Painterly Effects in Photoshop

I normally tend to keep my photos separate from my paintings. but have been enjoying the work of my fellow bloggers out there who make paintings of their photos with programs like photoshop. One site that has been inspiring me is Janice Thomson's Beyond the Mind's Eye . So from time to time I'll post the results of my dabblings into this area that lies between my two pursuits of photography / watercolor. Let me know what you think. Today's image is the dogwood I photographed last week.

Keep on being artistic!

PS - topic of next post... What to do with that old 35mm camera?

Digital Art

I was cleaning up my images directory on my computer recently and was reminded of another time in my life when I work full time in a photo lab's digital imaging department. During those days (1996-1999) everyone in the department was playing with all the new imaging tools. One of my favorites was a landscape rendering program called Bryce. You may remember it I believe it was used to create the graphics for the original MYST computer game (I am really dating myself now) anyway I really enjoyed this other creative outlet. Although at the time to 'render' a hi-res image for printing often took me overnight on my pore old Pentium 60 pc. I was able to create some cool stuff. Here are a couple of examples of some of the scenes I created.