True Portraits of Nature is Photography recreated as Paintography.

The creator of the beautiful photographs in these galleries is Ray Bilcliff.  Ray’s photographic and paintography works can be seen through out the internet on sites such as 500px, Behance and FolioHD and lots more.

Paintography is his style of work as can be seen in most of his photographs, paintography is taking a photo and in post processing create another picture that looks a bit like a painting.

Ray is a retired karate instructor having reached the very top as an 8th Dan Black Belt. Ray has also taught over 300 students to the black belt level and several to the master level. Apart from his love of the martial arts Ray is also a retired PADI Scuba Instructor and has worked in 32 countries and islands around the world. There are hundreds of scuba enthusiasts now venturing into the deep thanks to Ray’s teaching.

You can visit with Ray on Google+ along with many other talented photographers and maybe some of your friends are there also.