These are great Smitty.

Ditto ...Smitty, they are great pixs. I have a very small Jessie Pettie watercolor, wish I'd have gotten a larger one back then.

Digitally Enhanced Photos

Here's something a little different.
These are not actual paintings, but rather photographs that have been digitally enhanced to somewhat resemble paintings. Whether they qualify as artwork is very debatable, but I can tell you from my own experience using Photoshop that some degree of expertise, creativity and experimentation is involved. These were done by someone from Nashville, whose name escapes me. I find them interesting on a different level.

Smitty, Bradley Dick has done some beautiful work that you can finr on his FB photo page. I wish you would post the one he did of the horse from the Celebration.

I agree with CB, Bradley has one of the most AWESOME pixs of a Walking horse I've ever seen...hopefully one day we'll find out what horse it is....ya just gotta post it.

The latest from Bradley Dick. I don't think he'll mind me posting this.

Bradley is a genius

Scooter & Sensation61, when Bradley sent this to me....My first words were...I want to paint this and I'm sure you had those thought as well,.

I may have posted these before, but I think they're worthy of a second look for our new members.

This is one of my own creations.

Ooohhhhh Smitty! Very cool. I like it!

Great Smitty !!

Love it...

Is it a Mosaic of Jimmy MC and WIN?

OHM, you are right. It's WIN.

Thank y'all for your gracious comments, but realize that this is not a painting of any kind. It is simply a digitally altered photograph. EYE CANDY! All done on a computer. Still, I thought it was kind of interesting. I guess it does resemble a mosaic of sorts. You can get so many different effects and combinations of effects.
Fun to play around with.

(Photoshop can make you look soooo good!)

The Photography of Tim Flach



Yes, that is what you think it is.............a horse fetus. British photographer Tim Flach spotted this on a visit to a vet's surgery, where the tiny foal's body had been preserved in a jar of formalin. he was so captivated by the fetus he took it home to shoot it with a camera. The thoroughbred baby horse died when its mother succumbed to colic and perished just a quarter of the way through her pregnancy. Strange? Sad?........perhaps, but fascinating and to some, quite beautiful. Judge for yourself.

This guy is offbeat, but quite talented. He has an amazing website as well. (*Flash required) Just click on the link below and check out his work by clicking on "slideshow" or "thumbnails". Amazing stuff.

www.timflach.com

A few years ago our mini mare aborted at 7 mo. The lady vet ask if she could take the baby and preserve it to show people how a fetus at 7 mo would look. We gave her permission to do so.

It's beautiful...llooks like china instaed of a photo.


I have seen different ages of a horse fetus and it breaks my heart to witness these.l

The American Academy of Equine Art

http://www.aaea.net/

I must admit, I didn't know about this. Found out about it on Rambler's Blog:

http://thehorseyset.net/

CH Casual Elegance by James L. Crow, 2003

The AAEA studio at the horse park is kind of in back of a low building between the Carriage Horse Barn and the new arena. There are big glass windows. If you're at the horse park and you see people in there, just drop in and say "hello," like I did.

This particular bunch of ladies was a lot of fun. One lady (the one drawing with the paint brush has a friend with a blog, too. http://wegwag.wordpress.com/.

As for other posts ...

Smitty - that photoshopped picture looks great.

And the fetus is beautiful and sad. I agree with Connie that it looks like china. Still sad, though. Loving horses sure isn't for the faint-of-heart.

Just nosing around the site and stopped in on this thread for the first time....Wonderful Smitty and had seen Bradley's great works elsewhere. I am always amazed at artistic talent...for I have none.

LOVE the ASB's, had considered saddleseat lessons earlier this season when things were runnning amuck in our industry. I fear that I do not have the seat nor the stamina for ASB's anymore. Catch rode one as a teen and never been on one since. I did enjoy it though. James Sigmon (former TWH exhibitor) has gone back to his ASB roots and purchased a new one.

BTW, I have one of the folk art "sculptures" of a TWH done years ago by the fellow at the Celebration, using coat hangers? Do any of you have information on him?

You mean Coley Streeter? Isn't he the one who made the wire art?

That sounds vaguely familiar, but I really don't know his name. My father bought it years ago and I have it in my "memory room" on display with other memorabilia. We are a pack rat family, house is like a personal museum.

I will try an internet search on this name and see if I get any hits. Thanks, Bubbadog!