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 (19)
BellaDark
GREAT shot here! This one tells such a story... and if you listen really closely, maybe you can hear the ghosts of childhood. Beautiful, Roxy! :)
Faemike55
Wonderful and cool capture Roxy
adorety Online Now!
Excellent composition and cool moody shot. The b&w puts a slightly darker mood to this image of an empty playground. Empty playgrounds already seem to have a solemn tone to them in images. Beautiful work.
magnus073
What a fantastic photo Roxy, and I very much enjoyed the story you came up with behind it.
shingleboot
Really neat image
JuliSonne
Scheint immer noch schläfrig den Ort .... warten Sam und seine Freunde Alice, Tom, Jim, Ben ...... Ich hoffe, dass der Zug voll ist. GREAT capture!!!
photosynthesis
Another fine composition - well seen & captured. You new camera seems very capable (in the hands of a capable photographer, of course)...
mtdana
Very nice – full range of gray tones Ansel – I mean Roxy :)
SidheRoseGraphics
'Sam' probably wants to go play but mom won't let him because he'd come home a slushy, wet, muddy mess. Lol. Great image Roxy!!
nefertiabet
Beautiful image and memory!!!
Cyve
Wonderful capture and great image!!!
barryjeffer
I agree with Art, my mind went immediately to the dark side, as it most often does, as I viewed this one... Beautiful shadows and a thought provoking scene Roxy.
mikeerson
I remember the days it felt like the playground was calling - recess was so cool.
drifterlee
Nice shot!!!!!
Tracesl
exellent
Valeriya
Beautiful shot!
3dpoetry
Cool
Chipka
Things involving stuff for kids is generally very haunting when there are no kids around, and even more haunting when there's snow in it. Fantastic. And since I'm actually more of a writer than a photographer/visual artist, I can say that this really tickles the word-dealing part of my brain and also makes me think of what an evocative book cover this would be. Of course, I'm one of those people who thinks of book covers as their own form of art, sometimes better than the books they illustrate, and this is one of those Vintage Contemporary sorts of images I like so much. You have quite an eye for this kind of stuff, and playing around with new cameras often stimulates the eye, I've found...and yeah...I want a new camera: not a replacement, but just a snazzier companion for my trusty, work-horse of a point and shoot with just the right number of manual functions to remain useful to someone who spins and jiggles rather than points and shoots.
dragonmuse
Charming idea :)