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<p>Robin Davis Photography is a unique blend of imagery, photography and photo illustration, available as fine art prints or for licensing as stock, but it is the combination of opposites in these unusual fine art images that make them so unique and appropriate for both for stock photography and photoillustration and fine art use. </p>
<p>The moody Italy scenes and landscapes from the Images from Tuscany series, have poetic views that add an air of mystery beyond the normal scope of travel photography. The coastal Georgia series has another mood altogether and offers scenes views landscapes and the nature of Georgia's hidden coastal regions. The 13 Women series features beautiful goddesses and strong female characters from history, mythology and literature and the creepy Monsters series illustrates the darker sides of our own human nature while paying homage to the lighting of old black and white films and the characters we loved in old scary movies. Vintage and period costumes play an important part in these photo illustrations of characters from all time periods and have been used on book covers internationally. Black and white photography as well as color imagery is represented, and different film, lighting and techniques come together to make each photo unique. Who are the dogs is a black and white series of portraits featuring dog characters from Italy. </p>
<p>Another unusual series shows documentary images and portraits of Ramesses I, the lost pharaoh of Egypt. The photos of Ramesses I illustrate his strong character and the mystery of his persona as general and king so long ago. Robin Davis has found a way to blend photography as stock and fine art and to use photo illustration to describe the unique and moody world of her scenes and characters. It is unusual to see such a variety of subjects, from dogs to goddesses to coastal and Italy landscapes treated with the same vision and poetic mystery. Robin Davis Photography has been a resource for those seeking images for book covers, photoillustration, stock, commercial use and fine art prints. The creepy and the beautiful combine in a dance of opposites, and the more you look, the more you will see. The faces of odd dogs from her black and white photography series become character portraits and the vintage costumes of the goddesses, monsters and visual characters take you into other realms. These views of travel in Tuscany Italy and along coastal Georgia are photo illustrations of landscapes and scenes that transcend the reality of nature.
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<p>Stock photography available for sale and license includes a wide array of theatrical characters from monsters to goddesses, particularly, Guinevere or guinever from the king arthur myths, justice from the tarot deck, leda and the swan from greek mythology, the voodoo priestess marie laveau, ophelia from shakespeare, acutally shakespeare's Hamlet, cleopatra from egyptian history, ama terasu the japanese sun goddess, athena also from greek mythology, and luna the roman goddess, and astrological archetype, the text of the biblical old testament apochrypha tells of judith, the beautiful hebrew widow who cut off the head of Holofernes the assyrian general of the babylonian king nebuchadnezzar, rapunzel from the fairy tale and the witch that would climb up her long golden hair, Sarasvati from india, the indian mythology of the creation goddess of art language and civilization and valkyrie, the valkyries were the norse goddesses that carried a fallen hero to Valhalla and into the presence of the Norse god odin. These images are contrasted by such monstrous visions of the witch, the ghost, the monster, the vampire, the goblin, the headless man, the zombie, the victorian, who is like jack the ripper, the mummy and the werewolf. The were wolf is a shape shifter and a lycanthrope. The paranormal and psychic effect of these goddesses deities ghosts phantasms blood suckers and creatures of the night have a profound effect on our subconscious and are part of our mythic vocabulary that plays an important role in our dreams and nightmares. Other realms features moody forests and victorians traveling and sight seeing along a driftwood laden beach. Lady dementia is an example of underwater photography and the subject floats under water which is another realm altogether. Contessa, the countess lords and ladies the lady in waiting and the impress or empress as she likes to be called is a symbol of royalty and a lost world. The pirate ghost ship the lure of the full moon, ghostly children and phantasmagorical griffin and chimera or griffins and chimaera fill a fantasy world from fairy tales to mythology to lost civilizations. The creepy page pays homage to the goths and the gothic world. Black crows and ravens fill the night and skull and cross bone, creepy pumpkins mummies ghosts scary cat and shadowy figure from grave yard, graveyards and cemetery and cemeteries abound. Angel sculptures and skulls and cross bones screaming prisoners and creeping mummies by night. Charles dickens would be proud of the characters that have a dickensonian air portraits of visual characters from show girls to evil santa, a secret agent, the old west, the crooner, the impersonator, a gladiator, sleeping heroes and heroines, brides in bridal glory, flapper of 1920, the entertainer, prostitutes, the virgin mary, mother and child, clown children, ballerinas and more. Black and white dog portraits, to a black and white nature series, an homage to dance tango ballerina dancing a ballet child in a tutu on the stage of an old theatre or theater if you prefer. Architecture old ruins castle creepy house colonnade collonade arches archs arcades and sweeping stair or staircase pilasters and pillasters pedistal steps pedestal niches of statues the three graces adorn you. Interior sprial arcade from paris to pompeii columns column base balustrade stained glass window house gazebo façade from venice to perugia. a flower a blossom the tulip tree branches unfurl leafy pattern velvet leaf bamboo ghost fish swan kiwi blossoms palm fronds and plant forms. Rose blossom pumpkins pears and olives porcini mushrooms and roses fruits & florals. Shoe garden is a high fashion glamour glamor. Fashion international travel glamour and beauty can have a dark creepy side too that embraces the history of gothic infulences. The atlas series features the nude, male nudes in black and white. More Women are the goddesses, Artemis is a roman goddess athena and leda are greek goddesses and medusa is just scary. Empress sultan and sultana odelisque or odalisque are all great heroine characters for book covers. </p>
<p>Publishers can choose from a variety of stock photography that is both unique and original and very unusual. This stock photography for sale is a blend of fine art and commercial with a unique source available for publishers of books and the publishing industry. The beach and georgia's golden isles show lighthouse sand dollar shrimp boat and coast marsh. The low country marshlands are a great travel destination and traveling to see the historic sites of christ church ocean arbor and palms. Aerial landscape boat views and girl in bathing suit series. Aqua avia has the water birds blue heron in flight and white snowy egret in marsh scenes from coastal georgia landscape marsh and rice field. Tuscany italy is featured from people landscapes villa travel photography and black and white. The painterly landscape is a view all its own. The mirror and the self portrait go hand and hand to reflect the star child. The tuscan horses are white and the Percherons had a horse fight and the percheron is very large. The list of stock photography for sale is listed by exhibition series, the elusive image, aqua avia, the mind's eye, fruits and florals, black & white Italy, self portraits, horses, all other images, bathing series, the mummy ramesses I, hampton island, georgia's golden isles, more women, atlas series, shoe garden, architecture, ballerinas, nature series, people of tuscany, images from tuscany, who are the dogs?, visual characters, creepy page, 13 women, other realms, the monsters. The elusive image is a section just added to showcase new images available for license to publishers as stock photography for book covers. Cortona and the cortona center of photography has been a great source of imagery from people of tuscany, images from tuscany, black & white italy and who are the dogs? Egypt and the egyptian mummy ramesses I or rameses I or rammesses I was an important archeological find for archeology and the photographs of Ramesses I have been studied by archeologists world wide. </p>
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