Tony has sort of been obsessed with making an image of his shadow whenever he sees it. This time he was out on the pool deck and saw his shadow on the bottom of the pool. This is one of those images where you should get up from your chair and step back from the screen. When you do you'll see a whole different picture. Go ahead, get up stand back.

I've written lots of words about Tony Karp's art and how for him the camera is his sketch pad etc. I have been drawing an analogy between how he creates his art and how a traditional artist would do it.

Let's think about his work in relationship to what other photographers do. They take pictures with an eye to making it as realistic as possible. To show you the exact color, to have every detail in the highlights and shadows available for you to see. It is reality frozen in a moment in time.

Tony looks at the images he takes and says how can I make this more visually interesting. If I make the background a blur does that make the flower standout more. If I make the color more vibrant is it more pleasing to the eye. What if I enhance the highlights, the shadows, change the color balance and on and on. The result is Techno-Impression.

Accepting something that is different is never easy. Tony and I are asking you to embrace a new kind of art. Art made possible when you merge someone (who used to be a professional photographer) with a fantastic eye and ability to compose an image with a brilliant techie. A systems architect, user interface designer and a programmer extraordinaire. (And I might add a most loving and caring, soul mate, father and grandfather.) The result is some of the most interesting and beautiful art you will see on the web. You're watching an art movement evolve before your eyes.

We're exposing the future to you as part of the present and this is no simple task. It is interesting how much people dislike something that is different. I can relate to that. I never liked learning a new system especially knowing that I would really have to learn it so I could test it and then train people on how to use it. But I'd understand one little piece and then another and then I would be able to understand the logic of the user interface and over time I would become one with the system. At that point it no longer seemed different. I guess the same sort of thing happens when people come to our gallery for the first time and the work does not seem to register. But then they come back again and look a little closer, perhaps ask a question or two. We have people who have come back many times and suddenly start saying wow that is a fantastic picture.

I hope you will come back to this site but also visit Tony's Art and Zen of Design and the Techno-Impressionist Museum. It is a huge body of work. Sometimes there will be a new image like the one I have posted today and sometimes we will have made an exhibit or show based on a theme.

All we ask is that you keep an open mind. May the force be with you.