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Clematis Photos

A few weeks ago, my neighbor had a beautiful clematis vine around her mailbox.  The flowers were huge and a deep purple color and I couldn’t resist photographing them.  This photo was taken with a selective focus lens called the lensbaby. 

Beautiful Garden Sculptors

In May, I discovered a garden sculptor at a field trip for the Sweetwater Camera Club. Douglas Dannels and his family have a landscaping business in Douglasville, Georgia. Doug knows a lot about innovative ways to water plants during droughts and ways to water plants when it’s not easy to get water to them. He’s very influenced by Native American and southwestern art and culture. But he also makes marvelous garden sculptures. Here are a few of my favorites—I took these photos using a lensbaby.

If you’re interested in Doug’s work, he has a website http://web.mac.com/abeautifulpond

Transformer

It's really a carnival ride. But it looks kinda high-tech sci-fi. Taken at the Cherry Blossom Festival in Macon, Georgia.

3 sister Christmas painting

One of my favorite people, Elizabeth, asked me to create this painting of her and two of her sisters. It represents achieving your childhood dreams--at any age.

Girl and Lamb Watercolor

Since we're expecting new baby lambs soon. I thought I'd practice my digital painting skills in preparation for Lambs next month.

Portrait of a Tween

Just got Marilyn Sholin's new book "The Art of Digital Photo Painting." This painting is based on one of the exercises in the book.

I'm very pleased with it because for the first time, my portraits look more like a painting and less like a photo.

Last of the fall leaves

It feel like winter but here in Georgia there are quite a few leaves hanging on to the trees. The maple leaves depicted in this painting are some of the few maple leaves left on our farm. According to what's your sign.com, North American settlers placed Maple leaves at the foot of their wards to ward off demons, encourage a little something something, and to ensure a peaceful sleep. So maybe it you hang this painting over your bed you'll get a better nights sleep.

Purple flowers

This is a photo painting of a group of purple flowers. If you look very very closely, you'll see a bug in the center of the flowers. The photo for this digital painting was originally taken in a Master Gardener Butterfly Garden in Douglasville, Georgia

Hope

This photo illustration symbolizing new opportunities and hope. With all the bad stuff going on in the ecomony--I think we could all use a little hope.