I organize my photo archive by year, location, and date, in that order. Sad to say, my folders for 2023 and 2024 are kind of slim pickings. I just can’t seem to get out and shoot lately! So I’m especially pleased that, nevertheless, I have a few winners in those rather thin folders.

Color Me Jazz is from a 2023 trip to Chicago. It was in a couple online shows earlier this year and is now hanging in the show called “Spot On #5” in the D’Art Gallery in downtown Denver. You will hear more about this gallery soon, as it is a co-operative and the members decided to form a satellite co-op group open to artists who do not live in Denver. I applied and was accepted. Yay!

The satellite group will have its own show in the satellite gallery in November, so I’ve planned a trip to be at the opening reception. More on that later. In the meantime, if you’re already in Denver, D’Art is at 900 Santa Fe Drive and the show runs until November 17.

Early this year I went kayaking with a group out at Black Bayou Lake NWR. Since I was in a group and knew I needed to focus on paddling and keep up with the group, I didn’t take a “good” camera with me. But, as the saying goes, the best camera for a situation is the one you have with you. Cathédrale de Cyprès is an iPhone shot. I slipped my kayak through some cypress trees and suddenly I was in the middle of an opening and surrounded by them. What a glorious space they created!

Cathédrale de Cyprès is in its third online show, this one called “Lights, Shadows, Reflections 2024.” The show is hosted by Gallerium. It runs until November 18 and you can see it here.

So now I need to spend some time with my calendar freeing up some time to go out shooting!