Title: He Has Chosen Exile
Made: 2005
Number of Photo's used: 7 to 8.
Description: Another example of a manip made for someone, featuring that someone. This time its based from 'Lord of the Rings' and the character of Aragorn.

Title: Eryn Lasgalen
Made: 2005
Number of Photo's used: 7 to 8.
Description: An Elven maiden walks through the forest known as 'Mirkwood', or 'Eryn Lasgalen' in the Elven tongue. The forest of Mirkwood is found in J. R. R. Tolkien's works.

Title: TThe Maori Ancient Voice
Made: 2005
Number of Photo's used: 10 to 12.
Description: A project outline was to create a poster for any musuem in the world, of any exhibit based around the prehistoric era of man. I decided to go with the Maori culture from New Zealand, simply because I have a love for all things NZ. My exhibit was a tiki statue exhibit with special Maori preformances on certain days.
Accolades: 2005 San Antonio College Student Art Show

Title: Leonardo DaVinci
Made: 2005
Number of Photo's used: 5 to 7.
Description: An educational magazine layout revolving around Leonardo DaVinci.

Title: Streets of Gondor
Made: 2005
Number of Photo's used: 5 to 7.
Description: This manipulation actually features myself, walking through the outer walls of the city of Minas Tirith, in Gondor, from Tolkien's Middle Earth.

Title: Catch Me If You Can
Made: 2004
Number of Photo's used: 8 to 10.
Description: Probably one of my favourite manipulations I've made, to date. After watching a TV special on Jack the Ripper, this vision came into my head, and I went to recreate it in my paint program. Some digital painting is featured in Jack and the blood, which were created from scratch.

Title: A Pirate's Life For Me
Made: 2004
Number of Photo's used: 10 to 13.
Description: Another favourite of mine, this was based around my love for all things piracy. Its mainly based upon the character of Jack Sparrow from Disney's 'Pirates of the Caribbean'. My Jack Sparrow is digitally painted back in, along with photo blending.

Title: The Centaur Princess
Made: 2004
Number of Photo's used: 5 to 7.
Description: Created for a project in Photography class, my first manipulation of human/animal proportions.

Title: Darkness Unescapable
Made: 2004
Number of Photo's used: 8 to 10.
Description: This one features two characters from 'The Lord of the Rings', Éowyn and Faramir, in a scene from the chapter 'Steward of the King' from 'Return of the King'. Page 941: 'Then you think that the Darkness is coming?' said Éowyn. 'Darkness Unescapable?' And suddenly she drew close to him. 'No,' said Faramir, looking into her face. 'It was but a picture in the mind. I do not know what is happening. The reason of my waking mind tells me that great evil has befallen and we stand at the end of days. But my heart says nay; and all my limbs are light, and a hope and joy are come to me that no reason can deny. Éowyn, Éowyn, White Lady od Rohan, in this hour I do not believe that any darkness will endure!'

Title: River Daughter
Made: 2004
Number of Photo's used: 4 to 5.
Description: Based upon the character of Goldberry, from Tolkien's 'The Fellowship of the Ring'.

Title: A Sign of Hope
Made: 2004
Number of Photo's used: 5 to 7.
Description: After seeing Peter Jackson's version of 'The Lord of the Rings', it was obvious which beloved scenes were left out from the book. I was determined to illustrate some of those scenes in my own way. This scene is from 'The Return of the King', 'The Steward of the King', page 950: 'Then Aragorn turned, and there was a stony slope behind him running down from the skirts of the snow; and as he looked he was aware that alone there in the waste a growing thing stood. And he climbed to it, and saw that out of the very edge of the snow there sprang a sapling tree no more than three foot high. Already it had put forth young leaves long and shapely, dark above and silver beneath, and upon its slender crown it bore one small cluster of flowers whose white petals shone like the sunlit snow.'

Title: The Birth of Telperion and Laurelin
Made: 2004
Number of Photo's used: 8 to 10.
Description: Based upon a chapter from Tolkien's 'The Silmarillion', and the beginning of Middle Earth. This relates to 'A Sign of Hope', in that the Telperion (the silver tree), is the ancestor of the one Aragorn finds. Telperion stands for the moon and Laurelin, the sun.

Title: The Hobbit
Made: 2004
Number of Photo's used: 10 to 14.
Description: A movie poster for J. R. R. Tolkien's 'The Hobbit', if it should ever be made. It uses actors from the 'Lord of the Rings' movies, and stock photos.

Title: Glorfindel's Vigilance
Made: 2004
Number of Photo's used: 7 to 9.
Description: Yet another manip based on 'The Fellowship of the Ring', and the character who's appearance was never made in the films, but replaced with Liv Tyler in the role of Arwen Evenstar. This is a scene from the chapter 'Flight to the Ford', where Glorfindel comes to the aid of Aragorn in the hobbits, against the Ringwraiths.

Title: Flight from Nargothrond
Made: 2004
Number of Photo's used: 5 to 7.
Description: This one revolves around the character of Lúthien Tinuviel from Tolkien's 'The Silmarillion'. An elven princess, Lúthien is imprisoned in a high tower by her own father, after she falls in love with a mortal man; Beren. She uses elven magic to descend the tower and meet with a friendly large wolf, by the name of Haun. Haun brings her a cloak which aids in their stealth, as the fly across the land to find Beren.

Title: Daughter of Nature
Made: 2004
Number of Photo's used: 4 to 5.
Description: This manip depicts a nature spirit hiding in the trees. My inspiration for this one stemmed from Celtic lore and myths of guardians of forests, such as faeries and nymphs.

Title: All Souls Pass
Made: 2003
Number of Photo's used: 5 to 7.
Description: The first manipulation I made that revolved around Tolkien's works. Made just after 'The Return of the King' debuted in movie theaters around the world, the ending from not only the movie, but the book its self, left an impact on me. Here I created the scene of the elves sailing away, leaving Middle Earth forever in the hands of men, to go to the land of Valinor; aka 'The Dying Lands'.