i would like to dedicate this post to two French painters, Claude Lorrain (1600 ? – 23 November 1682) Hubert Robert (22 May 1733 – 15 April 1808), noted for their landscape paintings and picturesque depictions of ruins.

 

 

 

Hubert Robert - Leisure time of the soldiers in the midst of Roman ruins...

 

 

 

Claude Lorrain-The Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba...

 

 

Most of their paintings are about landscape, seascape, and picturesque ruins, and I thought I could try to revive their style using my own technique and inspiration.

I first looked for pictures of ruins then tried to find suitable pictures of people to merge in the landscape, ( I am using pictures on the internet but I make sure there are not watermarked or copyright protected... in the end these pictures are just part of a jigsaw, different layers of what is to become a future completely new picture).  

Then I superimposed several selected pictures, creating a multiple exposure photography...I am using Picasa 3.9  and work my way trough the different tools in order to finalise something which in the end looks more like a painting rather than a photography.

 

 

 

 

 

anatomy of the gondolier...

 

 

 

the gondolier of Corinth...

 

 

 

washing clothes at the Pont  du Gard (1)...

 

 

 

 

washing clothes at the Pont du Gard (2)...

 

 

 

shepherd and sunset at Whitby Abbey...

 

 

 

people dancing in front of church ruins...

 

 

 

ploughman and old castle ruins...

 

 

 

fisherman at Eilean Donan castle.. 

 

 

 

polo riders in Apamea...

  

 

 

umbrellas in Palmyra...

 

 

 

cricket and castle...

 

 

 

maypole dancing  and priory ruins...

 

 

bathers at Whitby Abbey...

 

 

 

old roman bridge...

 

 

 

 

seascape...

 

 

temple of Apollo and ship...

 

 

ship and lighthouse (1)...

ship and lighthouse (2)...

 

 

 

time travel...

 

 

 

bridge water and castle...