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Glam Photo Op with Barbie
Friday, December 25th, 2009
Several Christmases ago, when my daughters were still young enough to crave Barbies, I experimented with some new ninja photo moves using my first (and then brand new) digital camera.
Of all the advantages of digital over film photography, I think this one is the most important: with the ability to take nearly unlimited photos without any film expense, photographers are now free to just experiment at a whim.
Big Brad, Little Kim
Saturday, December 12th, 2009
This was all done in the darkroom using multiple exposure, dodging, and solarization. It took hours and multiple tries.
Now it could be done in Photoshop in minutes. But, where’s the fun in that?
Kim as Heavenly Body
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009
Back in my darkroom days, and before Photoshop, I used to do fun things like this.
Kim is actually in my swimming pool. The technique you see here is called solarization, but with dodging around her head. The “stars” are actually sand sprinkled on the photo paper during the second exposure.
McKinney Gothic
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
My daughter Jessie and I both have a somewhat morbid sense of humor.
This was taken in the Pecan Grove Cemetery in McKinney, Texas.
Long Walk off a Short Pole
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
This photograph is the one that enables me to say I’m “an award winning photographer.”
The prize was a HP PhotoSmart R727, which I kept for a few months before selling on eBay.
Ironic, because this is nothing more than a photograph I took of another artist’s work. It’s the sculpture “Walking to the Sky” by Jonathan Borofsky which I’d found at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas. I’m not sure if it’s still there, as it was only supposed to be on display through 2006.
In reality, the pole these people are walking along is going straight up.
Mel of the Sun
Monday, November 9th, 2009
This is my old friend and fellow photographer Mel standing on a hill. 
I was playing with a diffraction filter on my old Canon F1.
Millennium Park Fountain
Sunday, November 1st, 2009
I love downtown Chicago. I’m going to have to spend some more time there with my camera.