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I was surprised recently when I couldn’t find any hi-res leather textures for a project that I was working on. As a result, I got my hands on some actual leather hides and started photographing them. I wanted to share these with others who may also need leather textures for one reason or another. I have 12 leather textures available in high-res JPG format available in a ZIP file, after the jump.

Please enjoy!

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It was a gorgeous morning near the base of Mt. Pisgah in Oregon (near where I live), and I just had to photograph it! Something about this image just makes me want to lean my back against one of those trees and take a nice warm afternoon nap!

Anyways, I wanted to share the stock photo with you (free of course). The zip file contains the high-res JPG of the image – 3072 x 2048 pixels.

Download Mt. Pisgah Road Stock Photo (94)

lostandtaken.com is a great place to find high-res free textures.

I was really impressed by his (Caleb’s) bubble texture set I wanted to share.

Go on over to lostandtaken.com to get the textures yourself!

This weekend I was playing around; I wanted to try some new ideas floating around in my head.

My daughter’s favorite movie (right now) is The Parent Trap (remake) with Lindsay Lohan (debut film). It was actually pretty hard explaining to my kid that Hallie and Annie are actually the same actress… So what better way to convince her than to make a twin out of an only-child?

This was actually a pretty easy setup; I took the first picture of her, taped the area and had her go change clothes. We then snapped the second picture and later I laid the two images on top of one another, then using the layer mask and the paintbrush I carefully masked one picture into the other.

Pretty fun experience actually. But now my kid thinks Mary-Kate and Ashley are the same ha!

Well my 9-5 is fine; I learn stuff all the time and enjoy it for sure. What I really love is my night-life design job; Only that would have me out at 1 am taking pictures of exotic dancers!

The girl is Khaos (stage name of course), and she’s sporting a black spaghetti strap shirt featuring the branding of Big Daddy graphic design company; he makes custom shirts for any occasion (especially the NSFW ones!). This is one of my favorite shots after two days of shooting; of course I can’t show the “other” ones – this isn’t that kind of blog! I like this one because the angle, and her expression are just awesome.

Of course, I had to shoot these while the girls were working, so the backgrounds and the general lighting wasn’t ideal. I decided to use Photoshop to do some tweaks, clean up some blemishes and blur out the background. Hope you like!

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