Over the past few week I have been working on a 36″ x 24″ piece to donate to an art show my wife and I were setting up. The Art for the Cure Art Show and Silent Auction was held August 28th at the Scan Design Building in Altamonte Springs, FL. The proceeds of the auction went to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network.

Without further ado, I give you “Dive”.

While photographing a local fish store here in Central Florida for their website I took it upon myself to get up close and personal with some of the clams in their display tank. The tank was a shallow breeding tank that had superb lighting necessary to grow these clams. The result was a neat over-under shot that makes you feel like you are just about to enter their world.

This weekend I am participating in the Orlando PurpleStride 5k event at Blanchard Park in Orlando, FL. Not only will I be running to raise research funds for Pancreatic Cancer for PanCan, but I have also created a custom painting for the event’s raffle. Stop by to see it in person at 8am and stick around for the race and other prizes.

I am really enjoying working with Adobe Lightroom. The small amount of editing tools compared to Photoshop are just right when it comes to streamlining your digital photography work flow. For example, I was able to modify several ‘throw away’ pictures I had in my archives and create something a little more artistic. These images were not framed properly, under or over exposed, had large amounts of back scatter or just simply didn’t stand out. After tinkering with them I came up with a fish portrait set.