This gallery is home for photos that go beyond the realm of traditional pure photography. That includes photos that have been significantly edited from the original shots with Lightroom, Photoshop, Topaz Labs, textures, or other applications and techniques to achieve artistic effects, whether rendered in-camera or in post-processing.
Aspen Abstractions - motion blurred Colorado Aspen Trees
Rocky Mountain Wildflower - painterly rendering with Topaz Impression
Giverny Splendor - beautiful Dahlia was captured at Claude Monet's garden in Giverny with a painterly rendering
Key West Tranquility - with painterly and artistic enhancements
Wild Dianthus Flowers - captured in Rocky Mountain National Park with an abstract rendering utilizing a Photoshop LAB inversion
Wagon Wheel Motel - Taken with an iPhone and artistic effect applied with the Waterlogue app
Red Pearl - waterdrop photography
Summer's Jewels - Multiple exposure of a patch of Black Eyed Susans at the Shaw Nature Reserve
Circle of Nature - Abstraction of a patch of Black Eyed Susans captured at the Shaw Nature Reserve
Multiple Exposure of Aster Flowers - captured at the Shaw Nature Reserve
Multiple Exposure of Lobelia Blue Flower - captured at the Shaw Nature Reserve
Multiple Exposure of an Indian Pink Flower - captured at the Shaw Nature Reserve
Narrow Passage - artistic rendering with Photoshop of a beautiful hidden alley through the colorful abodes of Vernazza, Italy
Arnold Barn - Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Night Magic - Luminescent lily's and pads seem to dance as they reflect on the lily pond at the Lantern Festival at the Missouri Botanical Garden
Dreaming - Sunflower captured at the Columbia Bottom Conservation Area with an artistic rendering with Photoshop, Topaz Labs and a texture
Golden Wild Wheat - captured at the Columbia Bottom Conservation Area. Applied a LAB inversion in Photoshop creating an interesting backlit effect.
Explosion of Color - Macro of botanicals (Caladium) captured at the Jewel Box in Forest Park, St. Louis
Mexican Marigold in B&W - Captured in the foothills of the Colorado Rockies near Boulder. The depth and texture was achieved using Photoshop's LAB inversion process.
Zoom! Urban scape abstract of the St Louis Skyline
Ethereal Dreams - This is a a shot of Jessup Path captured in Acadia National Park with a painterly effect and added motion blur in post-processing with Photoshop
Happy Clam Shack - Bar Harbor, Maine
Ghostly Sunset - Crescent Beach abstraction with intentional camera movement
Visions Through A Waterfall - Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden
Nature's Way - Close up abstract of a leaf on a slow moving water feature at the Shaw Nature Reserve
Colorful Crested Butte
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
No Services Tonight - Abandoned church in remote and sparsely populated area in Spences Bridge, BC
Posing Pelicans
Anna Maria Sunset - An artistic rendering of this beautiful and serene sunset
Path To Serenity - The beautiful and serene landscape of the Japanese Garden in the Missouri Botanical Garden
INature's Radiance - Indian Pink aka Spigelia marilandica, captured at Shaw Nature Reserve
Pentwater Sunset Dreamscape
Wildflower Triptych
Photoshop Color LAB Inversion of a Mariposa Lily, a wildflower I captured while hiking the Wild Basin Trail in Rocky Mountain National Park
