“Iris in Bloom” Banner Fly’s High
April 15, 2020 – P.B.S. Studios announces my 2019 Manassas Banner called “Iris in Bloom” is flying high over the city of Manassas. Located in the middle of downtown Manassas, my banner is on the right side of Center Street in front of the Old Manassas City Hall.
“Iris in Bloom” is a digital photo-painting based on an original photograph that I took of the flowers outside my front door. During April, my front yard becomes a plethora of flowers. Included in the front around the driveway and house are miniature red roses, buttercups bluebells, irises, white, and pink Azaleas. For more than twenty years we have lived in the house, I have taken thousands of photographs. Even though the flowers look the same each year, I create new pictures – if nothing else to record the beauty of the moment each spring.
Being selected continues my perfect record of at least one banner flying over the City of Manassas.
Past banners include
2019 –Memorial Day
2018 – Azalea Flower
2017 – Manassas Train and Bob Ross Dock
2016 – Love Birds and Manassas, Stonehouse
2015 – Manassas Cannon
P.B.S. Studios is a writer/photography/digital painter company who written and published over a hundred articles for newspapers, magazines, and online publications. Many photographs have been published as illustrations in commercial and textbooks publications. I have published feature articles, photos, and digital paintings in newspapers and magazines:
- Photoshop Creative
- Writer’s Digest,
- Golf Illustrated,
- Golf Tips,
- Highways,
- Sky-Writings, Air Jamaica’s
- Family Motor Coach,
- Philadelphia Inquirer,
- Providence Journal
- And many more
Check out the publication section on my website www.pbsstudios.com to see those digital photo-paintings and other examples of my work.
Peter Smolens
P.B.S. Studios
Manassas, VA 20112
(703) 346‑5026
email: psmolens@pbsstudios.com