This is an experiment using Java technology. Your web browser must be Java enabled to see the picture on the right.

If you can see the picture - and there is a lake with moving ripples in the water, then your browser is Java enabed. Read more about how to create your own images like this one.

The image you see is not real and never was. It was created using a photo I shot in Mt. Diablo State Park and by then applying a David Griffiths Java applet. (click here to see the original photo, "Green again"). You can obtain and apply these remarkable effects and many more from the Griffith's website. You can create images like this one right on you PC. You don't need a website for them (You can do this with MS Word 7).

I am actually standing on a dusty trail and there is no lake either in front of me or behind me. The lake is a digital illusion created by mirroring my photo into a digital graphic which takes the picture and makes it look like a reflection in a lake.

For more information about this technology, go to his web page by clicking on the dreamscape picture on the right.