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Lately, I have become obsessed with making a series of images that look like this:

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I thought readers might be interested to see where this pho...


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During the winter, my photography friends and I frequently go to a local botanical garden to make photographs. This has especially been the case this winter, as it has been exceedingly cold, even for a Pittsburgh winter. But, while you might think the flowers would be the main attraction (and they sort of are), I have been obsessed with photographing something much more inani...


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Creation

In the winter, my photo buddies and I tend to make photographs indoors (don’t get me started about this winter, as we now have a moderate amount of water damage with areas of drywall ripped out and drying equipment in place and it sounds like an airplane is taking off in our kitchen, but I digress), and often go to the nearby Carnegie Museum of Art. While there, I typically c...


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This week, I continued my journey of photographing shapes and colors, then tried to create an interesting multi-image composition. This one falls into the minimalist style. I took a photo of a simple brushstroke whose shape caught my attention. The red color didn’t hurt either. I also took a photo of a yellow background. I then combined the two and duplicated, transformed, an...


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Most of the time, when I am going out to photograph abstracts, I am trying to make the image with either a single exposure or a multiple exposure. It is not very common for me to make single exposures with the intention of combining them in Photoshop. But as a bit of a challenge to myself, that is exactly what I did on my last photo outing. More specifically, I wanted to look...


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