process and perspective

I recently attended a creativeLIVE workshop with Photographic artist Doug Landreth. Doug plays with images in a way that elevates the creative process. Many of us snap a photo and are done with it, which if done well, can be an amazing thing. But it's another kind of artist that takes an image and creates something different from it.

Over the past few years, in my artistic journey I've often explored adding texture and other elements to my images. But viewing the images that Doug creates, as well as those I've found via the Landreth Flickr group and other texture groups on Flickr, I've been inspired moreso to play around with making things look funky, moody, dark, vintage, grungy, etc...

from a bridge in south lake union...


(edited via Iris PhotoSuite, photoforge2, focallab, pictureshow)

to a flower in in ballard...


(edited via cameramatic/photowizard/100camerasin1)

to vines on brick in south lake union...


(edited via photoforge2/irisphotosuite)

to a walk along a tree covered street...


(edited via Cameramatic/100CamerasIn1/Photoforge2)

simple things in our daily lives, documented, toyed with, to create something else, or at least a sense of something else.