Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. Groucho Marx

As a resident of Tallahassee, Florida, I’ve explored my award-winning vision of photography since my graduation from the University of Alabama in 1979. My images combine traditional photography using 35mm, 120 and 110 film cameras and digital cameras with computer imaging in the digital era of fine art – Digitalism – where work is created with a computer as one of the critical tools in the creative process.

I also explore an alternative process of digital image capture, using a flatbed scanner as a camera to create my art from found objects such as leaves, fruit, paper and crushed cans. The resulting image is composed from these scanned elements. The use of a scanner to capture an image for manipulation is often referred to as scanography and is the digital equivalent of one of the earliest forms of photography, the photogram.

My sense of color, texture and light pushes my photography beyond realism through the manipulation of these elements, changing their relationship and creating an altered reality more evocative of dreams or fading memories. These distinct moments gain importance through this visual exploration to create the final image, an image far removed from the original moment of capture.

Stewart Nelson's photography is represented in Tallahassee by Thomas Eads Fine Art. Visit the Web gallery at www.thomaseadsfineart.com