Elevator to…

Today, I expected to go out shooting but instead just visited a lot of locations and had a nice outing instead. This image is another for "Urban Woods" even though I thought I was done with the series.

Emergency Exit Only

This is the same base image as yesterday’s image. Of course, the resulting image has a totally different feel. At this point, I am no longer in active development for "Urban Woods". You may see an image or two being posted. Per my portfolio class, I have decided to start a portfolio called "Meditation Spots". This work is much more like my work before Urban Woods or Grungy Flowers took over.

Limitations

I made this image when I was depressed about losing Cho-Cho. I made a second image (to be posted tomorrow) with the same background that has a totally different feel.

Streaks of Fall

This weekend, I decided to take a workshop from Digital Stop with Olivia Parker. We had a very small class. This image was made during the workshop. I like the watercolor effect which mimics Olivia’s technique for starting a composite. She starts with out-of-focus shots and merges them together. My resulting composite is very different though.

Blockade

Another possibility for the Urban Woods series.

Riverwalk

This one is a composite of a San Francisco street scene with a ’Lost Yosemite’ picture. I have not posted the Yosemite image yet but will in the future. In the lower-left hand corner, there is a pigeon walking down the sidewalk. I did not realize it was there until I starting make this montage. I left the pigeon because it made me smile.

Hanging Out on the Metreon Terrace

Yes, another for the "Urban Woods" series.  This is a slightly different viewpoint of the Metreon Terrace.  I am starting a portfolio class next week so expect some changes of directions soon.

Lighted Path

Today was a miserable day. I had a migraine all day. Finally, I just gave in, took my prescription, and went to bed to sleep it off.

On the hardware front, my backup hard drive for photo backups became unformatted according to Windows. I have tried multiple utilities to see if they can restore the data but no go so far. If Chip cannot recover the data, I lose all my raw images since the beginning of this year.

Ok, enough whining. Tomorrow will be a better day. It is Friday after all.

For some very intriguing beach shots, check out this image.

Warning – Smoking Area

This one just fell together tonite when I sat down and said "Hmmm…what to post?". I looked at a Coyote Creek shot that was not posted and plopped it on top of this grab shot of a hotel Smoking Area near my work.

No Parking Anytime

Well, this is another iffy. This is a scene from Coyote Creek overlaid with a grab shot from our recent museum visit.