The Wide-Eyed Arrival

by | Mar 31, 2008 | burning woman, eyeliner, eyes, girl, lips, makeup, marty coleman, mascara, oklahoma, portrait, student, surprise, tulsa airport

She was waiting for her man, a traveling sportsman, the longest they had been apart,
she had a new car, was hoping he would like it, he was tall, buy maybe not tall enough,
she goes to school full time and works full time, it’s been hard but she is excited to
see him, she was hoping she was in the right place.

Tulsa International Airport, Oklahoma
7/29/06

The Stranger Juxtaposition #7

by | Feb 8, 2008 | cake, california, collage, eyes, face, flamenco, girl, hispanic, makeup, mascara, napa, pepsi, photograph, portrait, story, stranger, woman

The Cake Seller – The Stranger Juxtaposition #7
The cake seller at the outlet mall and the cake and the TV image of the flamenco dancer that I shot in the Bose store demo movie in the small dark theatre where they showed off their sound systems which I did not buy but I got a number of shots of the screen that I liked and then realized how the fit and imagined a story of love. January 31, 2008

 

Truths and Things I Made Up About This Woman #2

by | May 19, 2006 | collage, eyebrows, eyeliner, eyes, hair, iris, lies, makeup, mascara, oklahoma, pores, portrait, pupil, salon, sk in, truth, tulsa, woman, words

This woman was a customer at my hair salon. I had just got my digital camera a few weeks before and was anxious to try some ideas. She was actually getting her nails done, not her hair. I took some photos of her and the nail lady doing her work then asked her if I could take some close ups of her eyes. We walked outside in the shade (but with a very very bright parking lot right behind me as I faced her. She had the most gorgeous green eyes. I took photos looking straight into each eye so I could just see the side of her head at the same time. I combined the one in front of the right eye with the one in front of the left eye to get this look. I then layered the words, copied the collage onto a new layer and turned it grayscale, then cut out all the grayscale image that did not act as a background for the words. I then spent a great deal of time manipulating her face and eyes to get the color and depth I was looking for.