January 2013
Been at this site five years now and have seen a lot of growth - both artistically and spiritually thanks to the many good friends I have met here. I work with Poserpro2012, photoshop CS6, PSPX2, Perfect Effects 3 and Photomatrix 4. I love working in the material room and continue to find lots of growth there. I also do a lot of postwork fixing, special affects, and framing, all for which photoshop is indispensible. I love doing postwork; no image is anywhere near complete without it.
In the last year or so I've added quite a bit of photography to my gallery. I started with a Nikon Coolpix 9100 point and shoot. It gives amazing quality and its small size makes it easy to pack around and just grab some shots as they come into my vision. I still use it for sneaky people shots but now I use a Nikon D5100 DSLR for my more serious keeper work. Had I known how all consuming my passion for photography would become I should have jumped to a D600 low end pro camera.In my gallery you will see mostly storylines based upon my own visions and versions of Mesopotamian Mythology, sprinkled with some Celtic works and an occasional pinup or two and quite a few special requests. I have long been a writer, though a terrible speller, and so most of my images come with a storyline or poem. No image seems complete to me without words to accompany them.In high school I trained in both the Sciences and Fine Arts but when I went to university I had to choose one or the other and so I went with the life sciences. Art dropped out of my life for a long time... though I never gave up my interest in archeology and mythology. I wound up with a graduate degree in the life sciences with majors in physical geography, ecology and evolutionary biology. My love of nature and a deep naturalistic spirituality eventually led me to the wikkan tradition.Some five and a half years ago I discovered poser after coming across some great 3-d art on the web and after some six months of stumble bum practice I joined this site.Doing this type of art has released many visions and stories that were locked up inside my soul for many ages. It has allowed me to explore the life and times of my primal spiritual ancestor, a girl also named Roxanne, who lived in the Sumerian regions. She whispers the stories of these classic legends in my mind and I create the images to go with them.My stories are mostly written as dialogue and they tend to be rather long. So grab a coffee, a tea or better yet a beer, kick back, relax and stay a while.I hope you enjoy your stay here.Hugs and blessed beRoxy
Comments (25)
barryjeffer
A very true vision of that city... perfect in b/w Roxy.
SidheRoseGraphics
It does indeed look foreboding here - stark and cold. Lovely postwork Roxy!
adorety
Perfectly shown. That bright sky and black city are a balanced contrast. The brightness makes the dark so much more sinister. The lack of detail gives the city a sense of having a comlplex and dense base. This seems a fitting contrast to your recent more colorful images of the city. I'm enjoying your photo work alot, but seem to be still missing your 3D tales. But I know change and variety are good.
zil2008
Very foreboding image. Super shot and effect.
whaleman
Nice work!
Sepiasiren
fantastic black and white study--the silver really highlights the stark dark--another inspired and lovely cityscape.
odile
It's strange to see it all black,with no light. Strong effect!
fallen21
Amazing picture!
renecyberdoc
very impressive.
nefertiabet
Wow, great shot!!!
twelvemark21
Really gorgeous effect. Love the strong sense of negative space that your post-work created.
vitachick
Great capture....Sleeping? No. NYC is the city that never sleeps...
magnus073
What a fantastic capture Roxy, that is one epic looking skyline
0rest4wicked
So much to see, so many people. Yet it is a place that can leave one cold and alone, lost in the darkness of the concrete jungle.
Faemike55
Very cool photo Roxy
nitegrafix
Awesome! : O
eekdog
love how you shot this Roxy.
vyktohria
WOW! Powerful image! The black & white and deep silhouette of the city is INCREDIBLE!!
drifterlee
Very nice shot!
Tracesl
excellent
Blush
Awesome Perfect pic Hugs Susan~
RodS
Beautifully balanced, and a very fitting image for New York. Nice one, Roxy!
3dpoetry
Amazing capture
Chipka
Oooh! Oooh! Yeah! There's a book, by Samuel R. Delany (one of my all time favorite writer) that serves as both fiction and family biography. If you're interested, the book is called Atlantis: Three Tales, and the first story/tale "Atlantis: Model 1924" has a lot in common with this shot...or maybe this shot has a lot in common with it. Well...they both have something to do with a common subject and they approach it in similar ways, even though that's a novella and this is a photograph. Anyway, in it, we're offered a "first view" of New York, and here, I get the same sort of emotional resonance. I suppose a person could think of a scene like this as being foreboding and somewhat intimidating; it definitely has a "muscular" quality to it, and it's as unapologetic as any city might be. That's the nature of cities, I think: unapologetic geometry. The contrasts between light and dark form an interesting tension here. It's not like they're butting heads or fighting, but the tension is there, and I think that it's enhanced by the fact that the only real details you see are in the water. Funny how the most changeable thing in this image has achieved the most complex definition. I get the sense you did that on purpose and it works so incredibly well. It's one of those surprises that makes visual art so much fun.
Rhanagaz
Great capture, Roxy!! The dark side of NY?...