A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

I have had a camera in my hand since I was four years old. This is one of my favorite pastimes and a passion of mine. The most common question I am asked is if I have made the move to digital phootgraphy. While I love working in the darkroom, I have learned to manipulate photographs digitally as well and found economics guiding me to my computer.

Traditional Photography:
A photograph of a bee and flower. Cat mask. (Superimposed image done in a darkroom.) A bridge over the New River. An underwater phootgraph of an amazon dolphin. Photograph of a gorilla and a girl looking at each other through a window.
A Panda Bear in a tree. A red panda drinking water. Two dogs running. A weinmaraner. A peacock.
A poster of a ferret chewing on a treat subtitled The Simple Pleasures of Life by Lora Budzier. A poster with a ferret that got into a package with the subtitle Innocence by Lora Budzier. A poster of a squirrel lit with sunset sunlight subtitled Sunset. A photograph of fish. Candid portraits taken at a retirement celebration.
Mask website design with a number of photographs of masks being modelled by a young man. A phootgraph of a lilly.      
         

Weddings, Events and Photo Shoots:
A bride looking into the distance. A bride sticking out her tongue. A portrait created from a photo of a bride escorted by her father. A digitally modified image of a bride exchanging vows with her groom. A wedding photo digitally mastered to appear as an exaggerated photocopy.
A contact sheet of a photoshoot (digitally composed). A couple at a wedding with the subtitle A love to surpass the ages... A bride awaiting introduction. Entitled A New Beginning, an announcement for a married couple's anniversary. A pastor signing a baptism certificate.
The pastors and parents of Kyle. Kyle's baptism cake. Wedding cake at the TUrner wedding. Bride and Groom cutting the wedding cake at the Turner wedding. Scenery at the Turner wedding.
Full view of the wedding cake at the Turner wedding. Wedding cake at the Turner wedding. Children dancing at the Stephenson wedding. Bride at the Romero wedding. Wedding photography for the Eckelberg wedding (and website design).
         

Digital Manipulation:
Portraits of Kodiak Kintyre and Artemis (ferrets). Digital modification for an image for www.decortogo.com. Flag superimposed on a photograph of the World War II memorial in Washington DC. A digital manipulation of a fish photograph. Digital manipulation of a lion photograph to enhance the color of the image.
Digital manipulation where the picture of a woman and her husband is changed to a picture of the woman as a butterfly. Digital manipulation of penguins to reduce the glare from a flash. Digital manipulation of a photograph to remove unsightly elements. A window display of a chess set. Digital manipulation of a photograph to brighten image elements and reduce the effect of a flash for use in a presentaiton.