I saw a nice brick house a few weeks ago in Bielefeld, Germany and thought it would be an interesting project to recreate it digitally.
Here is my original photo:
And my recreation. Click on the image for a full-sized view.
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I love wood; much prefer it to metal and glass and ceramics. And I admire people who are adept at woodworking and woodcarving. I would like to take up carving myself, but there is a limit to how many media one can work in and be at all accomplished.
My way around this problem is to work with 3D art, and traditional techniques which give the impression of carved or engraved wood.
Here are a couple of recent examples, doodles, to see what I could do. I believe they came out quite well.
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A rustic still life featuring a carved eagle I purchased in the Soviet Union many years ago with a few pine cones, a section of a pine branch, a sprig of needles and a few stones. The objects are resting on a caribou fur, a weathered wood beam wall serves as the background.
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Sheep grazing on the grounds of Blenheim Palace, in Oxfordshire near Woodstock, in February of 2020.
Sheep Grazing At Blenheim Palace
It is the principal residence of the Dukes of Marlborough. The palace is notable as the birthplace and ancestral home of Sir Winston Churchill.
Approximately 1800 ewes live on the palace estate. Each year give birth to a total average of 2800 lambs. Blenheim’s sheep are known as Scotch mules and are a mix of blackface ewes and blueface Leicesters.
The grassland at the World Heritage Site provides ideal conditions for the extensive flock to graze throughout the year.
Light from the sun setting reflected from water and melting sea ice just offshore from snowy coastal mountains.
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An orange sun is low on the horizon, last light at sunset, or the first light of sunrise, reflecting off snow-covered peaks. This image produced in Dogwaffle Howler’s 3D landscape renderer.
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While the struggle against intellectual property theft continues, there has been enough progress that I again have some time to devote to art. So, for my first new image in several months is a little worked up from a photo I took many years in Alaska. I hope you enjoy it. The scene was unbelievably beautiful.
Also keep in mind that glaciers around the world are disappearing as a result of human-induced climate change.
I apologize for the watermark, but I refuse to just hand over my work to thieves.
An awe-inspiring glacier in Alaska
Northern Idaho and surrounding areas of Washington and Montana are blessed with a great variety of both flora and fauna. The southern edge of the boreal forest, the Rocky Mountains and inter-montane habitat types blend into one another into. Many species of migratory birds pass through the Idaho panhandle following Pacific flyway routes. Canada Geese, often called Honkers, are one of the most common. Large flocks settle on the lakes and rivers.
Some Canada Geese are also year-round residents in the Sandpoint-Lake Pend Oreille area. The image below depicts some of them on Sand Creek just a short distance upriver from Sandpoint.
While we do not seem to have suffered from a loss of birds that has plagued many part of North America I have noticed an increasing number of dead geese, and fish, in recent years while in my kayak. Whether that somehow results from the appearance of Eurasian Milfoil in out waterways, chemicals used to combat the infestation, construction and habitat degradation near the water, or some other factor, I do not know, but I worry about environmental degradation in this are as the population grows.
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Canada Geese And Cattails
 
Alaska Day,  the anniversary of the formal transfer of the Territory of Alaska from Russia to the United States, is a legal holiday. The transfer took place at a flag-raising ceremony at Fort Sitka on Friday October 18, 1867
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- A Scene Near Eagle River
The official account of the affair as presented by General Lovell Rousseu to Secretary of State William H. Seward continues: “… The troops being promptly formed, were, at precisely half past three o’clock, brought to a ‘present arms’, the signal given to the Ossipee … which was to fire the salute, and the ceremony was begun by lowering the Russian flag … The United States flag … was properly attached and began its ascent, hoisted by my private secretary [and son], George Lovell Rousseau, and again salutes were fired as before, the Russian water battery leading off. The flag was so hoisted that in the instant it reached its place the report of the big gun of the Ossipee reverberated from the mountains around … Captain Pestchouroff stepped up to me and said, ‘General Rousseau, by authority from his Majesty the Emperor of Russia, I transfer to the United States the Territory of Alaska’ and in a few words I acknowledged the acceptance of the transfer, and the ceremony was at an end.”
Here’s one I did some time ago. I ran the original image through a Photoshop filter to give it something like a pointilist look.
Nice evening colors as well.
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A Wolf In The High Country
Cold Lands Artist 