I finally had the opportunity to attend a workshop with Freeman Patterson and André Gallant.  While New Brunswick has charm and beauty, this is not a tour to an exotic destination, but rather a workshop focusing on visual design and creativity.  The images I have chosen to display here are primarily montages of some type, i.e. two or more images overlaid.  In this case most of the images are combined with an out-of-focus copy of the same image, what André calls dreamscapes, and also referred to in Canadian circles as "Orton's" after Michael Orton who popularized this technique some years ago.  In the computer many different effects can be explored, and one of the images here is a montage from a photograph that was already abstracted when shot using a pan and zoom technique (thanks to Freeman for reminding me about this).  While I had experimented with these types of montages previously, I found that the old cars, old house, and graveyard images all seemed to respond appealingly to this treatment.  Perhaps it has something to do with the air at Shampers Bluff...