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Welcome to Beyond the Limits of Reason, the meeting point for all things Michael Doubrava.

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I was born on Earth during the second half of the twentieth century.

Untitled (San Lorenzo, New Mexico)

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A metaphor for the conflict between rationality and emotion; betweeen Apollo and Dionysus; between the empirical and the supernatural; between stasis and revolution...

our motto and mission is to

tickle the idiot
rapture the faithful
pity all the ignorant and hateful

illuminate the enlightened
confound the intellectual
with life distilled flood memory's temple
Showing posts with label flowerbolt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flowerbolt. Show all posts

August 17, 2025

Exploding Flowers of the Kansas Prairie

This quadruple-exposure was created in-camera using a swing/tilt flat-field 80mm lens on a full-frame dslr. Handheld, using on-camera flash.


 

 

January 27, 2021

January 2021




 My thought when I first viewed this in-camera, triple-exposure photograph, as it appeared on the viewing screen on the back of my DSLR, was that extremely weird, uncanny sensation that I was gazing at a figure simultaneously orchid and human.

March 15, 2013

Microflora? Mechanical Flowerhead? New work from the last weeks......

A composite of four digital files, each scanned from the same analog negative, originally exposed using a pinhole lens and a film-based (120 format) camera. Or, in an alternative reality, an actual x-ray of the face of a mechanical flowerhead.

Picket Fence through a Pinhole






December 4, 2012

New Flowerbolt Image, with Digital "Split-Tone" applied.

Originally created using a roll-fim camera and black-and white film, this image was 'finished' digitally with a split-tone effect. The grayscale file was first converted to an RGB file in Photoshop, and then three individual color- adjustment layers were added, each with a different hue and saturation level. These three layers were then selectively erased, "per flower", to arrive at the desired degree of tone and color. The final result is similiar to the traditional analog photographic printing technique of placing the print in a tray containing a chemical solution of selenium or sepia-toner.

Looking for more?

You can access more imagery by clicking on the phrase above which says"older posts". Many additional works can be viewed dating back to the earliest posts which initiated this blog.