Canvas to the Imagination

This is the very first image composite I created when I was just learning how to use Photoshop. I still think it is one of my best.

On my trip home to visit my family in May, I went through most of the stuff I left behind when I moved to Vancouver, and as usual brought back a few things with me. Among everything I reclaimed two long lost giclée prints I did of this image in a workshop at Toronto Imageworks many years ago. They’ve been sandwiched carefully between paper and cardboard waiting for me to do “something” with them. It can be one of the downsides of being a creative person, to have more creations than one person usually has wall space for - and so some become gifts to appreciative friends (though not these.)

I put these three shots together a few days ago, and now that I am looking at them again I’m not sure I like it. These were taken at the Ballard Lochs in Seattle. The spirals are a series of ten metal sculptures installed near the fish ladder, and the fish were viewed through the underground windows just below. It was wonderful to be so close to these large fish, and watch how powerfully they swim.

The last two images from my manipulate landscape series, created for the Utata summer project. It feels good to stretch my creative wings.