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 (33)
eekdog Online Now!
just posted my first photo in about a year Roxy, i need to post more. your photos are a huge inspiration. love how the b&w give this shot a special mood.
chaylastorm
Love this Roxy... it has a real 'old' look to it with the lamps and the chairs. Beautiful... well done. :)
jocko500
love the pattern this makes too
magnus073
I think it looks fantastic, Roxy. Really love the vintage appearance
vyktohria
Very AWESOME!!
SidheRoseGraphics
I see at least five. They're all at different angles, but all going the same place, basically. Cool shot, Roxy and the B&W sure does accentuate the lines!
ronmolina
Excellent the way this was done!
Faemike55
Five maybe six, depending on how technical you want to get Great photo and very cool
RodS Online Now!
Leading lines...... Ye gods.... I lost track.... This flat out kicks butt, Roxy! Wow! That HDR is more fun than a barrel of flying monkeys - I just tried my first bit of playing with HDR in PS-CS6 - went on a photo walk back in April, and shot several bracketed sequences, which I processed in PS. Gotta do more! Have to say I'm drooling over those streetlamps, too! An awesome shot, Roxy - keep 'em coming!
mtdana
(IMHO) B&W seem like the perfect choice for this image giving it a real period look – I really like how the linear composition is broken by the shadows cutting the path and how the bridge intercepts the vanishing point and forces a sharp turn. Very cool shot!!! (5 lines?)
renecyberdoc
you are a master with the camera.
photosynthesis
Fascinating geometry, great shadows & a wide range of gray tones - a lot to like about this composition...
whaleman
For me, I think the HDR has made the shot have too much undiscernable detail so I find it a bit confusing but obviously no one else does, LOL! I do see where you were going with the lines though.
Ash888
yup the lines work well from that perspective. But I agree with whaleman, it would be a good idea to leave the HDR out. HDR usually makes images look kinda "plastic" and brings out details that don´t really help. The subtle light/shade play is often destroyed. You don´t need that kinda gadget if the shot itself is taken well. Plain shots without HDR have a lot more appeal I think. I´d like to see the plain shot of this one. The grey scale should come out a lot better as well then.
prutzworks
cool B&W photography
mbz2662
Very eye catching. Beautiful B & W :)
barryjeffer
I wonder where those lines are leading to. What is just beyond our sight way down there?
Cyve
Marvelous image and fantastic perspective !
pauldeleu
Excellent capture.
Leije
Surreal perspective in B&W !
Rhanagaz
Great shot, Roxy! And the black and white makes it stronger in expression!! :o)
jayfar
Lovely shot and I think I see five!
adorety
What a gorgeous shot. On the left, the tree line, lights, benches and sidewalk form a wonderful triangle leading to the center while the railing and trees on the right fill in the lower right with the bridge doing a nice job of defining a top border. And I think I can even see faint light rays coming down through the sky upper left to lower right. Excellent contrast and detail
adrie
Outstanding black and white photoshot Roxy.
Tracesl
great shot - excellent
4udreamcatcher
So beautiful :O-)
3dpoetry
Love it
JuliSonne
Quite clever enough picture to shoot in b / w. The search will be more difficult. Besides that, it is to chill a boardwalk. So I lean me back.
Blush
Fantastic image Hugs Susan
Chipka
Outstanding, compelling, really hypnotic work. I don't see it as "technical" at all...well...it is, but there's more of a sense of poetry to it. I really love the intensity of its detailing and the way everything seems so hyper-real but not contrived. Of course I went counting the leading lines in this, and depending on how one looks, I can see at least 7, although 3 of them might be subdivisions of the dominant lines I see. It's an issue of details and following fractal itterations and all of that wonderfully technical stuff, but what I like the most is the fact that the leading lines give you all sorts of doorways into this photograph, and if you follow them, you find that you've traveled somewhere interesting.