This is one of my favorite digital images - a grove of Japanese Maple trees at Norfolk Botanical Garden. I have shot them in all seasons, in digital and HDR format.

Tutorial on Polaroid

Since poalroid SX-70 manipulation is a "lost art", this picture shows how it "was" done.

As you can see, the left side of the picture is unaltered, just as it came from the camera. The right side has been altered, my method used crochet hooks, to create the painterly effects.

On my Flickr Polaroid stream, is a 4 picture tutorial: www.flickr.com/photos/monetslens

Blue Skies Gallery www.blueskiesart.com

My Polaroid - and now HDR & Digital photographs - have been sold at Blue Skies Gallery in Downtown Hampton, VA since 1996. Blue Skies is the premiere member's gallery in the Tidewater area with over 60 locals artists selling paintings, pottery, jewelry, fabric, sculpture and photography. The gallery is on the web at http://www.blueskiesart.com/ or can be reached by phone at
757-727-0028.

Our Three Doxies Mosaic

A Flickr mosaic of our 3 Dachshunds.

Grace - short hair, Oliver - wire hair and Gulliver - long hair. Grace taught Ollie to "sit pretty" - Gulliver does not sit pretty and does not bark - he can, he just doesn't!

Please Visit My Flickr Pages

Flickr is a great resource for photographers to show their work. I now have 2 Flickr streams: one displays my Manipulated Polaroid SX-70 Photos. The other shows my Digital and HDR images. You can access my Flickr streams from the links below:

www.flickr.com/photos/monetslens - for the Polaroid Collection
www.flickr.com/photos/my3doxies - for the Digital collection

I also have many photos on Facebook and at the Daily Press Town Square photo sharing site. Access the Town Square gallery at http://tiny.cc/hnjhg

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Old Point Comfort Lighthouse

Of my 1550 cataloged Polaroid SX-70 hand-altered images, this one is my favorite. The lighthouse is located on historic Fort Monroe Army Base, Virginia.

Used a Poalroid SX-70 instant film camera and Time Zero film. Original photo was taken in July 2000. Polaroid discontinued the film needed for these images in the Spring of 2006.