Jay Ressler • Artist
  • Arched Window
  • Bakery Window
  • Balcony Garden
  • Barred Doorway
  • Flower Box in a Window
  • Basilica Windows
  • Airing Out
  • Open to the Courtyard
  • Six Windows with Reflections
  • Chateau Windows
  • Above the Clockmakers Display
  • Two Ochre Buildings
  • Tower Windows
  • Window Reflection
  • Classic Multipaned Window
  • With a Red Flower Pot
  • Reflections in a Courtyard
  • Window Reflections in a Puddle
  • Overlooking the Saône River
  • Windows With and Without

No. 37. The Windows of Lyon

  • Arched Window
  • Bakery Window
  • Balcony Garden
  • Barred Doorway
  • Flower Box in a Window
  • Basilica Windows
  • Airing Out
  • Open to the Courtyard
  • Six Windows with Reflections
  • Chateau Windows
  • Above the Clockmakers Display
  • Two Ochre Buildings
  • Tower Windows
  • Window Reflection
  • Classic Multipaned Window
  • With a Red Flower Pot
  • Reflections in a Courtyard
  • Window Reflections in a Puddle
  • Overlooking the Saône River
  • Windows With and Without

The windows of Lyon provide an enchanting way of enjoying the city with its rich history and traditions.

Lyon, France is situated at the convergence of two major rivers, the Saône and the Rhône. It has a long history as a center of industry and commerce. During the German occupation of France in World War II, Lyon was a center of working-class resistance to the Naxi occupation forces. Many secret passages and hidden courtyards helped many fighters elude German pursuers.

  • Arched Window
  • Bakery Window
  • Balcony Garden
  • Barred Doorway
  • Flower Box in a Window
  • Basilica Windows
  • Airing Out
  • Open to the Courtyard
  • Six Windows with Reflections
  • Chateau Windows
  • Above the Clockmakers Display
  • Two Ochre Buildings
  • Tower Windows
  • Window Reflection
  • Classic Multipaned Window
  • With a Red Flower Pot
  • Reflections in a Courtyard
  • Window Reflections in a Puddle
  • Overlooking the Saône River
  • Windows With and Without
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  • Arched Window
  • Bakery Window
  • Balcony Garden
  • Barred Doorway
  • Flower Box in a Window
  • Basilica Windows
  • Airing Out
  • Open to the Courtyard
  • Six Windows with Reflections
  • Chateau Windows
  • Above the Clockmakers Display
  • Two Ochre Buildings
  • Tower Windows
  • Window Reflection
  • Classic Multipaned Window
  • With a Red Flower Pot
  • Reflections in a Courtyard
  • Window Reflections in a Puddle
  • Overlooking the Saône River
  • Windows With and Without
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Jay M. Ressler

Jay Ressler Composite Photography, Encaustic Art, and Oil Painting He is an outstanding location photographer and painter, with an eye that can capture the soul of a Havana back street as beautifully as the sip of a hungry hummingbird, often with compelling black and white images. Jay Ressler is best known for artistic expression that lives in layers between opposites. “I like to explore boundaries,” he explains. “Boundaries between consciousness and the unconscious, between reality and imagination, between certainty and skepticism.” He does this by compositing his own photography in multiple layers to produce stunningly original, interleaved images. Using Photoshop, other image manipulation software and a variety of digital effects, he paints one photographic layer on top of another. He takes advantage of textures he's captured along with an array of processes for manipulating light, contrast, and color to tell the story. “Distorting and reinterpreting the literal 'machine moments' captured by the camera is as old as the art of photography,” he insists. Jay occasionally extends his multi-layered approach to encaustic mixed media creations. Based on ancient techniques, the process begins with cooking his own recipes of beeswax and damar resin and applying this medium between the layers of photographic images, along with various pigmented compounds and materials to add color, texture and expression. Either way, the results are riveting. The viewer is drawn into an unfolding, dreamlike scene that might be heart-warming, haunting, gritty, poignant or magical. Sometimes, within the various layers, all of the above. The award-winning photographer/artist has many dimensions himself. He studied advanced digital photography at Pittsburgh Filmmakers and advanced encaustic techniques with leading instructors in the field. He worked as an underground coal miner, steelworker, machinist, labor and civil rights activist, copywriter and commercial printer. He has a BS in Psychology from Albright College.

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