From My Perspective

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The Virginia Beach Art Center is hosting its 6th Annual National “From My Perspective” Exhibition and I’m in it! I’m always a little amused at art exhibits with “From My Perspective” as a theme, because… if you understand art, every piece ever made is from someone’s perspective. I mean, we humans always must stand somewhere to view the world and where we stand always influences how and what we see. So, how do you narrow down what you’re going to submit? For this show, I looked for images that I thought especially and explicitly represented a particular point of view….

Catching up…

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Some years start out slow. This one did. Then all of a sudden I have images in three shows and haven’t said a word bout it. So here goes. “World Untamed”–what a super show theme! Right up my alley, don’t you think? Marin Society of Artists is hosting the show in their Virtual Gallery from March 30 through May 30. You’ll be able to see the show here. Many thanks to juror Paul Kratter for selecting my work. Urban Osprey was a natural to submit to this show. The very civilized telephone poles in the background put in high relief…

Wild for Wildlife

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Most of the time, I submit 3 images to juried shows, hoping for one to be invited. Additional images, when allowed, are often expensive to submit. Thus it was fun to be able to submit 6 images to KBM Gallery’s “Wild for Wildlife” online exhibition, and even more fun to have 3 of them invited into the show! You have seen Angel of Death (Osprey) before. It has been in several shows and won a “Best Photograph” in a multi-media show in Denver a couple of years ago. So it was not a big surprise when it got selected for…

December: Birds & Blooms

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I shoot lots of both! It’s a fitting way to end this special edition of #YearInReview, giving you a glimpse of my world for the past two years. December 9, 2022 – The older I get the more I prefer the dead and dying flowers. That’s not at all a morbid thought. Truly, it’s not. I love so much the shapes they take as the petals dry: twisted, crinkled, yet graceful. Their colors reach a peak of intensity. Their age spots dignify them. May I age so beautifully, eloquently. December 26, 2023 – Goal achieved: An American Kestrel (Falco sparvarius)…

August: Dog Days Fun

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Come along now for a visit to a national wildlife refuge I had never visited before, and join me for a fun, heartening, and educational baby turtle release on the bank of the Ouachita River! August 1, 2022 – Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge is 24,000 acres of marshes and forests waaay down in the toe of the Louisiana boot, on the north shore of Lake Ponchartrain. I don’t make it down that way very often, so when I had to drive I-10 and I-12 from points farther east all the way to Baton Rouge, I took a little…