Island Shore

Originally uploaded by flywheel fotography

This is my first complete abstract. I’ve come to find that paintings are quite hard to photograph! I plan to keep the majority of my paintings in square format. This is a 20×20″ Acrylic on canvas.

simple sunset

Originally uploaded by flywheel fotography

Been trying my hand at painting lately.

Why can’t it come as naturally as the photography does for me?

This mentally challenging stuff wears on me but I really do enjoy paintings.

For now…enjoy this sunset scene. I’ll not post any of my paintings up just yet

turkey creek

Originally uploaded by flywheel fotography

This is an old photo I decided to give a texture. It’s one of my favorite landscape shots. I wish I could have caught some birds in the shot too…maybe I should have worked some in in Photoshop? One of these days I’ll learn to paint and I’m going to paint this!

franklin county courthouse

Originally uploaded by flywheel fotography

Went on a photo venture yesterday that somehow led me to Ottawa, KS of all places. The Franklin County Courthouse is a GREAT looking building! They also have a really nice downtown area but sadly, the business seems to have really dried up there.

farm w/windmill

Originally uploaded by flywheel fotography

I would really love to be able to paint. Many of my images are textured to get that “painterly” look. This one really comes close to the look of a painting in my eyes.

gloomy day

Originally uploaded by flywheel fotography

It’s like the 4th or 5th gloomy day in a row! Of course it is….I’m currently unemployed and why should mother nature shine down nice lights for me to photograph images in this unordinary amount of free time I have???

This shot was actually taken on a perfectly sunny day with a disposable camera. I like the clouds but the shot didn’t have enough attitude for me. A quick mix of the curves in Photoshop gave me what I wanted in the image.

kc mansion 2

Originally uploaded by flywheel fotography

This image has 3-4 carefully layered textures to achieve this moody, vintage look. Seems to be doing pretty well over at flickr.

kc mansion

Originally uploaded by flywheel fotography

Took this photo back in April but I’ve been experimenting with some new textures I’ve created. This uses 3 different textures to get this vintage look. This house is just across from the KC Museum up in North Kansas City.

russell grain

Originally uploaded by flywheel fotography

I stripped a LOT of my photos from my flickr site. It’s not that I didn’t think they were of good quality…it just seemed to lack a cohesive look. So I’m slowly building it back up and realizing that it still may not appear to be terribly cohesive since I shoot a wide range of different subjects. Oh well…