A Photographic Veterans Day Memorial from Michael W. Moses, Ocean Springs, MS

My last post was about the great time that I had a couple of weeks back at the Fall Muster at Beauvoir, over in Biloxi.  I took a lot of images and did some nice art photography.  One of the images I did was basically a put together from four different images that I took at Beauvoir.  The image shows a soldier kneeling before the body of his fallen comrade. I did two versions of this image one in full color  and it is called "The ultimate Sorrow"

 and one that is Black and white sepia toned and using a hand colored look muted filter to give it an antique look. I call it "The Ultimate Price"

These two images basically say it all for me when it comes to all wars past present and future.  I just can not imagine the unbearable sorrow of seeing your best friend cut down in the prime of their life in front of you and not being able to prevent it. The total sorrow of it overwhelms my mind.  Loosing ones life is sad, yes indeed, but having your best buddy taken out in front of you....now that would be truly the ultimate pain for a soldier.

This veterans day take the time to think about your loved ones that served and some of the things they have had to go through.  Not everyone in the military experiences hurt to the level of having lost there best friend in battle, but many loose so much in so many other ways. So take the time and tell a Veteran or his family that you care. It is not important whether or not one is pro or con towards war and the military. You must always remember that a lot of what we as Americans cherish the most about our country was given to us to us by none other than the most humble of soldiers, because they were willing to go out and pay that ultimate price for love of our country.

Michael W. Moses goes to CoastCon 36 Science Fiction Convention in Biloxi, MS

Here is a non pottery related post for you.

Over this last weekend I went on Saturday to the 36th annual CoastCon Science Fiction convention at the Mississippi Gulf Coast Colosseum in Biloxi, MS

This year the convention saw what seemed to me to be a considerable increase in attendees from the last few years. I would like to thank the many people of CoastCon for putting together a pretty good one for 2013. It makes me anxious for the 2014 one next year!

There were a fairly large number of gamers that showed up and there were many people in costume. I found this years layout for CoastCon a bit better than in previous years at the Colosseum. There was a nice flow to the setup that really worked well.

I picked up a few items in the merchant room and went to the costume contest. This year the prize for best costume was a reproduction Brave Heart Sword, that was donated by South Coast Antiques. The sword was won by a young lady that had a great looking Wonder Woman costume that she made herself. I took a few images during the costume contest and once again was not happy at the Biloxi Colosseum's difficult lighting for photography.  After the costume contest I went around and took a few more images with my digital camera.  If you want to see a few more of the images that I took at CoastCon please go to my photobucket gallery.

I spent the evening setting around talking with some of my friends that I do not often get a chance to spend time with. We had pleasant conversation all Saturday evening, until the convention closed and we were sent out into the night.

I have spent the last two evenings processing the images that I took. I have created a few Art Photo Manipulations using some of the images that I took that I thought deserved a bit of a bump up to the next level so to speak.

I have a passion for doing my ceramic art pottery, but I must admit that I sure do love doing digital photography a whole lot.  I just love taking an image and making a collage of unrelated images that create a new and wonderful image to behold. Many do not consider this type of work to be art, but many people in the 1800's and 1900's did not consider film photography to be real art either.  To me it does not matter one way or the other. I just love digital art and photography and to me creating because one loves to create is more to do with being art than solely creating to just make money.

For a few more of my digital art photo manipulations you can see them at photobucket

Michael W. Moses has an Evening at CoastCon Science Fiction Convention

I spent Saturday evening at the34th annual CoastCon Science Fiction Convention in Biloxi, MS.  It was held at the Mississippi Coast  Convention Center.  This years theme was "Zombies" !  So I put on my best zombie and off we went. 

Michael W. Moses Zombified.

After a Long  Day Working at South Coast Antiques & Gallery

We did not get there until a bit before 6:00 pm. We had a very busy day at the shop!  I  was a bit disappointed to find out  once I arrived that I was apparently the only zombie there in costume!  I had hoped that I would be able to find a small group of about twenty or so zombies that I could hang out with and we could just mindlessly zombie around all over the place, but alas,  it was just not meant to be. So I just zombied around and had a great time being photographed and lurking about.  

Being Attacked by a Zombie Hunter!

It Seems This Happens Every Time

I was able to do a quick run through the merchants room and I attended the costume contest.  I also saw the talented  Baklava Bellydance group.

Michael W. Moses Doing a Number with the Baklava Bellydance group
I Love Baklava!

Then I took a few images. Very few. I spent more time being photographed than taking photographs.  I then spent a bit of time talking with friends. After which a group of  us went out for a bite at the Kings Buffet Chinese restaurant.in Biloxi. Over all I had a fairly nice evening out. 


Back to doing pottery today!