This Was Fun (And took a lot of work!)

I put a layer of the first leaf over a background of the second leaf then blended to form a new image.

Photo of the Month for August

By now, if you have witnessed my obsession with creating images of flowers, plants and trees; you will know that one of my favorite subjects is the Southern Magnolia. I tend to concentrate my work on the flowers themselves, however, inspired by some of my favorite photo artists, I decided to try and create images from the beautiful shape and form of the leaves. As an example of images that have inspired me, see the work of Ruth Bernhard and Imogen Cunningham. The sepia toning of this leaf was inspired by Joyce Tenneson's Flower Portraits.

I welcome your comments.

Frank

Photo of the Month for November

Well November is half over and I got behind in posting my blog. This month's image is one of my favorite subjects to shoot...the Southern Magnolia. I made this image in color then converted it to black & white and finally applied a sepia tinted finish. Then using the technique described in the August 1 entry "Another Transition", I applied the painterly effect to achieve the finished image.

Frank