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Fort Langley Despatch Art Print
by Doug Matthews
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Fort Langley Despatch art print by Doug Matthews. Our art prints are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All art prints include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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Old-style sketches I rendered from photos I took at the old 19th century Hudson's Bay Company fur trading post of Fort Langley, BC, now a tourist... more
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Artist's Description
Old-style sketches I rendered from photos I took at the old 19th century Hudson's Bay Company fur trading post of Fort Langley, BC, now a tourist attraction. The sketching was done using Akvis s/w installed for Photoshop. The book and its pages are a texture. Font was chosen to suit the era. For effect I used an old union jack flag as background.
Perhaps this is what a despatch with sketches and notes sent back to company headquarters in England would have looked like.
About Doug Matthews
I began photography with a Brownie camera my parents gave me as a child sometime in the 1950s. In the 1970s I finally graduated to an SLR and actually won a few contests, then took a hiatus through the 1990s but picked up digital photography in earnest in the mid-2000s. Now, many years later, it still excites me to venture out and try to find what the world is all about in my own way through this wonderful medium. To me, photography is about capturing the hidden meaning, the emotion, and the invisible in a given moment in time. It transcends mere composition and lighting. When it's done well, we sit up and take notice, we pause over an image, and if everything is perfect, we might even feel that slight tingling up the spine. While I try...
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Barbie Corbett-Newmin
Brilliant work but I would like to see each of the sketches individually. The background distracted me.
Colin Hunt
I love the sketches, but cannot decide which one to focus on, so find my self flicking between the two.
Iryna Burkova
Beautiful work, Doug!
Marianne Campolongo
Beautiful work! Fave!
Doug Matthews replied:
Thank you, Marianne
Joan Bertucci
Outstanding post processing work and a stunning presentation Doug...no doubt in my mind this is what a dispatch looked like back than! L/F
Doug Matthews replied:
Thanks, Joan
Jutta Maria Pusl
Great work, very well presented!
Doug Matthews replied:
Thanks, Jutta
Shirley Sirois
A great idea to keep these special sketches in memory!.......L.
Doug Matthews replied:
Thanks, Shirley
Alan Kepler
Nicely done Doug. Excellent presentation.
Doug Matthews replied:
Thanks, Alan