Storm Coming
by Ginny Schmidt
Title
Storm Coming
Artist
Ginny Schmidt
Medium
Photograph - Digital Abstract
Description
About twenty years or so ago, some time in the mid nineteen nineties, a girlfriend and I decided to tour New England in October and check out all the fall foliage. We rented a car in Massachusetts and drove up one side of Vermont and down New Hampshire - seeing, among other things, the sculptor August St. Gauden's estate in Cornish, NH, and saw in person the landscapes and architecture that inspired Maxxfield Parrish my own favorite artist and a member of the art colony that St. Gaudens fostered in Cornish.
The pictures that I took on that trip were from a little 35mm disposable camera, and I put the negatives safely in the back of a scrapbook I made of our trip. Five years ago, in 2009, I found the scrapbook and took all the negatives to Target for putting onto a CD so that I could save all of the pictures digitally.
This shot of a weather vane in the shape of a cow, was taken inside a Vermont museum, and although I loved the cow, the background of the interior of a room with window blinds and assorted other items on display was, to me, singularly uninspiring. So I called upon my PS capabilities to remove the cow and the weathervane from its interior setting and put it outside where it belongs, against a background of dark, roiling, ominous clouds that suggest a crackle in the air of an approaching storm. Take cover, it's going to be a doozy.
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March 3rd, 2013
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