I made today’s shot back in February and have looked back to it several times since trying to find a fitting way to process and present it. In the end, a black and white conversion seemed to be the best fit. It was already a very busy image and the addition of bright green moss covering the roots and the orange of the leaves made it all the more distracting. Converting it to black and white removed the additional distractions allowing the...

First, I want to thank everyone very much for indulging me in my explorations with these creations! They are definitely a departure from my norm but have struck a real chord with the right side of my brain. Today’s shot was a little challenging from a perspective of framing. So far the wide format images that I’ve posted have been composites created by mirroring an image against itself on a wider canvas and have only been cropped to...

This is probably my favorite of the ‘water-art’ images I have posted to date, everything just seemed to come together as I worked with it. The wisps of foam and contrasts in the original image made the process of creating it very easy and a real joy. I hope you enjoy viewing it as much as I enjoyed creating it. Gear: Canon EOS 60D, Canon EF-S 18-135mm Lens Settings: ISO100, 69mm, f/13, 1.3 seconds Software: Adobe Lightroom 3, Adobe...

At one time or another you’ve probably seen photos or movies of the tumultuous clouds encircling the planet Jupiter. Being a self-diagnosed astronomy addict, I’ve seen more than my fair share of images of the churning bands of gas speeding around this king of planets. The more I looked at this shot the more the structure of the whitecaps reminded me of the many images I have seen of Jupiter’s atmosphere. I could begin to see...

This is one of the takeaway images from a trail walk I took a few weekends ago. Spending a few minutes exploring off the main trail along the river banks I found several tree stumps that had obviously been decaying for quite some time and had began to take on some interesting characteristics. The recent rainfall not only made the mosses a vibrant green but saturated the porous and decaying wood turning it very dark. I wanted to shoot from a low...