My name is Chris Lord and I am the Head Pixie and Pixel Pusher at Pixielated Pixels. I'm from Brighton, UK born and bred and still an Englishman at heart but New York City based for longer than I like to think about! I spend a vast amount of my time on this planet creating digitally enhanced photographic images. Welcome to my eclectic perhaps even eccentric but definitely colorful photographic art gallery. I'm retired and living the life of a starving artist. Hoping some kind folks will buy some of my pictures so that I can afford to keep up following my bliss into my old age
If an image on this site takes your fancy please remember that they are all available for purchase in many sizes, formats and price ranges right here on the site. Just click the >BUY< button! SmugMug handles all aspects of order fulfillment for me, including printing, payment processing and shipping. I do not personally have access to any credit card information. All of your information, including your email address, will be kept private. Orders are filled with a top quality professional lab - Bay Photo - known for its color accuracy and consistency. Your satisfaction is guaranteed. If you are unhappy with your prints, SmugMug will reprint or refund your order, whichever you prefer.
OR you can now simply click on the SHOP tab above and find yourself in a FINE ART AMERICA shopping environment where shopping for prints and choosing frames and mats is simple. You just won't have quite as many choices but all my favorites are there and you won't even leave this web site
If an image on this site takes your fancy please remember that they are all available for purchase in many sizes, formats and price ranges right here on the site. Just click the >BUY< button! SmugMug handles all aspects of order fulfillment for me, including printing, payment processing and shipping. I do not personally have access to any credit card information. All of your information, including your email address, will be kept private. Orders are filled with a top quality professional lab - Bay Photo - known for its color accuracy and consistency. Your satisfaction is guaranteed. If you are unhappy with your prints, SmugMug will reprint or refund your order, whichever you prefer.
Photography has been an obsession since I was 13 years old and went off to Italy clutching my mother's accordion style 1940s roll film camera. I had a darkroom years ago but pouring evil smelling chemicals in and out of containers and waiting for that timer to buzz was not my idea of fun. I've been fooling with computers since I bought an Amiga 1000 back in 1985. My first chunky pixelized images were digitized into that machine using a black and white CCTV camera by making 3 exposures through the green, red & blue cells of a color wheel. At last, with today's software and hardware I feel that I can create the images I see in my mind's eye.
Three years ago I retired from the 'real' world and bought myself a new Canon 5D and now I'm using a 5D Mark II. (If y'all buy a picture or two maybe I can get a Mark III) I would love to visit exotic locals to photograph but simply can't afford such it, so I have to settle for the things and places that the universe is kind enough to put in front of me. I'm constantly on the lookout for new material for my pictures and I'll point the camera at anything that interests me. Most of the magic happens, of course, in Adobe's fabulous Photoshop program. I spend many late nights with my butt parked in front of it's wondrous arcane interface! (see below for a secret peek into my workspace) I hope that you enjoy the results.
So Pixies! Why Pixies? Well I grew up in England and, when you are in the English countryside, there is almost always two or three Pixies hiding just outside of your peripheral vision! You can sense them even if you can't quite see them and you can be sure they are dreaming up some kind of gentle mischief! There is also an expression in parts of England to describe someone who seems in touch with different realities (!) or perhaps just a little eccentric as being "off with the Pixies" or simply pixielated! I rather like that so maybe I'm "off with the Pixies" So, what's a Pixie anyway you ask? Check out Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixie. My mother's family came from the west country and somebody in that wiki suggests that Pixie females mated with humans so who knows maybe there is a little Pixie blood running in my veins as I like so much to introduce a little "gentle mischief" into these images whenever I can!
Pictures here are set up to show at the largest size possible for your display. This is for your viewing enjoyment but please excuse any delays this may cause in the images showing up on a slow connection.
Pick a Gallery and click on the SLIDESHOW (top right) button for a quick & easy full-screen tour through the gallery. This is the best way to see the galleries and the pictures, it's really a great feature. Check it out.
Don't forget that if you like an image on this site that they are all available for purchase in many sizes, formats and price ranges right here on the site. Just click the >BUY< button! SmugMug handles all aspects of order fulfillment for me, including printing, payment processing and shipping. I do not personally have access to any credit card information. All of your information, including your email address, will be kept private. Orders are filled with a top quality professional lab - Bay Photo - known for its color accuracy and consistency. Your satisfaction is guaranteed. If you are unhappy with your prints, gifts, or downloads, SmugMug will reprint or refund your order, whichever you prefer.
Visit my Artist's Links page for other sites where my images are for sale.
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All work is protected by international Copyright with all rights reserved. Copyright holders are named as: © Chris Lord and/or Pixielated Pixels. If you wish to use any picture, please contact me and apply for a licence.
My images do not belong to the public domain and may not be posted in or linked to another web page on the internet or intranet, published in any book, magazine, newsletter or newspaper, duplicated, used in a derivative work of art, used as illustration for musical, dramatic, and/or literary works, or used for commercial use of any kind whatsoever without my express written permission, including but not limited to resale of my images without a license for use. The reproduction, publication, modification, transmission or exploitation of any work contained herein for any use whatsoever, personal or commercial, without my prior written permission is strictly prohibited.
Three years ago I retired from the 'real' world and bought myself a new Canon 5D and now I'm using a 5D Mark II. (If y'all buy a picture or two maybe I can get a Mark III) I would love to visit exotic locals to photograph but simply can't afford such it, so I have to settle for the things and places that the universe is kind enough to put in front of me. I'm constantly on the lookout for new material for my pictures and I'll point the camera at anything that interests me. Most of the magic happens, of course, in Adobe's fabulous Photoshop program. I spend many late nights with my butt parked in front of it's wondrous arcane interface! (see below for a secret peek into my workspace) I hope that you enjoy the results.
So Pixies! Why Pixies? Well I grew up in England and, when you are in the English countryside, there is almost always two or three Pixies hiding just outside of your peripheral vision! You can sense them even if you can't quite see them and you can be sure they are dreaming up some kind of gentle mischief! There is also an expression in parts of England to describe someone who seems in touch with different realities (!) or perhaps just a little eccentric as being "off with the Pixies" or simply pixielated! I rather like that so maybe I'm "off with the Pixies" So, what's a Pixie anyway you ask? Check out Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixie. My mother's family came from the west country and somebody in that wiki suggests that Pixie females mated with humans so who knows maybe there is a little Pixie blood running in my veins as I like so much to introduce a little "gentle mischief" into these images whenever I can!
Pictures here are set up to show at the largest size possible for your display. This is for your viewing enjoyment but please excuse any delays this may cause in the images showing up on a slow connection.
Pick a Gallery and click on the SLIDESHOW (top right) button for a quick & easy full-screen tour through the gallery. This is the best way to see the galleries and the pictures, it's really a great feature. Check it out.
Don't forget that if you like an image on this site that they are all available for purchase in many sizes, formats and price ranges right here on the site. Just click the >BUY< button! SmugMug handles all aspects of order fulfillment for me, including printing, payment processing and shipping. I do not personally have access to any credit card information. All of your information, including your email address, will be kept private. Orders are filled with a top quality professional lab - Bay Photo - known for its color accuracy and consistency. Your satisfaction is guaranteed. If you are unhappy with your prints, gifts, or downloads, SmugMug will reprint or refund your order, whichever you prefer.
All work is protected by international Copyright with all rights reserved. Copyright holders are named as: © Chris Lord and/or Pixielated Pixels. If you wish to use any picture, please contact me and apply for a licence.
My images do not belong to the public domain and may not be posted in or linked to another web page on the internet or intranet, published in any book, magazine, newsletter or newspaper, duplicated, used in a derivative work of art, used as illustration for musical, dramatic, and/or literary works, or used for commercial use of any kind whatsoever without my express written permission, including but not limited to resale of my images without a license for use. The reproduction, publication, modification, transmission or exploitation of any work contained herein for any use whatsoever, personal or commercial, without my prior written permission is strictly prohibited.
My Workstation where it all happens and where I spend three quarters of my life!
THE TRILLIUM GALLERY INTERVIEW
Trillium > We all like to know how people came to their appreciation of the arts. How did you come to yours?
Chris Lord > When I grew up in Brighton, England there was a small museum/art gallery in town that was free to visit and in that museum were galleries of paintings that included a whole room full of work by several surrealists with many works by Rene Magritte. These attracted me and I would often go there to gaze at the peculiar art and I think that that started the whole thing off for me. There were also other rooms of skeletons, stuffed animals and a room full of art deco furniture which contained some things designed by Salvador Dali. All these strange things fascinated me and influenced the things I am drawn to even today.
Trillium> Inspiration is sometimes hard to find. What is your personal muse, and what do you recommend to those of us who sometimes find it has run away from home?
Chris Lord > I basically shoot everywhere I go. I would love to visit exotic locales and take wonderful images but I make do with whatever life throws in my path. Whatever looks like it might be interesting or I think I can use later. I have thousands of images of all sorts on my hard drives and a huge library of old slides from my film days. When I’m in the mood to create I just start to browse at random through the images and I always get inspired by something and off I go. Sometimes that image doesn’t work and I just start again. I also look at tons of photographs from other artists, in magazines or on the web, and often times see something that stirs an idea. I might remember I have an image that would work just like the one I see then I’ll be inspired to work on that one. Sometimes, however, when I search for an image another image will often grab my attention before I find it and it’s off to Photoshop with that one equally inspired. I find if I get an idea out of the blue it helps to write it down otherwise I will forget it. I have also, in the last two years, joined several photography meet up groups and go out to shoot with the other members. Just hanging with like-minded folks is great to keep the creative juices flowing. I find meet ups are terrific for visiting places you might not have gone to on your own and it’s great to compare images online afterwards. Everybody sees and shoots the same places with totally different eyes and the results are often an inspirational learning experience. I have met a lot of talented folk through local Facebook groups like “Show Me Your NYC” a group I went out with this past Sunday. We explored an abandoned complex of buildings which were once a Farm Colony for poor people which was great if rather spooky fun and provided a huge amount of great material to work on. Everyone has been posting their results for two days now and some folks are going without sleep to work on their pictures – now that’s being inspired!
Trillium > What is your favorite artwork? Why?
Chris Lord > I was, in the distant past, for many years a chef and people would ask me what was my favorite thing to cook – my answer was always food! With art it is much the same. My favorite is the one I am working on right now. In terms of other artists I still gravitate towards the surreal and works by Dali are probably my ultimate favorites but many others crowd his pedestal. Work that takes one outside of the norm and twists the brain a little always holds a special place in my heart. I once got to visit Dali’s museum in Figueres in Spain and it was one of the most unforgettable afternoons of my life. Another painter whose work I enjoy is Edward Hopper and I enjoy photographic artists who emulate his style. One of my all-time favorite photographers is Jerry Uelsmann who produced such wonderful surreal work long before it’s time. I am still amazed that he manages to produce all of his work in a darkroom without the convenience of Photoshop and modern digital software. An early inspiration in photography was the intense color work of Jay Maisel. I also tend to enjoy photography bordering on the psychedelic from the 1960s, a period that had a huge influence on me as I grew up through my teens in that era. But ask me if I have a favorite piece and I’ll have to say no. There is just so much incredible work out there to look at and enjoy to pick one piece would be impossible.
Trillium > Which of your pieces do you not like very much, but others seem to adore?
Chris Lord > I recently sold an image of the inside of the atrium in the GM building in Detroit which surprised me as I didn’t think it was that wonderful and I am often disappointed that images that I am excited about don’t become popular. So this is certainly an interesting question. I really can’t tell which of my works will do well until they do and it’s hard to guess what the public will like. I make work to please myself first, I think, and if I were to only do work that I thought would “sell” I would probably never sell anything!
Trillium > What do you say to people who tell you that you are wasting your time/life on art?
Chris Lord > The few that actually saw the images hiding on my hard drives in the past urged me to do “something” with them. Now, finally, I have come to the life of the starving artist rather late in life. Up until I retired from the real world just over two years ago I had no time to “waste” at all so I don’t think anyone can blame me now for spending my life “following my bliss.” While I always had, since the age of thirteen, a camera in my hand, built a darkroom for Cibachromes in my apartment in the early 80s and started using a computer to create art back in 1986, I truly only managed to do all that in the small amount of spare time I could muster having always held a very demanding real world job. Now that my days are full of “computer time” and I am very frequently out with camera in hand, I believe this to be the just reward of a life of hard labor and, quite frankly, I would rather be broke than go back to such a life !!
Trillium > Would you rather sell a million pieces of what you deem to be sub-par art and make loads of money, or sell those you feel are good work, sporadically, and be satisfied?
Chris Lord > I think it very unlikely that I would sell a million of anything and if it happened I would not be unhappy, however, I would certainly rather be known for producing work of quality and genuine credibility, now if I could sell a million of those I would be in heaven! Most artists, of course, are gone and really in heaven before they sell in any great numbers! Such is life.
Trillium > What advice would you like to offer other artists that might help them learn to better promote their work?
Chris Lord > Don’t give up! Just stick with it and keep doing what you love to do. Use the internet to its fullest. Unfortunately, at the time that all the technology empowers one to put one’s work out there and be seen it also does the same for tens of thousands of others so at times it can become disheartening. Find every opportunity the web offers to post work and get involved in the conversation. Join groups and build relationships and be very very patient.
Trillium > Anything else you would like to share with us?
Chris Lord > I would just like to say thank you for giving me this opportunity, I am very proud and honored to be interviewed on the Trillium Gallery. Cheers.
Trillium > We all like to know how people came to their appreciation of the arts. How did you come to yours?
Chris Lord > When I grew up in Brighton, England there was a small museum/art gallery in town that was free to visit and in that museum were galleries of paintings that included a whole room full of work by several surrealists with many works by Rene Magritte. These attracted me and I would often go there to gaze at the peculiar art and I think that that started the whole thing off for me. There were also other rooms of skeletons, stuffed animals and a room full of art deco furniture which contained some things designed by Salvador Dali. All these strange things fascinated me and influenced the things I am drawn to even today.
Trillium> Inspiration is sometimes hard to find. What is your personal muse, and what do you recommend to those of us who sometimes find it has run away from home?
Chris Lord > I basically shoot everywhere I go. I would love to visit exotic locales and take wonderful images but I make do with whatever life throws in my path. Whatever looks like it might be interesting or I think I can use later. I have thousands of images of all sorts on my hard drives and a huge library of old slides from my film days. When I’m in the mood to create I just start to browse at random through the images and I always get inspired by something and off I go. Sometimes that image doesn’t work and I just start again. I also look at tons of photographs from other artists, in magazines or on the web, and often times see something that stirs an idea. I might remember I have an image that would work just like the one I see then I’ll be inspired to work on that one. Sometimes, however, when I search for an image another image will often grab my attention before I find it and it’s off to Photoshop with that one equally inspired. I find if I get an idea out of the blue it helps to write it down otherwise I will forget it. I have also, in the last two years, joined several photography meet up groups and go out to shoot with the other members. Just hanging with like-minded folks is great to keep the creative juices flowing. I find meet ups are terrific for visiting places you might not have gone to on your own and it’s great to compare images online afterwards. Everybody sees and shoots the same places with totally different eyes and the results are often an inspirational learning experience. I have met a lot of talented folk through local Facebook groups like “Show Me Your NYC” a group I went out with this past Sunday. We explored an abandoned complex of buildings which were once a Farm Colony for poor people which was great if rather spooky fun and provided a huge amount of great material to work on. Everyone has been posting their results for two days now and some folks are going without sleep to work on their pictures – now that’s being inspired!
Trillium > What is your favorite artwork? Why?
Chris Lord > I was, in the distant past, for many years a chef and people would ask me what was my favorite thing to cook – my answer was always food! With art it is much the same. My favorite is the one I am working on right now. In terms of other artists I still gravitate towards the surreal and works by Dali are probably my ultimate favorites but many others crowd his pedestal. Work that takes one outside of the norm and twists the brain a little always holds a special place in my heart. I once got to visit Dali’s museum in Figueres in Spain and it was one of the most unforgettable afternoons of my life. Another painter whose work I enjoy is Edward Hopper and I enjoy photographic artists who emulate his style. One of my all-time favorite photographers is Jerry Uelsmann who produced such wonderful surreal work long before it’s time. I am still amazed that he manages to produce all of his work in a darkroom without the convenience of Photoshop and modern digital software. An early inspiration in photography was the intense color work of Jay Maisel. I also tend to enjoy photography bordering on the psychedelic from the 1960s, a period that had a huge influence on me as I grew up through my teens in that era. But ask me if I have a favorite piece and I’ll have to say no. There is just so much incredible work out there to look at and enjoy to pick one piece would be impossible.
Trillium > Which of your pieces do you not like very much, but others seem to adore?
Chris Lord > I recently sold an image of the inside of the atrium in the GM building in Detroit which surprised me as I didn’t think it was that wonderful and I am often disappointed that images that I am excited about don’t become popular. So this is certainly an interesting question. I really can’t tell which of my works will do well until they do and it’s hard to guess what the public will like. I make work to please myself first, I think, and if I were to only do work that I thought would “sell” I would probably never sell anything!
Trillium > What do you say to people who tell you that you are wasting your time/life on art?
Chris Lord > The few that actually saw the images hiding on my hard drives in the past urged me to do “something” with them. Now, finally, I have come to the life of the starving artist rather late in life. Up until I retired from the real world just over two years ago I had no time to “waste” at all so I don’t think anyone can blame me now for spending my life “following my bliss.” While I always had, since the age of thirteen, a camera in my hand, built a darkroom for Cibachromes in my apartment in the early 80s and started using a computer to create art back in 1986, I truly only managed to do all that in the small amount of spare time I could muster having always held a very demanding real world job. Now that my days are full of “computer time” and I am very frequently out with camera in hand, I believe this to be the just reward of a life of hard labor and, quite frankly, I would rather be broke than go back to such a life !!
Trillium > Would you rather sell a million pieces of what you deem to be sub-par art and make loads of money, or sell those you feel are good work, sporadically, and be satisfied?
Chris Lord > I think it very unlikely that I would sell a million of anything and if it happened I would not be unhappy, however, I would certainly rather be known for producing work of quality and genuine credibility, now if I could sell a million of those I would be in heaven! Most artists, of course, are gone and really in heaven before they sell in any great numbers! Such is life.
Trillium > What advice would you like to offer other artists that might help them learn to better promote their work?
Chris Lord > Don’t give up! Just stick with it and keep doing what you love to do. Use the internet to its fullest. Unfortunately, at the time that all the technology empowers one to put one’s work out there and be seen it also does the same for tens of thousands of others so at times it can become disheartening. Find every opportunity the web offers to post work and get involved in the conversation. Join groups and build relationships and be very very patient.
Trillium > Anything else you would like to share with us?
Chris Lord > I would just like to say thank you for giving me this opportunity, I am very proud and honored to be interviewed on the Trillium Gallery. Cheers.
Lisa DuBois' Poster for my first art show, June 2011
Featured Artist On BLUECANVAS, The Artist Network, June 2011
Here are some recent reviews of this site from "Linkreferral.com"
Ja Linda said: your presentation is really good.....
Larry said: You have a must see site with great navigation.Your work is ahead of its time. Keep up the great work and most of all never change your style!!.
Sara said: What a beautifully designed website and what beautiful images. The big cats in the Beasties section are stunning. You have captured them perfectly. I would buy all of the photographs if I could! I also loved your Pixies world of insects. Very magical. I really enjoyed looking at the slideshows. Definately a favourite for me. I wish you the best of luck..
Todd said: AWesome site! Love the art, the layout, look and feel. Glad to be your first to review. Great job! Fav for me!!.
Mark said: Very powerful,strikingly realistic photography.I loved the shot of the ape or gorilla,and the clouds against the dark sky!Easy to navigate!.
Harley said: Chris, these images are amazing. You are very creative. You must spend a lot of time in Photoshop and having tried it that is no easy task. Great work..
Mary said: Your site is simply stunning!! From the initial landing page forward...every single page is beautifully laid out. Your photographs are some of the best I've ever seen....you really have a natural eye for capturing the greatest possible images. I loved visiting your site and have bookmarked it. Best wishes.
Neil said: Very very very cool. Amazing clarity.
Shar said: so nice a great site for photo gallery.
Leigh Ann said: Great, great site!! love the pics, tried to comment on the guestbook but was unable to. "liked" you on Facebook so I can see more of your work. Good job :-) .
Edward said: Really like your site - from the lay out, Great color scheme, site flows intuitively and is super easy to navigate. Wish you all the best :-)......
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Here are some recent reviews of this site from "Linkreferral.com"
Ja Linda said: your presentation is really good.....
Larry said: You have a must see site with great navigation.Your work is ahead of its time. Keep up the great work and most of all never change your style!!.
Sara said: What a beautifully designed website and what beautiful images. The big cats in the Beasties section are stunning. You have captured them perfectly. I would buy all of the photographs if I could! I also loved your Pixies world of insects. Very magical. I really enjoyed looking at the slideshows. Definately a favourite for me. I wish you the best of luck..
Todd said: AWesome site! Love the art, the layout, look and feel. Glad to be your first to review. Great job! Fav for me!!.
Mark said: Very powerful,strikingly realistic photography.I loved the shot of the ape or gorilla,and the clouds against the dark sky!Easy to navigate!.
Harley said: Chris, these images are amazing. You are very creative. You must spend a lot of time in Photoshop and having tried it that is no easy task. Great work..
Mary said: Your site is simply stunning!! From the initial landing page forward...every single page is beautifully laid out. Your photographs are some of the best I've ever seen....you really have a natural eye for capturing the greatest possible images. I loved visiting your site and have bookmarked it. Best wishes.
Neil said: Very very very cool. Amazing clarity.
Shar said: so nice a great site for photo gallery.
Leigh Ann said: Great, great site!! love the pics, tried to comment on the guestbook but was unable to. "liked" you on Facebook so I can see more of your work. Good job :-) .
Edward said: Really like your site - from the lay out, Great color scheme, site flows intuitively and is super easy to navigate. Wish you all the best :-)......
http://www.photo4me.com
PhotoLinks - The Photographers Directory
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