Fine Art Photography | SIG 08/14/2026

Yep. There we go. Thank you. Yep. I did hit it, but I guess I didn't confirm it. Share your screen again. All right. There we go. Is the screen okay? Yes. All right. Paula, did you say you wanted to go, or? Oh, yeah, I don't mind. All right. Yeah, we'll start with you. Oops, that's me. Hang on. Let me kill this one. All right. This is an old photo. It's probably 20 years old that I dug out. Decided to finally do something with. Zoomed in a little bit. Did some touch-ups and put the vignette around it. Where is it? That's a nice shot. I like that. Thank you. I think it was at the Desert Museum. Ah, okay. But it could have been at Animal Kingdom in Disney. I just don't remember. Yeah, I like the textures and everything that's going on. Yeah. All right. The rest of these shots I got playing with sort of like double exposures. Oh, okay. And you've seen this fountain before, all black. But then I put the picture of the brown leaf that I had. I brought it in and then used it to color up it a little more and put a little texture in the background. So basically I'm just playing with double exposures and using Photoshop. Yeah. I like it. I do, too. It took me a while to realize what it actually was. Yeah. I like that. Thank you. It's like a Saguaro fountain. Yeah. Maybe I ought to make it green. Yeah, I probably could have. Yeah. I could do that. There you go. And this one I took a white lily and a pink lily and I combined them. That's a double exposure. And then I used the blending mode to figure out what I wanted to do with it. Mm-hmm. I like that idea. Yeah. So did you do a blended between layers? Is that it? No. You bring both pictures in on their separate layers. And as opposed to two photos that you might combine, you put them both on one layer. You create two different layers. Right. And depending on which picture you want to be dominant with, you put it on the top or the bottom. Mm-hmm. And then you just use the blending mode to adjust. Did you use blend if when you done that? I did not use blend if. Okay. Yeah, that was the question. Yeah, so it was just in straight blend mode. So I'm guessing like maybe screen or some, you know, one of those. This one I don't remember what it was. Yeah. It was either overlay or screen probably. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Gotcha. Yeah, I like that. It gives it almost like an inner glow. Yeah. Very nice. I'll have to remember that. Yeah, me too. Oh, this is, I made one layer of one rose, made three copies of it. But each time I copied it, I rotated it 90 degrees. Mm-hmm. So it gives you that in the background where all the light it is. And again, use the blending modes. Yeah, pretty cool. And this one I took that tree that I like, which was mostly grays with highlights, and had the flowers in the back, used the flowers, combined them and brought the colors out on the branches. Oh, that's cool. I like that one a lot. Now this one I did, I can't remember which blending mode. This is a hard light. And then I've got another one that's a little more, I can't remember if it's brighter or whether this is the most muted. Did you upload another one? No. No, I did not. I see, okay. I did two separate versions of this one and submitted this one for today. But anyway, that's what I've been doing the playing with. I like it. Keep it up. Let's get some more of that. Yeah, yeah. That's a good idea. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. All right. Well, we'll just start at the top and work our way down. So I'm just going to go to this folder with your five then, Bob. Okay. We'll just, so where is one? Oh, it's down here, I guess. Okay. I hope, I can't remember if I submitted this one before or not. Looking through some older stuff. I just like it. Forgive me if I have. I don't remember either. Good. This is the Aquinnah Point in Oregon. The Aquinnah Lighthouse. And it's just beautiful sky that night. Yeah, it is nice. Yeah. Whereabouts in Oregon is that? It's central Oregon. Okay. I think we've been to that one. Yeah, it's near Newport. Oh, okay. I know where that is. Yeah, we're debating which way we're going to go here with the smoke and the fires. We're going to try to get to Bend and Greater Lake and then figure it out from there. And then we might go down the coast or we might go east. I'm not sure yet. There are a thousand good photo spots on the coast of Oregon. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we've been down it a few times. We're trying to see if we can find something new to do. But the coast is always worth doing. So we may just end up going that way. Nice, beautiful sky. Yeah. This is a covered bridge in Kentucky. We spent a summer in Kentucky. And so one day we went around looking for as many covered bridges as we can. They have quite a few. Oh, yeah. Got a few shots. Oh, it looks like it's got a little lean to it, huh? Most of them do. Yeah. They're over 100 years old or more. Right. A lot of them are not used anymore. This one, you can't drive on it. Ah, okay. Would they let you walk on it or is it totally closed? Yeah, you can walk on them. Oh. But. Yeah, a lot of them are that way. Yeah. Oh, yeah. This is another one. You can see the posts in the front. Yeah. I thought I had taken those posts out. Pretty overgrown. Yeah. Deteriorated anyway. But they're really neat to see. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Maybe you ought to darken this up a little, get a little more separation here. Yeah. What year were those, like, constructed and, I guess, call it popular? Well, they're over 100 years old, most of them. So, maybe in the 20s, something like that? Yeah, or earlier, maybe. Wow. Most of them are big enough for cars to go through. So, say, around the turn of the century, maybe. Yeah. There's quite a few in Pennsylvania that we found on our trip last fall as well. Yeah, some of them you can drive through. There's a few in Oregon, too. Oh, are there? Yeah, I've got one of the pictures that's from Oregon. Southern Ohio has quite a few, too, that you can drive through. It's actually part of the county roads. That's cool. Nice. And this is just, I can't remember the name of the little town in Kentucky. I just like this building. Mm-hmm. It's funny, because the picture I thought I submitted had a lot less street on it. And I don't know. Yeah, I was thinking, yeah, maybe it had a cool street. Yeah, I had about that, and then I darkened the street. So, I don't know what happened when I submitted it. Okay, whatever. Yeah, so, yeah, I probably edited it a little bit. And, yeah, bring this down a bit. Yeah, that's funny, because that is not the picture I thought I submitted. It was this picture, but it was edited different. I don't know what happened. I wonder. Maybe it's in the other folder. Well, let's go to the next one, then we'll go back and look. Oh, I like that one. This is in Oregon. That is nice. Ah, whereabouts? Near, I remember near Walport. Don't know where that is. I'll do an image search and see if I can find that location. It's south of Newport. Okay. And, actually, it goes, it's now, it's a private road. There's a house on the other side. Oh, uh-huh. That they use. So, they use this for their drive? Yeah. Nice. Yeah, that's a pretty one. I like that one a lot. And this is funny, too, because when I edited it, I opened the shadows on the inside a little bit. Mm-hmm. And it didn't come through. Yeah, I barely see a little bit in there. Yeah. I opened it up quite a bit so you could see the structure. Mm-hmm. That's weird. Okay. Well, let's just take a quick look in this other folder and see if, no, that's, that's that other bridge. Yeah. Nope. Okay. Oh. It's nothing. Alrighty. Well, thanks for sending those in. Sure. Let's go to Don. This is a little morbid. Yeah, it's just a little. It was in a garden there in Kentucky, and it looked like the head got knocked off, and they just set it on the wall. And I took a minute into a black and white. I just liked it, so. Yeah, that's a lot of fun. But it's a little morbid. I like the line that connects it, too. And the brick mortar, yeah. That's fun. I just like the shadows and the grain in the wood and stuff. Mm-hmm. Yeah. It almost looks like curtains or something coming around it. Yeah, that's two-by-fours, two-by-sixes. Oh, okay, yeah, now I see the grain. Yeah. That's funny. Yeah, and this one here is an oldie goldie that's sitting on an old house. Yeah. It's just good old days. Yep. You need one of those, Sandy? Your next RV. There you go. Actually, I was, yeah, I was looking at those old GMCs that kind of look like they're from the Jetsons or something. Oh, yeah. Yeah, those are kind of fun, too. But parts are always a pain in the butt. I think they have an Oldsmobile Tornado engine in them, so it'd probably not be too hard. But, yeah. Yeah, I like that. This is Nashville. I took this from the top of our cruise ship looking down at the port. Wow, it's changed quite a bit since I was there. That's downtown Nashville there. If you go up those steps and take a right down the street, that's where all the honky-tonks and all the action is. But that big, tall building, I suppose, is the record capital of the world. No, I don't know what that is. The Batman building is back a little further. I'm not sure what those are. Batman, that's not there. That's in another town. Yeah, I don't think either of those buildings were there last time I was there. It's been a while. Nice. Thank you. I like this little hint of rainbow here. Yeah, that's a flag or something. It must be painted on the building. Yeah, looks like a mural or something. Yeah. And you've just got these little splashes of color going across. It's nice. And you've got some people for scale. Yeah, it works out well. Thank you. Oh, that's pretty. Now, this is just a, that boat is a scenic, I don't know if it's a dinner ride or whatever, on the river in Nashville. And I caught that going, that's the, I think that's the pedestrian bridge that goes over to the football stadium downtown. I've been on that boat. It's a lot of fun. Oh, have you? Yeah, they have music. It's like three hours. They have music and dinner. You look like you guys are having a good time. The local musicians come on the board. Oh, nice. Yeah, nicely balanced, good exposure. Yeah. Thank you. Very nice. Then this is taken from that bridge, looking down at the port and the boat we was on. That's pretty. Mm-hmm. Nice. Look out down the left corner, there was some kind of a steel structure for something. I took it out and there was some other stuff that I didn't like that I took out and then propped it down a little bit. Yeah, it works out real well. Nice. Thank you. Okay, let's go to Jim Murphy. This is my summer vacation today. That's the theme here. So this is in Cologne, Germany. This is incredible, gothic, gigantic cathedral there. You better have a wide angle lens to take a picture of that. Anyway, in the interior, this is a coffin is not the right word. Sarcophagus. Sarcophagus or whatever. It's made of gold. And a guy worked on it supposedly for 20 years, then he died, somebody else had to finish it. Anyways, the story goes that it contains the remains of the three magi. So there you go. Nice. Yeah, I was there, I've seen that. Okay. It's a pretty amazing cathedral, isn't it? It is. I was trying to remember what the remains were supposed to be in there. I couldn't remember until you said it. It's like upper right corner's got a little dark area there. I'm half in there. And it's a wide angle shot in a place called Kinderdijk in the Netherlands. And there's quite a few of these windmills that are, you know, a couple hundred years old, but still working. And so they're pretty amazing. They pump a huge amount of water, even though they're 200 years old. Got to go inside and people live in them. So I'm going to have to go inside one. It reminds me of a small boat or something inside. What do you think about taking a little sky off those? Okay, yeah, probably. Somewhere around there. There's no detail up there. Yeah. That's better. I might even come out a little tighter on the side too. Maybe about there. Yeah. Looks good. Got to pose you in this way and this way and this way. Get you in the swirl. Nice. Right now we're jumping to Oslo, Norway. And there's a famous sculptor garden there called Vigeland. And he did over, he spent about 20 years, and he did over 200 and some statues. They're all naked people, all female, male, children, boys, girls. Some of them in kind of unusual poses. Anyway, that was very controversial when it came out, but now it's kind of world famous and it's just amazing. So some of them are done in bronze, like, you know, this one. Like the next one is going to be in granite. So it's very amazing to see all these sculptures. Yeah. I like your point of view and the distortion works well. I see that little sign down there right in there. That's got to go. Yeah. Maybe even all this over here too. Okay. Yeah. I think that's a good idea. It's debatable. You can probably leave that little horizontal line there. Oh, yeah. Nice. This is quite massive. You can't get the size of it, really. But it's made from a single piece of granite. And, again, a lot of naked figures in all kinds of poses. I wish I could tell you how tall it was, but I'd forget. Interesting. Kind of the centerpiece of the whole sculpture garden, which is quite large. It's up on a hill, so it looks even taller. And you dropped this dark background in? Yeah, I did. Yeah. That really sets it off nicely. Add a little texture in as well. Yeah, I like the muscular detail. Yeah, contrasting texture. Nice. And we went to also, this is also in Oslo, Norway. We went to what's called the Folk Museum. They went around the country and gathered all these old cabins, some, you know, 200, 300 grand, as much as 800 years old. And they moved them and reconstructed them in this particular location. And in this particular cabin, they had people wearing, you know, traditional costumes and things and women cooking and so forth. Anyway, this guy was playing the violin in this cabin. And, you know, I didn't crop it down because I wanted to see the bowls up above and I wanted to see a little bit of the painting on the cabinet to the left. And so, you know, as far as just a pure picture, maybe cropping it would be better, but I wanted the environment. No, I don't know. I kind of like the way it is. Okay. Yeah. I might tone these down just a hair. Okay. Yeah, those are pretty bright. Yeah. I like the, just the soft ethereal feel. You had that other one of the woman in the horse stables last time? Yes. These two would go together nicely, I think. Is that a spring or what is that? A candle. I think it's a candle holder. Yeah, a candle holder. Without a candle in it. Oh, yeah. Yeah, there's a candle in there. You just can't see it. All right. Interesting. Yeah. Wow. Could have moved it an inch. Well, it's okay. Maybe make it a little yellower or something just so I set it. Look at all that inlay. It looks like inlay, plus it looks like it has 12 strings instead of six. Yeah. That's beautiful. Very nice. Thanks. All right. Thank you. All right. Let's go to Jim Bowman. That's nice. Looks like it's a nice. This is northern Michigan just a couple of weeks ago. We're just kind of looking at a spring summer look. These are all kind of spring summer looks. There you go. It's almost looking like stained glass. I like that. Yeah. Nice. Very cool. Yeah. I don't know what kind of flower this was, but I'm just amazed by how it just had curly cues and just really, but I put a filter on it that just flattened out the colors. It was solid red, but I didn't like that so much, so I put it through the filter and it's called AI Remix. Okay. Yeah, I like that. Got a real nice style to it. Yeah. Another one just kind of a painterly look. It's got a nice glow. It's almost like a sea anemone. It is. Yeah. I never thought of it that way, but yeah. Nice. Yeah. This is a nice series, Jim. Yeah. So this was, again, this is near, believe it or not, it was near, what is it? Oh, God. I can't remember his name now. I'll think of it in a minute, but it was really just a street right along there and a lot of flowers just up about seven foot tall. Wow. We had lunch yesterday with this relative of Pam's in Ippiqua, or Issaquah. Issaquah, yeah. Yeah. All the front lawns had these beautiful gardens. It was amazing. Yeah. And the smallest little house. Yeah, it was pretty fun. Yeah, it was really. Yeah. It's really nice, this garden here. Yeah. Ah, yeah. Mm-hmm. Wow. That's nice. I do like that. Yeah. So I just put an oil painting. This one's called Oil Painting Deluxe. And it's just a textured look. Yeah, very much so. But there was a whole lot of bridges in this particular forested area. They called it Five Bridges. Mm-hmm. And so that was a bridge. You know, you had a bridge over this little falls and then another one and over another and so forth. But this just looked nice. Mm-hmm. Yeah, the textured look is really nice. I like what it did to the water as well as the brick wall or rock wall there. Very nice. Oh, I like the way the water and the cool temperature mingle together. Yeah, yeah. Kind of runs through. Very nice. That's a nice body of work, Jim. Nice work. Yeah. Let's see. Wow, that's everybody. I guess we went pretty quick today. Okay. Well, I was up visiting Jim Murphy and this was at a university near him. And just kind of also like an abstract. Yeah. There's a little walkway across the bottom. I really like the shadows coming down. Yeah. And the sky coming through with the windows behind. The whole campus had a bunch of sculptures in it too, which were really nice. I'm sorry. Too bad you didn't have one person walking along the bottom. Yeah. That would have been nice. It was pretty empty when we were there. And then we stopped by some friends up near Ypsilkwa in Beaver Lake area. And just kind of like the reflections in the pond there. Yeah. They're in a real nice pond. And then Jim took me to an area where there are kids jumping off cliffs. So here's one on her way down. Look at her face. Oh, you got to see her face. Yeah. What am I doing? Yeah, what am I doing? I just did. Okay. I did what? It's too late now. Exactly. It's too late now. Yeah. This was just in a diorama in one of the museums. I thought it was kind of cool. So I just isolated it. Yeah, I just shot it, you know. So it wasn't out in the wild or anything, but it was a lot of fun. What did you do to that one, Sandy? Did you add some texture and clarity? Yeah. To add texture and clarity, I put a pretty heavy vignette on it, so it's almost spotlit. And, yeah, I brought up the detail and structure a little bit in Neo. Yeah. Where is this museum? I like it. Oh, I'm trying to remember which park that was. Hopefully I'll think of it in a minute. What was that park we went to where they had all the animals down below and we hiked around? Was it Denali or a different one? Where I had the bighorn sheep. Yeah. Where I shot this bighorn sheep. I don't remember. Yeah. I'll take a look in a minute. I think I have it on my phone. I can probably get the geotag on it. And then we went to Imer, Alaska, which is supposed to be bear time, you know, the salmon are running and everything else. Well, we got there and all the observation platforms got wiped out by this glacier that broke loose and flooded the whole river. So we had to take everything from the car. Well, I probably got tired of going back and forth in the car, and I looked around, I didn't see any rangers or anybody, so I got out of the car to shoot this one. And moments before this, he was just, like, sniffing left. You know, he stopped in his tracks and started sniffing left to right, and then he looked right at me. It was amazing how quick he picked up my scent. It was unbelievable. Yeah. So I did get a bear shot. I didn't get him fishing, though. He already had it on the ground getting ready to munch. That's how it goes, I guess.