Photo Art by Bill Turner

"Cross in Glass"

"Self-Portrait"

"Corpus Christi"

The photo series "cross and I" is Bill Turner's first published series. The photos were taken in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. This series focuses on color, red chosen as predominant in relation to the religious symbolism presented.

You can view more of Bill's incredible work at writerbill.tripod.com.

Art by Dr. Mark A. Garlick

Mark A. Garlick is a former professional astronomer, who graduated with a Ph.D. in astrophysics in September 1993 and then worked for three years as a postdoctoral research fellow. In 1996, he put down the telescope and is now a full-time science writer, illustrator and fine artist, working on a freelance basis. Because of his academic background, his artwork deals with the accurate depiction of astronomical phenomena, balancing scientific knowledge with an artistic sense. But as well as space art, he does like to dabble in SF, surrealism, slightly darker art, as well as conceptual work, too.

Since starting his freelance career, his images have appeared in their hundreds in magazines and books (often on the covers), in other publications and on television, and his artwork has won international acclaim three years running in an international digital art contest partially sponsored by Scientific American, Boeing and others. As a writer, he has many outlets, including The Guardian, New Scientist, Scientific Computing World, Modern Astronomer, Quest, Astronomy Now, Scientific American, Astronomy and Sky & Telescope the latter three being US publications. You can read some of his articles here. In addition, Mark has written three books, with a fourth one in production.

Binary Face (Digital, 2003)
For this conceptual image depicting artificial intelligence, I used some 3D software called Poser, to make a simple wire-mesh face. I then wrapped around it an image (created in Photoshop) of ones and zeros. The image was then finished in Photoshop by hand.

Hybrid (Digital, 2002)
This image sort of grew out of another illustration I did showing some cloned embryos in a jar. I turned the embryo upside down and then just went to work on it in Photoshop, adding details and lots of layers of different textures. I did the whole image by hand using a graphics pad and tablet.

Eyes of a Dreamer, by MaryAnne McCollister

MaryAnne said she, "caught [her] daughter in a contemplative moment, likely dreaming of playing that guitar on stage. I did some editing in PhotoShop to give it that grainy effect." Bellisima.

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