Yolanda

Here is what can be done via photoshop to resurrect a beautiful woman from a crappy digicam image.

My work

Here I am!

I discovered the "Magic" of being able to capture time and space and freezing it onto a two dimensional piece of paper at the New York Worlds Fair in 1964. Using a 127 Kodak Brownie I took a picture of Dino, the Sinclair Oil Company "Brontosaurus" used in their logo, towering over the fairground. When that roll of VP127 was developed and my father handed me the envelope my life life interest in photography became established. I can still see in my minds eye that grainy, back lit, camera shake blurred B&W image and how my heart skipped a beat or to as I was magically transported to that summer day at the fair.
I started cleaning counters at the local camera store and worked my way up through various cameras until my first new camera was purchased, a Nikon Photomic Ftn in 1971. I've used a range of cameras from a Minox B through a Burke and James 5 x 7 view camera. The last of my film cameras was the Minolta Maxxum 9 series.
Married with children regulated creative photography to the back burner, to the point I sometimes used a disposable... Working in IT I watched digital photography bloom from a sub mega-pixel novelty into a practical alternative to film. I soon took the digital plunge with a Sony DSC-F707 and Adobe Photoshop and have never looked back. I find that I am now able to do things inconceivable in my wet darkroom days, what I call my "Extreme Photoshop" manipulations of reality. So in my postings you'll see my visions of the world as filtered by my minds eye.