In 2006, Burlington, Ontario (where I was living at the time) did not get a lot of snow that winter, the weather was rather strange. This is a shot on the Bruce Trail in Burlington. While hiking, I came across a really unique set of circumstances, the top of the escarpment was covered in fog, with an uncharacteristic small amount of snow and extremely soggy ground. I took this shot of the side of the escarpment with the incredible fog not allowing much visibility. I really like the balance of this image with the ratio of sky to ground.

A friend of mine asked me if I could touch up a photo of one of his clients Grandmothers plus I wanted the opportunity to take on a photo restoration project. The original photo wasn’t to badly affected so there was still a lot of information I could use to fill back in the missing pieces. Left is the original, right is the final composition which took about an hour to complete. Overall I am very pleased with the results. I was also pleased to hear that my friends client was extremely touched by the new image which made it quite successful.

Here is a shot of Sandra edited to look as it does. I centered the eye and positioned it in such a way that it was split somewhat 30/60. I took the opportunity with the red tones in Sandra’s skin to play with sucking out the colour to see what effect it would create. What I also liked about this composition was the clarity of the image itself and the natural soft lighting on the face.

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Similar to the Zombie Sandra image this utilizes the technique of sucking all the colour out of the image and creating a heavy contrast. What really caught my attention while editing this was the incredible texture revealed in the hands. I also like the shapes the hands create, the way the hands interact with each other and the black and white tones.