Sierra Sacramento Valley Medicine Archives
Volume 60 / Number 1 - January / February 2009
About the Cover
This is the first in a series of covers by orthopedic surgeon Greg Joy, MD, of Placerville, who thought about becoming a photographer before entering medical school. After retiring, "I wanted to pick up where I had left off, but found that 40 years had brought significant change to photography." Nearly all his work now takes advantage of the "digital darkroom," used "to create a picture that represents what was formost in my mind at the time photographs were or could have been obtained."
This cover, First Fall Rain, is a composite of three 35mm slides worked over with Photoshop. "You are looking at the plastic straps of a lounge chair through which you see leaves covering the surface of a nearby swimming pool. The concept of the lounge chair floating over a swimming pool is silly. However, the gentle drops and the single leaf on the lounge chair, when put together with the many fallen leaves, contrast so well in color and concept, and remind me of the veracity of that first fall storm."