Binder Cover (1of 2)

Well this is an example of one of my actual applications of my photography. This one was done for the cover of my natural systems binder which now holds all the reports that I put together for Marlatt Park over the last semester. This picture was taken out of my Marlatt Park Picture archive from a very foggy sunrise. The part I like most about the picture is the lone person at the bottom of the picture. In order to get this picture to work in the vertical orientation I had to add on extra sky through Photoshop so that the horizontal picture now fits in the 8.5" x 11" size that the binder uses. The match isn't perfect but it was a good learning experience. 

Castlewood State Park

Well this is a decent looking panorama shot looking over the Meramac River from the bluffs at Castlewood State Park. My subdivision in Valley Park backs up to these same bluffs further down river. It is the beautiful natural view from here that made this area a resort town for the wealty people of st. louis in the 1900's. In those days over 10,000 people migrated here on the weekends to get away from the dirty city. The only reason that this area has not been developes is that it is protected by several public and privately owned parks that work to preserve this little natural area. This picture was taken on a cold december day with complete cloud cover. What I wish to do in the future is come back here during the spring or early summer and get a great picture of the area with blue sky and leaves on the trees. 

Analytique

Hey, I just wanted to start off the year showing you guys the Analytique that I did last year in studio. An Analytique is a type of Design analysis/art piece that was originally done by architecture students a hundred years ago in France and America. It is made to be something that shows or sums up all the main points of a design in one drawing. Well I did mine on the Landscape Architect/ Artist Burle Marx and the subject was on one of the private residence gardens that he did late in his career. Well as you can tell this is a drawing that I did in stead of a photograph like the other posts. But this image is a photo of the finished work. I couldn't scan the final work since it is in a glass frame and the scanner we use is not a flat bed. To get this image to look like this I had to take one of my pictures that I had of this (which was not a straight on picture) and take it into Photoshop to fix the perspective so that it looked like a flat image. I though it was a nice bit of work that turned out alright so now I will leave you with the finished product.