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 (16)
giulband
Surreal !!!
Kaartijer
Great idea, Bill... you did a really nice job!
MrsRatbag
Very well done, Bill; I like this!
Faemike55
Excellent work very cool result
jocko500
did good
kgb224
Amazing work my friend. God bless.
durleybeachbum
Well, what a surprise from you, Bill! It has made a very striking result and I particularly like what you did with those columns. Brilliant!
auntietk
You did a great job, hon! Isn't it fun to try out new things and see what happens? I like the result you got, and agree with Andrea about the columns.
jayfar
Very impressed Bill.
helanker
Yes, the columns are really great in this mix. A very beautiful result, Bill :-)
anahata.c
Wow Bill, this is a first for you? A second at the most? Whatever it is, you did a crystalline job. It's hard to blend and get such clarity and clean cut lines and forms. This is really a sunset with a visitation from the courthouse and destroyer windows. (Really, the destroyer windows look either like arches from a grand facade, or like the wheels from a very large vehicle. It's a wonderful surprise to see that they're from a ship.) Your capitals atop those columns are brought out in a luminous white, so they feel almost like architectural fireflies---very large ones, but still, like spirits. And the architectural horizontals just fall right into the water, and you let the clouds on the right move right over them---fine blending technique---so they interact rather than just plop onto the image. (My multiple blends have too much plopping sometimes. And yes, plopping is the technical term.) And you allowed little bits of the architecture to paint the water down there, and let stone streak the upper sky, like clouds...This really works, it's like the portholes and facade are commentaries on the sunset, or visitors who add their own highly distinct personality to the sunset. Very clear and balanced, a real triumph of the art. And, with a crystalline piece like this, you chose just the right number of images. If you added more, it would be like inviting a couple for dinner, and they bring their kids, grandkids, several cousins from overseas---with THEIR kids---the dogs and cats, and 6 stray goats. (That's what my blends feel like some days). And when you say, "uh------we only have dinner for FOUR" (hoping they'll go away), they say, "oh that's ok: We brought our OWN!!!" And they pile inside...Families break up over such things. ("They're YOUR family, dear, not mine!!!") That's the problem with too many images. Ruins the whole night, causes divorces. This is perfect. You really finessed your blends. Poetry!
jendellas
WOW, this is amazing. xx
Sea_Dog
Nice work - very interesting image.
RodS
Wow - this is really cool work, Bill! I really like what you've done here! Maybe I'll give it a shot with a few photos from our weekend in Osage Beach..
Jay-el-Jay
Nice work combining these images into this very interesting piece.
debbielove
Neat job Bill, cool playing.. Thinking of upgrading my photoshop prog.. Mine is ancient now! Rob