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.

Wood Nymph

Yeah. I suppose you could infer a play on words there. A photo montage of two different images.. one originally color,(yes, you've seen it before), one a silly black and white.

Tried out some new software for this. "Nymph" cut out using something called Picture Cutout Guide, which is an easy way to separate different elements from an image. It's a memory hog, though, and very slow, but worked well for this purpose. Coloring was done using GIMP, which is free editing software similar to Photoshop, which was also used. I need a lot more familiarization with it.. has a few tools Photoshop doesn't have.

POV#3: Committed.

What once was a black and white, homemade porn snapshot, may not be quite your idea of "art", but you gotta admit, it ain't what it was.

POV#2: Curiosity

Like a headstone.   Pun intended.  Or maybe like plucking morel mushrooms.

"Embossed" tool from ACDSee Pro, colors from Picnik.  Original B & W negative.

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.

Tab A, Slot B

Original: 30+ year old black and white negative.

Cherry-picked from several Picnik effects till I liked the result.

Eat It!

OK. Let's get this out of the way now and never have to think about it again! Any photographer who says he or she doesn't have a shoebox full of these images is flat out lying. In fact, with cameras on virtually any cellular phone, and digital cameras big and small, I'd bet the numbers of "self portraits" has probably risen exponentially. Just Google Brett Favre. In fact, there are serious erotic art websites for women to post self-portraits.  Without looking, I'm guessing there are sites for men, as well.  You can look if you want to.

This is one of the earliest "selective coloring"  images I worked on.  You'll probably be more interested in the others.  You may leave the page now.