To Ruin Canvas Print

Years ago there was an old abandoned building on Central Avenue in St. Petersburg, Florida. It looked so forlorn, having once been a nice small hotel and then used in its later years as a nursing home, and here it was long since empty and falling apart. I was drawn to this structure and slipped through the rusted chainlink fence to walk around the exterior taking pictures. That was a number of years ago and, today, the site has a new life as a multi-unit, modern assisted living facility, and no trace remains of what the building used to look like. I imagine, however, that some of the atoms and molecules of the previous structure as well as some of its occupants' spirits remain, coexisting on another plane, unaware that time has moved on.

Use coupon code SBNMFD thru October 31, 2013 for 15% off artist markup!!! Back home in Florida ten years now, after 30-plus years in a VA suburb of Washington, DC, I retired in 2002 after working for the federal government as a report editor also doing desktop publishing and graphic design. I have always loved all kinds of art, beginning when I was three with fingerpaint, which I found so much less restrictive than coloring books. I was a shutterbug as a child, with my Brownie box camera but, since getting my first digital camera, have been shooting anything and everything and digitally manipulating the images, often with surprising results. Sometimes, instead of modifying a photograph, I start from scratch, resulting in some of my...