Danny Englander

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"The Runner", by Danny Englander, 2025

Artwork

Art Collections

Here is a selection of my recent artwork. My artistic vision attempts to depict the impossible, surreal, remix realities, or visualize ideas, emotions, and scenes that never existed.

In my art creation process, I utilize highly advanced and sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) digital imaging tools, primarily Midjourney and Leonardo AI, as well as the generative features in Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom.

I view much of my art as "post-photography", that is to say the next stage after traditional photography just as photography was once the next stage after painting as a way to depict one's artistic vision.

  • A butterfly with iridescent pink and blue wings covered in dewdrops rests on purple lilac flowers, also dotted with water droplets, during sunrise.
    01

    Lavender Dawn in Dew Drops and Frost

    A series of cinematic, dew drop and frost-kissed studies in turquoise, pink and purple. Gerbera daisies, roses, a dahlia, a butterfly, a nautilus shell, a snowflake and a heart-shaped leaf shimmer with opalescent ice and dewdrops, set against lavender fields and soft sunrise light.

  • An astronaut in a bright red spacesuit with striped cuffs stands on a desert landscape under a dramatic sky with radiating light beams.
    02

    Astronaut's Dream

    My inspiration for this collection loosely comes from my fasciation with "Major Tom" who is a recurring character in some of David Bowie's songs, "Space Oddity" and "Ashes to Ashes" as well as a song called "Major Tom (Coming Home)" written by Peter Schilling. I thought it would be interesting to see how this concept would play out in creating an AI art series.

  • Close-up black and white photo of an airplane propeller with a central hub and radiating blades, shot from directly in front against a dark background.
    03

    Variations on a Theme of Flight

    I've always been fascinated by the history of flight and how airplanes evolved technologically through the ages. In this collection, I intertwine aspects of retro futurism, classic black and white (post) photography and architecture.

  • A metallic humanoid head with headphones in profile against a twilight sky, with flowing light trails in red and orange extending from the neck.
    04

    The Bokeh Twilight Sculptures

    The concept of digital sculpture is fascinating to me so I combined that with my love of photography at twilight and creating interesting bokeh (background blur) effects . I used Midjourney 7 to create these pieces with a little help from Leonardo AI, and post editing in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.

  • A stylized figure with colorful radiating petals stands between stacks of vintage TV sets, symbolizing the 1966 transition to widespread color television broadcasting.
    05

    Prismatic Nomads

    This collection evolved organically when I was playing around with style references in Midjourney. I hit upon a style I really liked and it reminded me of the moment when color TV broadcasts went into wide-spread distribution in 1966.

  • A mosaic portrait of a woman's face created from colorful glass, stone, and gem tiles in turquoise, pink, orange, and blue tones arranged in curved patterns.
    06

    Portraits in stone, light, and glass

    The Stone and Light Portraits is a collection that explores the intersection of natural textures and illuminated forms. These works capture the essence of portraiture through the interplay of stone-like surfaces and ethereal lighting, creating a dialogue between the organic and the luminous.

  • A colorful metallic robot head with geometric panels in pink, blue, and orange faces a Ferris wheel at dusk in Las Vegas with blurred lights reflecting on water.
    07

    Bot City

    Bot city is an imaginary city of where robot avatars wander around at twilight creating beautiful motion and bokeh effects as they go.

Code

Code Projects

Alongside the artwork, I build things: tools, sites, and small experiments, most of them open source.

Featured

Embed Image Metadata Using an LLM

A Python tool, run from the command line or a small Flask web UI, that uses Claude to generate accessibility alt text plus a title, description, and keywords in the writing style you choose, writing all of it straight into the image file's XMP and IPTC fields.

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