The Journey Into Art (Before And After)

This post shows the evolution of original images into the final print. Three images were combined and worked on in various ways to achieve the final result. This took many hours of experimentation...

Here are the steps that went into Mono Lake grasses 6. Some of the steps look very subtle, even without seeming change from the previous one...

Here is the process that went into the final image and print for Mono Lake grasses 7.

Image 1 & 2 from the camera

Combined image from 1 & 2

After initial color and contrast work

After further transformation

After final color processing and resziing

Many have asked from what images did my current work start. Since I have ventured farther and farther from the beaten path of traditional landscape photography, I have resurrected the Before and After series to show what I am doing with my work...

It has been more than a year from the last one in this series, so I thought I would carry on with a review of one from my most recent project "Walls in Motion".

This project will be the first exhibit after the COVID restrictions ease, probably late next summer or fall...

This is one of my early prints, exploring the blasphemous activity of altering the form and colors of my images to express something more than the few modifications most landscape photographers change in their images...

This is the fifth in the series of Before and After images that shows what came out of the camera and what subsequently went on paper.

This image came from a late spring sunset at Devil's Garden, outside of Torrey, Utah...

This is the fourth in a series of Before and After images that shows what came out of the camera and what subsequently went on paper.

This print was from a morning session south of Sedona, Arizona, shooting with a long lens...