
Fractal Branches
This fractal image is a small part of a larger one. A photograph was taken of it from the monitor screen. The background was a plain blue so the branches were selected and copy/pasted onto a gradient.
Member's Comments:
Ed Cooper
Dennis Coote
Aileen Ellis
Jerry Goldberg
John Hackett
A very clever image, the colours suggest spring. It is
amazing what can be created from such simple components. The arrangement of the
branches draws the eye in to the image.
Fes Parker
Dick Shirley
Very nice leading lines, and great colors. (If you are
willing, would you provide me with a bit more information on how you did this?)


Updated - Spring, 2004
I have lived in the Vancouver and Victoria area of British Columbia all of my life and raised 5 children - all artists of various types. I have been a member of the New Westminster Photography Club since 1968, and a member of PSA since 1975. My specialties are close-ups of flowers and special effects in slides. I have always enjoyed manipulating slides with litho, Color-Key, and Diazochrome overlays, as well as other methods such as Multiple Exposures, Montages, and hand colouring and retouching. Needless to say, I now do all those things with digital imaging programs. My participation in photography has been mainly in local and international competitions, lectures, workshops and judging. I retired from the photographic industry in 1989, and now spend my spare time playing on the computers.
My photography equipment is mostly Minolta. (I worked for the Canadian West Coast Distributor.) I use two X700s and an XD11. I have not used any of my film cameras since I got by Olympus digital camera.
Presently I have two computers - one for graphics and one for general purposes:
GRAPHICS COMPUTER:
Pentium lll 800 Mhrz
RAM - 256 Mb
Hard Drives - 80 Ghrz
Monitor - 17" Viewsonic.
Video Card/Accelerator - ATI All-in Wonder 32 Pro
HP CD Writer
Zip 100 drive
Nikon Coolscan LS 2000 slide scanner
Epson Action Scanner ll print scanner
Wacom Graphics tablet
Epson Stylus 740 printer
Olympus C700 UZ digital camera
Sandisk card reader
GRAPHICS PROGRAMS:
Photoshop 6 and extra plugins
Illustrator 10
Coreldraw 9 and PhotoPaint 9
Dreamsuite Bundle 1.31
Ray Dream Designer
Fractal Design Detailer
Xara Xara 3D 5.0
XenoDream (3D Fractals)
Fractint, Flarium, TieraZon
GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTER:
Pentium 4, 1.7 Ghrz
RAM - 1 Gb
Hard Drives – 160 Gb
HP CD Writer
Monitor - 17" NEC
Canon i550 printer
Zip 100
5 port hub
Shaw Cable Internet Service
E-Mail: aileen.ellis@shaw.ca