dandelion wind 2

another in my dandelion dreams series.... a fast shaking of the camera at slow speed and a fast F stop of some dandelion seed pods, with some post processing using Topaz filters, produced what you see here...... the method I used gives it a windy kind of feel I think .....

dandelion wind

part of my dandelion dreams series ...... this is actually a composite of some dandelion seed pods with deliberate movement of the camera at a 1second exposure at F32, and a another shot of some blue aster like flowers which also were taken with a very shaky camera at a slow speed and fast F stop.  I then  funked up using Topaz filters and Photoshop filters ......  after two hours of  trying different combinations, I hit on this one as a keeper...

nature's stained glass

The warm glow of the late afternoon sun peeks through a late autumn forest.  Using some photoshop magic, I created a surreal stained glass effect.  The trees become the lead, and the light becomes the glass.

woods at dolphin rock abstract 1

.....one from my DOLPHIN ROCK series ..... there is a secret, mostly unknown place, in western North Carolina that has a rock formation, that looks like a dolphin jumping out of the water...... I was fortunate enough to have a friend show it to me ...... surrounding the dolphin, are a stand of birch trees that I captured in this still, and then I created a this painterly feel, using various techniques including different Topaz filters..... 

abstract yellow woods

one from my abstract series ..... it started out as a window reflection of the autumn woods, surrounding our cabin in the mountains of western North Carolina ..... funked it up, using various Topaz filters.........

blue waters abstract 1

This is a custom art piece that I did a few months ago.  It started out as a camera capture of a small stream in the Helen and Allen Cruickshank sanctuary in Rockledge Florida.  Just some weeds in a creek.  I played around with it in Photoshop using various TOPAZ plugins.  After a number of tries, I got a rather interesting abstract piece that I worked on for a while and then put it aside.  Then one day I showed it to someone and I started to try different crops and I changed it from a horizontal to a vertical piece... VOILA, he said he had just the place for it in his home.... and he now has it hanging up in his bedroom ...