I am a developing artist working on improving my abilities to create beautiful digital landscape compositions. Without the help and suggestions of the many fellow artists in this community, it would be a long time before I reach the next level.
BIO
I am a retired procurement professional who has long had an interest in photography and painting; and, lately in computers and photorealistic natural landscapes. I hope to become more proficient and perfect my abilities to produce acceptable work. My experience in art started at a very early age when I would spend many hours sketching and painting. I had instruction at The Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois. I did some freelance work for Flying Models, Model Airplane News and Top Flite Models creating plans and illustrative construction sequences for magazines and kit models. I had spent more than 20 years designing, building and flying radio controlled model airplanes...a very rewarding hobby for me. During the 1970s, I spent 11 years in the hobby of "bonsai"; the Japanese art of miniature trees. In my first 7 tree entry in a contest, all 7 trees were awarded ribbons in various categories. Japanese landscaping became a passion for me where I completed a 3 year project creating a Japanese landscape around my home in Oak Forest, Illinois. I also did this work for several other people in our community. In 1987 I moved to Phoenix, Arizona where I currently make my home. The love of the American southwest and all its beauty is where I wanted to spend the rest of my life. Now that we have computers, digital cameras; and, Terragen; I'll have enough to do for a long, long time.
Comments (18)
carlx
Wonderful vista!!!
choronr
Thanx carlx; wish Renderosity would allow for higher quality images here. Had to reduce this to 512k ...the image has a lot of noise.
ariz
Bob, this is by far the best TG2 render I have seen. What?? It's a photo?? I don't know Bob with your skill it's hard to tell the difference.
Petra-S
sehr schöne Sicht!
GBCalls
Nice scene, well captured even reduced it looks great.
Maori
Phenomenal scene and photography!! Great shot, Bob.
artgum
Oh, to wake up each day and have this for your morning vista. Super capture Bob!
Ionel
Excellent capture, Bob! Very beautiful and interesting view!!! http://www.imagenomic.com/download.aspx for noise! It's free! :)
Dotthy
excellent point of view and wonderful shot!!!!!!!!
Coppens
Marvelous capture, Bob! Wine territory, I suppose...
chuter
HAHA - Home (sortof). I lived in Napa for many years then moved to American Canyon to be closer to work (SFO), although the wife works at Hess . . . well, hey! My commute is shorter - LOL. Nice shot by the way!
kasalin
Wonderful landscape, Bob !! At the first look I thought it is in Germany.... in Germany there you can find similar landscapes !!
MrsRatbag
Beautiful pattern in the vines...great shot!
X-PaX
I thought this is a Terragen picture first ;) Then I notice that it is a photo but I like it also.
bebert
very nice landscape, very good shot, Bob.
mcv
Impressive landscape panarama gives us an amazing view of wine coutry at rest, and proves the camera and a skilled artist's eye can keep up with E-On's latest!
Fahrenheit451
Great shot Bob! Makes me want to get out of L.A. for a while! Beautiful country up that way!
sossy
excellent composed landscape shot! special effect the diagonal roads! very well seen! ;o)