October seems to be ‘online show month.’ Here are some options for your browsing pleasure.

Ghost Dancers and Fibonacci on the Beach are two faves of my own work, so it’s fun that both are in a show called “Black & White.” Why black and white? Because when the main subject matter is filtering light and/or curving form, color is irrelevant, even distracting. Of course, I also love beach grass falling in perfect Fibonacci spirals and Spanish-moss draped cypress trees undulating to the light! This show is hosted by The Hummingbird & Dragonfly Art Gallery in Los Angeles, CA. You can view it here.

The story that goes with Urban Osprey is too long to repeat here. Suffice to say that I worked hard to get this shot! It’s also black and white because again, it’s about form: the perfect symmetry of the bird’s wings in flight; the repeating arcs of wings, beak & talons; the contrast between organic forms of bird and fish and rigid industrial forms of telephone poles and wires. But of course, it is also about the bird. What a display of raptor prowess! You can see Urban Osprey here. The show is “Call of the Wild,” hosted by SFVACC (San Fernando Valley Arts & Cultural Center) in Encino, CA.

Another fave. Another black & white for all the same reasons: curving fence leading the eye to jazz-hands grass, volumes of gently sculpted white sand echoed in softly variable cloud cover. Dune Jazz won Third Place in a “sense of place” show several years ago. It is currently in “Lovely Landscapes” hosted by KBM Art Gallery in Riverside, CA. View it here.

Last but not least, this candid shot of these hard hats ‘keeping the lights on’ on a cold Sunday morning in the Chicago Loop is in its first show, called, appropriately “Snapshot.” I thoroughly enjoy interacting via the camera with people whose jobs require them to work out in public space. They typically tolerate me pointing my camera at them and, like these two, usually respond in good humor. Moreover, they get dirty and cold to keep us warm and the city functioning. They are under-appreciated, IMHO. So here’s to the hard hats! This show opens Thursday, Oct. 3rd. You can see it here on the website of Las Laguna Art Gallery in Laguna Beach, CA.

That’s it for now, folks. Enjoy browsing.