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 (33)
bazza
LOL good one Bill that will please her.. Oh Happy Birthday to you and best wishes for the future may you have many more!!
fallen21
Splendid effect, amazing picture!
durleybeachbum
Wow! How clever, Bill! that's much better! Looks a bit like the road through the New Forest near us. Happy Birthday..I managed to get a pic of your present to post today!
T.Rex
Happy Birthday Bill! Now, how did I know that? Must have been a little tattle-tale bird! :) I saw there was something odd with this, then read your text. The transition forest - plains is a bit too abrupt, but it's a very well done collage! I suspect you had a LOT of fun doing it. The transition between trees and wheat and sky is very well done. Thanks for the surprise and the chuckle! HAve a good one! :-)
sharky_
I had commented before but thought I'd redu it....Happy Birthday Bill and many more to come. Aloha
helanker
OHH YEAH!! That is also a better shot after MY head :-) Happy Birthday, Bill :-)))
flavia49
marvelous work
cfulton
Tee hee! Well done, BB! (Birthday Bill!) Even more surreal! Clive
Faemike55
Very cool postwork on this picture Happy Birthday, Bill
MrsRatbag
LOL! Well done!
awjay
we have instant coffee,instant tea.instant soup...... now we have instant trees
jendellas
Very clever Bill. HAPPY BIRTHDAY. xx
bobrgallegos
Very cool postwork!!!
jayfar
Very nicely done Bill and a happy birthday to you. BTW you were right about the light on my posting.
auntietk
This turned out great! :) Nice job, Hon.
kansas
Great postwork, but I like the open fields best.
0rest4wicked
Very cool contrasts! Outstanding work!
neiwil
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! you kept that quiet :-) Very clever, if I send you a pic of my house can you make it bigger :-) I do enjoy this sort of thing, something I try my hand at occassionally.You may regret this one, when the price of bread doubles because you've wiped out the grain harvest :-) L0L..have a great day. (and thanks again for the help)
jocko500
hahaha this is cool
emmecielle
Fantastic work! Happy Birthday, Bill! :)
jeroni
beautiful, love the colors and lighting excellent work
sandra46
STUNNING COMPOSITION! GREAT WORK!
Blush
Great image And what a change of scenery I like the trees:) Hugs Susan~
goodoleboy
Stunningly cool postwork on this already pristine image, Bill, and a stellar dedi for Denise. And I didn't know it was your birthday. Have a Happy one!
RodS
OK - here's your next challenge, Bill...... You need to put a big, hairy sasquatch in the middle of the road.... LOL! We're gonna get you playing with Poser yet..... LOL! Very cool manip, Bill! You really made this look great! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, by the way!! Got somethin' cooking in the render-oven.. ;-D
Chipka
I love shots like these: photographs of things that ain't really there! And, of course, being a big, huge fan of the re-imagined tv show Battlestar Galactica, I'm rather amused that this reminds me of a corridor on a Cylon base-star. The Cylons look like us now...and there are many copies and all of that good stuff...but one of the things they really like doing is "projecting" which basically means that they can walk through one of the really stark corridors on one of their whompin', big ships, and interact with the ship in such a way that the corridor actually looks, to them, like a path through the forest, a long corridor in an art museum, or anything else they'd want to see; it's interior design on demand! Gotta love those Cylons, especially that hottie in the red dress. But I digress...this is really fantastic, and like Rod, I think there probably should be a sasquach, or yeti, or something right in the middle, but that's just me; I'm weird like that. But anyway, this is fantastic. I like it immensely. It's so nice to see that you were having fun on your birthday and while I'm at it, happy birthday.
angora
super fast growing!!! :-D HAPPY (belated :-( ) BD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and 180 happy returns!!!!! at least... ;-D
mariogiannecchini
Fantastic work! Happy Birthday, Bill! Sorry for the delay, I knew only now seeing the picture of Andrew!
Richardphotos
very cool manipulation Bill
charpix
You swiped our trees??? ;c) Looks like speeding through the trees. We saw this kind of view when we toured the Oregon coast last year.