Quick news: by popular demand, I created a new product for my stores, both on-line and physical – digitally-matted prints. See them in my on-line store. Digitally-matted prints have an 8”x10” image size and fit a standard 11”x14” frame. They have a matboard backing and a photo-realistic digital matte overlay.

I’ve also added several new products to the float wrap and postcard sections of the store.

During my move to northern California a few months back, I stopped by the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport, Oregon. It is one of my favorite public aquariums by far, although I haven’t made it to the Monterey Bay Aquarium yet, and I hear it’s quite nice. It was a January morning with very few visitors, so I had the aquarium mostly to myself.

A large display with Sea nettles captivated me. It was very meditative watching slow-moving jellyfish in a dimly-lit room. For these shots, I post-edited the images, desaturating the deep-blue color of illuminated water, emphasizing shapes and colors of the jellyfish.