These past few weeks were brutal (work wise). But as soon as I had respite, Ragtime was born. :) I used several faces of V4 and Kelvin to accomplish the group. For the back ground, I placed a couple of the Ragtime (musical/movie) score on the keyboard of my Baby Grand and snapped a picture of it. Then asked my wife to take a shot of my hands playing the theme piece to be included as well. I wanted to do something I did back in 1982 when I took photography in college, but this time it did not work out. I took photography with Jules Allen (gifted photographer who specializes in black and white photography and is a master of "light/shadow" techniques. In 1982, for our portfolio, we (students) needed take some "required" photographs. One such required photograph was a photograph of "Movement." This had to be, of course, in black and white. For that particular shot, I waited until nightimte. I wore a black turtle neck and black pants. At the time I owned a white upright piano. The wall behind the piano was also white. With all the lights in the living room (and the entire house as a matter of fact) off, I placed the camera on a tripod, facing the piano and perfectly alligned with my back...about 7 or 8 feet away. Moved the 35 SLR camera dial to B (Bulb- manualy opens the lens and keeps the lens open until you manually close it). My wife was standing on the living room sofa, behind the camera holding the flash in her hand (not attached to the camera). I sat at the piano and started playing Moskowski's Etude de Virtuosite No. 2 in G minor which makes use of practically the entire piano keyboard. On my command, my wife would press the flash button to make the flash go off. Since everything was pitch black, the camera (with the lens open) recorded the flashes of light as I played. I truly did not know what I had gotten until I developed the film. It was exactly as I had invisioned it. My body was mostly at the center of the piano, but the blurry arms and hands "moved" all over the keyboard. This particular photograph was very well received when it came time for me to present. I wanted to do the exact same thing to use it as a back ground for the Ragtime render. My digital camera does not have a "B" setting. It was all very frustrating. Ultimately, I told my wife to take a photo without flash and using only ambient light. This will certainly "blur" the hands. It did, but not to my satisfaction. Still, I included it as th background to the render because I could not do anything else. I must get a digi camera with that Bulb setting. The fact that I cut off the blond's head and one of the legs was not an accident, but intentional. I did not mean anything by it, though. :) I placed this image on my web site with the soundtrack of Ragtime playing in the background. The effect of this image and the placements of the arms and hands is more stricking when the visual is accompanied by the auditory. :) I did not include the link here because I did not know if it was allowed and I did not want to take any chances...again :) Thank you very much for looking, and I hope that you find some aspects of it appealing.