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Here are a couple of photographs I've done recently.  I'm becoming fond of half images, taken on the first or last exposures on a roll of film like in the cup of tea.  It's esthetically pleasing to me and both a bit iconic and humorous. 

   

Aged Roses Prints

I love the look of aged rose prints, but they're so hard to come by!  Whenever I've found one that I've liked, the cost has been enormous.  This led me to create my own.  I've just made two!  Here are a couple photos I've taken of a beautiful arrangement of flowers cut from the garden.  I took them digitally and then loaded them into Photoshop to add some aging before professionally printing them.  Each probably has six or seven separate layers, not counting the actual image. These two images are very exciting for me, I love the way they came out and may - at some point - print them on a much larger scale. 

The Winter Berry Lanterns 8x10 Photograph

Here's another photograph that I took of the Winter Berry/Chinese Lantern plant.  I can't get over how gorgeous this plant is!!  The colors of the husk are amazing.  I really like how saturated everything is in this photo. 

Deteriorating Lantern

I love this plant!  It goes by the names Winter Berry, Chinese Lantern, Japanese Lantern, Winter Cherry.  What you see is the husk that surrounds the fruit.  The husk starts out a bright orange-red.  It deteriorates to what you see, a gorgeous mixture of tan, red, orange with dark green splotches.

New Photograph is in the store!!!

I just added an 8x10 matte print of my photograph 'Curling Thoughts' to my etsy store.  CLICK HERE for a direct link! 

I used a Pentax K10D for this shot and printed it on Fujicolor Crystal Archive paper that will last forever.  

New item in my store!

Hi Awesome People,

My new glasses should be in pretty soon, so expect much more activity very soon!  Thankfully, being offline has brought an end to most of the migraines. 

I was able to add a photograph entitled 'Catching Glimmer, Reaching Stardust' in my Etsy store.  Here is a direct link.  It was done with true black and white film, but I printed it this time in color so that it has a toned hue.  That's my hand, with a still life set up in the background with intense light bouncing up.  It's sort of an esoteric, hopeful, dreamy piece and I quite like it.  It is professionally printed on Fujicolor Crystal Archive paper - and, if you don't know, when something it professionally printed that means it is a real photograph.  This is not done with a computer and a home printer.

I'm not sure why Blogger is doing this, but there are no white borders on the top and bottom of the print - only on the sides.  Print is on 8x10 paper, actual image size is 6 3/4" x 10".