Fine Art Photography Works

Interest has been expressed to me about publishing what I guess would be called contemporary or abstract fine art black and white photography images.  So instead of publishing some new beautiful fine art landscape photography and infrared images I have waiting in the wings, I thought I would do so.

This first image has actually been one of my favorites for some time now:

The Pile - a lone piling on the beach on the Outer Banks of North Carolina

It has been sitting in an unpublished gallery for about two years.  I’m not quite sure why I like this image so much.  Perhaps it’s the composition or Read the rest of this entry »

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 Read the rest of this entry »

Four new fine art landscape photographs have been published in the gallery.  The four fine art images include both abstract and paintography styles.  Paintography is a photograph that is digitally hand-painted to give it a unique, painterly style.  The two paintography images are offered as limited edition prints with a limit of 25 prints per print size.

My favorite is Deadwood Dunes:

Deadwood Dunes

I have taken many pictures of this driftwood bush and the sand dune over a two year period (here’s one).  Night shots, day shots, sunrise and sunset.  It has been interesting to watch this scene change.  This image was captured Read the rest of this entry »

I recently added new fine art photography images to the fine art online gallery (http://www.fineartphotographyworks.com)

Following is information about the images and their creation.

STORMY BODIE

Stormy Bodie

This is my favorite of the bunch. Not because it’s the best, but because of personal reasons. Often a photographer’s personal experiences encountered while capturing an image will influence their feelings about it, as is the case with this image.

I enjoy the challenge of shooting pictures under adverse conditions. All too often I run across photographers who run and hide their heads from the rain, thinking that their best work should be done in fair weather. I have found that the most dramatic images are often created in and under bad conditions.

Such is the case with this image. This is the Bodie Lighthouse on Bodie Island on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. This image was shot while tropical storm Danny was rolling over the Outer Banks in August, 2009. High winds, walls of driving rain, incredible non-stop lightning… the conditions could not have been better!

When I left Buxton (Outer Banks – Hatteras Island) that morning, I did not know where to go. I had no plan other than to be shooting somewhere at first light, about an hour before sunrise. I didn’t really expect to see a sunrise during a tropical storm, but I wanted to do something! That quiet, still little voice in my ear said “Bodie!” So I went.

It’s normally about a 45 minute drive from Buxton to Bodie. It took longer. As I made the drive in the dark, I became disheartened because I drove thru patches of horrendous downpours and wind. The highway was flooded in areas, as 12 often is. I often use an umbrella to shoot in rain, but I knew that would not be possible this time because the wind was so heavy it would have blown the top of the umbrella apart. I truly believed that when I got to Bodie I would be forced to stay in the car and watch.

As I began to near Bodie, I literally shouted out loud! Woo Hoo! Read the rest of this entry »