Jerry Uelsmann and Maggie Taylor have made distinguished careers out of manipulating images: he's an old-school darkroom guy, while she's embraced the computer. For this challenge, they provided ten images for you to remix into an original composition.
The background image is a tomb at Fort Frederica, Georgia Coast 1730s. It's not know what it actually was but they buried the dead in the general area. In this part of Georgia there are ghosts and haints, voodoo and mysteries. At the time the Fort was populated, there were a few very bloody battles.
Keith
This composition utilizes elements from 7 different images, yet still maintains a sense of reality that is exaggerated and dramatized.
Kwesi
Using only one image provided. All others are images I made..
Melanie
A variation again utilizing more of the files provided.
Melanie
Homage to The Handmaiden's Tale...Using all elements provided...
Melanie
In this image I used only one element from the files provided.
Melanie
I have had the honor of knowing Jerry most of my adult life. I have long admired his work and worked against my instincts to try to emulate his work. I have long been a fan of Maggie's work as well. It is like a dam being opened playing with images in a way I have long wanted to do but have suppressed those instincts...
Thanks for the chance to play Jerry and Maggie. This was really FUN!!!
Melanie
I took the photo of my little muse a few months ago as he lost himself in the surreal like world of a magnifying glass.
Michele
Just using 4 of the suggested photos: the bird, the marble head, the butterfly and the sky. I called it Butter Flies, because that's what the birds must be thinking.
Jacline
This is A FEW STEPS, and is a combination of your path in the woods with my picture of some discarded wooden steps in my alley here in Baltimore. I added trees made of your hand.
Linda
This is EMITTE RUSHES and is a picture of my cat Emitte blurred as he rushes toward the front window. I added your hand, and your butterfly, both distorted.
Linda
This is called Rose and Butterfly of Sharon, and is a combination of your butterfly picture and some pictures I took of fallen closed up flowers from two of my Rose of Sharon trees. I used a dry brush filter from Photoshop.
Linda
My daughter in the hallway of the Grand Lodge in Forest Grove, OR. This hallway was creepy already...I chose the crow and the hand reaching out of the painting to add to the creep factor. My daughter, out of focus, adds a modern ghostly figure to the composition.
Teresa
Afternoon - and Butterfly.
My last one - I promise.
Dina
Used the butterfly and girl, and thought the old house and web seemed a good setting for them. Fun project to fool with.
Rebecca
I loved the constraint of using only the photos given. In this one I had a story; "Mari gathers leaves while thinking of her twin lovers Henry and Alice with their pet bird Quoth."
Chessley
Based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven."
Contains 5 remixed photos
Melissa
A predictable permutation to be sure. Simple approach minimal layering and effects.
Chessley
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