Portfolio

Please feel free to email me (paul.votaw@gmail.com) any questions about purchasing my work.  I can print canvases as well as prints in frames. I also take pictures of people, which you can find on the "People Pictures (Just the People)" page.

This is a 19 minute exposure. I took it at the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri after three attempts. My first attempt was out of focus and too high, my second attempt I got good exercise while my concerned uncle "helped" and the third attempt I got this image. I got it by swimming and waving a waterproof flashlight back and forth just under the water's surface.

I made this image of a tomato using 240 different pictures that all use painting with light.

Lake Michigan, Winter morning

Trail in the woods

Glowing little tree

Two lane bridge, Lacon IL

Small pink flower

Lake Michigan on a stormy night 

Butter colored tulips

Manipulated image on accident.  My weather resistant camera got water in it the night before from the rain. 

This is a forest of incredibly tall pine trees in a forest in Austria.  I painted individual trees with light.

A friend and I dug this tunnel into a large pile of snow and I took this picture afterwards.

This image is called "Only Opens at Night" because the cactus flower only opens at night for
a few nights before falling off.  

On top of a log

This picture I took using a waterproof flashlight moved back and forth under the water.

Seasonally

Beautiful Spring. I loved the colors of this crab tree, but only for one month. This is two images, one of the tree detail, another of the petals in the air. 

No, I didn't climb under a train for this. I was only sort of under it at the end, and it was stopped of course.

Train Bridge

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