Mother Earth #1
In the full size version you can actually see the houses in the background that were damaged in Florida by Hurricane Ivan in September. You can also see her eyes, and face as well. I choose the...
View ArticleIvan Memory
Using an aerial photograph from NOAA of Pensacola, Florida taken shortly after Hurricane Ivan, I’ve modified my old “memory” template to produce this rendering. Instead of keeping some background...
View ArticleKatrina Quilt
: rendered at 18,000 X 12,000 : Katrina Quilt I have noticed that quite a few DC area artists have put up their art for sale to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Using a public domain...
View ArticleAbstract Katrina
: rendered at 18,000 X 12,000 : Abstract Katrina – Source Imagery from NASA Following up with my previous rendering of Hurricane Katrina titled “Katrina Quilt,” I decided to make a slightly different...
View ArticleSuperdome Quilt
: rendered at 18,000 X 12,000 : Superdome Quilt – Source Imagery from NOAA Horrid beauty. Symmetry & balance in an area ravaged by my favorite & only subject, Mother Nature. Like the recent...
View ArticleSuperdome Quilt – 1st Derivative
: rendered at 18,000 X 12,000 : Superdome Quilt – 1st Derivative Source Imagery from NOAA This rendering mrks a subtle departure from my standard quilt template. For this rendering I rotated the...
View ArticleBay Saint Louis Bridge – Before & After
Image taken before Katrina from Google Earth Image taken a few days after Katrina from NOAA This is the unmodified source imagery for my next rendering. The amount of damage caused by the surge cause...
View ArticleBay Saint Louis Quilt
: rendered at 18,000 X 12,000 : Bay Saint Louis Quilt Source Imagery from NOAA Comparing the before & after imagery of the bridge is a humbling reminder of the shear force of a storm surge. Using...
View ArticleSuperdome Quilt 1st Derivative #2
: rendered at 18,000 X 12,000 : Supdome Quilt 1st Derivative #2 Source Imagery from NOAA Using the first derivative of the Superdome Quilt, I place the extracted imagery into the 6 seamed quilt...
View ArticleBall of Destruction
: rendered at 12,000 X 8,000 : Ball of Destruction I decided to use Bryce’s side program, Daz Studio, to manipulate the “Victoria” model to create this rendering. With Bryce 5.5, you can click on an...
View Article24 on 14th – One Long Day on 14th by Graeme King
On April 19th, 2008 I met Graeme King near the Black Cat nightclub after he had just started his 24 hours on 14th Street project. His goal was to take pictures of people for 24 hours and exhibit the...
View ArticleA cap cloud on the continental divide
As we drove to Bear Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park, I took these photographs of the cap cloud covering the continental divide. The continental divide has always fascinated me as one of the most...
View ArticlePhotos from a frozen Bear Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park
After driving up a snow covered road, we arrived at a snowy Bear Lake, which is at 9,475 feet above sea level at the base of the continental divide. We put on extra warm clothing and went for a walk...
View ArticleUrban Rainbow #1
I am starting a new series and posting photographs of rainbows that I happen to spot. Today’s rainbow was taken yesterday from my back deck after a rather hard downpour. I did some minor color...
View ArticleUrban Rainbow #2
Today’s rainbow was taken about an hour ago from my back deck. If you look closely, you can see the start of a second rainbow in the upper left-hand corner. Like the previous rainbow photograph, I did...
View ArticleDarkness by George Gordon Byron (1816)
Darkness is a poem written by Lord Byron in July of 1816. That summer was known as the Year Without a Summer, because Mount Tambora had erupted in the Dutch East Indies the previous year, casting...
View ArticleThe Snow-Covered Washington, DC Area Is Today’s MODIS Satellite Image of the Day
Satellite: Aqua Date Acquired: 12/20/2009 Resolutions: 250m (reduced) Bands Used: 1,4,3 Credit: Jesse Allen, NASA’s Earth Observatory I was looking for satellite images of last weekend’s blizzard and...
View ArticleYouTube Videos & Photograph From Last Weekend’s Historic Snowball Fight In...
The video above contains four short video clips I recorded from my Canon SD750 on February 6th, 2010 in & around Dupont Circle in Washington, DC. The video clips show the what the snowball fight...
View ArticleChemtrails Over DC
Although planes cannot fly directly over DC, those planes that fly around DC still have their exhaust lines float over the city. I took this photograph because I thought it was interesting the way the...
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