Maybe in time our eyes will become more tolerant and patient, and we can successfully digest and enjoy some of these aesthetic absurdities (an acqired taste for the bizarre, maybe?).

The line between genius and insanity is very fine. I know that I have never reached the genius line but sometimes I feel that I just jumped right over it into insanity.

I sometimes use a line or two from what ever music I happen to be listening to at the time. Sometimes and Opera, sometimes Country Western or Folk when it comes to giving a photo a name. When using something from an Opera I try and get a translation also to English.

I originally called this gallery "Abstract Photography". In thinking about it I do not believe that it qualifies as Abstract. An abstract artist starts with a blank canvas and creates something on it. In my case I start with a digital photograph and transform it into an piece that appears to be an abstract form. In reality if you take one of my pieces and start peeling back the different layers you will eventually come up with the photograph that is the basis for these abstract photgraphs.

I have up loaded some of these photos at the original size. This is to give the full effect of the detail in the pictures. I knnow that you cannot see the entire photo in the original size but in original the pictures begin to pop.

Therefore I think the name of "Reality Transformed" is a better name for this gallery. I also have used this technique in one form or the other in several other galleries.