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The Art Of Artificial Art

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The Art Of Artificial Art

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THE PHOTOGRAPHY YEARS

Fifteen Years of Looking

Before the machine learned to dream,

it learned to see.

When the Streets Found Their Voice

Crowds march down Market Street in pouring rain during the 2017 Women’s March in San Francisco.

Participants form a human chain across the Golden Gate Bridge during the Bridge Together demonstration in San Francisco in 2017.

Occupy San Francisco demonstrators march through the Financial District during protests targeting major banks in 2011.

Demonstrators protest the Keystone XL pipeline near Gordon Getty’s residence in San Francisco in 2013.

Tent city at the Occupy San Francisco encampment along the Embarcadero in 2011.

Protest sign featuring Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at a demonstration in San Francisco.

Faces in a Crowd

Festivalgoer covered in colorful powder during a Holi Festival of Colors celebration.

Crowd gathers at Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park during San Francisco’s informal 4/20 celebration in 2016.

Aztec dancer in traditional ceremonial regalia and feathered headdress.

Celebrants gather in San Francisco’s Castro District during the final traditional Pink Saturday celebration in 2014.

Colorfully costumed Verasphere participant at the San Francisco Pride Parade.

Runners dressed as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the 2019 Bay to Breakers in San Francisco.

Burning Man

Cargo Cult - 2013

The Man stands atop the giant flying saucer during Burning Man 2013: Cargo Cult.

Wooden sailing ship Mutant Vehicle travels across the playa at Burning Man 2013.

Boat-shaped Mutant Vehicle crosses the playa at Burning Man 2013, with a large art installation in the distance.

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Giant shark Mutant Vehicle crosses the dusty playa at Burning Man 2013.

Wooden sailing ship Mutant Vehicle travels across the playa at Burning Man 2013

How Weird Street Faire

Crowd gathered around a performance stage at the How Weird Street Faire in downtown San Francisco.

2020-2024

Large green fantasy stage installation rises between downtown buildings at the How Weird Street Faire in San Francisco.

Festival participant in a large green frog costume among the crowd at the How Weird Street Faire in San Francisco.

Festival participant wearing green sunglasses and an elaborate purple costume at the How Weird Street Faire in San Francisco.

olorful flags, bubbles and festivalgoers fill the street during the How Weird Street Faire in San Francisco.

Costumed performer above the crowd at the How Weird Street Faire in San Francisco.

Nuns of a Different Order

Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence

Sister of Perpetual Indulgence wearing an elaborate pink habit and theatrical makeup in San Francisco.

Portrait of a Sister of Perpetual Indulgence wearing a white jeweled habit and blue theatrical makeup

Group of Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence dressed in white walking together in San Francisco.

Sister of Perpetual Indulgence wearing a jeweled white headdress and dramatic makeup in San Francisco.

Sister of Perpetual Indulgence in ornate black and gold costume and white face makeup in San Francisco.

Sister of Perpetual Indulgence framed by pale blue feathers and wearing theatrical white face makeup.

Dia de los Muertos

Child wearing Día de los Muertos face paint and a crown of pink flowers during a San Francisco celebration.

Handwritten remembrance messages displayed with candles at a Día de los Muertos observance in San Francisco.

Día de los Muertos participant with skull face paint illuminated by candlelight in San Francisco.

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Participant wearing a skeleton costume, red flowers and Día de los Muertos face paint in San Francisco.

Colorful Día de los Muertos altar decoration with orange flowers, monarch butterflies and a cat figure.

Woman having traditional Día de los Muertos face makeup applied during a San Francisco celebration.

The Places You Will Go

Eastern Sierra mountains rising above golden fall colors beneath a cloudy California sky.

Large metal dragon sculpture rising from the desert at Anza-Borrego in Southern California.

omet NEOWISE glowing above a star-filled night sky and mountain silhouette in California's Eastern Sierra.

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Snow-covered Mount Shasta framed by pine trees and spring clouds in Northern California.

Small waterfall surrounded by brilliant yellow autumn aspens in California's Eastern Sierra.

Dramatic red and orange sunrise behind Mount Shasta in Northern California.

I Stop for Flowers

Close-up photograph of a yellow flower emerging dramatically from a dark background.

Macro photograph looking into the layered pink, white and pale yellow petals of a dahlia.

Detailed close-up of orange, cream and red tulip petals curling into sculptural shapes.

Orange flower and green bud photographed against a soft purple blurred background.

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Close-up portrait of a pink and cream dahlia with layered curling petals.

Close-up photograph of orange and cream tulips with dramatically curled petals.

‍The View Keeps Changing

These are just a few of the images I have curated from fifteen years of photography — moments, faces and fragments of a much larger archive.

From time to time, some of these photographs will change as others find their way back into the light. There are thousands of images and far too many stories for a single page.

The photographs may change.
The years behind them remain.

The Bryce Years

1999-2011

Worlds Built Before the Camera.

The First Worlds

The Lost Worlds

The Oracles

Further We Go

The Worlds That Remain

These are just a few of the seventy images that remain from twelve years of building worlds in Bryce 3D.

In the early 2000s, these worlds took months to construct with the computers available at the time. Every landscape, structure, texture and light was built piece by piece.

Some of the lost archive may still be waiting on old CDs. Other worlds may be gone forever.

Only seventy images remain.
The time within them does too.