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Fall 2022: Group Shows in CA and MN

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California

The Coachella Valley, like Santa Fe, is an artists’ mecca. The nine municipalities in the Valley are home to 370,000 permanent residents and this swells by another 100,000-200,000 during the “season,” the winter months that attract snow birds. There are numerous creative arts centers, collections of studios, and galleries across the valley, extending from Palm Springs to Coachella. Art walks, gallery openings, studio tours abound and I was pleased to be able to participate in two exhibitions happening in October and November this year.

The CREATE Center for the Arts in Palm Desert hosted an 8 week community show of mixed media work by its members as well as an invited group of artists to which I belong. These two old favorites of mine were hung.

Saguaro
Sunnylands I

The second show, all photographers, was by invitation from the Old Town Artisan Studios in La Quinta. It was called In Focus and lasted only a couple of weeks in October. Here’s what I submitted.

Bunker Hill

Zabriskie Point Sunset on the left and, on the right, A Proper Perspective.

Minnesota

The Praxis Gallery in Minneapolis has continuously changing international photography exhibitions. These shows are juried and cover a wide range of themes. I seem to do best with my black and white images and was happy to be included in the latest Black and White exhibition. The image juried in is below.

Manly Beacon (Death Valley National Park)

A Note About My Books

On the right panel, at the top, you see a block about books of my photographs that I have published over the years. The image shows three early books published using Blurb software and I have added three more to that collection: Monkey Business: Wildlife Sightings on the Osa Peninsula, Superbloom 2019, and The Big Picture: Panoramas. These are all still available from Blurb but the four other books I’ve published, using Zno software, are no longer available. It seems that Zno has updated their software and no longer is willing to archive books made with the old software.

I chose Zno at the time, 2015, because they were the only one offering the lay flat option, the feature that allows for a image to go across two pages without the distortion of the center fold. Since then, other publishers, including Blurb, offer this option. There may be other advantages to Zno but given my recent experience with them I’ll stick with Blurb for future books. I’m sorry for the inconvenience this may have caused.

Annual New Mexico Photographic Art Show

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Each year hundreds of photographers submit thousands of photographs to the Annual New Mexico Photographic Art Show (ANMPAS) which showcases the finest photographic work being done in New Mexico. A jury of professionals selects only the best photography from Santa Fe, Taos, Albuquerque, and elsewhere in New Mexico for inclusion in the annual show.

I read that somewhere and saved it for an occasion like this. I probably would not have been so extravagantly boastful. I’ve known about ANMPAS for about 8 years now, since I began to show my work but have managed to submit entries only half those years. Traveling in the RV during the winter I either forgot or didn’t have the right images with me.  When I did submit I usually got at least one entry juried into the show. This year I was determined to not let the deadline slip by and got a couple of images accepted:

Yellowstone Magic

YELLOWSTONE MAGIC     The hot springs and pools at Yellowstone National Park provide           endless variations of color and abstraction.

Bunker Hill

BUNKER HILL                                 Not Boston’s, LA’s!

Here are images accepted in previous ANMPAS shows , 2011-2013.

Great Sand Dunes NP
The ruins of the original church of San Geronimo are reminders of that brutal deed.
Near Garfield, NM, the springtime flood irrigation of the groves promises pecans.
Bundles
Jin Mao, Shanghai

 

The show runs from April 1 through April 23 and the Fine Art Gallery at EXPO New Mexico will be open  from 10 am to 5 pm. Opening reception is Sat., March 31st from 2-4 pm.

Shades of Gray

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For the second year in a row the Annual New Mexico Photographic Art Show (ANMPAS) has presented an all black and white photography exhibition. This juried show features about 200 images from New Mexico photographers who may submit up to three images.  I am pleased to have images selected for both shows. Here are five images of mine that have been juried into the exhibit in 2016 and 2017.

Death Valley National Park
Funnerary of a 16th C. Spanish mission south of Tubac, AZ
Death Valley salt flats from Dante’s View.
At Oliver Lee State Park near Alamogordo, NM

 

The opening reception for this year’s show is Sat., Dec. 2 from 2-4 PM at the EXPO New Mexico (the old Fair Grounds) Fine Art Gallery. It is open to the public Sunday, Dec. 3rd through Wednesday, Dec. 27th; closed Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Gallery hours are 10am – 5pm.

More Categories for Portfolio Images

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Introduction

This post is a continuation of possible themes/categories of images I might include when I make a portfolio web site out of this primarily blog site. Once again, it is for my benefit, a place where I have recorded titles of images that could speak to a particular theme or idea.

A. Panorama/Triptych

  1. Abandoned
  2. Cerrillos Hills, winter
  3. Cerrillos Hills, summer
  4. Dallas Divide
  5. Estuary II
  6. Font’s Point
  7. Glacier Text
  8. Gorge
  9. O’Keeffe Country
  10. Mills Canyon
  11. Into the Rain
  12. Near Manzanar
  13.  Harvest

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    Harvest

  14. Ojo Cottonwoods
  15. Salt River
  16. Taos Doors
  17. Tuolumne River
  18. White Sands
  19. Unicorn
  20. Soon Pecans
  21. Hot Fudge Sundae with Butterscotch Ice Cream
  22. Ubehebe Crater
  23. Chianti Vineyard
  24. Volterra
  25. Crete Senese
  26. San Antimo
  27. San Juan Mountains
  28. Yellowstone Magic

B. Badlands

  1.  Sky Dance
  2. Zabriskie Point
  3. Sky King
  4. Ramparts to the Castle
  5. This One’s for Your, Judy!
  6. Font’s Point

    Fonts Point

    Font’s Point-Anza Borrego Desert State Park, CA

  7. Anza Badlands
  8. (Relatively) Slender People Only (aka Anza Slot II)
  9. Elephant Feet
  10. Eat Your Heart Out, Henry Moore
  11. Pebble Place 1
  12. Peeble Place 3
  13. Golden Canyon
  14. Golden Canyon Exit
  15. Carizzo Badlands
  16. Dante’s View
  17. Zabriskie Point
  18. Hot Fudge Sundae with Butterscotch Ice Cream
  19. Bisti to Heaven
  20. Bisti Wings

C. Sequences

  1. LA Quad
  2. Bunker Hill
  3. Made in LA
  4. Waves

    Waves

    Waves

  5. Waves II
  6. Slots
  7. At the Shore BW
  8. At The Shore C
  9. Sand Patterns

D. The Crown Jewels: Western National Parks*

Yellowstone

  1. Yellowstone Magic
  2. Mammoth Springs I
  3. Mammoth Springs II
  4. Mammoth Springs III
  5. Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
  6. Denizens of Yellowstone
  7. Pool

Yosemite

  1. Pot Hole Pine
  2. Tuolumne River
  3. Near Manzanar
  4. Chessboard
  5. Another
  6. Bent
  7. Fifty Years After Ansel

Grand Teton

Teton Mists

Teton Mists

  1. Gros Ventre
  2. Across the Water
  3. Teton Sunrise
  4. Later that Morning
  5. Teton Mists

Death Valley

  1. Zabriskie Point Sunset
  2. Dante’s View
  3. Sky King
  4. Sky Dance
  5. Zabriskie Point Pan
  6.  Zabriskie Detail
  7. Ubehebe  Crater Pan
  8.  Ubehebe Crater Detail
  9. Golden Canyon
  10. Golden Canyon Exit

* Some of these images will be on display at the Vista Grande Public Library during the month of September, 2017.