Vulcania Graphics & Fine Art, LLC

While extended business trips with little time to shoot on terra firma, window seats on commercial flights within the continental United States provided the perfect opportunity for some image making.

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Landscapes from an unforgettable summer tour in the magnificent wilderness lands of Alaska, the Yukon and Canada. Sadly, the glaciers are receding at an alarming rate. I only hope I'm able to return before their seeming inevitable extinction.

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Each of the images in this gallery is created from a single photograph of a natural subject, most often a close-up or macro. The wondrous symmetry in nature emerges organically from the simplest of intracacies.

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A new departure from the square aspect ratio of the original Elemental Reflections (I) gallery, this continuation of the series works with a 1:2 or 2:1 ratio.

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This series was born through attempts to capture the bubbles in our small "pond" water feature in the garden behind the studio during the warmer months and the ice formations during the coldest. Capturing bubbles at various stages of their brief lives as they danced and exploded across the surface resulted in a broad range of surprises. And the ice brought it's own mystery and spirit as the cold winds blew.

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Mostly close-up and detail studies of nature's infinite variety . . . a favorite subject and most often captured just outside the front or back door, wherever you may be.

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Flora, aerial, landscape, wildlife and abstract images from our first and only visit to date to Oahu, Kaua'i and the Big Island.

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A series of close-up and macro images paying homage to the wonders of the faeries and their realm. The spirits of nature are bountiful and vociferous. Tread lightly and you will hear them; speak softly and they will listen; respect their realm and they will invite you back.

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Landscapes, abstracts, close-ups, macros, insects, wildlife – the wonders of nature are explored and examined in all their glory.

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A new take on flora images utilizing Photoshop filters and the Art History Brushes for a hand-painted look on archival fine art papers and canvases.

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The wonders of fractals and pixel bending software are explored in this series along with some composites intermixing various pixel bending techniques on mostly nature images.

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Water covers nearly 71% of the Earth’s surface and the human body is approximately 60% water. Water is essential for all known forms of life. It is one of the four classical elements and is widely regarded as the basic substance of the universe. It is a symbol of purification in literature and in most religions. Water is indeed the life’s blood of the Earth.

The Susquehanna Simpatico Collection began simply enough as experimentations with long exposures of flowing water. Virtually all of the water abstractions were captured at a single location underneath the Route 30 bridge on the Wrightsville, York County side of the Susquehanna River.

After showing a large selection of the water motion abstractions to an online community of fellow photographers, it was suggested that the series might benefit from the addition of other river related subject matter and details to tell the river's whole story.

I had already captured numerous images in the same and other locations but had not thought of them as part of the series. As I began to review images, it was apparent that I had the material but somehow the images, as “straight” photographs, just did not fit the same aesthetic, the same feel.

For a long time I had been playing with various painting effect filters in Photoshop and knew that tools and techniques existed for more focused and less automated digital painting on blank “canvas” as well as on existing photographs. Could there be a better time to dive in and explore these tools and techniques to bring these Susquehanna subjects and details into the softer, more “painterly” aesthetic inherent in the long exposure motion abstractions of the flowing water?

The wildlife and scenic images of the Susquehanna quickly took shape as I explored various digital painting techniques; and I was able to create the feel I was after to bring them in line with the initial water images.

These experimentations have become meditations not only in an aesthetic / technical sense but also in a more symbolic sense. The images depict not only the life of the Susquehanna River itself but also life, and in some cases death, on the river. The water purifies and sustains. It is timeless and eternal and it connects all things in the cycle of life.

The Susquehanna Simpatico Collection you see here is the result of this long process of experimentation and meditation. It is my hope that you enjoy my view of the Susquehanna and can in some small measure share my affinity to its beauty and take from it a message of conservation and preservation.

Peace!

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This series began when Dan and Shawn were invited along with 3 other local artists to create works for the "Wines & Chimes" gala benefit for the National Watch and Clock Museum in Columbia, Pennsylvania in the fall of 2009. The concept and idea of time is explored and examined and the series will be on-going through – you guessed it – time.

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A series of water reflected scenes both recognizable and abstract, "Watercolors" each contain just a bit of the non-reflected subject matter at the bottom of the image.

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