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Donald Diddams
The Art of Digital Art
Pictures Often tell a story
Posted on December 29, 2025
The images here are from the Spanish cities of Seville, Granada and Madrid. When I capture an image with my camera it is because there is something about it that interests me. As I work with the image, that story becomes clearer.
I hope you will find some meaning in them, too.
Category: A new image, history, Inspiration, mystery, Urban Tagged: digital art, Granada, Seville, Spain, stories
A New Normal
Posted on February 21, 2024
Does the world feel normal to you?
Things are changing so fast, yet the pundits say this is the slowest rate of change we will ever see going forward. Acceleration is the new normal.
Scroll down to get a feel for it. Then hang on for the ride.
Category: A Culture of More, Change, Environment, Normal Tagged: cloudscape, environment, fire, metaphor, new normal, thoughts
Interconnected
Posted on July 13, 2023
The images below grew from original photographs taken in St Petersburg (Florida), Asheville (North Carolina), and even one of a stream tumbling over some rocks in the mountains of Morocco.
For me they suggest the many ways our thoughts and ideas are inter-connected, how things we see as we walk along the street take on meaning, and how we sort these things out.
Take a moment to think about what they may mean to you.
Category: A new image, Florida, Transitions, Urban Tagged: abstractions, Asheville, florida, interconnections, Urban
A Neighbor’s Wall
Posted on March 28, 2023
I never thought much about this wall until the windows were covered and the contrasts between the stucco’s color and texture and the bare plywood came alive. I see that wall differently now.
Category: A new image, color and texture, Florida, Walls Tagged: color and texture, digital art, mystery, stucco and plywood, Walls
Her Shoes in the Alley
Posted on March 13, 2023
A white sandal with bright shiny sequins was laying on its side in a secluded spot in a downtown alley. It was worn and smudged with dirt around the sole. I wondered if it had just been thrown away and if so, where was it’s match? Or was there another very different story?
That’s how it is with so many things we see. There are questions and mysteries and alternative meanings. And stories we can tell. Here are a few examples.
Category: A Culture of More, A new image, Abstract, Inspiration, mystery, Sarasota, Urban Tagged: alley, growth, homeless, metaphor, new world
St. Petersburg’s Museum of the American Arts & Crafts Movement
Posted on December 15, 2022
Late 19th and early 20th century “anxieties about the quality of life in the industrial era and the rise of mass-produced goods” motivated Arts and Crafts designers to create objects that were both beautiful and functional. The new building designed to display their work is a modern reminder that beauty and design need not be sacrificed for usefulness. These images are my impressions of a few features that caught my eye.
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Architecture, Arts and Crafts, Design, Functionality, St. Petersburg
Coming Apart
Posted on October 26, 2022
Coming Apart
It feels like many of the things
we depend on, believe in, or take for granted
are coming apart. And a few are crumbling.
These images are reminders that
disorder or even disaster may be lurking
amid the beauty one can still find.
Category: A Culture of More, A new image, Environmental issues, Florida, Urban Tagged: coming apart, DeMarcay, disaster, disorder, florida, Sarasota
Inspiration in the Alley
Posted on August 23, 2022
Behind the shining facade luring you in
there is always a back door,
sometimes hidden away in a quiet alley.
These unglamorous places near the heart of town
can offer surprises and food for the imagination,
often telling a different story about where you are.
Category: Florida, Inspiration, Urban, Walls Tagged: alleys, back doors, digital images, Urban
Attack of the Blue Feather
Posted on July 11, 2022
A feather was lying along the path through the woods. It was large and beautiful, and had belonged to one of the birds that lived there in the trees.
When I brought it to the City I quickly learned it did not belong here.
You can see what happened and the message it left.
Category: A Culture of More, Environmental issues, Sarasota, Uncategorized, Urban Tagged: environment, just stop, urban issues
Naturally Abstract
Posted on June 13, 2022
The veins in the leaves and the thicket of plants at the water’s edge.
The moss swaying in the wind, the curve of the roots and the space beneath them.
Even the lowly weed that like a tree camouflages the urban infrastructure.
These natural abstractions help me connect to the natural world in ways I might otherwise miss.
Category: Environment, Inspiration, Tropical plants Tagged: abstracts, color, nature, spanish moss, veins
Savannah Georgia Ship Channel
Posted on January 23, 2022
Downtown Savannah cuddles up to the south shore of the Savannah River and is just downstream from a major container port. Ships are sometimes routed close to the shore, close enough that you can feel the thrum of the engine in your chest as the ship passes by.
It is sobering to know this huge ship piled high with truck-sized containers represents only a tiny fraction of what we consume each day, one small link in the supply chain.
Category: A Culture of More Tagged: Container Ship, Savannah, Supply Chain
Gulf Beach Dreams
Posted on September 7, 2021
Hazy dreams of a day at the beach. Blue skies, family and friends, wrapped in the warm Gulf air and waters.
But then comes the runoff after the rain, the oil, the dead fish and other Red Tide detritus, reminders of what else that warm water holds.
Category: Environment Tagged: beach, Gulf, pollution, Red Tide
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