This piece started as a picture of a stump (circa 2011) of a silver maple that used to be in our backyard. It was one of the first photos I took with my Canon T2i DSLR. Here’s a link to the original photo. The picture had good contrast of darkness and light with lots of deep crevices and cracks. I had the idea of overlaying a picture of stars. I chose a composite picture of star cluster/nebula NGC 346 assembled by the European Space Agency and Nasa from photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. I then added some lava-like effects within the cracks.

I call it “Crack in the Sky”.

The story behind this photo can be found in the post entitled Call Me Ishmael….

Information about the origins of this photo can be found in Call Me Ishmael….

As I said at the beginning of the Digital Art page, some of what I’ve published here are photographs and some fall into the category of digital art.

This one started as a picture of a dragonfly on the tip of an unopened oleander pod. The original is called Tiny Dancer. I got tremendously lucky in that a light breeze caught the dragonfly and lifted its body up over its head. The end result reminds me of a ballet pose called the arabesque penché.

Around the same time, I had experimented with photos of the full moon. In a moment of inspiration I had the idea to combine the images.

This picture is the result.