Fine/Creative Art
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Blood Moon over Richmond, BC.
September 28th was the date for a Blood Moon in the Greater Vancouver Area. The sky was rather murky, but eventually the Moon rose high enough for a better shot. After an hour of work in post, the so-so shot was a lot better as you can see. The Fake Moon was created by shooting the Moon post eclipse and adding the texture and colour.
A Misty morning in the Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan
Abandoned Truck - Lethbridge
An old abandoned truck found along a farm road in Alberta just west of Lethbridge, Alberta on a trip last year. I always wonder why these iconic relics of the Prairies end up where they do; perhaps a statement by the Farmer of the passing of an era, of maybe this was just where the hard worked vehicle saw it's last day. I touched it up in Topaz Impression - using Leonardo, then Adjust 5 to increase exposure. I wanted to give it some sense of dignity and suggest the relentlessness of time.
In Flight
Sometimes I see things in Nature that appear like something else. Such is the case with this image. It started when I was walking past a cliff face and saw this area where a portion of the rock face had fallen away. The sun cast a shadow on the recessed area, and I saw something that made me stop and look at it, so I took a photo and thought little of the scene until this weekend, when I found it in storage. After a few tweaks and some colour splashes, this is what it became. I call it simply "In Flight". The power of the mind...
Out of Chaos
Fahrenheight
"A Slice of Red", a less descriptive title for this commissioned creation
Title of Art - "Wave Action" - A sculpture brought to Steveston (Richmond, BC) for the 2010 Bienalle and mounted near the netrance to the Steveston Fishing fleet harbour. Regretfully the city could not come up with the $500,000.00 needed to buy the sculpture so it was shipped to it's new home in California in March, 2012.
130 South African Endurance Horses race across a mountain meadow near Moolmanshoek, Eastern Free State, South Africa
From South Africa
Vessels complete a quiet courtyard corner in Namaqualand, South Africa
Galactic Dust
