The River of Lost Souls

I had no real idea of what I was to create when I took the original photos used in this piece, any of them. But it was late at night and I had been reading Warheart by Terry Goodkind, and this image kind of struck me about the Lost Souls and rooms of safety where…

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Shoot for the Moon

I wrote this small story and had the idea for this shoot quite a while ago. Originally it was planned as a romantic couples shoot, but that didn’t happen at the last minute. I could have cancelled the shoot, but it had been so long in the making, I decided to go ahead with just…

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Creative Challenge – Dreams

I recently took part in Brooke Shaden Impact in Focus Creativity Challenge, a week long challenge to spur our creativity on and created something ourselves. We had a few days to plan, a day to capture, a day to edit and then to share. Mine wasn’t too deep as far as conceptual themes go, but…

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Raven – The way forward

Sometimes the only way forward, is to step towards the light. Take one step, then two, often there is no other way. Slowly and careful putting one foot in front of the other. There are unseen dangers in every shadow, but keep a lookout and stay on the path. Any adventurer knows these things, but…

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On location…Red Riding Hood

I recently had the most awesome shoot at the East Warburton Redwoods, with model Nicola Paige and assistant photographer David Reinhard. We met in Warburton for coffee early in the morning then drove out to the Redwoods and setup our location. Not only the chair, but also lights etc for the shoot, as it is…

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Digital Art – River Sprite

A few weeks back I was busy making loads of art, mostly Halloween type stuff. I was totally missing my yearly creep fest. So I grabbed some old shots I took a few years back and with fresh eyes and a new agenda I tried to make a ghostly river sprite. It sort of come…

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Digital Art – Rainbow Lorikeet

I took one of my photos of a Rainbow Lorikeet, and turned it into this cute piece of digital art. Did you notice the sweet ladybug? Also from another photo taken in the garden. Here’s hoping you’re having a wonderful day… ~ Julz

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Digital Art – Portrait

I have been playing with the mixer brush in Photoshop, I have been revelling in just creating art for the fun of it and isn’t that the point? We create because we enjoy it, it doesn’t really matter what ‘IT’ is. The feeling of joy when we create, the sense of purpose, the sense of…

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Honey Eater – Digital Art

So I recently spent some time playing in Photoshop, just for fun. I wanted to hone my skills with the mixer brush for an upcoming presentation and also a few classes. I have not tinkered with it in quite a while. I attended a presentation where a friend on my did a presentation on making…

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