Rockaway Baby

This macabre thing caught my eye at Rockaway Beach. I thought it was a dead animal at first. This gloomy image matched my mood at that moment. I am in mourning for our recently departed bird Dinka and slip into melancholy easily.

Bank Street Tree

I had this dark processing in mind when I photographed this tree in the snow. The third of these three processing methods is an inverted image that makes it look a little like an infrared image.

Method: In Photoshop I cloned out the windows, added a starburst protecting the darks, added a vignette, converted it to B&W, and added a blur and masking out the center. In the third one I inverted the image as well.

Contributed to the One-to-Three Photo Processing Challenge-February 2022

Spider and Pod

A spider like the one in Dr. Who last night came in to play with a smoking pod. A composite created for Halloween starting with a seed pod photographed in Central Park, October 28, 2018 and with smoke brushed in.

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Spider and Pod, Central Park 10/28/2018

Cat Henge

I made these digital art images for Halloween in October 2000. They are composits of Stonehenge, a butterfly and a black cat. I used to have a black cat named Sooty when I was a little girl. I love Stonehenge and the ancient history of Britain, and the mythoogy of pre-christian celts and druids. An enjoyable historic novel is Sarum: A Novel of England by Edward Rutherford.

Stonehenge Cat 2000
Stonehenge Cat 2000

Cat and Butterfly 2000
Cat and Butterfly 2000

 

 

 

Golden Toads

I had a dream that golden toads where raining down in a golden forest back in 2001. After the dream I learned that Golden Toads had becoem extinct in Costa Rica in 1989. These composite images representing my dream are old and not very skillfully done but they tell the story.

Golden Toads in Gold Trees 9/2001
Golden Toads in Gold Trees 9/2001

Golden Toads in Gold Trees 9/2001
Golden Toads in Gold Trees 9/2001

Golden Toads in Gold Trees 9/2001
Golden Toads in Gold Trees 9/2001