Years ago in Michigan I kept going back to this little abandoned house, always finding new pictures to capture. One day the fire department used it as practice and burned it down, Here in Port Orange.Florida there was this small, rundown marina fixed to be renovated by August, 2006/  Five years later, it was still there, abandoned, slowly falling apart.

Over year, I made it my routine to drive past it early in the morning, often stopping to take some picture in different lights, different angles, different visions.  Yesterday, a big, yellow, piece of equipment was parked across the street,  This morning one building was all but gone and I expect tomorrow the destruction will be complete.

Down the road I will put together a slide show, set it to music and enjoy the work I accomplish to capture a vision pf something that will never exist again.  To some, it may have been an eyesore and dangerous. To me, there is beauty often to be captured in the most prosaic things and object.

                                                                       RIP

Older composite that was lots of fun.  Shortly after I took the picture of the building it burned down.  I was on my way to visit my wife at the hospital and there was nothing left where that beautiful CIncinnati landmark was just a few weeks before.  The photo was just one of hundreds I took in the worst neighborhoods.  Florida has the ocean and beaches and wonderful bits but I miss the old buildings and run down areas I haunted in Cinci.  Anyway Here Be Monsters:

Composites are fun, even if it is a challenge to come up with ideas.  The Jet Frog came about when I turned a routine picture upside down, creating a new reality.  The "sky" was empty so I thought about putting a frog in it.  Of course the frog needed wings so I took some from a picture of a seagull.  I added the trail behind the frog.  Thus we have Jet Frog.

Good Morning. Just setting up my blog, so this is to start to see how it works,  I will be posting photos from originals to final versions so you can see what I do.  I have a lot of fun crating my vision, whether it is realistic, black and white, color or highly rendered.  I choose the direction I wish to go as I begin to look at down loaded prints.

This sunrise is more realistic than some of my pictures.  I was a truly spectacular sunrise.