Continue reading Walk 50 Steps or Less and Take a Photo
Nature has a thing for pink and green in the plant world… Dieffenbachia in Puerto Vallarta with pink and green markings. Pink waterlilies in a pond at Puerto Vallarta Botanical Garden, Mexico. Soft green Bromeliad with pink thorns and markings. … Continue reading Pink and Green in the Plant World
I rarely deliberately take photos of objects in motion, not sure why. Sometimes they only show up by mistake, as when I accidentally opened the scanner lid in the middle of scanning. Me accidentally taking a photo while moving, creating … Continue reading Playing with Motion
January was a long month; trying to find items to do for a Sketch-a-Day Challenge over the 31-day month was challenging. That problem went away when I started doing sketches of tight crops of photos of water ripples. For Day … Continue reading Sketches of Ripples in the Nearby Duck Ponds
My first thought when I saw the Lens-Artists latest photo challenge ‘Photographic Groove’ was MACRO. I immediately put together a batch of favourites from the last few months and then I discovered that my groove could be better described as … Continue reading My Photographic Groove
In an effort to present the dichotomy of Vancouver here is another batch of eroded urban objects combined with close-ups of nature. A row of used red concrete forms combined with the first horsetails of spring (36 x 16). Abstract … Continue reading Seeing Double: More Natural/Unnatural Diptychs
In the case of my art I’ve mostly planned diptychs and triptychs in order to get a long continuous scene onto the wood panels I use. Here I fudged up a few photos of Stevns Klint chalk cliffs in order … Continue reading Triptychs or Three of a Kind
One of the small things that absolutely delights me is layers of tape that have eroded into pieces of accidental art. An old chair taped up in Mexico City. Getting in closer: a taped-up chair seat on nearby Commercial Drive, … Continue reading Eroded Urban Objects: Layers of Tape
I love the gritty feel that Photoshop’s ‘Fresco’ filter gives these industrial images. Eastside Culture Crawl in Vancouver. Pinko Industry Corporation. Dolly. Oil can in a metal shop. Granville Island in Vancouver. Mini-bulldozer. Rusty corrugated metal building. Reflection of a … Continue reading Using the ‘Fresco’ Filter in Photoshop on Industrial Shots
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