I call this one "Enlightenment". I used an image of a sunset I took while at sea back in 2002 for the background. I duplicated it, flipped it upside down, and then used various blending and masking techniques to bring out the Buddha and add elements to the sunset. The "Buddha" is from a shoot I did back in February. It's the same shot I posted on here awhile back, but this time I actually scanned the image instead of just shooting it on the light table with my digital camera. I've been in a kind of "creative funk" lately, but I think this piece actually worked out pretty well. Hope ya'll like it!

Shot as one of the Red Line trains pulled away from the lower platform at the 7th Street Metro station in Downtown Los Angeles back in July. I can't think of anything else to say about this photo right now... enjoy the moment.

Giant Bonsai tree... okay maybe it's not really a bonsai tree, but it kind of looks like one doesn't it? This is another shot from my trip to Sedona, Arizona while visiting my friend Will Fletcher in Flagstaff back in June of 2002.

Here's a little quote from one photography's all time greats, W. Eugene Smith. I shot the sunset while at sea 3 days before Christmas in 2001. I created this little piece as part of an exercise in adding drop shadows to text. Does it work or is it to hard to read?

I shot these photos while visiting a friend of mine in Flagstaff, Ariz. during a trip across the country back in 2002. I had just been honorably discharged from the Navy and was on my way back to Asheville, N. C. to spend a few years with the family and go to school. My buddy Will Fletcher was attending NAU in Flagstaff and, since Flagstaff and Asheville both lie on Interstate 40, I stayed with "The Fletch" for a week during the first leg of my journey. The shot of the guy sitting on the rocks overlooking a valley is from a little sub-trip we took to see the Red Rocks in Sedona, Ariz. The toned B&W is an ancient Native American building that dates back to a time long before the Europeans discovered this continent. Unfortunately, I can't remember which tribe it's from or exactly where it is in Arizona, but I might be able to figure it out with a little research. The train rail is from a set of tracks that me and Fletch found just behind a, still under-construction, trailer park in Flagstaff.

I shot this during the previously mentioned portrait session with Yeni. This one is on Fuji Provia 100F transparency shot with a Horseman LX 4x5 view camera. I adjusted the contrast and color in Photoshop and then desaturated it slightly to create the final image. I really like the feeling and mood in this shot.

Another digital creation for my Photoshop class. This is an aircraft director on the flight deck of the nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74). I shot the photo on a Nikon D1 back in 2001, but I created the digitally colored file this week. I turned this into a grayscale image and then used a posterize affect in Photoshop to create my black detail. Then I inverted it to create a "negative" which I used to create clipping paths for coloring. If your not familiar with Adobe Photoshop this may all sound like jibberish, but I thought I'd include it for the techies. I kind of like it, but I don't know if it works...

A couple of graphics I created in Photoshop last week. The top one is an expression of my inner "Hippie" and the bottom one is a painting of a "Honu" (Hawaiian for Sea Turtle) that I recreated and adjusted in Photoshop.