Palo Alto Concourse De Elegance

Spent a wonderful day at the Concourse with many beautiful cars.

New Canon S5 IS Street Camera

I just received the new Canon S5 IS. I will be using it as a STREET CAMERA in conjunction with my various MACRO RIGS. The results so far are super fine.

ORCHIDS 2007

I have embarked on a new pursuit with my cameras ( Macro Rigs) the exploration of the Orchid world and the capture of same.
I hope that you will enjoy them as I post the images and chronicle my adventures.

Pop Top Creations

Pop Top Art

The simple but elegant "PopTop" makes an interesting and challenging subject to capture and to paint.

Urban Manmade Details

New Urban Water Color

Grill of a red hot rod.

Urban Walkabout Journal 04162007

Web work (ShutterBug Web Editor + Transmit FTP), the creation of pages and sites is my thing. Feeding the addiction with my camera and editors ( Photoshop CS2/CS3, Photoshop Elements and ComicLife, Portraits and Prints and iPhoto for organize and store) allows me to create and expound on my efforts and let all see my images.
First step is to capture the images that will feed my sites and galleries.
Then select the ones to work over to create my Water Color/Wash images and salon quality Black & White/Color photographs. Then save and use Curator or PhotoExpress to convert to web jpg, then the fun begins. To share my efforts and images along with my observations on the Urban Environment
and my Techniques used to capture and record my images on my sites and blogs is exciting.
To be able to hopefully encourage others to carry their camera at all times and to stop, look and see what is around them everyday.
Go forth and SHOOT.

My Walkabout Journal showing what can be seen and captured.

From My Urban Sketch Book

A sample page from my sketch book for 2006 - 2007 of the Urban Environment.

Diptera (Flies I Have Known)

Ink Wash of a specimen encountered in one of my Bug Hunts late 2006.

Flies (Diptera) That I Have Known

These are some Diptera that I hunted late last summer.

AFFY My Buddy

Affy posing for the camera.

The love of my life. Affy keeps me sane with his photogenic antics ( He is a "HAM") when ever I get one of my cameras out he starts to pose and to act "CUTE". He is a joy to photograph and to paint.

red roadster1 1992 bw ink v2.jpg

red roadster1 1992 bw ink v2.jpg, originally uploaded by Athoskat.

Another from my URBAN INK SKETCH file. This is from the Good Guys Rod & Custom Show.

bike 028 col ink v1

bike 028 col ink v1, originally uploaded by Athoskat.

I LOVE TO MAKE IMAGES, IT IS MY PASSION///

From my collection of URBAN Pen & Ink drawings of the URBAN ENVIRONMENT. More to follow.

I also want to point to the Blog from Royce Blair on Ink Jet printing. It is super informative.

http://www.inkjetnewsandtips.com/blog/index.php

Urban Vision WORKING CAT

WORKING CAT