jsemonik

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.

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. The one are

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