Study Group 11
Mark Southard

Marigold quintet

How I did it -

These were shot in northern Wisconsin ( Door County ) in late May. I took 2 macro images and superimposed one on the petals of the other.......... 

COMMENTS:
 

Avis Davidson	.
Betty Billingham	.An interesting and very colourful idea.
Leonie Holmes	.Wonderful image, Mark. You did a terrific job of placing the marigolds onto the larger petals. Very creative thinking.
Nick Muskovac	.The image is sharp and colorful. Nice work of combining the two flowers. The straight edge on the left doesn't seem to look right. I might have added a thin very light yellow border around the entire image.
Paula Davies	.This is an interesting exercise and I can appreciate the work that you have put into it. However, in this case, I would prefer to see the single close-up of the flower. I can't help feeling that you have spoilt a beautiful flower with the addition of the smaller ones.
Sam Shaw	.It is nice to see that you didn’t feel the need to have all of the flowers on the petals in the image. Overall it is probably not one of my favorites that you have created.

Member's Biography
	Mark Southard I joined PSA in 1994; Served as International Publicity Director, then as Vice President - Conventions. I ran Conventions in Orlando, Florida and Toronto, Canada and selected Albuquerque, New Mexico and San Diego, California as future sites. Retired from Sears in 1993 after 35 years, mostly in corporate buying functions. My last assignment was as Managing Director of Purchasing for Northern Asia while residing in Seoul, Korea from 1988 -1992.
I am active in the Chicago Nature Camera Club, the Wright Camera Club, and the newest club in Chicago, the Pixel Image Camera Club. I also served in numerous capacities for individual clubs as well as for CACCA, the Chicago Area Camera Club Association. I teach basic black & white fine art printing at Wright College. Also give workshops on matting and framing and since 1995, have been a Consumer Use Consultant for Polaroid, giving workshops on Creative Art Photography, i.e. Image and Emulsion transfers and Time Zero manipulation. I use a Nikon N-90; a Nikon 8008; an Olympus point and shoot (for prints); a medium format Holga (costs around $15); and a lot of Nikon lenses, my favorite of which is the 105 macro. I also use a Nikon Coolpix 990 and a Dimage 7 (for digital infrared) The digital equipment consists of a Power Spec desk top model with 1gb of RAM and 120 gb hard drive. I also have a Nikon slide scanner, a Umax flat bed scanner, an Epson Photo Stylus printer and an Epson 2000 printer, plus a HP laptop. Software is Adobe Photoshop CS, and Elements. I am a native of New Mexico but have lived in Chicago for 35 years (minus the time spent overseas in Asia).