We lived in a quiet world once. This photograph was made on the porch of friends, their beautiful red Taos dog sunning just out of the frame. Two of the most contemplative spirits I've ever known. A woman, a man, content, at home, with purpose. With conviction of self, of place, of role. A couple, content inside the years of their belonging. Flagstones beneath their feet, warm to the touch of sunlight on their soles just minutes before the shadows fell. She framed in the sunlight still, he in the shadow, save for both their feet, in the warmth of that self-same sun. I've not seen nor heard from them in years. Nor they me. Our spirits, as writers, as polymaths, as artists shifted one too many times yet theirs' are personalities which upon seeing each other again would begin where we left off on that split sun and shadowed porch on that pitch-perfect day.

"Sobol Porch,” #DigitalCompositeImage from the
#VirtualPalladium series of works. #TaosNM #SantaFeNM #Bluesky #BlueSkyArt #Art #Nature #PortraitPhotography #HomePhotography #DigitalArt #PostModernistArt
#HighDesert #NewMexico #ArtistsPortraits

"Morning Light,” #DigitalCompositeImage from the
#America:Lost&Found series of works. #TreeTuesday
#SantaFeNM #PecosNM #Bluesky #BlueSkyArt #Art #Nature #NaturePhotography #LandscapePhotography #Woodland #DigitalArt #PostModernistArt #Entropy
#HighDesert

#EastCoastKin🦋 ALT text has words & info🦉🌙

A beautiful found bird is transformed into a digital work, making a mandala in honor of the bird's short life here on Earth. Art is all around us, all the time. There's always an arts exhibition at our feet :)

"To those who Dwell in Realms of day," #BlueSkyFineArts
#EastCoastKin 🦋 #BlueSkyFineArts #VisualArts

#DigitalCompositeImage #JanuArty #SciArt #DigitalArt
#AbstractArt #DigitalMandala #NatureInspired #MandalaArt #BlueSkyArtists #MeditativeArts #ArtisticMandalas
#GridArt #PostModernistArt #PixelArt

Seems the words I wrote in 2017...⬆️ Go to post ⬆️ #Cloudscape #clouds #photography #nature #sciart #shotoniphone #blueskycommunity #PostModernistArt
#BlueSkyFineArts #VisualArts #BlueSkyPhotography
#naturebeauty #DigitalCompositeImage #DigitalCollage
#DigiCollage #Storms #DigitalArtist #Photoshop

A tall and completely golden cottonwood tree in he compound of my former home at Pojoaque Reservation in Northwest Santa Fe, New Mexico. The October sky was clear and deep blue; the winds were rip-roaring through the valley, stripping the trees of their last leaves. The cottonwoods are hardy trees, and hold their leaves later than other deciduous kindred. Here's a couple of leaves being driven down at me by the wind. It wasn't hard at all to get these shots. When I drove into the compound and saw the leaf cyclones swirling around, I simply ran for the camera!

"Fall afloat," #digitalart (places I've lived, loved and am going to miss for a long time when I settle into New England)

Tonight’s theme is #Blur #BlueSkyArtShow All day Saturday⏳

Still time! #EastCoastKin #VisualArts #Photoshop #Surreal
#PostmodernistArt #SantaFeNM #PojoaqueReservation

This image is of one of the Tradd Street signs in the Colonial Lake district of Charleston, South Carolina, just a few blocks from my old studio & home on Beaufain Street. In the wee hours of morning in a most haunted area of town. I loved it there! It's a poignant image for me, for I walked the city that entire night, photographing all that appealed to me, so I would always have a record of that beautiful and history-laden city on the coast of South Carolina, my home state. This is a composite build in Photoshop, showing the Tradd Street sign in full reflection by automobile headlights approaching, so that the colors of the night are quite saturated, deep rich blacks, awkward shadows partially illuminated by those artificial lights. Lastly, most of all, this will be the last year I ever spend in South Carolina. I returned home a year ago to photograph and record as much as I could, so as to continue my work elsewhere. I've spent time on the coast, and in the low country as well. I'm now located in the Midlands, in Columbia, the Capital City, where I spent much of my adult life and arts career. I'll be moving upstate soon, to continue shooting various areas. But that is also an important location for me to continue work on "The Parkways Projects," which involves the history of, the planning and development of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and the two National Parkways connecting GSMNP to Shenandoah National Park. It's become a larger and larger facet of my work, and is one of the two major sequence of works I'll be engaging in for the rest of my life. The other I call "The Hybrid Works," which basically includes all the interdisciplinary work I do these days. While "The Parkways Projects" are very strongly photography based, with supporting lllustrated imagery I'm creating to accompany the written part of the projects in which I'm using the NPS archival photo image scans managed by Clemson University in the upstate. Hence my living there next.

"Last Exit from Tradd Street," from the Hybrid works.
Tonight’s theme is #Blur #BlueSkyArtShow All day Saturday⏳

#EastCoastKin #BlueSkyFineArts #VisualArts #BlueSkyPhotography #DigitalCompositeImage #DigitalCollage #AltPhotography #Photoshop #Surreal
#PostmodernistArt #CharlestonSC #TraddStreet

Black and white scanned negative images, inverted and then overlayed to build a postmodern grunged-up digital collage. You can see the 35mm Kodak film, notches and all, in four different frames I shot back in the summer of 1977. The Jeep is parked in my parent's yard, with the large oak trees and shrubs in the background. It's a tricolor work of black, white and golden bronzes.

"Willys Fissure at Church Street, 1977," flatbed scan from original film negs of my Father's 1961 Jeep Pickup. Dad's name was Willis 😎

Today's theme is #Blur #BlueSkyArtShow All day Saturday⏳

#DigitalCompositeImage #BlueskyArt #PostModernistArt
#DigitalGrunge #Steampunk #WillysJeep #SouthernGothic