Judy has posted a couple of images from her work with the scanner so I decided that it was time to post one of mine. The great thing about scannography, is that there are as many possibilities, as there are in any other type of photography. I decided to take a few leaves from our property, scan them and then …
While Jim and I were in Florida last Winter, we attended a wonderful presentation by Susan Francis who is a professional photographer in Orlando, Florida. Susan and her husband John own and operate Harmon’s School of Photography. During the meeting, Susan showed everyone how to use a scanner to create interesting and beautiful photographs. Susan is an amazing photographer/artist and …
Lately, I have been studying still-life painting and one of the subjects covered was the history of flowers in paintings. I was amazed to learn that tulips had once caused a financial situation that was referred to as “tulip-mania”. During the early seventeenth century as great advances were being made in the study of botany, new species of flowers were …
I have been fascinated with Gerbers for some time now and as I mentioned in my earlier article entitled “Still Life – Tulips” I did in fact make a second trip to Costco to buy some Gerbers. There is something about Gerbers that draws me to them. They are such a beautiful flower with a lot of detail. I am …
I am a big fan of textures and there are two places I go when I am looking for just the right one and they are: Flypaper Textures and Shadowhouse Creations. Both offer excellent textures and it ultimately boils down to who has the texture I am looking for. For this photo, I used Flypaper Textures. They have a wonderful …
