The bubbles are not photoshopped in. They were being
wafted into the sky by my daughter Danielle.
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Bubbles and Dangly Balls
Monday, July 12th, 2010
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.
Bubbles
Sunday, October 25th, 2009
My daughter Danielle blew the bubbles off our balcony and I snapped shots.
The Adventures of Otis Eknid
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
“Otis” was a rubber mask we had as teenagers. This escalator sucked it down into it’s mechanical innards and we never saw it again.
Below, a shot earlier that afternoon, where my friends Brad and Dan managed to coax two passing strangers into posing for this shot.
Moon Shack
Monday, October 12th, 2009
This is what I considered my early masterpiece. Created entirely in the darkroom, I combined my telephoto picture of the moon with an old shack in the central California delta farmland, using a technique of combination dodging and solarization.
Checkerboard Girl
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
This is my daughter, Jessica, one cold cold day at a park in McKinney, Texas.
Farmhouse HDR
Monday, September 28th, 2009
Taken a few years ago, this was my first High Dynamic Range (HDR) photo study.
Jetlag Vision
Saturday, September 19th, 2009
The odd thing about this picture (and a few others I took that afternoon) is that they’re as distorted as I felt. What happened is that when I went to take the shot with my iPhone, it was way too dark because the light sensor was picking up too much light from the sky. So in order to get it to expose correctly I had to point it down, then yank it back up and squeeze the shutter before the light sensor had time to mess the shot up again.
For some reason, doing that caused the images to warp drunkenly – which matched the way I felt at the time.
The Bridge To Nowhere, Davenport
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
It’s not so much a bridge as it is a light show. Looks like you’re on a starship. Kinda.
Alien Texas, City Limits
Friday, September 11th, 2009
For some reason I always wanted to photoshop the Allen, TX city limits sign so that it read “Alien.”
A green piece of tape would have done it for real. Alas, this sign was way taller than it looks, and I couldn’t reach.
One of these days I’ll write a story, or perhaps a novel, about all the space aliens that live in Allen.
Moon Over Bridge
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
This is actually from back in my darkroom days – when you did “photoshopping” on an enlarger. This is two exposures on one piece of paper, the bottom first and the top second. Notice solarization to each side, where the bridge railing meets the sky.