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A friend and fellow Returned Peace Corps Volunteer recently asked me to donate some of my images for a scholarship fundraising event. I happily obliged. Here are a few of the images from my time in the Peace Corps that I have come to love.

Photo Collage

This is a photo collage I am in the process of making for a course I am taking called Interactive Multimedia Design and Production. I call it Fun With Photoshop. Let me know what you think. The second version is not, in my mind, as successful as the first.

Photoshop & Textile Designs

I recently took on a new position at The University of Texas as a teaching assistant for a computer assisted textile design course. The course uses Photoshop to create unique designs by methods of color reduction, color replacement, and a myriad of other techniques. Here is a sampling of a quick color reduction and replacement from lab.

To me this process reminds me of silk screening t-shirts. When you color reduce to just two or three colors you can get these really great effects with minimal effort.

As a teaching assistant for this course I am excited to learn the creative techniques they are applying to textile design. In journalism these kinds of alterations would be out of the question as it is unethical to alter a photograph's content.

Fireworks and the Fourth

This Fourth of July we spent at Auditorium Shores in downtown Austin. It was our son Christian's first; he was fast asleep midway through the show. I am not particularly patriotic but this year is different. My mind wandered to the soldiers deployed. One soldier, my brother, is in Afghanistan this Fourth and God willing he will home for the next one.

My Sweet Sweet Baby

I recently photographed my little baby in the studio. Here he is crawling as fast as he can. He was much more interested in the backdrop than letting me get a good shot of his face.