Hydrangea Apparitions

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The pedals or blooms of the hydrangea in this photograph are pale white with fine detail, as if they were ghost or apparitions suspended. The hydrangea at time of photograph were a pale blue with a tan center. They were photographed around 2008 as a digital raw file and processed in photoshop.

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Portrait of Jenny

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"Portrait of Jenny" was taken in the early eighty's.  Jenny is my neice by marriage.  The image is created from a digitally scanned 5 x 7 inch negative.

Solarized Sun Flower

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Solarized Sun Flower is from a 5 x 7 inch negative, and the effect of being solarized was created in photoshop.  I like the effect of contrast on a soft gray background,  The original black and white photograph is also part of my collection.

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Pointed River Stone

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"Pointed River Stone" was taken along the Davidson River in Pisgah National Forest< North Carolina on a camping trip. The aperture setting was F90 @ around 10 seconds which produced the soft effect to the water and the sharpness of the stone.

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Nude By Window Light

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A seemingly sleeping fetal female form of soft gray tones lit by indirect window light.  "Nude By Window Light" is a study of light, tones and form.  One of a limited number of nudes I have photographed.  A form in innocence recline and peace in black and white.

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Stranded Maple Leaf

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A maple leaf water pressed to stone and stranded in a swirling liquid cosmos of shadow and stream.
This is a scanned 5 x 7 inch monotoned negative taken in the late 1980's.

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A Breath of Life

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A breath of life, exhaled and inhaled in the vortex of fluid existence. Creation's scream of finality in leaving an imprint of what is and what was.
A breath of life, exhaled then inhaled, to ignite a  fate or destiny of existing in desperate spiritual fabrications of purpose.  Do we exist for any other purpose but existence?

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Enrique At the Gate of Knowledge

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Portrait of artist Enrique Vega was taken in the early 1980's.  Enrique is a master metal and photographic artist. "The Gate of Knowledge" is only one of his many creations.  We have been bothers and friends for thirty-two or more years.  He is one of a very limited number of people who have influenced my vision in art.  Without their influence my life in art would not exist.

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Morning Glory First Light

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"Morning Glory"  is a pale, floral trumpet haling the rising sun of early risers. 
I never printed this image in the darkroom that I remember.  For the life of me I don't know why I didn't.  The photograph is from a scanned 5 x 7 inch negative.

Portrait of Child _ Asheboro North Carolina-1975

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In 1975 I was in school studying photography and "Child Portrait Untitled-1975 was a school project   photographing children.  The eyes capture your attention, then the expression.  She was a great model and easy to work with.  A beautiful child.  I have no idea what has become of her, but I hope she is having a good life.

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Apples and Eggs - Tint

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Apples & Eggs was one of my first hand colored photographs.  This is a HD scan of the print.  The print is from a 35 mm negative.  The still life was taken around 1980.

Oakscape Magic

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"Oakscape Magic - The Joker" was created from an 8 x 10 inch tri-x negative using Photoshop.  The oaks in the "digital light drawing" creates an asymmetrical spatial perspective around a totem-like structure of surreal images.  The image in the center that stands out for me resembles the comic character "The Joker".

Leaves, Stones and Toes

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Leaves, Stones and Toes is a photograph taken on a camping trip with my children to Pisgah Forest, North Carolina.  The stones were as you see them. The leaves and toes were external props.  The toes belong to my daughter Haley.  It was a fun trip.  A moment.  A memory.

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Hands & Necklace - Haly

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My daughter Haley was playing with this costume necklace one day.  She sat winding the necklace around and around her hands.As I was watching her, the idea for this photograph came to me.  Here is the results.

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Calla Profile

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A slender, curved stalk of floral light bent by shadow. A pedal-cup in tones of light, matte gray with an inward glow_calla lily in luminous profile of digital light.

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Alchemy's Philosopher Stone

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Alchemist for over four millenium  have searched for the elusive philosopher's stone for the transmutation of lead into gold or silver.  It is said the stone has the power to confer immortality and youth, the elixir of life, but as with all things there is a price.  My digital light drawing, "Alchemy's Philosopher Stone", is an image of the  pursuit in the knowledge for antiquity's myth.

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