If it sounds too good to be true.. It probably is. I received a text message from “Karl Smith” wanting to work with me. I am always suspicious of text job solicitations. No one legit will approach me that way. The text message: Hello, I’m Karl Smith I saw your portfolio on yelp.com and would like to…
Another Brick In The Wall This is one of the latest in my Vortex series of digital art / photo-manipulation. What I don’t usually reveal is the source material for these digital abstracts. In many cases I have even forgotten the original image I used to create them. On occasion I have to find the…
We just recently blew in a nice thick layer of insulation in our attic to decrease our energy usage and even out the temperature across the house. Prior to this we have been replacing all our lighting with LED for these reasons. They use less energy They last a lot longer They create almost no…
A growing trend in commercial interior decorating is to have very large prints of your own building / property in a highly stylized format. I recently assembled this gallery from one of my commercial shoots as an example of what I can do for you. This little gallery contains variations on two images of the same lobby.…
I am running a 12 core Mac Pro with 16 gigs of ram, 13TB of internal storage, 4 monitors and the newest updates to OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.4. Recently I have been searching for cloud-based backup for my massive image library. Bitcasa has been making news with their incredible offer of infinite storage for…
As anyone familiar with my work has observed, all of my images are enhanced – sometimes to the extreme – to achieve the effect I envisioned when I took the original photo. Many factors influence my decisions. Sometimes I want to “push” a certain element in the composition, other times I prefer to downplay a…
To set appropriate expectations… This is L.O.N.G. So acquire your favorite beverage / snack / lounging attire, get comfortable and cover the kiddies’ eyes and ears, as it is also NOT G-Rated. OK? OK. The reason this blog exists is to help others suffering with similar debilitating and painful spinal conditions. Aside from Scoliosis, there are…
Segment 2 of this 3-stage blog picks up where Living (Dealing) With Scoliosis leaves off (read it for the history of my scoliosis) and is written to assist those living with scoliosis and similar spinal disorders only correctable via surgery. It’s LONG. Very L.O.N.G. and you should take this into account. It covers my spine…
Segment 3 of this blog picks up where The Big Day left off And to reinforce what I’ve said before, I am NOT a medical professional of any kind. Consult a doctor or at least a physical therapist before undertaking any suggestions found on this blog. You take full responsibility for using any of this…
Here’s a little piece of advice from someone who’s been there. At one point in my life, back in the 80s, things were going wrong so fast and is such abundance, I made the egregious error of asking out loud “What else could possibly go wrong?” Don’t ever do that. My answer came so fast…