Description
Trees are awesome! This collection of photography and abstract art features trees without leaves. The finished images begin with my photography of dead trees, proud tall dead trees, as well as tree stumps and other gnarly remains of trees.
In October 2021 I traveled to Yellowstone National Park for the sole purpose of shooting images of dead trees. All the images in this book were shot along high-altitude hiking trails.
Over the years, I have tried to find new ways to express natural forms. This includes Photoshop artistry techniques for digitally blending my images of trees with texture images of rocks, clouds, water and many other natural objects and vignettes. In total, Life After Leaf draws upon my collection of thousands of images of Yellowstone trees and textures.
I use Photoshop to blend the tree and texture layers. I then use additional Photoshop tools such as adjustment layers, masking, gradients, blurring, spot healing and lighting techniques to wrestle these abstract images into final form. These techniques often involve considerable trial-and-error and the end product often consists of dozens of PS layers. My works do not use any readymade art filters, PS or otherwise. While working on these images, they sometimes take on a life of their own.
Life After Leaf is a large format (11.5″ x 11.5″ x 1″) hard cover book with 240 beautifully printed pages. You will find 72 photographs and 167 works of art within.
There truly is Life After Leaf!