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art, Artist, bird, birds, counting crows, crow, crows, cypress, eating crow, faabest, gothic, gothic art, Hillsborough River (Florida), mysterious, mystery, photo collage, photographs, photography, raven, ravens, rivers, sharon cummings, tampa, tampa florida
I absolutely love photography and yesterday I took a walk down to the Hillsborough River in Tampa which is very close to my home. I have been wanting some nice pictures of crows for awhile now and I got lucky. The park was filled with them! I was intending to crop out individual images for use in my collage work, however, this image struck me. I liked the entire frame. I enjoy putting together a story using multiple images and layering such as my Eiffel Tower that I listed a few days ago. One individual recently accused me of stealing images. Alas, you cannot steal images from the Public Domain…they are there for everyone to use. Some pictures I just cannot acquire myself such as Hubble Space imagery by NASA and certain landmarks. Since my imagination seems to have no bounds, I occasionally pull from others who have graciously released their work to the public or images that have never had copyright such as NASA Hubble or images that are vintage and the rights have expired. I even purchase stock photos from time to time. Truth be told I far prefer working with my own photographs. I can do so much more with them as I have the raw files to play with. You can expect to see some of my crows in space soon. 😉
See my work with CROWS here:
http://fineartamerica.com/featured/lunch-break-crow-art-by-sharon-cummings-sharon-cummings.html
I love reading your blog! As a photographer, I know what you mean about using your own images. It is better, but sometimes I need imagery that I cannot photograph myself. I go to Wikimedia to look. It is nice that some people release their work to the public and I may do that with some of my images someday. I think it is cool to see all of the creativity out there.
Thank you William…love your work!
What a fun crow image! We had a crow fledgling get stuck in our backyard last year, and I’ve thought of them with great affection ever since (we had to help it up onto the fence).
Awwww….I love birds…I used to have a pet cockateil that I raised from a baby…hand fed…he was such a lover.
Sounds like a sweetie! I have a parrotlet (smallest true parrot), who spends a lot of time either nestled in my hair or demanding head scritches.
Oh yes…my Buddha as he was named…loved me to scratch his nose…the skin would get flaky sometimes and he loved for me to scratch it off! Thanks for stopping by my blog Priya!