Night Magic – Painterly Rendering - Luminescent lilies and pads seem to dance as they reflect on the lily pond at the Lantern Festival at the Missouri Botanical Garden.
Colorful Crested Butte - On our 2022 Colorado trip, we were fortunate to visit one of my favorite places on earth, Crested Butte. While Crested Butte is surrounded by majestic mountain landscapes, the town itself is a wonderful small mountain town with lots of character.
Path To Serenity - Painterly Print - The beautiful and serene landscape of the Japanese Garden in the Missouri Botanical Garden
Posing Pelicans - Artistic Print - These three characters accommodated my presence with this photo op. Captured on Sarasota Bay, Sarasota, Florida.
Narrow Passage - Artistic Print - As some of you may know, I like to occasionally delve into the digital art side of photography. I ran across an interesting tutorial for applying artistic effects that I thought would work well with this image. This is that artistic rendering of a beautiful hidden alley through the colorful abodes of Vernazza Italy. From our 2019 tour, the original photograph was posted soon after our return.
Nature's Way - Close up abstract of a leaf on a slow moving water feature at the Shaw Nature Reserve
Ethereal Dreams - This is a a shot of Jessup Path captured n Acadia National Park, circa 2021. I previously posted the original as the camera captured it, sans motion blur. I subsequently saw this photo as an excellent candidate for this painterly effect and added the motion blur effect in post-processing with Photoshop, simulating ICM.
Selected and published in the Readers Gallery of Photography Masterclass Magazine (Issue 140 on August 1, 2024)
Arnold Barn - Steamboat Springs, CO
Visions Through A Waterfall - Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden
No Services Tonight - Abandoned church in remote and sparsely populated area in Spences Bridge, BC, along the Thompson River and the route of the Canadian Rocky Mountaineer between Vancouver and Kamloops. Estimated construction around 1880.
Dreamscape - Siesta Key Beach sunset abstract
Garden Tranquility - captured at the Shaw Nature Reserve and artistically rendered with B&W and painterly effects with LR and Topaz
Happy Clam Shack - Bar Harbor Maine
Red Pearl - Shaking it up a bit with water drop photography, a fun diversion from the more traditional genres.
ZOOM! Urban scape abstract of the St Louis Skyline
Ghostly Sunset - Crescent Beach abstraction with a longer exposure and intentional camera movement
Aspen Abstractions - motion blurred Colorado Aspen Trees
Wild Dianthus Flower with Photoshop LAB color inversion
Explosion of Color - Macro of botanicals (Caladium) captured at the Jewel Box in Forest Park, St. Louis
Circle of Nature - abstraction of a patch of Black Eyed Susans captured at the Shaw Nature Reserve
Golden Wild Wheat - Captured at the Columbia Bottom Conservation Area. Applied a LAB inversion in Photoshop creating an interesting backlit effect.
Dreaming - Sunflower shot from the Columbia Bottom Conservation Area with an artistic rendering with Photoshop, Topaz Labs and a texture
Rustic Barn in Augusta MO - reposted with a sky replacement via Photoshop, and a Topaz preset and texture for artistic effect
Summer's Jewels - multiple exposure of a patch of Black Eyed Susan's captured at the Shaw Nature Reserve
Multiple Exposure of Aster Flowers captured at the Shaw Nature Reserve
Multiple Exposure of Lobeilia Blue Flowers captured at the Shaw Nature Reserve
Multiple Exposure of an Indian Pink Flower captured at the Shaw Nature Reserve
Tranquility - Looking East From Key West. Utilized Topaz Labs for artistic effect
Wagon Wheel Motel in Cuba, MO. This was taken with my iPhone and I used the Waterlogue app for the painterly effect.
Mexican Marigold in B&W - Captured in the garden of Pastures of Plenty, an organic farm and event venue in the foothills of the Colorado Rockies near Boulder
