Some of the images on these pages are straight photographs and others have been modified using techniques of digital art photography.
The process starts with the digital photograph or scan, followed by the "optimizing" of the image in a program such as Photoshop, and ends with the modification or enhancement of the image using a variety of techniques and/or software programs, often to create a "painterly" effect.
The photographer/artist has pretty much complete control over the process, from framing the shot in the viewfinder, to creating the final print.
If you're like me, and often feel compelled to play around with a photograph to explore its potential to delight, tease or intrigue the eye in different ways, then all this is a dream come true.
Sometimes the resultant image differs quite significantly from the original photograph, and the term "art" fits better than "photograph."
I have included both straight photos and digital art images in the general Galleries, but I've also given digital art its own Gallery. Thus, some images appear in more than one Gallery.
The images comprise work done from 2002 to the present.
