Roses

Another Jerry Uelsmann - style image.

Apple Tree

One of my favorite photographers is Jerry Uelsmann. His work is so interesting, it is like analyzing dreams. When I created these two images, I couldn't decide for sure which one I liked better. The 2nd image seems to be a bit too much apple, so I did lean more toward the 1st. What is so amazing about this man's work? I did the images with the help of Photoshop. He - does his work with film photography and a dark room ... no software is used. Take some time to explore his work ~ it is amazing!

Another Uelsmann

This is another Jerry Uelsmann-style image. Each of the images I have used includes at least 2 or 3 different images which I merge together through Photoshop. His work is so interesting, it is like analyzing dreams. What is so amazing about this man's work? I did the images with the help of Photoshop. He - does his work with film photography and a dark room ... no software is used. Take some time to explore his work ~ it is amazing!

Pure Love

In my advanced photography class, one of the photographers I studied was Jody Dole. His work is really interesting because he takes a simple image and gives it star quality. I tried to replicate his style. His work is amazing because of their composition. When I reviewed his work, it just reminded me how important composition is.

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Rauschenberg replica, II

This second Rauschenberg replica is of rooftops of Albany, New York.

Rauschenberg replica

This is a Robert Rauschenberg styled photomontage. The photos were taken of the Cohoes Falls.

Pieces of Me

Tree Globe

As much as I love Photography, I love the ability to try some creativity on the images that I shoot. In this photo, I took 2 photos that I had used in this blog already:

Night's Beauty and One Stands Alone

I merged the two images together, used the Filter feature in Photoshop "Distort" then "Polar Coordinates" which created the circular globe look. To round it out a bit, I used the Cloning Tool.

David Hockney Replica

This image is created with the help of Photoshop. I did research on David Hockney for my Advanced Digital Photography course. Part of the project assignment in addition to writing about his work, is to recreate image/s of his work. This image takes one original photo, and then I broke it down with the use of grids and moved the images around. When I looked at his work, I found it interesting because the way it was designed, there were things that seemed to stand out a bit more than if it was a flat image. When looking at an image like this, I find that I take the time to look at the individual segments.

Sheer Surprise ~ Sheer Joy

This has been a truly emotional time for me and my family. During the tough journey, we look for little glimmers of happiness. When Aunt Lonnie was still in the hospital, I got a wonderful email from Eli, our "daughter from Italy" asking if she could pay us a visit. Why would she even ask?! Yes!! I asked that we keep it a secret to surprise everyone.

At the time, we didn't know how quickly things would turn with Aunt Lonnie. The closer the day came to Eli arriving, the more I knew how much wonderfully, good medicine her visit would be. You see, she became part of our family in every sense of what a family means. My parents, simply adore her.

The day finally came when she arrived. Victoria brought her in the house announcing she wanted my mom to meet her new friend E-li. Eli walked into my parents' kitchen and stood there for almost a full 20 seconds. My mother just stared at her ~ and when Eli said, the word, "Nonna" we ended up with this total emotional moment of sheer surprise and happiness. The surprises kept going for the day as my dad was thrilled. Aunt Lonnie ~ even in her weak state, was so happy that Eli 'came home.'

I can't thank Eli's parents enough for sharing her again with us.

For moments like this, I feel blessed.

One Stands Alone

This morning I needed to get my car off the road for snow removal - so with camera in hand, I decided to drive up to Frear Park again. Maybe I'd catch some kids on the hill again, or cross country skiers, or just a pretty landscape shot. On my drive through, this tree stood out for me - It is surrounded by so many other trees, but somehow, this one was just patiently waiting to be photographed. A strong survivor of the back to back snow storms (yesterday we had another); ice storm - and frigid northeast temperatures, it just patiently and stately stands there holding up the ice in a very pretty manner.

Another example of winter beauty.

Red Doors

Red Doors pretty much jump out out at you - but what do they mean?

They can mean energy - Feng Shui

They can mean you are welcome here.

They can be a sign of protection ~ you are safe here.

Through the Looking Glass

I'm very much a traditional-style art lover. I love traditional and old world architecture. I love paintings done by Monet. Traditional. A big round dot on a black canvas just doesn't have the wow factor. Modern and abstract art is a little difficult for me to get excited over. But, that doesn't mean I can't try to venture out and try to photograph something in an abstract kind of feel to it.

Through the Looking Glass is simply two mirrors put very close together at a slight angle to give a little illusion of depth. I converted the image to black and white because the color takes away from the continuity of the mirrors. Black and white allows more of the detail to show through.