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Images Images Details Home Contact About Links * Addictions Aligning with God Attack BeautyBody Children Devastation Earth Energy God Homeless Iraq Lorenzo Love Mid-East 911 Peace Transformation United States of America Work Worthiness * Gandhi Mother Teresa Saint Francis |
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The Images Unless otherwise indicated, images used on this site are mine. I hope you enjoy them. Most are photos of sculptures in Paris, France; some stand in the Louvre. At the time I took these photos I never anticipated using them as anything but memories of my travels. In Paris, art is everywhere you turn. Sculpture adorns bridges and buildings as well as museums and I took dozens of photos, just for the pleasure of it. I cannot provide you with either the names of the sculptures or sculptors. Photoshop was used to extract the image I wanted from each photo background. Non-photographic images were created through a combination of freehand drawing and Photoshop. Images - In regard to the image at the top of this web page, I scanned a strip of medium format negatives into Photoshop and colorized the individual cells. The photos were of my basset hounds, Rose and Buddy; no longer with me. Home - a detail from a stained glass church window in a town outside of Paris. The words are French and mean "King of Peace." There are links on the home page that change in order to take you to Urgent Prayer Needs. The image displayed on all pages relating to current or urgently needed prayers is a view of Mission Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara, California. Contact - a detail from a collage I made which expresses the joy I feel in receiving inspiration. This same image is used on the page containing the prayer for freedom from addiction. About - this is a photo of a statue that sits in a cemetary in Colma, California. I thought this angel looked wise and patient; just waiting for us to start on our real path.Links - I drew a simple sketch of five different types of links joined, scanned it into Photoshop and colorized it. Addictions - the top image is from a sculpture in the Louve. The image at the end of the prayer symbolizes receiving an authentic calling from God, as referred to in the prayer and is a detail from a collage I made which expresses the joy I feel in receiving inspiration. This same image is used on the CONTACT page. Aligning with God - a sculpture, perhaps, in the Jardin des Tuilaries, perhaps in the Louve. I am not really sure where this photo was taken. Attack - from a sculpture in the Louve. Beauty - this image is of the coast of California taken in 2000, near Capitola. Body - from a sculpture in the Louve. Children - the image, colorized with Photoshop, is a black and white photo of myself as a child. Devastation - both the top image on this page and the photo at the top of the prayer for "God" were sent to me, as a courtesy for this site, by Michel Proulx, a professional photographer. He has an archive of thousands of quality photos, available for sale. You may contact him at: symbiosis@sympatico.ca The bottom image on the page is a view of the Rose Window in Notre Dame, taken from far below it, which explains the oval shape. After much consideration, I decided the image looked better rotated ninety degrees so the widest part is at the vertical axis. Earth - a scene from a park in Paris. Energy - I took a photo of the setting sun using a star filter, extracted the shape and colorized it with Photoshop. God - both this image and the photo at the top of the prayer for "Devastation" were sent to me, as a courtesy for this site, by Michel Proulx, a professional photographer. He has an archive of thousands of quality photos, available for sale. You may contact him at: symbiosis@sympatico.ca Homeless - this sculpture is part of a larger, memorial work in Paris dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust. A father, this mother and children rest while facing the awful reality of their dislocation. Iraq - from a sculpture in the Louve. Lorenzo - with a wide open lens, I spun around while photographing a circle of Christmas lights. The result were lines of light. I then used Photoshop to distort the photo and create a circle of light through which other light—and myelin—grows. My thinking is that Light, guided by our thought, creates everything including the growth of myelin. Love - from a sculpture in the Louve. Mid-East - a composite image created using Photoshop. This took many hours to create. 911 - the photo was taken in Colma, California, a city that has few living residents but acres of cemeteries and millions of graves. Peace - this image is a black and white photo of an amusement park in Paris taken in Spring of 1998. Transformation - a double exposure taken of a flower superimposed over a mask I made of myself. I made the mask as expression and representation of my creative and transformative self. United States of America - from a photo downloaded from the Library of Congress section on Historical Architecture. Work - the top image is from a photo I took in the Louve—without flash—of the painting "Joseph the Carpenter" by Georges de la Tour. The only reason I can cite the painter is because Marianne Williamson used a detail of this same image on the cover of her book, Illuminata. Worthiness - a double exposure of the ocean superimposed over me working on a painting. The idea here, is to accept the gifts of God, to accept gifts of creativity and life from the vast sea of the subconscious. Gandhi - this image was downloaded from www.mahatma.org, created by the Mahatma Gandhi Foundation in India. The image is number 8 as listed under Portraits. Mother Teresa - this image was downloaded from www.judithcorsino.com. Her site was found in a search under Madre Teresa de Calcuta. St. Francis - this image was downloaded from a beautiful Italian site, www.san-francesco.org, dedicated to St. Francis of Assisi. The Adventure - this image is from Michaelangelo's painting in the Sistine Chapel, Rome, Italy. America's Call - I drew a simple sketch of a dove, scanned it into Photoshop and colorized it stylistically, to represent the Stars and Stripes—and, therefore, the U.S.A.—soaring to new heights. ©Copyright 2003,2004,2005 |
