Dear wind that sets the barely free,
Blow home my true love’s ship to me.
Fill her sails.
I a weary wait upon the shore.
(Donovan, from “Widow with a Shawl, a portrait”)

Low Tide in Devon – photo by Marc Blake, a photographer from Fresno

I took these (above) photographs while on a music project in England, South England, near Penzance, as in, The Pirates of Penzance, as in on the very edge “me lova,” as in Devon on the very absolute tiny southern tip of Great Britain. This is such an unusual part of the country that the low and high tide exposes, then hides the land trail that leads hundreds of yards away to what becomes an island when the tide rolls in. By morning the land trail appears again.

The opening lyrics of this article remind me of the time when I was expanding my musical creativity as a songwriter at a very young age. The creative process and the emotion that is a motivating factor for just about any form of art, for an artist, is a type of life fuel in itself. The fact of the matter is that artists just cannot help themselves when it comes to creating.

It’s no different today with a computer as a canvas along with the keyboard and mouse combination as the paintbrush with its palette of colors.

Sometimes I just need to create for the sake of creation itself. The journey through the creative process can be so rewarding that it’s easy to get lost and exciting when you find your way to a meaningful result.

Like the lyrics above indicate the wind becomes my motivation and the barley becomes the creativity. A very special thing about art is that often times an artist’s production becomes part of a project that benefits others. Of course sometimes some art is simply for art’s sake.

Now let’s return to the photographs above…

I know what you are thinking. You’re thinking that I keep saying “photographs” yet am displaying only one photo. I do know what I said and I meant what I said. This image is a composite of two images that I glued together in Photoshop and then enhanced with a variety of filters to yield this final gallery presentation.

Two photos that are rather mediocre combine forces to become a dynamic gallery presentation.

The gallery image at the top contains four colors. Red, blue, white, and green – predominately. Some of the most striking visual images are uncomplicated in terms of their color palette. In this project I chose to alter the tone of the yellow boat because red is a color that the eye will see first. In fact, that’s why stop lights and stop signs are red. Here’s a hint-more speeding tickets are issued to red cars than any other color for those of you looking to help save General Motors with a new car purchase.

I took the image below while waiting for a train. I really have nothing to tell you about this photograph at all except for the fact that I like it. So I’ll just leave this one alone. Art for art’s sake.

Another from my series of gallery images. This one is called, “Going to Take a Fast Train.”

If anyone is having a problem with all this heavy lifting (manipulating) I’m doing with Photoshop just keep one thing in mind… “Yes, I can” make you look 10 years younger!