Fine Art Photography Works

Four new fine art landscape photography and paintography images have been published in the gallery.

The images span the breadth of North Carolina’s most beautiful areas and include the Craggy Gardens area of the Blue Ridge Parkway in the North Carolina mountains and the Outer Banks on coastal North Carolina.

The images consist of traditional fine art photography and fine art paintography (hand-created digitally-painted photographs), in color and black and white renditions.  The color rendition is available as a limited edition print.

The first image is my personal favorite:

Pretty Passage - Spring in Craggy Gardens on the Blue Ridge Parkway in the North Carolina mountains

This digitally hand-painted image is of Craggy Gardens on the Blue Ridge Parkway in the North Carolina mountains.  In the spring and summer seasons, hiking trails in this area are among the most picturesque of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

This paintography image was created from a larger format negative and as such, can be printed at large print sizes.  It looks great on canvas or a fine art museum-quality paper.

The second image is also one of my long-term favorites:

Beached Beauty - a ship beached by a hurricane on the Outer Banks of North Carolina

Beached Beauty is a digitally hand-painted fine art paintography image of a ship that was beached by a hurricane in the Rodanthe area of the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

I photographed this scene as often as possible over an almost-two year period.  This beached beauty was one of my best-kept secrets.  I have yet to see any other images of this ship published by a professional photographer.  The reason is that the ship was completely buried under the sand the overwhelming majority of the time and only rarely emerged to make an appearance.

I am currently working on a body of work that will encompass the 18+ months I photographed this scene.  More will be published about this project at a later date.

The ship is no longer available.  I photographed its final demise one last time in September 2008.  Hurricane / Tropical Storm Hanna unearthed and exposed the ship one last time.   Over a period of 4 days the passing storm broke it to pieces and sent it out to sea for its final burial.

This image was previously published as a traditional photograph.  This rendition has been recropped and redone as a digitally hand-painted fine art paintography image and is available as a limited edition print or canvas.

The paintography technique used on this image was intentionally subtle.  I wanted to maintain a high-level of detail of the ship, so heavier hand-brushing was applied to the water sun and sky and a lighter touch was applied to the ship itself to ensure detail remained.

The following images show the subtle differences between the traditional photograph and the paintography image after it was painted:

Traditional photograph before hand-painting

And in this following image, you can see the paintography process rendered in the water:

Hand-painted fine art paintography - notice the diffence especially in the water

Following are the black and white versions of the above two works:

Pretty Passage - black and white rendition

Beached Beauty - black and white rendition

Additional images will be released soon.  Thanks for looking.