You’re looking at a man in his mid 50’s. If it seems muted & browning, it is a duotone image in deep yellow ochre & dark walnut brown. Not quite black. The man is reaching for something out of the right side of the image. His eyes are cut hard to one side. Part of a framed work of art & his most often used CD rack frames the right side. The left side is framed by two paintings, on the wall behind. The year is not 1860, 1888, or 1918. It dates all the way back to 2010. I know all these facts to be true as he was me once. I remember the day I was meddling around in Photoshop as October 10th, working on one if my newest Human Grid pieces, which was quickly morphing into something new by synaptic osmosis. I was ramping up the detail, planning to finally build a narrative around all the images I’d made from November 2002 through October 2010, when Photoshop glitched. It does that often enough. Enough to annoy. But this time, the gremlin caught my eye. I halted my workflow, backed up on my history, then looked at my layers. 17. History was also at 17. I remember thinking how odd that was & wondered if the numbers colluded to create the glitch. I flipped a few layers about & saw interesting elemental changes. I took screenshots, wrote down the settings, zoomed in on my history & layers & took one last screenshot. I then decided to get a desk cam shot of me. I’d fiddle around with it that night. I began work on the self portrait around 7 pm; I had this image done by 11:30. I was trying to get it finished to send to a friend on her birthday that night. It became the progenitor of both the “Beaufain Studio” and later, the “Virtual Palladium” series. I began making the Beaufain works that week. I had been shooing for the Virtual Palladium idea for 11 months. It wasn’t until later I decided my methods & techniques for toning. I found this today while looking for another Virtual Palladium work. I thought it might be of interest as to how things sometimes start.

4th #VirtualPalladium works drop (each VP has more info in ALT text)

Alt self portrait #TomOgburn #digitalcollage (series 2007-14) These are fellow creatives from all disciplines. Two series began here.

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Posted Jan 3—2nd time I dropped one of my #VirtualPalladium works (each VP has more info in ALT text)

Greensleaves #TomOgburn #digitalcollage (series 2007-14) These are fellow creatives from all disciplines.

#EastCoastKin 🦋 #landscape #photography #skyart #blueskyart #digitalart #digital

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Posted Jan 3—1st time I dropped one of my #VirtualPalladium works. A sibling to "Agfa Opa."

Atalaya #TomOgburn #digitalcollage a series begun late fall 2007-14. I was shooting fellow creatives from all disciplines.

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The Virtual Palladium series was based on another older method of printing, which was the palladium prints often used by Alfred Stieglitz and other North Atlantic and Western portrait photographers. I was asking my creative peers, no matter their practice or discipline to sit for me, and in working with them I'd interview them as to their current endeavors and interests; how they worked, if they had any certain tools or methods (this was when I learned about Labanotation) used by dancers, and other such ways of communicating and working. Many of these images will likely be used for he Human Grid/Mythics series of works that are re-emerging now that I'm settling back into studio mode. The model here is lit primarily from the right with a softlight box against a black-draped background, for in this instance I had worked with her enough to know I wanted some images of her for the mythics series. The gold tones however fit the palladium spectrum, along with he deep walnut brown darker tones. A very warm image is then gained.

“NoMoreBandwidth” #TomOgburn #Photography
#Stunday 🦋 #BlueskyPhotography #Monochrome
#Skyart #BlueskyArt #Art #Digital #DigitalArt
#VirtualPalladium #LightandShadow #Chiaroscuro
#HumanNature #TheParkwaysProjects #Portraits

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

One of a series of portraits for a series I called "Virtual Palladium." Both for the old photographic palladium prints, but also hearkening back to classical antiquity. This series was simply just a beautiful state of being I was in at the time, when I started thinking about recording all the artists I know, and try to portray them in the array, the field of the disciplines they are in. Creatives, I tend to think, cross all practices, all disciplines. So when I mention "Artists" here, it was not meant solely the visual arts.

“Agfa Opa” #TomOgburn #digitalphoto #VirtualPalladium
#EastCoastKin🦋#BlueSkyArtShow Theme is #Reflections
#landscape #photography #art #photograph #digital
#landscapephotography #photographersofbluesky
#blueskyphotography #skyart #blueskyart #digitalart