INSPIRED BY THE WORKS of OTHERS

"Wounded Knee"

A lot of what I do is inspired by the beautiful works of others. This group of four came from one Apo (Flame) Fractal by my friend, Ali, from Italy. The original color tones were greens but when I did a simple color correction with Irfanview all these wonderful blues, lavenders and shades of pink showed up. I have had a lot of fun working different elements of this one fractal and may explore it further, still. Enjoy!



"Winged Being"

No Title - Yet!

"Diamond Filigree"

CABIN FEVER!

A friend wondered what would happen if I were to "work my magic" on an image she had of this Amaryllis 'Ruby Meyer'. So I accepted the (mock) challenge and these are what came out of just a little "play time".








First comes the elimination of the background so the image can be more easily converted into a transparent background:

Then I pasted a left and right of the basic image onto a black background. You can see what happens from here!

I've a few other things I'd like to try with this one but they require background images I first need to find!

MORE FUN STUFF:

This one is a single of a larger, multi-floral piece posted earlier. Each bloom was pasted into place, one at a time and it all started with this one image that had already been run through various effects.

"Discarded Gift Wrap"

EVOLUTION

Who'd a thunk it that this lovely image of 'Apricot Sparkles' could be taken through such strange manipulations and turned into something totally unrecognizable! That is what I do though; take a normal image and process it through multiple steps, including the use of various "filters" to eventually "morph" the simple into the WEIRD!
"Why?" you ask,well, for no other reason then simply that, "I can"!

Apricot Sparkles "Pop Art" - one bloom with 4 different "color treatments". Treatments are stitched together horizontally, and then vertically. The background is then removed. Then additional processes render the finished images that follow. (Shows up as a white background here, but it is really transparent.

"Mirrored Orbs" would be a good title for this one.

Rotated to the right, flipped and different effects added. This one is not currently titled.

I call this one - "Comma" - real original, eh!

A Few From December 2008

Something A Little Different

I'm Baack!

Here's a few to get started. Things are slow on this temporary maachine I'm using but I hope to really do some "blogging" once I up-grade.