colonnade San Marco

While standing in this colonnade in St Mark’s Square (Piazza San Marco) in Venice, the sound coming from the bell tower (campanile) is absolutely enchanting. I stopped recording images and started recording the sound.

This hallway is endless. It appears to me that the people have been walking for quite a while. Bravo, Wayne. - - My best always, michael

Thanks, Michael. The sound seemed to travel well in this hall too.

Wayne - I generally like and enjoy your presentations. I often try to get a "painterly" quality to my images and I'm curious what filters you use to obtain your results. Kudos for your interesting work.

Many thank, Bruce. I have been asked that question several times. I am probably not very good at explaining. But I will try.

It could be said I am distorting an image then selectively removing the distortion.

Depending on the image I will use different sets of “filters” from photoshop and several topaz filters. Basically I am layering filters while masking out areas where I want to minimize the effect. Similarly to what a painter does by laying down several glazes on a canvas and selectively removing areas of the glazes.

The meticulous part involves a wacom tablet and pen. Some images require touching/tracing/brushing nearly every area of the image with the pen – not unlike what a painter does with a watercolor or oil painting.

Thanks Wayne for the feedback. This is useful in evaluating my approach.