"Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson--
Roll your mouse over the images to view the originals...
--Stained Glass--
This is a snapshot that I took during the design process of my latest artistic passion: stained glass... Rolling over the image will show you the finished product, clicking on the image will take you to a separate stained glass page...
--Digital Simulations--
Iris
A lovely iris snapshot from my spring garden...
Well, yes, it was pink in real life... sometimes I do get carried away with my simulations... Clicking on the image will show a sketchy look... I was in the mood for a more fluid look on the day that I played with this image...
A lovely historic colonial home. Before doing the media simulation, a few photographs were combined to achieve a partial view of the side of the house and also to change the sky.
A restoration of an image scanned from a slide. The original photo was taken in the early 1970's and aside from being backlit, had darkened considerably. Unimportant background distractions were also removed during the restoration.
I did this restoration for Operation Photo Rescue. If you do restorations yourself, please consider donating your talents to this very worthwhile organization. More of my OPR work can be found here...
This restoration was done from two scanned images of one damaged photo. (The original was too big to fit on my scanner!) The new background is actually the same area, just taken at a more deliberate time. As with the other images, rolling over will reveal the original. However, clicking on the image will reveal a black & white version.
By the way, this is my sweetheart and me, taken over 20 years ago! Obviously, I didn't take the bridal portrait, (but I did take the photo of The River in the background.) When I contacted the photographer to get a re-print, they were unable to provide one in the original size... So, I decided to restore it myself and as usual, once I started tinkering, just HAD to make some improvements... I like my restoration better than the original!
