I often take photos of scenes with plans to do a painting from them. Sometimes I get a photo that I think is already a piece of art on it's own. I love the sponteneity of capturing a moment with the camera...how the light is falling or a splash of water. I do love to paint from these images too, but have found it to be fun to hunt for and capture chances of beauty. These images are unretouched digital photos...check out burning sky, it was November at sunset, and the sky really did look like this...no fire, just the November light.
  • 1devotion
    1devotion
    This was a lucky chance of dark and light, the shadows were falling dramatically across the figures, and the background falls into black.
  • 2fountainoflight,st.petersbasilica
    2fountainoflight,st.petersbasilica
    I captured the spray of the fountains, back lit, with the statues of the saints in the back ground at St Peters Basilica, Rome
  • 4historyenlightened-romancolliseumbust(cropped)
    4historyenlightened-romancolliseumbust(cropped)
    this is a bust in the display center at the Colliseum in Rome, I thought it was quite dymanic and shot a close up
  • 6glowofinnocence,st.petersbasilica,rome
    6glowofinnocence,st.petersbasilica,rome
    These are my twins at St Peter's Basilica in Rome...sometimes bad lighting makes good art:)
  • bluemoon.(1)
    bluemoon.(1)
    This was captured behind my house, as the moon was rising and sun setting.
  • chryslermuseumsculpture
    chryslermuseumsculpture
    leaving the chrysler museum in Norfolk, VA, the sun was setting across the water, and the illumination on the statue had already lit, creating this view
  • gondolas in venice(17)
    gondolas in venice(17)
    This was taken from a water taxi in Venice
  • weepingangelcrop
    weepingangelcrop
    This is a little angel in a fountain at church, it's in a hidden garden. The setting matches the weeping angel, the water is murky and there are the little pink flower pettles that have rained down.
  • burningsunset
    burningsunset
    this is an unretouched digital photo of a November evening sky! and, no there was no fire!
  • donya.(1)
    donya.(1)
    the typical cat look, I got lucky with the apparent black background, this was a candid shot
  • 1devotion
  • 2fountainoflight,st.petersbasilica
  • 4historyenlightened-romancolliseumbust(cropped)
  • 6glowofinnocence,st.petersbasilica,rome
  • bluemoon.(1)
  • chryslermuseumsculpture
  • gondolas in venice(17)
  • weepingangelcrop
  • burningsunset
  • donya.(1)