I am happy to announce that prints of my photos are now available for sale in The Limelight Shop. This has been a long time coming, and to be honest I am not quite sure why I did do it sooner. People see my photos and they always ask why [...]
I have been more than a little slow in getting any of the photos I took in the Dominican Republic this February published on this site. I had some technical complications. Namely, my laptop decided that the moment I opened up Photoshop upon returning from my trip would be the [...]
I have been submitting my photos to Shutterstock.com for four years now. In a month I will close my account with them and never submit another photo again. Here’s why; sometime over the next few weeks I expect to finally crawl over the minimum payout threshold of $75. I do [...]
A long time ago now, nearly nine years ago in fact I travelled across this great land of mine by train. I had wanted to make the trip on The Canadian as the train/route is called ever since I was a kid and I read a book by Eric Wilson [...]
In 1999 the state of the art digital camera on the market was a Canon Pro70. I don’t know how much it cost but if I had to guess I’d say well over $1000. And that $1000 would have bought you a 1.7 megapixel sensor (only barely big enough for [...]
When I first created Lucy Starkiller, I did so in protest against companies that sell plug-in to people for hundreds of dollars, when the same effects can often be achieved with the tools already included in Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro (and other programs). I had no expectation that it [...]
The following are sample images created using the Lucy Starkiller Effect. It is available as Photoshop Action and a script for Paint Shop Pro. You can view the product page and download it here. Click the images to view full size. Click here to learn more about Lucy Starkiller and [...]
Presenting Lucy Starkiller! (If you get the joke in the name, you are probably even geekier than me.) Lucy Starkiller is an action for Photoshop that will give your photos the “LucisArts look” without any extra software. It is also available as a script for Paint Shop Pro. It produces [...]