Sunrise

Scan of slide from around 1975 or '76. Sunrise over the Grand Canyon, Arizona. Rare, in that I've never liked to get up early.

"Painting" type manipulation in one of my editors.. forget which now. We'll be getting away from the ladies for a little bit, because I was starting to get a bit out of control with the tricks, so it's not likely you're ever going to see a full size version of this creepy image:



I have some in the works, combining old and new images, that are a little less over-the-top, so there's that.

Decoration Day

A quick Photoshop Elements 9.0 project for Memorial Day, 2011. Stay safe, everyone.

Beach "Bum"

On a beach on an island in Lake Michigan, about 1986.  The usual techniques.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

Just a quick "oil painting" conversion of a mirror self-portrait from either very late 1969 or January of 1970.  My very first 35mm camera, a Yashica TL Electro, purchased at the DaNang PX just prior to coming home. Eventually, I would learn to hold the camera properly.

Zebras On The Moon.

Back in the early 70's when I was learning photography, (Ha! I'm still learning photography!), I played around with Kodak Kodalith Ortho film, a high contrast film with no tonal ranges. This image is one of my better efforts because, well, Zebras are just made for this sort of image anyway, aren't they?

This was taken at the John Ball Park Zoo in Grand Rapids, MI in 1973 or 1974.

Other than cleaning up the hundreds of dust spots in the black areas, adding a border and "glow" (from Picasa), very little has been done to this image.

Appreciative Booty-philes.

It's a nice one, at that.

Original black and white from a public modeling shoot put on by a Detroit area model agency, and a local camera store. Early 35mm work with the trusty Yashica TL SLR purchased in Vietnam. It still worked, while the 3 custom-tailored Hong Kong suits were already outgrown and on the way to the Kiwanis sale..

Promenade.

Some time in the Seventies. Somewhere on the Cape. On a honeymoon. Wedding followed some 5 months later.

From original (washed out) color slide.