In case you haven't seen it --- Dustin B's briar gallery

[LatakiaLover]

Dustin Babitzske is a KC club member who likes to collect and photograph pipes as much as he likes to smoke them. He's also one of the nicest human beings on Planet Earth. (not kidding, me)

His pics make for some great inspirational/idea browsing for carvers. Innovative design is his passion. There's some truly spectacular stuff here.

Enjoy:

http://briarportraitgallery.com/?page_id=3059

[Yak]

Deleted as irrelevant.

[oklahoma red]

Holy shite Batman! Amazing!
Chas.

[Growley]

I met Dustin at the KC show last year and got to see a lot of these pipes in person. In my very brief interaction with him, it was obvious that he's a great guy with some wonderful pipes.

Thanks for the link!

PS. I'm curious about the photoshop treatments of the pipes though. I'm guessing it's just an artistic thing, but I'd love to see more raw images of these pipes. Still, very cool.

[pipedreamer]

Thanks, you can never have too many photos or briar.

[Oakbear]

Thanks for sharing. There's some serious beauty there!

I agree with Growley about the photoshop though. Most look great as thumbnails, and the grain pops amazingly, but when you get close the editing makes some of them look very unatural and almost cartoonesque.