Autumn beauty

I decided that I was long overdue for some new content! I've been very busy in the interim, but haven't had much time for art or photography. Last weekend I finallly broke out the camera and captured a few shots of the splendor of the autumn foliage, plus a few other shots that I just liked. Hope you will enjoy them, too!

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Hornet's Nest ©2010 J. Nichols

Red! ©2010 J. Nichols

Pastoral ©2010 J. Nichols

Droplet ©2010 J. Nichols

Sugar Maple ©2010 J. Nichols

The Farmhouse ©2010 J. Nichols

Falls ©2010 J. Nichols

Fire ©2010 J. Nichols

Reflections ©2010 J. Nichols

Red Maple ©2010 J. Nichols

Holly Berries ©2010 J. Nichols

After the Frost

A new scanograph that I did today to celebrate the change of season. Let me know what you think!

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After the Frost ©2008 J.Nichols

Something oldish, something newish

I’ve been at a bit of a creativity loss lately, so I’ve decided to revisit some earlier works and rework some of them a bit. Here are two of my "new" old pieces. C&C’s welcome!




Rattus 2.0 ©2008 JNichols



Violent Flower, Cropped ©2008 JNichols

The Kingdoms

These are the first two scanographic images from a series that I started last year. I intend to carry the concept forward with a series of related scans in each series, and also to add a third unifying series. I have been accumulating elements to use in this project for about a year now, and I hope to get started on the next images in the near future.
Comments are always welcome!



Kingdoms of Nature


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Kingdoms of Man

Conophthoric tunnels

It’s been a while since I’ve done anything new, so I finally started a series of images based on scans of the beetle burrows in a white pine limb that I found. Don’t know where the series may go (or if it will go any further) from here, but here are some of the first of the new pieces. Questions, crits and comments are always welcome!



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Bull

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While looking through some old polaroids, I came across a number of under/over exposed images that I had saved because I found them interesting. This piece is the product of manipulating several of those images. The final piece was output at 12" x 12".

Spirea

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This is a new digital manipulation of a photo taken yesterday. Quite often I will take a photo, and then see the potential for using it in another piece of work or as a piece by itself. Most of my work revolves around explorations of light and color, regardless of the medium I choose to work with at the time.