Michael Elliott-Smith and his wife Leslie often go out on photography field trips together. They may come back with images of the same places, but their final, surrealist pieces always end up different.
“Sometimes I wonder why she took a photo of one thing instead of another, but then she ends up winning something with it,” Michael jokes.
It was Michael who won last weekend, taking first place in the 10th annual Art Melt at the Capitol Park Museum downtown. His piece, “The Botanical Gardens,” featured a woman with an umbrella walking through a strange, vaguely Japanese-style garden with a canopy of oak trees above and a vintage car in the distance.