After much thought, I have decided to rebuild my main website, jerrygrasso.com. The reason I chose to do this is to announce my artistic direction change from photographer to visual artist. From this point forward, my works will begin to move away from general nature and landscape and toward some aspect of abstract expression. What this means to me is that my images will try to primarily emphasize shape, form, or texture in an effort to evoke some thematic idea or mood. All of my works will be...

I was asked again by someone i work with to be one of the photographers to shoot the festivities for Celebrate India 2010. The proceeds for the day went to the D.F. School for the Bind Children in Kolkata, India. This was a chance for me to give back something to help out a worthy cause. It also was a lot of fun! The kids and the costumes were very colorful and creative as well as traditional. Here are a few examples.


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Hello Photozo friends.

It's almost a year now since i have left the moderators pool, and thought it was time again to give you a little update about my life outside the moderators pool and a year "off duty".

The year started with a well deserved holiday in our own country. After we all enjoyed a lazy summer with outstanding weather a year of work, school and courses began. Kids got back to school, and besides our regular jobs my wife started her second year...

The creation below is actually my first attempt at visual art. It was an idea I had based on our recent travels. This one also has taken several months to get to this point, also about twenty layers in CS5. I call it “Pandora’s Box: the Bats of Cairns”. Here’s the intro:

While visiting Cairns, Australia, some time ago, one of the things that most impressed me about the town was the drama that occurs at dusk every evening. As soon as the sun begins to set, large numbers of fruit bats,...

Well, this is my second attempt at visual art. I’ll show the first one some other time. Anyway, this second one, I spent 2 months of labor, 8 attempts, about 20 layers, and a gig and a half of size. I’ll post the image first, and the complete explanation of what I was trying to do at some other time. It is called "Daintree Reclamation." Here’s the intro:

This project for me evolved out of my recent Australian rainforest visit. This was my first rainforest and I was shocked...