TomHarold began with the following e-mail exchange.

From:    chambersdva@yahoo.com
Subject: from Focus Gallery [Tom Chambers]
Date:   March 4, 2006 8:33:38 PM EST
To:     harold@olejarz.com

Dear Focus Gallery participant,

Your particular image has been in Focus Gallery:

http://tomrchambers.com/index-145.html

for a long time, and if you're interested in submitting a recent image ... no larger than 800X600 pixels [horizontal or vertical], please do so.  For historical reasons ... Focus Gallery has been online since 1997 ... I'll keep the initial submission intact with access to the new image as version II of Focus Gallery.

Tom R. Chambers

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From:     harold@olejarz.com
Subject: Re: from Focus Gallery [Tom Chambers]
Date: March 5, 2006 8:16:13 PM EST
To:     chambersdva@yahoo.com

Tom,

Sorry I haven't gotten back to you sooner.

I have attached a new image for the focus gallery. A flag in my local park that was much neglected and started looking like Jaws.

best,
Harold

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From:     chambersdva@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: from Focus Gallery [Tom Chambers]
Date: March 5, 2006 8:50:50 PM EST
To:     harold@olejarz.com

Harold,

Thanks for your comments and suggestions.  Your image of the flag is cool, but I'm looking for digital art ... manipulated/composite/etc. ... for the gallery.  Can you send me something else?  My "widescreen" slide show was produced in Photoshop by distorting ... a bit ... the images ... 1024X400 ... to create this effect.  I like the "dramatization" and the "otherworldly" effect.  In my words, they've been "EPICized".

Tom

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From:     harold@olejarz.com
Subject: Re: from Focus Gallery [Tom Chambers]
Date: March 7, 2006 9:33:49 PM EST
To:     chambersdva@yahoo.com

Tom,

I have attached another flag image, Red, White and Blue. I think this is more of what you had in mind.

Thanks for the info on your "EPICized" images. Very effective.

Harold

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From:     chambersdva@yahoo.com
Subject:   from tom chambers
Date: March 8, 2006 10:01:08 AM EST
To: harold@olejarz.com

Harold,

I like your first flag image ["jaws"] so much that I've sent it back to you ... my style.  I hope you don't mind.

Tom

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From:     harold@olejarz.com
Subject: Re: from tom chambers
Date:   March 8, 2006 8:46:37 PM EST

Tom,

Very Nice!

Our first collaboration. Now it is my turn. Send me a photo to play
with.

This could be an interesting project.

Harold

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From:     chambersdva@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: from tom chambers
Date: March 8, 2006 8:03:01 PM EST
To:     harold@olejarz.com

Harold,

Good idea.  I've attached a recent photo I took at a market here in Zhaoqing.  It's close to 8"X10" at 72ppi.

Take care.

Tom

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From:     harold@olejarz.com
Subject: Re: from tom chambers
Date: March 8, 2006 8:46:37 PM EST
To:     chambersdva@yahoo.com

Tom,

I couldn't help myself. I put aside what I was doing and here is my alteration of your image.

I'm game for a series of images. Let me know if you would like another one of my images to play with.

Harold

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From:     chambersdva@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: from tom chambers
Date: March 8, 2006 10:05:39 PM EST
To:     harold@olejarz.com

Cool, Harold ... send me another image.  We'll keep this up, and see what it leads to.  Another one of my images attached.

Tom

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From:     harold@olejarz.com
Subject: Re: from tom chambers
Date: March 8, 2006 10:19:01 PM EST
To:     chambersdva@yahoo.com

Tom,

This is fun,

Harold