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
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Comments (22)
Faemike55
Stunning and impressive just about describe the photo and the stonework thank you for sharing
chaylastorm
Beautiful.. Roxy. I'm loving this tour you are taking us on. PS.. there are gods and then there's those who think they are gods. Keep up the good work. :)
barryjeffer
This is amazing craftsmanship, and considering the tools they had to use an amazing structure. Huh, you speaking up... can't image it....LOL. Silence the voices of those who speak out and it only creates more of a din.
netot
You would need a huge amount of money to make this purchase today, and even with money in hand, probably would not find easily an architect who dared to do.Is wonderful what our ancestors did using low-tech. Great serie, I,m going with you indoors.
SidheRoseGraphics
Beautiful shot and fine pov to capture this amazing place, Roxy! Really? You're banned from the forum? o.O Oy.
mtdana
The scale of this Monastery keeps getting more amazing! I can’t envisage how it looked when first completed, for me the rough stonework with plants growing between cracks is attractive but I imagine the original builders would be appalled. I’m glad you pointing out the aqueduct – I would have missed that. Fantastic capture – I like the perspective and how the roof and stair lines form a Zee!!! You should consider doing one of your single-shot HDRI version of this one ;)
brewgirlca
@mtdna - yep, HDR is coming up next.
renecyberdoc
i had the same crap yesterday when uploading image was far under 512 and thumbnail as well. banned from the forums?'
vyktohria
Incredible shot!
whaleman
Fantastic shot! I had that same issue a couple of days ago, false statement about too large file size, reuploaded right away with no problems. Strange, but when you are dealing with computers with millions of lines of operating code it is not surprising.
RodS
It never ceases to amaze me what these people did with their bare hands and a few primitive tools. This would be a challenge (if not impossible) even with today's technology. You are taking us on such a wonderful tour, Roxy - I do hope you'll continue to thrill us with photos like this. I AM getting dizzy looking at this.......wait.......I'm dizzy all the time.... :-D Sorry to hear about the forum thing; some folks just get their shorts in a wad when you shoot the truth at 'em.. I'll be back full-force very soon.
alanwilliams
such amazing stonework
shingleboot
Very impressive place, love your photos of it.
magnus073
What a magnificent photo Roxy, and I very much enjoyed reading your thoughts behind it. This really is incredible work, and something that took an enormous amount of time.
3dpoetry
Great photo
eekdog
when i think of the country of Turkey, i always remember that movie midnight express. great shot dear Roxy and info.
Cyve
Marvelous capture Very very well done !
Tracesl
cool, excellent
adorety
Even as a picture and looking up, it makes me giddy. Excellent picture and perspective. The layer of rocks under the slab "railings" is pretty interesting. Structures built into cliffs like this just amaze me. Especially for back then, I can only imagine what the rest looks like.
Blush
Awesome image banned from the forums you what happened to freedom of free speech.............. hope it gets resolved soon....... that sucks..............your such a sweetie only expressing an opinion........... not everyone sees eye to eye i would send a message to cfulton he seems like a reasonable enough guy to listen to.....................and whatever you do don't give up and leave...........let em sweat Hugs n love Susan
Rhanagaz
Great capture of this beautifully build monastory, Roxy!! The builders at least did notfear heigths, I hope! Uploads problems is more the rule than the other, generally it was much easier to both upload and work with text a couple a years ago. Sometimes I simply drop vendorlist because I'm not getting in and then have to find, and once again find the vendors on the list - the same list which works so porly...:o[
RaykesPictures
Great game of lines, well done.