A Chatham artist has created an award-winning art work using older digital photo technology on a photograph he took of Rose Beach along Lake Erie in Chatham-Kent.

Earlier this year Steve Johnson, 67, was awarded first place in the manipulated landscape photography category in the World Art Awards for creating a stunning expressionist view of the well-known beach.

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He visited the beach with his son and took a few photos, which he came home and played with using an older version of Photoshop 7 by applying some basic filters.

“I wanted to use (the photo) as kind of a reference to do a painting, but this came out,” Johnson said.

“It’s the strangest thing and I did not design that consciously,” he added. “It kind of revealed itself to me afterwards.”

Johnson said what ap

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