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"Formation"

A contemporary dramatic black-and-white macro photograph of an exotic protea flower with unusual long, thin petals, offset in the frame. The bloom is also commonly called a "pincushion flower." Please visit my Black and White and in Between art gallery to see more of my monochromatic artworks.

Contests and Awards:
5.28.16 Desaturated Photograph Contest: 3rd Place (tie)
2.7.16 Office Art Decor It Is All There In Black and White Contest: 1st Place (tie)
1.14.16 Surreal and Fantasy B and W Work Contest: 2nd Place (tie)
6.5.15 The Grayscale Outdoors: Administrator's pick for Artist Spotlight Feature
5.21.15 Garden Tripod 31: Featured in the e-zine (page 29)

This image was honored by being featured in the following outstanding gallery groups at Fine Art America:
The World We See
Beautiful Flowers
Macro Marvels
The Grayscale Outdoors
Images That Excite You
The World We See
Floral Photography and Art
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My mind lives in a rather strange world of its own, in a state which I tend to refer to as "delightfully twisted." Through my art, which I am vehemently determined to continue to create with as little outside influence as possible, I work tirelessly to interpret the concepts my mind creates in a moment-by-moment barrage of ideas that always seem to come faster than I can realize them in a tangible form. Though my artwork over the past 40 years has evolved from my early days of shooting on film to manifesting itself in many different forms of more contemporary media, from the delicate transparency of digital watercolor, to the no-holds-barred starkness of noir digital photography, to even the fanciful abstract-turned-conceptual properties...