Time For More Pics

Some parts of town have a lot of stuff to photograph. We plan to return to this area when the weather is warmer and there is sunshine and rephotograph. All of the photos I've taken lately have been under very cloudy skies. And it has been cold!

 

More New Pics Of Lubbock's Ruins

Not that Lubbock is in ruins. I just mean that Lubbock contains many ruined or derelict structures.

The contrast between Lubbock's East Side and its
West Side could not be more stark.

 

New PIcs

Cold and windy and cloudy yesterday. But we drove into the vicinity of what used to be a very poor trailer park here in town fifty years ago and we found some interesting sights. And then we got into an area that used to be known for bootleggers many years ago, and took pictures there. I got numb fingers but the pics turned out OK. Conditions too adverse to risk the good camera, however.

 

More Hybrid Graphics: Analog/Digital

Still no new photos. Very busy week. It's like that after Christmas and New Year. So this is more old, old, OLD, stuff. Some started as satirical drawings. It's all a kind of experiment, to see how digital techniques might be used to finish what begins with analog graphic media, like pen and ink, watercolor, chalk, charcoal, etc.

 The image above was extracted from a sheet of watercolor paper with faint, barely visible, markings from a wash with slightly dirty water.

 The image just above started with black tempera on poster paper. I used a spatula to goop on the tempera.

 Above image started with black ink applied with a small eyedropper to wet newsprint.

I just don't remember what I started with to get the above image. Obviously, the end result is mostly an accident.

Something Different: Extreme Photoshop

Years and years ago I took digital photos of abstractions I drew/painted with traditional and non-traditional media and then imported them into Adobe Photoshop for some extreme manipulations. Here are some examples of the results. I can't help but find them interesting. Some of them remind me of old Peter Max psychedelic posters. I have a lot of these, preserved from the days when I was doing a lot of experimenting with digital cameras, when that was a new thing. I doubt that I'll ever do any more. I'm putting some of these things up because I ran out of conventional photos and it has been too cold to take more.

Surely, one can at least say that the work is "interesting"?

Clearly, we are not seeing pics of walls and doors today.