Welcome to my little corner of Renderosity. I am interested in many things besides art, for example, languages. I read 15 languages, and I have 140 languages on my web site. I don't really write other languages, though, so don't be surprised if I leave a broken comment for you. :) Please feel free to leave me a comment in another language, too.
Prints of my art can be purchased at deviantARTBIOThese days, my entire life is gathered around art in some form or another. I have a bachelor's degree in art, which I chose so I wouldn't have to sit in a classroom all day listening to people talk. :) I got very serious about art after the last of our seven children left home. Prior to that, I was busy homeschooling them. Besides visual arts, I love to make music. I play piano, organ, recorder (a wooden instrument somewhat like a flute), and classical guitar, and I sing. In the past, I have also played gamelan (a gamelan orchestra consists of sets of tuned metal gongs and bells with a couple of drums, and originated in Asia in places like Bali), I rehearsed for awhile with the local balalaika orchestra, playing autoharp, and I have studied with Xochimoki, a Latin American native musical group. In addition to music, I practice the martial art of taekwondo. I have a second degree black belt. Concrete art for me includes pottery (I sometimes design my own glazes, and I especially love raku), a little bit of sculpture, needlepoint (I use fancy yarns and stitches and sometimes invent my own), macrame, circular weaving, and I draw in color pencil. I also like to design artistic web sites. I have a passion for photography, and I am slowly working my way through scenic sites in Arizona and neighboring states. In digital art, I make art in Terragen, Bryce, Vue d'Esprit, Ultrafractal, Xenodream, and Apophysis. I am trying to learn Mojoworld. In addition to my sponsor site, you can see more of my art at my professional site: Extraplicity. Prints of many of my images are available at deviantART.
Spiritually, I am an heiress to the wonderful doctrinal legacy of Martin Luther, and a joint heiress with Christ. Soli Deo Gloria.
Comments (5)
ariz
Nice image. What F stop were you using?
PatGoltz
@ariz: Thanks! I don't remember, and I don't keep notes. I took that photo several years ago. I probably took it with my earlier arrangement. I had a fitting that would let me screw my 50mm lens on backwards, and I would put some closeup lenses on it. I did a lot of macro work that way. It doesn't have as good a DoF as a good macro lens, which is sometimes what you want. I took this picture late in the afternoon, and the sunlight was waning, and I probably had the lens close to wide open.
choronr
Thank you Pat for sharing this image. It is a pleasure viewing your other works as well as the Terragen pictures. Excellent!
bebert
lovely flower !! great shot !! Bravo Pat !!
Snow_Angel
Very pretty lily Pat! I like how the foreground is sharp and the bg is faded out! Really brings out the texture and softness of the flower petals. Nice photo :)