Charley Akers

Following Martins’s post with all the soccer balls I had to play one of my favorite things to photograph… BUBBLES. No statement, No muss, No fuss… just a simple graphic image!

Following the circular path I decided on a special effects image that I had created as a portfolio piece.

I followed Martin’s vegetable vein pattern with veins of fireworks. These were fireworks from the Grove Park Inn, in Asheville NC. The show was part of their 100 year celebration of the opening of the iconic hotel. The #2 tee on their golf course was the perfect place to capture the shot.

I followed martin’s beach image with another beach image of North Carolina’s Sunset Beach.This was taken with my I-phone!

I played off Martin’s Circular Orange image using the intake end of a Boeing 767. No fear of flying… Just don’t  stand at the intake end of the engine!!!

Since Martin was talking about how tasty the pizza was, I decided that a cold beverage would go well with his image. This one always makes my thirsty, especially since this is exactly the way it looked when I shot it. All done in one shot – No Photoshop!

This is a combination of a photograph of Gabriel Shaffer – Asheville, NC artist, and a piece of his art. His art work is a little over 20″ high.

Following Martin’s post I photographed these uncharisticly defoliated trees, with the sun coming through them, on the Blue Ridge Parkway outside Asheville NC. They stood out from all the fall color that you could see for 40 miles around you. After that I combined  an image of the eyes of a woman I had photographed earlier.

It seemed only natural to follow with an image of sculptor Michael Ezzell with wings of Fire.

I learned early in my photographic career that the most difficult object to photograph was a curved or round mirror… the second hardest object being round or curved chrome or glass. Glass artist Marcus Thesing of Laguna Beach  has gone a step further thus adding to the difficulty. Having curved surfaces on every face of his sculptures, he has added curved interior windows into the mix. The delima was how and where do I shoot from and HOW do I light this??? After solving the basic problem of shooting the artwork I decided that I also needed to shoot a portrait of the artist. Reluctant at first, because you really couldn’t see much of his face, he finally gave in. This is the final image of the artist with his – Eyes Wide Open!