Backyard Bar-B-Q, West Jefferson St., Springfield, IL

Skinny Dipping At Volo Bog

                             Photograph treated with Topaz Simplify

Girl with Blue Umbrella & Black Cat

Boy At Peoria Botanical Garden

InfraRed Photograph

Metal Sculpt In IR, Peoria Botanical Garden

It usually isn't a good idea to use another's artwork in an effort to make it your own. I don't know the name of the artist but feel that the work is quite strong with the selection of the proper background in InfraRed. My only addition is that back ground and the selection of that part of the work which makes the strongest presentation.

Walking On the News

I don't often take this genre photograph. There are so many other great photographers who excel at this stuff. However, after watching a lot of people walk across this spot it finally occurred to me that it might make an interesting snapshot.

Peoria Botanical Garden and Figure (Infrared & Topaz B/W effects)

Old Man & Dog At Peoria Arboretum

Resignation

                                                                        Resignation
                           
Entered in Gallery 510's 2017 October National Art Competition; Breast Cancer Awareness Section. Winner of 1st place over all other sections. Depicts a woman with left breast removed. The following poem by Martha Manning from Undercurrents appeared along side the photograph:

Depression is such a

cruel punishment. 

There are no fevers,

no rashes, no blood

tests to send people

scurrying in concern,

just the slow erosion

of self, as insidious as

cancer. And like cancer,

it is essentially a

solitary experience, 

a room in hell with only

your name on the door.

Luthy Arboretum, Peoria, IL