THE PHOTOTOPIAS
Digital Photography Exhibits
Exploring worlds large and small,
familiar, abstract, or unusual,
through the eye of a camera...
Newest Photographs
(2008 - Photos taken with Sony DSLR Alpha A300K/10.2MP)
(images sized/compressed for web viewing; GIMP used for some crops/edits)
- Sunday Morning
- Big Fan
- Don't Look Down
- Brighten Up This Room
- So Much to Read
- Lamp Versus Darkness
- A Chair of Little Comfort
- Ersatz
- Unveiling a World
- New Wire on the Block
- Sight for Sore Flowers
- Just Venting
- Ripple
- There Used to Be So Many Trees
- Togetherness
- Vase of Rocks
- The Spaces Between
- So Pretty
- Pause
- The Ground Can Be So Interesting
- Artificial Flowers Pretending They Love the Sun
- Shuttered
- It All Hinges on This
- Wait! Come Back!
- If They Saw Us Talking...
- Seems So Different from Out Here...
- Following Our Own Paths
- Buried Treasure
- Anthropomorphically Speaking, This Is an Unhappy Pan
- Be My Guest
- Rift
- Brick, Wood, Metal
- Fleur Du Mal
- Acrossing
- The Weeping Tree
- Carpe Diem
- Anything (Like Napkins, for Instance) Can Be Interesting When Viewed Just Right
- Pause (2)
- Living Room
- Berry Wreath
- Cherubs
- Water on Leaf
- Well Wired World
- Well Wired World (2)
- Lights
- Swept
- Sweep 2
- One Day I Will Be a Sweater
- Window Dressing Up
- Jar
- Carpet Closeup
- Dawn of the Information Age
- Where Irons Fear to Tread
- What Negativity Looks Like
- Reflectionizer (+ GIMP lens distortion)
- Door to the New
- Bridge Crossing
- Bridge Crossing (2)
- Faith in the Age of Uncertainties
- Onionskin
- Herd Mentality
- Peppers and Onions
- Postconsumer
- Black Hole in Parking Space
- Heavy Rain
- Every Which Way
- Fully Loaded
- Golden Mean
- Tree Like a Waterfall
- No One's Space (at the Moment)
- Recession
- Haggard
- When Heat and Water Get Together
- Preternature
- Spoon, Water, Light
- Guitar Springs
- Embracing the Light
- 12th Fret
- 7 Strings
- The Clouds Cannot Swallow the Sun
- Feast of Crumbs
- Tuners
- Fading
- Phototropic Tendencies
- You First. No, You!
- Rocks within Rocks within Rock
- Fragmentation
- Every Tree Has a Story; Each Leaf Its Own, Too
- Back to School
- Large, Small
- Courage
- Uppour
- Drawers
- Kitchen Contours
- Soapsudsunburst
- Mosaic Is a Broken Whole
- The Book of True Wisdom Is Not for Speed Readers
- Empty
- A Drama in the Sky
- Fleeing the Storm
- Brushstroking
- Flowers Never Look at Themselves in the Mirror
- Only
- Quintessential Facade
- Reach
- Clouds Laughing
- Affectionate
- Putting Things into Perspective
- Clearly
- Growing Up
- Concentration
- Residuum
- Tired of Grazing
- Cloud Mother and Child
- Transversals
- Stop
- Go
- Soar
- Never Too Long by Their Shadows
- See You Later
- Portrait of a Cloud
- Multitude
- Glass Full of Hues
- Unity of a Common Purpose
- The Opposite of Smooth
- Stronghearted
- Hangers in Space
- Yeah, So, What's Your Point?
- Lunar Abstraction
- String Orchestra
- Onion Roll
- Bamboo
- Such Things Pale by Your Inner Beauties
- Shadows Playing in the Light
- Domain of the Dreamers
- Tractor
- Duet
- Ladder to Nowhere
- Grounds for Meditation
- Footbridge
- I Was Once Tall and Green Just Like You
- Abide
- Coffee Can
- Silent Until Touched
- Lines of Thought
- Golden Age
- Moire Wave
- Life Always Finds a Way on Its Own
- Firmament
- Tranquility
- Saintly Statue
- Empyrean
- Never Quite Evergreen
- Antiquity
- Serenity
- Left
- Radial
- Above
- Mottled
- Assembly Lines
- Choosing the Right Tool
- The Growing Pile of Books to Read
- Supporting Each Other
- Mysteries of Life
- C Sharp
- Shark Cloud
- Reaching Out
- Semblance of Sky and Sea
- Like Mountains in the Skies
- Picturesque
- Chaos Theory 101
- Shining Through
- All the Kingdoms of the World in a Moment of Time (Luke 4:5)
- Otherworldly
- Glass Cleaner Spray Bottle, Backlit
- Overcloud
- Inverted Sky
- Focus
- 55 Petals
- And There Was Light
- The Flower as We Rarely See It
- Bamboo (2)
- Marginalized
- Dawn upon a Day Dreamer
- Thicket
- Unbound
- Adrift, Calmly
- Reflecting upon Life
- Natural Balances
- Teacher and Class
- Idyllic
- New Leaves on an Old Tree
- The Enlightening
- Eternally Entwined
- One Book Often Leads to Another
- Radii
- Just Call Me an Optimist
- Fantastical Forest
- Some Rooms Do Not Come with a View
- Atop the Water Light Trickles Up a Fickled Mirror Rippling with Life's Slightest Mysteries
- Game Set Match?
- Proto Type
- The Fountain
- Beyond the Fence of Logic Lie the Dreaming Fields
- Rediscovering the Beauty of Life
Older Photographs
(back to 2006 - Photos taken with Olympus SP-510UZ/7.1MP)
(images sized/compressed for web viewing)
- After November
- All the Bubbles Have Been Popped
- The Allegory of Plato's Cave
- Artificial Amethyst
- Attached
- Basketweaving
- Black Belt
- Blank Media
- Blinds Drawn
- Blinds: Opening
- Breadties
- Bristles
- Brown Belts
- Cardboard
- The Catch of the Latch
- Christmas Glow
- Chess Pieces
- Cloth
- Christmas Lights (1)
- Christmas Lights (2)
- Christmas Lights (3)
- Christmas Lights (4)
- Christmas Lights (5)
- Christmas Lights (6)
- Christmas Lights (7)
- Christmas Lights (8)
- Christmas Lights (9)
- Christmas Lights (10)
- Christmas Lights (11)
- Christmas Lights (12)
- Christmas Lights (13)
- Christmas Lights (14)
- The Circumference of Boredom
- Clementines
- Cords
- Crackerstack
- Creative Pencils
- Dawn of a Dream
- Daybreak
- Decoratively
- Denim
- Detail of an Angel's Wing
- Dinner through a Glass Lid
- The Effervescent Ones
- Entwining
- Escaping Strawscape
- Evergreens
- The Fate of All Walls
- Fake Flower
- Feathery
- Festive Berries
- Festive Flora
- Filtered Reality
- Flashlight Needs New Batteries
- Floaters
- Gemelli
- The Genealogist's Dilemma
- Get a Grip
- Giftwrapping
- Gordian Knot
- H20
- Headphones: Right
- Hold On
- Hooked
- How Much Power Do You Need?
- Hurry Up: The Future Is Here!
- Improbability
- In the Kitchen
- Information Overload
- Information Overload (2)
- Information Overload (3)
- Interwoven
- It All Hinges on This
- It Hardly Felt Like December
- It Rained Today
- Keyboard
- The Lamp, the Light, the Shadow
- The Last Screw Up
- Layers upon Layers
- Leaves of Olde
- The Light, the Reflection
- The Light, the Shadows, the Walls
- The Light, the Shadow, the Lamp
- Looking into an Unmagical Mirror
- Man Versus Nature
- Nailclipperart
- Nature Renewed
- The Neckless Necklace
- The Need for New Glasses
- New Day for the Old Coat
- No Photos, Please
- Not Looking
- Off and On
- Open the Door
- Ornamentality
- Pageturning
- Paperclips, Fast
- Pasta
- Pick a Pick
- Pinecone
- Plastic Beads
- Plight of the Disambiguator
- Points of View
- The Possibility of Other Planets Like Earth
- Press Any Key to Continue
- The Problem of Self-Perception
- Refracted
- Rubberbandstand
- Sequintessence
- The Shadow, the Lamp, the Light
- Shattered Sky
- The Sill Where All Is Still
- Spiralboundary
- Stranded
- Soap Suds
- Somewhere along the Plastic Canvas
- The Sound of Meaningless Applause
- Sometimes the Question Is the Answer
- Speedreading
- Stainless Steel
- The Staple Is the Spring
- String Theory
- String Theory (2)
- Sunsetting
- Sweater
- Taperoll
- Telephony
- The Tempest Gathers
- Tempus Fugit
- There's Always at Least One
- There Is a World Outside Your Window
- Thirsty
- Tinsel
- Towel
- Trees within Trees
- Tributaries
- Twisted Pair
- Undrinkable Drops of Water
- The Unneeded and the Forgotten
- Unplugged
- Vacuum Tube
- Venting
- Volume One
- The Wall that Paint Forgot
- Warmth in Winter
- Wastebasket: Empty
- Waves of Light
- Well?
- Where Does All the Time Go?
- What Are You Reading?
- Will You Just Listen to Me?
- Windowlight
- Wood
- Wood against Brick
- Wood, Glass, Metal
- Wrinkled Light
- Ziti Rigati
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