Digital Collage

Maternity Shot with Copyright

Blog Note

Today I added the "Labels" gadget and configured it using the html code. I wanted the "cloud" look with varying font sizes; I saw this on "les brumes" website and googled to find out how to do it. It is a work in progress: currently blue, in arial font, and not flush left... all three of which need to be changed, a mon avis (in my opinion).

Day and Night: India Self-Portrait

I have been experimenting with adding textures as layers in GIMP. The textures i have been using are from flickr, "les brumes" created by an artist whose work I actually find pretty awesome. In this image, the left side applied the texture as a difference layer and the right, as a value layer in Gimp. I added the borders to each separately, then combined for the finished pic and added a unified border to the whole thing. Putting them side by side required adjustment of canvas size.

In my textural explorations, I am most inclined to use my self portraits and/or botanical shots. Partially because they tend to be at once simpler and more artsy than many of my other photos, and partially because I feel more at liberty to manipulate "reality" with these subjects.

The shot itself is from a series of self portraits against a plain white wall in my room in the guest house in New Delhi. My camera was my best friend and greatest amusement in India!

Wanted: Self-Portrait

Wanted_border_small, originally uploaded by sstackho2004.

Orchid in Fog

Orchid in Fog, originally uploaded by sstackho2004.

I found a flickr group called "fGothic and fine art botanicals" and was inspired by the work. I ha e always enjoyed taking pictures of flowers and plants, and enjoy doing studio shots. So I think that when I get off bed rest, I will work on developing a set of color and monochrome fine art botanical shots.

This is actually an older photo that I just recently edited in gimp and iPhoto. Gimp's "fuzzy border" is pretty neat.

Untitled

Untitled, originally uploaded by sstackho2004.

Second test of direct blog from flickr. Larger posting format.

Untitled

Untitled,
originally uploaded by sstackho2004.

I have been experimenting with flickr lately. Right now I'm testing the direct upload to blog.

Feelin' a Little Low

Shot 1 from exploring the non-beautiful. I haven't been feeling so confident, and thought that maybe as part of getting through it, I should just capture it. Choice phrase to encapsulate the feeling; I thought of it last night: "I feel like a worthless piece of *&+%". And I do. But as I keep trying to get a "regular job" and be a contributing member of society and to my family, I figure art gives me the hope of something I am good at and maybe an alternate route to success.

Studio Practice: A Unique Flower