May 3, 2025

This is an in-camera, quadruple exposure. Photographed May 3, 2025.

Evolution of a God from Dandelions

These are a few images which are emerging from a small group of multiple-exposures I made during two short photography sessions over two days. During late afternoon, in open shade, I used a full-frame dslr with a 105mm macro, at F8. The camera I use has a built-in flash that I find extremely valuable in situations like this. Handheld, at shutter speeds between 1/200 and 1/60, using the TTL flash and sometimes the lens' vibration-dampening ('VR') setting, about fifteen exposures were made in total. All the images were of the exact same dandelion. Each image is actually an in-camera multiple exposure: the first day's images were triple-exposures, while day two switched the setting to quadruple-exposures. This image is from day two. It is an in-camera quadruple-exposure.  The shadows in this photo have been toned a slight orange-red, while the highlights and midtones are a considerably warmer yellow/ivory "gray". More images to follow.

Nucleus (June 2021)

Exploding Orchidbomb (October 14, 2020)

This image is a composite created from an original single photograph of an orchid. This source image was a multiple exposure of the orchid. This original source image was multiplied into individual identical copies. These nine copies were divided into three sets of three images each; each set was a row of three images in a horizontal line. These sets were either rotated vertically, or left alone. These sets were then arranged on top of each other, with each row laid horizontally upon the row beneath it. These rows were adjusted in Photoshop in layers slightly using the move tool to position them within the compositions vertical axis. A slight amount of blending occurred to smooth out edges, mostly at print output size viewing option.
 

August 2019 still-life of flowers morphs into a Baroque design

The original source material being photographed here was a vase of flowers sitting on a dining room table. Long after midnight I decided to make a couple of detail photographs of them. A few days later I "sandwiched" two of them together, making a new image. This image was duplicated four times, and flipped/rotated/reversed and then joined together, making the final image you see here. This image is very fun to look at, very entertaining, very hypnotic.  The central machine-like flower generator in the exact center is matched in weirdness only by the laughing face of the Dionysus-like creature at very top center. Finally, the viewer notices the pale "image" of a child's face emerging out of the center lower pattern as well. This child stares directly out of the frame, meeting the viewer's gaze. This photograph breaks expectations repeatedly, while still utilizing the tried-and-true compositional norms of the very late Renaissance.

Baroque Hallucination Fantasia Rapture, Rome, June 2019

This image was created on a swelteringly hot late afternoon in Rome. Walking through the Borghese Gardens, just past the Aurelian Wall portal. I noticed the beautiful trees which are quite different than I am used to, over four thousand miles away. I notice how the tops of the trees stand out against the sky, a kind of loose pattern. After a minute of fumbling around estimating the exposure details. I make two or three photos. One of them gets to serve as the single image from which this "quad" is formed. The Baroque aesthetic was of course coursing through my mind as I worked, and certainly is present in the "imperfect pearl", Baroque compositional design.

When I look at this creation, I see a delightful floating garden in the sky, upon which one might pleasantly, if carefully, stroll.

Cosmic Egg, November 2018

Recent "Flowerbolt" Work...

Another Creation of Life, the Razorhead chromosome.

preliminary test pairing of X and Y chromosome

Image of the Y Chromosome, composed from elements, finally developed.

Final Version of the first Creation of Life nears completion!

At long last, this first image is almost finished. This is an image showing the result of the alchemical production of an X chromosome, created from elements. The image appears as viewed through the dust-coated lens of an ancient microscope. This image will be complemented with a mate, in the form of a Y chromosome.