More from Barrio Logan . . .

A few more mural details from Barrio Logan in San Diego. Love this stuff!

Close-up of a heart on a shipping container, then the back of a shipping container, and a bird on a bridge abutment. The eye is cut in half because that was the end of the mural on that side; it continued on around to the right.

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Fun Photography in San Diego

We visited friends in San Diego last week and went wandering around Barrio Logan. I'm fond of seeking out small details within large murals, and came up with these two jaguar images, almost hidden within the surrounding swirls and sweeps of color. Amazing artwork and incredibly fun to shoot. Especially with friends.

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Recent work: "Deception Pass Montage"

I create a lot of my montages by combining a number of photos (often totally unrelated) together. In this case, the photos I selected were all taken in the same place — Anacortes, Washington. I also added some pictures of rigging, and some hand-painted papers, then uploaded it to Fine Art America.

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Recent work: "The Beauty of Imperfection"

Numerous elements came together here, including an old teabag, a paper from the Braille edition of the New York Times newspaper, and a scrap of vintage Japanese paper.

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Recent work: "Balboa Bakery Donuts"

Out on the Balboa Peninsula in southern California, remnants of the “good old days” remain here and there, including the Balboa Bakery sign.

I took this picture a long time ago, and tweaked it a bit this week. I hope the sign is still there.

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Good advice . . .

Warning sign in a boat yard. Good advice. Bad spelling!

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Recent work: "25 Palms"

I made this a long time ago, so it's not really "recent work," but I'd forgotten about this piece and came across it the other day. I like it a lot, and so uploaded it to Fine Art America and here it is.

This same palm tree has appeared in a lot of my work. Time to find some new ones!

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Letter "Y"

Boat bits . . . Found at a boatyard in Port Townsend, Washington. Don't know why I find letters, color, and general wear and tear so appealing. But I do!

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Kimono Package Montage #7

I have an 1828 wrapper for a kimono that is gloriously soft and weathered and yet sturdy. I have photographed various bits and pieces of the wrapper and then have combined those bits and pieces to create a variety of photomontages, montages that are slightly different, yet honor the spirit of the object. It's made of old, used boro paper, multiple layers pasted together so that it's thick and very soft.

I'm reveling in what this kimono wrapping paper is offering, and I hope you enjoy seeing my interpretations of it.

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Latest work . . . "Torn Squares Collage"

I created a gel print, decided I didn’t like it, and began tearing it up. Hmmmm . . . I became more deliberate in my rips and tears, creating a number of squares. Okay, now what? And this eventually happened. You just never know, do you? Uploaded to Fine Art America first thing this morning.

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Before and after . . .

Back in 2012, I won a bid on eBay. Someone in Europe was selling 14,000 Czech matchbox labels. 14,000! I debated whether or not to bid, and, encouraged by two alleged friends, I entered a low amount, and to their surprise and delight I won the bid. And I'm thinking, uh-oh.

They (the labels) arrived a couple weeks later, all packaged nicely, sort of like Saltines when they used to be in those long, waxed-paper-like tubes.

I began poring over these small pieces of paper like some crazed philatelist, dividing them into groups of like subject matter, wondering what the hell am I going to do with these now? There were five in particular that depicted sports. I liked the overall simplicity of the artwork and the interesting color palette.

So here you see how the matchbox label looked originally, and then you see how I added a background, adding a bit more size and a bit more drama.

I’d not thought of these labels until today, when I was looking for examples of the color orange — my Photomotivation assignment for the month of March. Looking at more of the labels, I’ve got even more ideas. One down, only 13,999 more to go!

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