I am very excited to learn that I have been awarded Gold and Silver Muse Awards in Fine Art in its inaugural competition drawing entries from 50 countries around the world for my images A Place Between and In My Dreams I Found a Peaceful Place. Many, many thanks to the Muse international jury for this wonderful recognition!
Read MoreHaving missed the online live ceremony this past weekend, I have just learned with great pleasure that the prestigious International Color Awards, the leading global award honoring excellence in color photography, has awarded an Honorable Mention Winner to A Place Between and a Nominee Award each to Red Barn in June and to The Pond is Alive in its 14th Annual competition among 6,109 entries from 73 countries. A thousand thanks to the Color Awards international jury for this very special recognition! Namaste!
Read MoreThe IPA Photography Competition “recognizes photography’s leading talents who are creating, shaping and defining the world of photography today.” I am very excited that the jurors have just awarded WAVELENGTH Honorable Mention in this prestigious competition.
Read MoreThe Au Printemps Suite, a collection of 17 images taken during daily COVID-19 walks in an urban neighborhood celebrates the inner beauty of spring flowers that breathes a sense of an annual renewal of life to our senses and our souls. Now on view in BEAUTY IN THE TIME OF COVID portfolio.
Read MoreA thousand thanks to The Photo Review for the wonderful surprise New Year’s gift in featuring my updated website and “Ardor” in its January/February 2020 Newsletter. It also gives a link to my Picture of the Week, an often quirky, sometimes serious image.
Read MoreBlack Box Gallery’s Portland, OR, Juried exhibition: “Vision: Color Photography” opens with a reception this Friday, December 6, 2019, and features ROCKET, STREET CARNIVAL, FUR RONDY, an image shot during Alaska’s oldest (and certainly coldest!) winter festival. Note height of snow piles in background behind rides and snow-filled Starjet cars. Wildly popular with Alaskans and many from the “lower 48,” Fur Rondy (officially Fur Rondezvous Festival) is held in and around Anchorage, with this part of the festival, the street carnival, staged in a large parking lot in the center of Anchorage.
Read MoreI am very grateful to the Black and White Spider Awards jury awarding #1, a digital montage, a Nominee Award in the Abstract category in international fine art competition — especially since #1 represents my return to the world of black and white, where I began my career in photography.
The Black and White Spider Awards is recognized as the leading international award honoring black and white fine art photography.
Read MoreI am very excited to have been notified today that I have won an Honor of Distinction award in this prestigious international competition among 7,358 entries from 79 countries, for “Sea Lion Dreams.” If you want to see some great photographs, click on READ MORE to see the amazing pictures that won first and second place in the Wildlife Category.
Read MoreMy work pays homage to the endless ability of the environment to create its own arresting art forms. Essentially shooting “straight” photography, I would like my images – which clearly do not look straight - to be seen as expanding the definition of realism in contemporary photography.
The realism I explore are unaffected, natural forms occurring in an astonishingly wide variety of color, shape and intensity in nature. Using slide film (“chromes”) and committed to capturing such forms faithfully as they exist, I often use the reflective qualities of water to achieve through-the-lens abstractions of reality.
SATURN RISING is from this body of work. Far from being a planetary or cosmic object as seen through a telescope, the image captures a scene from a high vantage point at dawn in the Norfolk, VA, Harbor.
I call such photographs constructed abstracts. I frame the abstractions in the camera’s viewfinder, then print images full frame. Although perhaps appearing manipulated, cropped or painted, they are not.
SATURN RISING, appearing now in an exhibition at the Cosmos Club, 2121 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20008
Read MoreA short (10-minute) talk - mostly slide presentation - on seeing the abstract in the natural environment, Tues., Jan. 13, 2015, 7 p.m. Sponsored by American Society of Media Photographers, DC Chapter (ASMPDC), American University, McKinley Building, Malsi Doyle and Michael Forman Theater (2nd Fl.), 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20016.
Read MoreAn international competition honoring excellence in color photography, the Photography Masters Cup "selected the best from among 7,416 entries" worldwide.
Read MoreI am honored to have my work, "Starboard Suite, #1, Horizon, " chosen for the forthcoming Fiftieth Anniversary Biennial Exhibition of The Washington Print Club, at the Katzen Arts Center at American University.
Read MoreThree of my images, "Earthview," "Modulation" and "Confluence," each printed 60 inches x 40 inches, are featured in this exhibition.
Read MoreThe 4th International Color Awards Masters Cup in the People Category for “Two Boys with Their Wagon and Dog.”
Read More”The Art of Water" presents the works of contemporary artists - including those working in photography, painting, hand-blown and cast glass - who are inspired by water as a subject, and who use it as an inspiration to create original and striking works of art. Ten of my water images are featured in this exhibition.
Read MoreIn the 29th Faber Birren National Color Award Show. Opening Reception, Sun., Oct. 4, 4-6 p.m. Stamford Art Association, 39 Franklin Street, Stamford, CT 06901.
Read MoreHis piercing blue eyes revealing his wolf ancestry, a huskie waits for his call to mush with a woman’s sled dog team in Alaskan Sled Dog & Racing Association competition during Fur Rondy - and earns me a coveted Nominee award for outstanding wildlife photography in this year’s International Color Awards Masters Cup, the leading global award honoring the excellence in color photography.
Read MoreTHE FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD in Washington, DC, has just selected six works (!) for inclusion in its permanent Fine Arts Program Collection.
Read MoreIn “The Kiosk,” appearing in “WOMAN!,” a juried exhibition sponsored by Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, Nov. 1 through Dec. 20, 2008, a grandmother, a mother, three daughters in charming summer attire, all with hats, shop at a kiosk in Venice.
Read MoreHappy to announce that a Las Vegas, NV, art dealer has newly acquired for his client THE SIREN, a Venetian image of a canal’s gently moving water creating sinuous forms from which a mysterious face emerges and dominates this through-the-lens abstract image.
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