The Artist and The Art

Art is not created by an act of the artist; it is the artist breath of life that brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting their own inner manifestations and thus forever entangles the artist spirit with the art – dale

A Heart Well Worth Winning

“A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.” – Charles Dickens

The last of the car wash series

Exploration Dreaming – Humanity Leaving the Cradle

I would like to respectfully acknowledge Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation who are the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land I currently reside.

The use of traditional Australian Aboriginal painting techniques and symbols have opened a new vista to artistic expression for me when combined with deep space images.

Using traditional symbols, the image depicts [...]

Dreaming : Digital Multimedia with the GIMP

I have started experimenting with combining my love of art, especially indigenous art, with my photography. Using the GIMP, I edited one of my old photos of a butterfly garden decoration. I removed the background to the butterfly and tweeks the image curves to produce an image with nice stark contrasting lines and no background.

Using [...]

Celebrate Art

Out of respect for my better half, I have added another photo to replace the spider that was occupying numero uno spot on this site (see her comments under the spider below).

Hyperion

Draw 4

The Maple just gets better!

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Aussi Maples

The maple tree in my backyard is looking brilliant in reds, oranges and yellows. I was putting my daughter in bed last night and noticed the lights from her windows illuminating the tree. Funny that I tried to take a few shots during the day but none turned out as nice as this 15 [...]

Reaching NGC 2264

My daughter before one of her ice skating competitions. I slipped in a recent Astronomy Picture Of the Day photo of the Cone Nebula and the Snowflake Cluster for effect.

From the APOD website:Strange shapes and textures can be found in the neighborhood of the Cone Nebula. These patterns result from the tumultuous unrest that accompanies [...]