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I'm please with the way this turned out.

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One of those updated Daleks that look more like the new Mini, if you ask me.

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Here's another Photoshop-enhanced photo. The dragon was made by Sue Burns out of bits of copper and other scraps. Very fine piece, it was.

If people are interested in acquiring hi-res versions of these pictures please get in touch.

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Just to show, it's not all fantasy and horror round here.

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Another illustration by yours truly.

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I'm rather pleased with this image.

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Here's another of my Altered Images.

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The original photo was taken at one of the Tolkien weekends, a few years ago. Edited to remove the background kids eating ice cream cones.

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I've had another go at drawing, using charcoal pencils and oil pastels. Then I scanned them into Photoshop and had a little play with them.

Then I had a go at drawing a monster -- you'll probably guess the inspiration for this beast. I did the Photoshop jig on this picture, too. But I'm not sure it quite works.

Sarah & Joe and Adrian

Here's another of my Photoshopped photographs: Sarah Pinborough and Joe Abercrombie. They seem to be after the same cigarette-device-thingy. Or, more likely, acting up for yours truly as he wielded the camera. It was taken at FantasyCon 2011.

And this is Adrian Tchaikovsky -- taken at the same FantasyCon. Before I converted the image to B&W you could just see the lights of Brighton's pier in the background.

David's daughters

Sue and David asked if I would take photos at their recent wedding -- and I agreed, of course. The marriage took place last Saturday in a very hot and very sunny Dorset. I'm partway through tweaking the images in Photoshop before I send them to the Burns household. But you know how it is; once in Photoshop it is difficult not to play around. Here is one such image, of David's two daughters.

Mythosday?

Unable to concentrate on writing or editing yesterday, I opened Photoshop and played around with a couple of images. Here's the result:

I then couldn't decide which of the several books currently on the go I should read. So I picked a book off the shelf (not quite at random): a collection of stories by Frank Belknap Long. Here are my thoughts on the title story, "The Hounds of Tindalos". Obviously yesterday was a Mythos sort of day.

Artwork...

Here's an illustration I did in 2009 for a story in New Horizons, edited by Andrew Hook. It's based on some of my photos ... but zapped through Photoshop. Illustration (c) Peter Coleborn