Author: Joanne
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Lens-Artists Challenge #341 – Personal Favorites
This week it’s Tina’s turn to issue our challenge, and it’s a good one! At first look, it would seem easy to address this week’s challenge. Who doesn’t have favorite images? But, oh, how to pick just five?!! Well, here goes! My first favorite picture is also the Featured Image above: Grand Canyon in Winter…
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Reimagining Nature: Artistic Techniques for New Perceptions
Images from the Visions of Nature collection have been shared before. Recently, I re-edited Secret Garden and was happy with the outcome, which prompted me to refresh additional images within the collection. I have described my reasoning behind these images in other contexts. I will summarize my thinking here. My goal in creating these visuals…
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Secret Garden
I previously shared a photograph titled Secret Garden from my Visions of Nature collection. Upon reviewing it recently, I felt it appeared somewhat flat and washed out—definitely not the look I aim for in that collection. Therefore, I’ve re-edited it, enhancing the color, contrast, and sharpness. The updated version is now posted above. Here is…
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Orchids for Spring
Orchids have become ubiquitous year-round in the supermarkets and florist stores. But the New York Botanical Gardens‘ Orchid Show is an annual feature of spring, so in honor of the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere, here is a selection of Orchid Show orchids. Orchids photographed by me at the New York Botanical…
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Architecture 2: The Getty Center
When I lived in Los Angeles, I loved to visit the Getty Center, partly of course because of the most incredible collection of art. But also because the buildings and the grounds themselves inspired, for me, at once both excitement and serenity. The Getty Center is in Brentwood, California, part of Los Angeles. Still featuring…
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One Photo Four Ways – Sunflowers Week 3
Sunflowers Variation 3 features another digital alteration of the image, this time applying a solarization effect. In the era before digital photography, unique effects could be created by exposing negatives or photographic prints to light prior to full development. A comparable result could also be obtained through excessive overexposure of film in the camera. Here,…
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Lotus Flower
Shot in the same place as yesterday’s entwined limbs, Buttonwood Park, in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
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Intertwined Limbs
I guess that title could suggest something a bit more risque, but in this case it refers to intertwined tree limbs. It’s amazing they all come from that one tree. Shot in Buttonwood Park, New Bedford, Massachusetts, a few years ago.
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Exploring Macro Photography: Transforming Floral Images
As I keep experimenting with different methods to render photographs, I’ve been delving into the manipulation of macro images. Enhancing flowers is quite challenging, but I’m eager to create more artistic representations of floral images. All the pictures presented here originated as macros and have undergone various manipulations. None of them involve A.I. technology. I’ll…
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Lens-Artist Challenge for #340 – Portraits
Ritva has this week’s challenge – Portraits – and it’s truly a challenge for me, since I don’t normally do portraits; in fact I usually avoid people pictures. I’ll try to respond with a few images. (Above feature image AI generated.) Opening with one of the (very) rare portraits I’ve done. This was a commission.…
