Old Photo Works

A collection of old college assignments.

The Mission at Tumacacori
My spiritual center in Southern Arizona. The assignment was to shoot a photo, then alter it to show the passage of time. Here is what I came up with.

Chow Shien Ming Family
(Mother grew up with them in Anwei Province, China)
Black & white original vintage photo, scanned to digitize, repaired in Photoshop, then colorized.

My Family, 1958
Original color photo scanned, restored in Photoshop.

Photoshop brushes

Original

"The Reluctant Dragon"
Replicate an existing famous painting, exclusively by using Photoshop brushes.
The original classic painting is on the right.

* La Corua was a large water serpent that lived in springs of water and protected them. It had a cross on its forehead and cleaned the veins of water with its teeth. According to Sonoran folk beliefs, if one killed the Corua, the spring would dry up. Vanishing water sources and economic pressures in Mexico have pushed the folktale of La Corua to the dustbin of history on both sides of the border.

Serpents have long been sacred to indigenous peoples throughout the Americas and are respected as guardians of water sources and bringers of rain.

* Beliefs and Holy Places - A Spiritual Geography of the Pimeria Alta - James S. Griffith, University of Arizona Press, 1992

Old Photo Works

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