Embroidered Portraits

Embroidered Portraits

Embrodered Portrates

Thought this was pretty cool embroidery so I gave it a try in Photoshop.

I started with black and white photo, I'll have to give color a try next to see if I can approach the effect of knowing how to embroider for real.

A New Hope

Late Harvest

Some of my favorite photos from wandering around the yard back home.

Meghan and Josh Pumpkins!

Pumpkin Carving Contest

Post your best pumpkins...

Solar System Necklace

So I saw this cool solar system necklace the other day so I decided to make Sarah one.  It's roughly to scale each bead being 10 or 100 million miles.  The beads are made of painted burl wood.  I felt bad painting the burl but it turned out pretty good.  I tried silver wire for Saturn's rings but couldn't get it to look good so I settled for a burl ring there.


The cheesy coolness of this necklace is the absence of the sun, it being the wearer, the light of my life, the center of my solar system, Sarah.

Toilet paper roll face sculptures

So, I saw these cool faces made from toilet paper rolls and thought I'd give them a try.  Here are my first three attempts.

Here are some links to the originals that I saw:

Link 1

Link 2

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Tilt Shift

I gave fake tilt shift photography a try...the first 3 photos I did not take...just tried the tilt shift technique on them...The last I took from an airplane coming home from Hawaii. I think it worked the best. I'm not sure if it's my technique or my source photos or both...but I'm not all that happy with the results yet. Perhaps there's not enough blur. Anyway let me know what you think. If your wondering what tilt shift photography is google it for some good examples.

Photo Highlights

My camera is broken (shutter mechanism is not working). So I thought I'd post some of my favorite photos in it's memory. Some of the source photos were taken on Mom's or Matthew's camera though.

I've been experimenting with HDR photography and High Key photos. Let me know what you think.

Persimmons HDR 01

(Matthew has made an HDR with this crop that I like better)

Persimmons HDR 02

Persimmons HDR 03

Pomegranates and Ashes 01

Pomegranates and Ashes 02

Umpqua Hot Springs HDR 01

Tunnel Falls HDR 01

Chemical Warfare

The End - The Beginning

Eventually they were told about the comet.  "Get supplies... inside...anything."  Too late.  Food, water, gone, procured for Project Second Genesis...  our progenitors.  Humanity's survival left no alternative.  Now, just west of dawn, the seemingly endless night ending, we prepare to return, and fear, could anything survive above? Cold, dark, desolate.  Are they waiting?

Legend tells of those who fled deep into the earth, leaving us destitute, leaving us to die.  Someday they'll crawl from their culvert, after centuries of endless winter nights, to claim our world.  Remember their machinations, their forked tongues.  When dawn returns we'll be waiting, to redirect the comet's fury.

Despite training

San Quinten Prison

It's too hot

They'd searched for years.

Low Tide

Stream

Dad's Story