A Wizard on Front Street

Figure 1 – Stylized iPhone Image “The Wizard on Front Street,” Salem, MA. (c) DE Wolf 2019.

I was very taken by the bright and shiny wizard or warlock costume going down Salem’s Front Street during last Thursday’s Halloween Parade. I took the photograph that is the basis of Figure1 with my iPhone XS but, as with the gossamer dancer, the lack of facial detail and the pixelation of the night photograph troubled me. Also some of the people and objects in the background were distracting. So again, as with the gossamer dancer, I resorted to stylization in PRISMA and was quite happy with the final result of fantasy that Figure 1 reveals. It all seems like a book illustration, perhaps this is the wizard Gandalf from The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings!