Random is...

Periodically I like to check which blog posts are the most popular with viewers, and in doing so recently discovered that a slideshow service I used back in 2008 was no longer working. Someone attempted to view the page and simply received my intro to the slide show but no slide show.

And so, in my never ending attempt to please the customer (or simply too much time on my hands), I went back and reworked the slideshow into a short video and updated it with more pictures. I will admit it was a fun project with the overall attempt being to add a little whimsy for the eye. I hope you find it entertaining as it gave me a chance to just throw in photos that I thought were interesting.  And, maybe I repaid in some small way the person who encountered that empty page.

Really Surreal?

I stumbled upon a book on the history of photography and have found myself deeply engrossed and fascinated by it. I particularly like the surrealists which strikes me as odd. I say odd because I am generally a purist regarding the pictures I take and refuse to do anything to them other than cropping (Photoshop is the antichrist!). But something about what I was seeing struck a chord and I realized I could manipulate my photos  to provide a whole new meaning to the term "mind's eye". As usual, click each photo for a better view. 

What really surprised me about this whole affair is that I could let my mind run wild and see orchids as butterflies.

flowers as balls,

a wet leaf as a road traveled by rain drops,

a pier as a twisted road,

and parts of a bamboo shade as whirls.

This little experiment has opened a whole new world for me. And, while I'm not ready to run out and buy Photoshop I will admit to being willing to see the world in a different way.