This is my first venture into blogging. I'm a photographer with a penchant for wildlife photography and rural themes. I sell stock photographs and create photo-based artworks. Both my photographs and artwork are available on the Web. The photographs are located at and my art is at . I've also created business cards based on my photographs and artwork. The business card stock is located at . I hope you will check them out.
In the future, I'll write about how I do my work and about the new pictures I am creating. And, I'll show some examples here so you can get a feel for the kind of work I do.
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Rectangle and Square might have dibs on a lot of neat stuff, but that doesn’t mean Circle has to put up with it.
We think it’s high-time our pal Circle got some of the photo love. Luckily, we’ve got the perfect tool to make it happen: The Circle Cutter.
Using it is simple: adjust the (aptly-named) Circle Cutter to the size you want (it’ll do several, up to about 4″), put it on a regular ol’ dull rectangular photo, then turn the Cutter all around as it cuts. In no time flat, you’ve circle-ized your photo – not a 90-degree angle in sight!
Round just opens up a wide new realm of cool possibilities for photos – photo curtains (clip ‘em together with the 30 included Foto-Clips), photo badges (circle-ize your photos and pin ‘em on proudly), photo mobiles (cut ‘em then hang ‘em with some thread)… heck, Circle-izing makes the whole world possible (quite literally.)
We love you, old Circle friend. We’re right there with ya, and now, we’re pleased to say, our photos are too.
We’re now shipping for the terrific Eye-Fi wifi memory card. (Digital SLR users rejoice!)
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Ever had Grandma Edna email you her latest vacation cruise photos, only to find the images so small and pixelated that she and Gramps look like they were made of LEGOs?
VectorMagic has the answer. A free website from the folks down at Stanford, VectorMagic takes your images and turns them into smooth drawings.
Unlike raster images, vector drawings are made of geometric shapes instead of pixels, so you can infinitely resize them with no fuzzy or blockiness! This makes them ideal for blowing up a small photo to, say, the size of your bedroom wall.
Other programs that will do this, but VectorMagic is web-based and will run on most computers. Plus, its algorithms do an impressive job of translating photographs into realistic vectors — something others choke on.
So dump those passé pixels… and give your tiny photos a new photographic life, smooth and vectorized!
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A magically intelligent seam-carving, image-resizing tool
Turn any photo into a wall-sized poster using the printer in your home or office
An alternative take on the giant-photo-poster-making hipness
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There’s nothing like a big “Say cheese!” to bring out the pearly whites.
But all this talk of grinning reminds us of one of our life-long curiosities — what about our teeth’s perspective? What it’s like looking out from inside our mouths?
At long last, we’ve found an answer: the Smiley-Cam!
Pinhole photography enthusiast Justin Quinnell has perfected the art of using bite-size pinhole cameras to get those difficult but illuminating inside-your-mouth-looking-out perspective shots. Even better, Justin’s selling his pinhole ’smiley-cam’ cameras for cheap.
Finally, you can turn the tables on Uncle Herman the next time he shouts, “Say cheese!”
Check out Justin Quinnel’s Smiley-Cam pics or get your own from Justin for $23 bucks.
I finally found a sample of the Cloud we talked about. It has a Helicopter I put in it and the post below has the same cloud with a bike in it, different crop. But you can see the cloud and have an idea of what can be done. Contact me via Email if you want to order what we discussed. Here it is:
Here is some of my early Photoshop work using my cloud photos and motorcycles. These were featured on Channel 3 in Phoenix, AZ back in 2000 I think it was.
The has half a million digitized images from the library’s collection. This is a fascinating resource, and I drop by every so often to browse through their holdings. Now that baseball season is behind us, those having an interest in the sport might enjoy visiting “America’s National Game,”a collection of early baseball photographs from the collection of Albert G. Spaulding. Many of these show 19th century portraits of players.
gives a brief history of the collection, but it is the images themselves that caught my fancy. Click See all images to see the entire collection.
