Photographic Art - Shara Abel Photography "Where Image Meets Imagination"

Photographic Art

Ghost Train
My "Ghost Train" is a multi award winning piece including several first place awards. It took over 25 layers and months to create what has been called a "magical" piece. The Orange Blossom Cannonball No. 2 is a wood burning steam engine which has been featured in many movies including "Oh Brother Where Art Thou" starring George Clooney. This piece has been well received winning multiple awards and juried into multiple exhibits.
Garden Daydream
Can you find all 21 birds? This award winning piece has over 75 layers incorporated into it. I wanted to create a piece where the more you look at it the more you see. I hope you enjoy it!
Gerber Daisy
Big Moon in Sunset
The Guardian
Serenity
Another multi-award winning piece, incorporating many layers to create this serene piece.
Serenity Mod Flowers
I decided to add a little Bohemian flair to this piece.
Going Home
This piece incorporates multiple locations from Central Florida.
Harmony in Nature
Another one of my early pieces with several of my favorite subjects.
Water Rushes Through
A deserted Massachusetts mill with broken windows I thought needed a water fall coming through the windows with rocks & flowers from Florida, and birds and sky from Daytona Florida.
Twisted Metal
Morning Escape
Another award winning piece! She was on the beach but the rest I added... Sunrise, flowers, colors, lighting & textures.
Sydney and the Red Flower by Shara Abel
Award winning Sweet Sydney! This was one of my first complex composites. She was playing on the sidewalk...woods & sun from Clermont Fl, music notes and flower added... each pose has a flower associated with it as she walks down the path to....
NightHawk
Award winning piece incorporating images from several US states.
Owl in Moonlight
This multi-award winning piece incorporates images from Virginia, Florida and Massachusetts.
Togetherness
Sandhill Cranes mate for life!
Rainbow Kisses
Painterly Pink
Simply pink!
Hands
Lifeforce~A mother and her child's hands.
Out of Darkness
Escaping the despair of darkness and moving into light of love.
The Guardian
Strength & Protection of God. Steeples taken at Harpers Ferry WV.
Music in the Wind
Many layers of movement and music create this award winning piece. I have been making up music since I was a child, it is very important to me and creates movement in my soul.
Where the Water Leads
This multi award winning piece was a run down, colorless stairway in which I added the water element, the bird and the girl... layers of textures and colors with a mysterious star in a doorway down the hall...