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Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Retired Navy Veteran, former EMT and Police Officer “Personally – “Life is a constant creation of beauty and miracles.” I am fascinated and captivated by the beauty of nature, its endless energy, its boundless potential for changes and aspects of life’s influences. Photography as an art has been a great discovery and a passion for me since the age of 19 of which I explored while studying Graphics Art in NYC. With education and the help of my mentor, I started shooting film and developing my images in black and white - worked and gained experience as a photographer and throughout my military career, I continued to shoot and photograph everything. Photography has allowed me to view, capture and share my passion and profession.

Sunday, September 19, 2010

LucisArt




I photographed these four little girls in my front yard. I just happened to have my camera and snapped two individual images. However, they all had lovely smiles but not consistently. In one frame, the girl in the striped yellow and blue hooded jacket was looking down and in the other she was looking up smiling. I like both images.

However, I wanted to have everyone smiling and looking up. So, I imported the images into Adobe Photo Shop CS4 and created a layer mask to combine the images into one. Although not quite satisfied, I wanted the images to have a realistic-non- realistic appearance. So, I imported the combined image into LucisArt to get the results displayed in the third image.