The works are rendered from photographs I have taken and re-imagined. I am usually thinking about how it will finally look rather than how it looks now. I am trying to see the subject in an interpretive way rather than an experiential (been there saw that) way; although almost none are pictures for the just for sake of a picture, and are derived from being there. And often enough a photograph is better. I have a few abstracts, usually working for my own amusement and in the end I found it pleasing. I am not too much convinced by abstracts; the airy inspirations and ethereal soul-struggles, seem often to follow the creation - "I did something - hmm now what was that about?" Hey, it's enough that it looks good, why B.S. about it? Impressions though, well that's different....  Delivery to your Email address by Dropbox. I am contactable at michaelbowes1@gmail.com. I have a Paypal account. Images are sold as limited editions. If you want to be exclusive, buy them all! Please consult and agree prior to publication in any media. I live in Cape Town, and I wouldn't want to be anywhere else. I haven't yet found the place I would rather be living.
PhotoECLectic.net Images and Photographics by Michael Bowes

 

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I have rather good legs.
I am well traveled in Africa, Europe and the USA. I go with pals to Botswana or Namibia, Zimbabwe. These are great wilderness areas.
 Pictures of branded products are not for sale, nor are pictures of identifiable people. Copyright: People will come and break your arms and legs - for you, that will be the fun part. Most of my images are 8000 X 5333 pixels or thereabouts. Broadly speaking 240 - 300 pixels per inch is photo quality, so these are 30 X 20 inches (68 X 45cms) Adobe has recently released a refinement which allows for even greater image sizes, 15,000 pixels, around 50" or 1.25 meters across. The results look good. I have one pleasing result @ 16,000 pixels. The impressions and abstracts can usually be more ambitiously enlarged. All images are JPeg, however the outsize image produces a DNG file -which you can have if you want it; they are enormous - 100mb +