Edward Hopper is my favorite painter, I’m not qualified to say if he was a great painter, I can say he was a great painter to me. In my photography – which is still new to me – I have always been inspired by the emotion in his photos, the loneliness, the sense of place.

Those are the photos I love the most and today, at dusk, I took this photo of the sheep grazing at dusk and put it into one of my new AI editing systems, and the format said “Edward Hopper,” so I tried it and loved it.

Digital photography has liberated photography for countless millions of people, but it sometimes leaves me cold and flat, without emotion or a sense of time. I love that this editing feature, which softens the wool on the sheep, is called “Hopper.” Just right for me, I’ll try it again.

I am excited to be exploring the boundaries between the literal images of digital photography and the sense of transformation the new AI editing programs are bringing to photographers like me.

I’m loving it. The challenge is to do it but not overdo it.