I often see faces in the abstract details and textures of my photographs - this has led to a series I call Split Personality, whose images are created by combining, manipulating, and reflecting photographs of natural & manmade patterns; the resulting images resemble brooding and contemplative faces.
Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects
A gruesome menacing individual with a green spidery varmint on top of his head and an ominous look on his face gets a poke with a sharp stick in each side of the head by a couple of slippery scalawags who are joy-riding frothy motorcycles driven by twin miscreants.
From photographs of mineral-rich stream water flowing over algae & slime-coated rocks.
Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects
Two large brown cats hide in plain sight from their perplexed wide-eyed owners. Meanwhile, an abundantly huge cat tries its best to see out from behind a couple of clothespins that inadvertently landed in front of its face.
From photographs of railroad tie ends.
Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects
Two long-legged stone figures try to sneak away quietly from a very large moth and a prickly mask with a little bear in the middle.
From photographs of prickly pear cactus, dirt, and weathered stone.
Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects
You never know who you might meet in the forest… perhaps there is a small band of outlaws hiding out beneath a shelter of daintily webbed stained glass, their short stalky leader festooned with a large yellow hat decorated with water droplets, and beautiful laughing women in matching frilly dresses lurking in the background.
From photographs of Aspen trees with the golden leaves of Autumn, raindrops on Aspen leaves, and raindrops on spider webs.
Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects
Flanked by a couple of rather mean looking rabbits, a fox and a small shadowy bear sit silently below a pair of stern critical eyes with very small cheerleaders hiding in the bushy eyebrows.
From photographs of dramatic cumulus, altocumulus, and lenticular cloud formations lit by the glowing sun.
Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects
Say hello to Chuck. Chuck is from the woods. Created from photographs of knots in a tree trunk, dry grass, sticks, and dirt, he might be a philosophy major, or a budding scientist, maybe even a Beatnik poet. You just never know who you might meet in the forest!
Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects
A despondent and gloomy individual with small sad green eyes and a glum expression on his deeply crevassed and weathered face peers out at his melancholic world, apparently uninspired by his wild and radiant uncombed hair and beard.
From photographs of tall dry grass and a gnarly knotted Aspen tree trunk.
Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects
Solemn silent mud crack chaperones with extra arms hover over a moody pouting youngster with frou-frou puff hair.
From photographs of mud cracks and salsify seed heads.
Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects
A seated figure in a glass bubble with eyes of its own meditates on whether there is meaning or perhaps only illusion.
From photographs of light, shadows, and reflections in a glass mug.
Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects
In a dramatic windswept sky, a rather large benevolent cloud insect with widely spaced eyes and a sharply pointed chin hovers above the small misty head of a smiling sock-puppy, a beaver-toothed wide-eyed terrier, and a couple of pairs of brightly kissing amorous cloud-puffins.
From photographs of sunlit Cumulus and Cirrocumulus clouds.
Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects
A white polar bear cub with a very large nose and a rather defiant stance sits above a dramatic sky with beacons of sunlight shining up into frothy wind-swept clouds.
From photographs of puffy Cumulus clouds and sun dogs in the late afternoon.
Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects
Positively giddy cloud puppets dance in bouncing glee as the sky brings forth a bright cool shower of life-giving rain.
From photographs of cumulus and altocumulus cloud formations on a beautiful summer day.
Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects
Stoic custodians of the forest pose for a group portrait with their trusty horses before continuing their work. Can you see the horses?
From photographs of Aspen & Ponderosa Pine tree trunks & roots, and pinecones.
Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects
A surprised and excited face peers out at the world with an expression of enthusiastic bewilderment, and with his brain all in a tizzy. His enthusiasm is nearly contagious!
From photographs of knots and scars in a Poplar tree trunk, a gnarled Ponderosa Pine root, a sandstone outcrop, and Desert Aloe intertwined with a Spider plant. Broca’s area of the brain is believed to be critical for speech production; it is named for the 19th century French physician Pierre Paul Broca, who found that patients with damage in the area of the brain’s frontal lobe had difficulty with speech and language. The perplexing fellow in this painting doesn’t seem to mind…
Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects
A pair of somewhat embarrassed guards and their young proteges stand on either side of a proud grinning uniformed dignitary.
From photographs of forest tree branches, roots, and lichen.
Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects
A unflinching and dependable sphinx convenes a panel including a wise, but somewhat childish, multi-antennaed bug and a koala bear with a long pine needle mustache in order to discover what might have become of the jackdaws that were so recently in the vicinity.
From photographs of an Aspen tree trunk, forest mushrooms, leaves & pine needles under Winter ice, Aspen trees in Autumn, and brilliant Aspen leaves with water droplets on them.
Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects
A wise young owl with out-stretched wings sits serenely above a puppy, or maybe a rabbit, who is sitting with elbows bent, resting his face on his paws. Or at least that’s what I see!
From photographs of the textured and cracked ends of railroad ties.
Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects
Two sets of twin beams of light radiate inward from two sets of twin shadowy figures who are peering down into the heads of a pair of mysterious twin souls with large and exasperated eyes. A bemused stranger with pursed lips and blue superhero glasses comes to the forefront, while a pair of ghostly apparitions stand idly by.
From photographs of abstract reflections and shadows in glass and a refrigerator.
Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects
Unperturbed by the intimidating creature below, a delighted cherubic being with a high diver posed above his head sits atop a brooding mysterious gargoyle-like head.
From photographs of sandstone eroded by water and wind into deep chasms and rippling gullies.
