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When I look at my gallery I sometimes wonder if people think..."Hey, this guy can't be in all these different places he must be pulling stock shots and calling them his own". I know that this happens because I posted a few images on line as "Public Domain" just for fun and within a day found someone "selling" them as his own "Fine Art"....some people!
Anyway the reason for the wide selection of subject mater is this....
For several lucky years I enjoyed a job that had me traveling around the country. I spent a lot of time in Florida, Texas, Arizona, etc... along with that job, I managed to build up a lot of hotel points and airline miles. My wife and I took advantage of those "Perks" and did a lot of traveling for several years.
So, yes, there were stretches where I would be in Ft. Lauderdale one week and San Antonio the next. Then we might take a trip to the Grand Canyon or a cruise to the islands.... Those were great years brought to a screeching halt by the folks at Goldman-Sachs, Chase, Bank of America and other "Too Big To Fail" financial Institutions. Though we didn't get hit as hard as many, many other people, it did get me downsized . I was lucky to hang in and spend a year in Houston (giving me a chance to explore Texas and the Gulf Coast) taking a lot of pictures before returning to New Jersey.
Back in the Garden State, I spent a lot of time shooting along the coast and in the Pines of South Jersey and the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania. Additionally I would just ride around finding things to shoot at flea markets, playgrounds, abandon buildings, etc...I also enjoyed working on Macro water drops on rainy days..Though I really haven't posted many of those.
Also, since becoming a deviant I have been posting a lot of older stuff in addition to the new.
So, they are all mine.. I also enjoy manipulating my own work in photoshop i.e.: Out of Bounds, etc..
Eclectic...
If you look at my gallery you will no doubt notice that my style, so to speak, is a bit eclectic. Although I lean a great deal toward landscape/ seascape images - I also enjoy still life on a broad scale.
A bowl of fruit (the classic still life!) to a rusty sliding board. I believe that beauty can be found just about anyplace. In the same way a good comedian can find the funny side of everyday life. I think an "artist", photographer, painter, cartoonist or illustrator - all can find the beauty in the mundane. The way an "artist" sees things is the way a song writer "hears" a tune in his or her head or a writer "imagines" a story.
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I have posted a few "manipulated" images. I feel as long as I am the photographer and I am using only my images, then if I want to combine them, what the heck.
"Sail Away" was a decent shot I took in Galveston Texas but I wanted to punch it up by inverting the sky and lowering the opacity a bit.
"Lighthouse" is a combination of 3 images..The Barnegat Light in NJ, fence and dune from NJ and the rocks from Galveston.
I do like to use Photoshop along with Topaz filters for various effect. You can always tell but I see nothing wrong with that.
Jim
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Very interesting backstory! This would explain all your photos from around the United States. That is really cool you got to travel all around the USA using frequent flyer miles.
Which place, that you traveled to during that time frame, was your favorite out of all of them?