one wish

I’d like to not want to be gone.

old photoshop. butterflies. no hurricanes.

I was going through some old files on my computer and came across these. I used to work at a local photography studio and so we always had props cameras and models on hand. Generally, when I had down time I would play with some of the images our photographers would take. these are some results from then. Like most of the things I do…I can’t tell if they’re cool or not. But I like them.

Clarity

Greetings.

a book, you want
of Wilmette, Ill.
of clarity I think

Sincerely, Noe Marin

 

 

I wish I could take credit for writing this.
It was an email I received. I have no idea what it means
but Noe Marin was on the money about the book of clarity.
If there is one…I’ll take it. 

Pray for Rain

the well is deep

and the water’s poisoned.

so today I’ll pray for new rain.

and constitutions

stronger than mine.

Prophets

i visit islands

where time doesn’t exist.

seven months is a hundred lifetimes

and syllables forming sounds like “twenty years”

rain without meaning.

where misfits are prophets

with eyes like solar flares

that speak in urban slang.

where prophets who wear mostly ironed

blue Puerto Rico t-shirts.

live with God-sized holes.

Orion’s pose

This is one of my favorite images of all time. I was playing around with a really old, really cool camera that made everything look awesome. Including bookshelves. Separately, I had a new digital camera and was taking pictures of my daughters. I loved Orion’s pose (originally shot on a sofa) and the simplicity and weightiness of children’s books. So I put the 2 together.

Elvis

I love my job. I love the challenges I’m presented with daily. This challenge in particular was ridiculous. A local church was hiring an Elvis impersonator to come help with some type of charity event and our agency was going to help design some posters to help advertise the event. So I was presented with the following 2 images and asked if I could make it look like Elvis was one of the Saintly statues on the side of this church.

I said I could do it. But…I didn’t really think I could do it.

There were so many issues, not the least of which was the fact that the only picture of an elvis statue we had was almost in complete darkness. there was lighting, coloring, textures, blah, blah,blah. etc. Even removing the existing saint to create a space for Elvis was a pain.

Here’s what I ended up with:

It was a challenge, but it was also a lot of fun.

larger version:

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/2863/elvis1200pxchurch01as4.jpg

Muse

This was the final image I created for a contest I didn’t win.

I love it…but in retrospect…I’m not a huge fan of the color scheme. It’s a little bright. And primary.

I think I like the muted version (at the top of the page) better.

here’s a larger version:

http://img521.imageshack.us/my.php?image=muse03mp4.jpg

Apollo’s House

This was the 3rd piece I entered in that photoshop contest. The idea was rooted in the Greek story of Apollo and Daphne which is why the trees are women. I can’t really explain the escalator other than I thought it would be pretty pimp for a treehouse. Especially a God’s treehouse.

I think this piece was pretty well done technically and there are aspects that I like about it a lot, but I don’t love this one as much as some of the other things I’ve done. Anyway…

 

For a larger image go here:

http://img221.imageshack.us/my.php?image=apolloshouse02bhj7.jpg

Surrender Dorothy

Recently, I entered a photoshop contest.

Each week we were given 5 random images

to manipulate in any way we wanted, this was one of the images I entered.

I really like how this one turned out and I think the idea was cool.

The smoking red slippers make me smile.

For a hi-res looksie:

http://img522.imageshack.us/my.php?image=surrenderdorothylokb7.jpg