On Aviation and Photography:
"You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky." -- Amelia Earhart
“You don't take a photograph, you make it.” - - Ansel Adams
UPDATED: September 19, 2010
Hi, My name is Bill and I am updating my homepage to reflect a wonderful event in my life...marriage, September 18, 2010, to my best friend Tara...known to many of you as auntietk here on Renderosity.
We "met" shortly after I joined Renderosity in August 2008. We share a love for photography and indeed all types of art.
We live north of Seattle and enjoy getting to share photographic excursions and information with other Renderositians ( is "Renderositians" even a word? ). LOL
As for me, it seems like I've been taking pictures all my life but I didn't get serious enough to purchase my first Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) camera until May 2008. In May 2009 I upgraded from an Olympus E-510 to an Olympus E-30 with a wide variety of lenses.
My subject areas of interest include absolutely everything but with a frequent return to airplanes, cars, tanks, etc., ...or as Tara says, machines that make lots of noise;-)
If you are curious, I am pictured above in a Grumman Corsair on a taxiway of the Kansas City Downtown Airport. I used to fly and train others to fly airplanes. That will explain my frequent forays into the world of aviation. Last but by no means least, thanks to Pannyhb for introducing me to Renderosity. The moment I saw it I was hooked.
Fine print: Yes, the photo above is a photo manipulation:-)
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Comments (34)
Faemike55
send it up to Alaska? Nice postwork, Bill
bazza
Nice post work Bill, now it just goes around and around and around and around ..
lyron
Splendid work!!!!
blinkings
Are you sure that's not an sky view of your last cup of coffee!!!!!
Meisiekind
Oh wow! Is this what you have been doing while Tara and I were chatting just now??? Fantastic pw Bill! You will have to teach me how to do this! I really like a lot!
helanker
WOW !SO beautiful indeed. Didnt I know what it was, I would think about a dreamcatcher :-)
jayfar
Nice work Bill, at least you can't get lost crossing this one.
auntietk
As I recall, that really was a bridge to nowhere. That was a fun day with Denise, and I'm glad you went back looking for things to play with. That image made a fantastic "planet" piece! I need to get busy and do a little practicing with this technique. Very cool!
durleybeachbum
Excellent and interesting, Bill!
T.Rex
Wow, Bill! And I thought you had started working for a local eye doctor (photo of a very sick patient's eye)! Chuckle, laughter. I've looked at the link, too. I just can't figure out how this is done, but it looks great. There are a rare few paintings from the 1600s that are like this - the idea was to place a silver cylinder in the middle of the painting in order to see what it represented by looking at the reflection on the cylinder's polished mirror-like surface. There was a bit of trompe l'oeil experimenting among some of the old masters back then. This is particularily fun as it's an old rotating bridge going around to nowheres. Really nice concept. Now you folks will have to create a tutorial to teach the rest of us! Keep up the fun work! :-)
DananJaya_Chef
kenmo
Neat stuff Bill...!!!
awjay
interesting postwork
makron
Great work. Very well done
jendellas
Another great one Bill!!!
MrsRatbag
Perfect solution, Bill! You did well with this; it look like it goes down forever in the center! I'll have to go back to my shots from that day and see what else I've got hiding in the files. Between the weather and some physical issues I haven't been able to get our shooting in a couple of weeks!
flavia49
stupendous!
mariogiannecchini
Splendid , interesting work ! Perfect postwork !
RodS
Wow - an interesting bit of postwork on this bridge, Bill. Kinda like that hotel you can check out of anytime, but you can never leave... You just go around and around forever! Superbly cool!
LovelyPoetess
Well done! This is a fun thing to do with the odd photo. : )
neiwil
This is mind bending stuff Bill. Brilliant, so open to misinterpritation on first glance, but then the details bring it into context.
aksirp
BEAUTIFUL and intersitng- technical and esotheric- all your experience is in this pic! thats mature;)
junge1
Very creative Bill. Love it! I don't think I would ever think of something like this!
sandra46
outstanding composition! a most imposing image!
Richardphotos
a hairy bridge no less
tennesseecowgirl
Love your creativity.
Blush
Great image Unique too Hugs Susan`
danapommet
And both of these images- your "Bridge to Nowhere" and Denise's "Planet Seattle" blow my mind. Fantastic photo manipulation. Dana
Chipka
WOW! A kaleidoscope bridge! I really love the way you've made something so concrete as an abandoned bridge into something abstract! I love the colors in this: those nice, muted grays, the dark brown of rust and impressively heavy iron. This whole image is a nice twist on something familiar...well, familiar to somebody. I haven't been to that neck of the woods yet, but I know I'll see it and hopefully live close by at some point. This is really nice.
cfulton
Around and round she goes. Creative! Clive