Photographs - New Uploaded In September 2015 #2

Two magical new New York City prints...

This one is a New York City skyline print taken above NYC during a beautiful sunset:



And this one is a unique view of the Chrysler Building with a sci-fi feel :) :

This week, I've been working on creating some Alaskan wildlife pieces. I hope you enjoy them.

I usually try to keep some variety in my uploads, so if I have two or three ready from the same place, for example, I will only upload one and hold the others for a later date. Well, I think I've outdone myself this time. These are really very different one from another. I like to put just one space between them so they aren't touching. Three still fit on the same line.

My first image is in what I call my Design Elements and Abstracts Gallery. It's part of a bold door done in primary colors that I found in New Mexico. The Southwest is always a gold mine for this kind of image.
The second is an old grain storage barn not that far from my home in Nebraska. I took this photo looking north just before sundown when color was just beginning to creep into the sky. I have several shots of this same barn in my Farms - Farmhouses Barns and Outbuildings gallery.
And I took the third in California at a scenic pull-out off the Pacific Coast highway somewhere north of Hearst Castle. There was a nice parking area at highway level and then a paved road that led down to a second, smaller parking area below where there was this wonderful, rocky, black sand beach. If anyone recognizes the spot, I would LOVE to have more information on its location.

Took a drive up to the town of Petaluma California today, it's got a nice little quaint old downtown along with backroads old warehouses and industrial plants. -W

A glowing translucent red in the golden hour clouds



A storm brewing across the sky

I have three from cruises over the last two winters - aboard the Royal Caribbean International "Grandeur of the Seas." The first two are photographs of the central atrium, or "Centrum," that is a focal point of the ship and the third is one of peddlers carts and a fountain in Mallory Square, Key West, Florida, on of the places we visited.

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~ Bill
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I have three more uploaded of more "garden variety" photography - literally. Two butterflies (Victory Butterfly and Swallowtail Butterfly at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore) and a Backyard Hibiscus (also in Baltimore, Maryland).

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~ Bill
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This weekend I visited the Alexandria, VA Freedmen's Cemetery and Memorial. It is an amazing and moving sculpture. Between 1864 and 1869, the Contraband's and Freedmen’s Cemetery served as the burial place for about 1,800 African Americans who fled to Union-occupied Alexandria, VA to escape from bondage.

The Memorial features artist Mario Chiodo's sculpture "The Path of Thorns and Roses," an allegorical depiction of the struggle for freedom; the Memorial's bas-reliefs depicting the flight to freedom were done by local sculptor Joanna Blake.

And one more from this morning. Yes, it's another cruise photograph. I must have cruising on my mind this week. LOL

Here is Royal Caribbean's Allure of the Seas as it leave the harbor at Nassau, Bahamas, with the Nassau Lighthouse in the foreground.




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~ Bill
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Apollo Temple - Delphi Greece



Grigorios Moraitis
ArtHellas.com

Took this one at Manito park in Spokane.The park is full of flowers of all kinds.

I LOVE winter! Every year we try to spend Christmas at my mother-in-law's cabin and just relax. Last year, a storm dumped 20 inches of new snow on Christmas Day! The best Christmas present ever! :)

The following photos were taken at the Lexington Ave Arts and Fun Festival (LAAFF) in Asheville, NC. The street photography is converted into art through a series of manipulations in Photoshop using plugins, a Wacom pen monitor (Cintiq), and numerous brushes and tools I have created over the past 20 years.

I make use of Akvis, Imagenomic, Nik Collection, and Topaz. My Wacom pen monitor is a 27" Cintiq that allows me to draw and paint directly on the screen. Creating a blank layer above the photo enables me to trace, shade, color, paint, and otherwise manipulate the image like one would with oil or acrylic on canvas - except with many more brush options and the undo button!

I know some say these are not photographs, but every one of them started as a photo. We are in a new era of creativity and I am doing very well selling it.

One more today that I just caught this afternoon. An American White Pelican swimming in the afternoon sun on a very dark stream.




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~ Bill
~ US Pictures .com

The last light of the day shining down on this sunny sunflower at the Sussex County Sunflower Maze Farm in Sandyston, NJ

I've been raiding the vaults and reprocessing some that haven't been uploaded here yet...

A little something different from me - A still life I did with some fine dining objects - some crystal wine glasses, crystal sugar bowl, crystal cream holder, some olive oil, balsamic vinegar, wine, and candles - perfect for a romantic candlelit dinner - I wanted to make the viewer think of an experience at a fine dining restaurant or bistro, in Paris or somewhere else fancy. I worked with what I had at home.

---Shawn Dall
ShawnDall.com

Early autumn is very colorful and nature particularly lush in England: with these new photographs of a dahlia, of a simple leaf with rain droplets and of a hypericum flower I try to capture some of these colors before the rather bleak winter season sets in.

~ Charly

I visited the World trade memorial and shot these in late 2013 while construction was on going. it was very crowded and the atmosphere was somber

I have done some shots of the phantastic Breitach gorge near Oberstdorf in the Bavarian alps. I think this one is the best:

Ernie Maxwell needed a trail to get his horses into town...



The photograph is looking southeast from California Scenic Highway 243 into Garner Valley...



... that highway is a hidden treasure that relatively few know about...

The Statue Of Liberty

2D image of wooden duck decoys lined up on a shelf at a nature museum in Corolla Village - North Carolina, (Outer Banks). I extracted the museum background and added several textures and vignette for a more artistic presentation...

Inside of a Sago palm

A miniature yellow rose from the garden is overlayed with color and texture.

Some of my new floral nature images

More of my new floral garden nature images .

I have uploaded a bunch this moth so but I will only share a few. The first two are from my birthday trip to cape cod and the sunset in Chatham.



This is a reedit of an old favorite



and the last two are sunset ones, I love sunsets. No two are ever the same

Some from a very recent trip earlier this month to Glacier National Park - beautiful scenic views and wildlife. And got lucky as only smoky day was on arrival, as OR and WA rain alleviated smoke from those states that was blowing into MT.

The end of summer is near.

Triptych with pinhole; series of images of a storm in the area of Malpas, the Ligurian Sea, the Mediterranean basin. During this time it is easy to watch storms on this stretch of sea. After a series of shots in the vicinity of the waves crashing on the rocks I have been hit by a larger wave that has washed me and the camera ...

The pinhole camera produces an image with a depth of field almost unlimited but low sharpness due to diffraction of the light passing through the small hole.
The second and third image can be considered sharp, beyond the movement of the sea, as it rests on a rock with a relatively long exposure time. The first image was taken freehand so in addition to having a low sharpness also a blur.

My Bananas are just beginning to grow. It will be fun following them as they develop.

Many people don't realize that poison ivy can be shiny, dull, red, green, short or a long vine up a tree. Initially some Europeans brought plants home from America thinking it was a beautiful ivy that could embellish their landscape!

Something from my trip to Vysocina.

~ Charly

Summer is slowly fading into autumn. Light and shadows focus on a faded petunia in the basket of a barefoot maiden....

The majestic Castle Mountain was captured in Banff National Park on a warm Spring day.

Available in color and black and white.

Carol Lux Photography.

A small B& W series that I just did!

Fall Is Upon Us



The beautiful red fall leaves drape over the tall green grass of summers end.
It is getting cooler autumn is in the air!

Red Leaves Blue Sky Two Trees

I love old diners. There is one in Port Huron north of where I live that was for sale from 2011 until this January. I have photographed the exterior of this cute place several times hoping that someone would buy it so I could see the interior. Finally it opened in August, and I was able to get in there - it's a cute retro 50's diner with good burgers.