Category: About Photo Art

Photo art is art rendered from photographs. I use a product called DAP from Mediachance to actually redraw photographs as artwork with the resemblance of many of the great masters of art.

Stairway to heaven.

Stairway to heaven was a photograph taken on a trip to St. Augustine a while back. My wife,Jo, and I were climbing the stairs of the old lighthouse when this image jumped out and demanded to be captured. This final image is a pencil drawing rendered from the photo using a process called Dynamic Auto Paint…

Sunset over the Everglades

Sunset over the Everglades – March, originally uploaded by QuakerVille. The Everglades begins just below the sugar cane fields in Palm Beach County and runs over a hundred miles to the south where it ends up in Florida Bay just below Everglades National Park. Many people think that the entire Florida Everglades is a…

Smiling Glossy Ibis

Smiling Glossy Ibis, originally uploaded by QuakerVille. Here is my 10-10-10 contribution, a Glossy Ibis. I captured this shot in Green Cay, Palm Beach co. and rendered to a pencil drawing using Mediachance DAP2. I have included the full poster resolution so that you can check out the detailed pencil strokes. There are about 500,000…

Paddeling

Paddeling, originally uploaded by QuakerVille. Florida Bay is just below the southern tip of Florida and is the where the Atlantic ocean meets the Gulf of Mexico. Where the mainland ends and the water begins is a beautiful and calm waterway between the Everglades National Park and many islands of various sizes that stretch from…

Tri-Colored Heron-Twins

Tri-Colored Heron-Twins, originally uploaded by QuakerVille. Over the years I’ve taken a lot of pictures of everything from wildlife to family events, weddings, portraits, and scenery. Most of the time the pictures stand on their own and are presented on web sites, prints in frames, collages, enlarged prints in exotic frames, videos, or several other…

Lighthouse

The Saint Augustine Lighthouse is a fairly tall building. Below is an art rendered view up the stairs to the top of the lighthouse. I took this in July 2010 during our 37th anniversary. More later.