ABOUT the Edutainer-Ray Heath- Images showcase- DIGITAL ART, graphic images, Ray Heath photography,

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the Edutainer®
An Interior Design professional with many years’ experience within a wide range of sectors, the greater part of my career has been spent applying my built-up skills in various roles for the conception. design and delivery of “edutainment” based experiences within visitor attractions.
What is “Edutainment”?
Much has been and is still being written about edutainment and particularly the pros and cons. A personal middle ground description is that it is a form of philosophy that often involves activity and/or entertainment that is structured in a multitude of ways and forms to educate as well as to amuse. Common mainstream mediums that apply edutainment based approaches includes:-

television programs,
computer and video games, films, music,
websites
multimedia software
visitor and entertainment attractions

Examples might be guided nature tours that entertain while educating participants on animal life and habitats, visitor attractions that deliver and reinforce determined messages by providing visitor experiences (images below from some of my projects), or a video game that teaches children conflict resolution, mathematics, reading skills etc.

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My career "Edutainment Journey" within numerous and varied projects...click on/open the pdf resume file

MY LONG-TERM IMAGES PROJECT:-
Build and maintain the Edutainer IMAGES SHOWCASE...showcased on this website and constantly being refreshed with new images

Joe Rosenthal image

THE POWER OF THE STILL IMAGE

It is the strength of the single image that has always fascinated me, for it generally has to stand alone on its own merits and seek, even demand attention, interpretation and appreciation, without relying on engineered “bells' whistles or the supporting stimuli of video frames.

THE STILL IMAGE
Taking still images enables you generally to move around the subject looking for different angles that you want to capture for a multitude of purposes and uses. With video you more readily find a spot and let the action move and you capture it on moving film. A still image captures a brief second whereas a video captures an event sequence. In the same amount of time given to a still shooter and a video shooter the still shooter will generally end up with more variety of images captured and spend more time on the examination, interpretation and the final state production of each individual image; an image that is not relying on masses of supportive “frames” to support that special moment.
Appreciation of a still image demands pause and an indeterminant period of reflection, whereas with video the motion can wash over you, requiring freeze-frame, slow motion or replay for a more indepth evaluation of the most powerful moments. A still image is generally “a capture in isolation”, relying on the strength of that capture to provide sufficient information to tell any intended story.

Referring to the image on the left - it can be argued that still images are remembered better than any video. One striking example is the Joe Rosenthal still image of the American flag being raised on the Pacific Island of Iwo Jima during WW2. A video was also shot of the event but it is the dramatic still image that is the iconic record of that event in history.

MY IMAGES
For many years in my professional career I have marvelled at and used images produced by others. With this showcase I am embarking upon my own personally exciting journey in image creation.

I dedicate more time to and particularly enjoying taking what I think to be an appropriate image with the potential for “stretching” that image into often many versions of abstraction, to produce - DIGITAL ART.
If my images , and particularly the digital art abstractions, entice you to pause, study and even visualise unexpected objects and elements within the subject matter (which I find is often the case), and that doing so both delights and entertains you, then I will be happy.

PAGES CONTENT OF WHERE MY IMAGES ARE LOCATED...IN IMAGES SHOWCASE

NEW IMAGES & site updates
Visit the tab..."NEW IMAGES" in the top navigation ribbon(possibly in "MORE") for a list of what changes and new images have been added , when and where they are located.

ABSTRACT-Graphic Images - Abstract to varying degrees:-

REALISM - moderate abstraction
DIGITAL ART - stretching the image (usually a realism image) in a multitude of generally investigative ways and utilising various techniques, the results often grouped into a series of versions of the same image

REALISM Abstraction Example

DIGITAL ART - Abstraction Example

HDR (High Dynamic Range) - Appropriate images either selected for or taken using HDR techniques, showcased within a growing list of categories:-