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May 2012 Painting Challenge Gallery

May 2012 Painting Challenge Gallery

You have arrived upon the gallery submissions for the May 2012 ADNW painting challenge. Past challenges and associated galleries can be found by clicking the “Painting Challenge” tab at the top of the home page. Thanks to all that submit their work! Please take the time to click on the artist’s name and visit their website. Words [...]

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| May 13, 2012
Macro Beauty

Macro Beauty

I have written before that I love our garden. Its beauty is amplified every year as plants mature and its natural canvas becomes more complex and vibrant. We have been very lucky this year to have had an early start to the growing season. We live at 7300ft above sea level where the conditions are [...]

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| May 10, 2012 | 4 Comments
Breeding Bluebirds and Beautiful Photographs

Breeding Bluebirds and Beautiful Photographs

(Photo details: Canon 5D Mark III, Canon 300m f/2.8 telephoto, 1/2000 sec, f/9.0, ISO 400) Photography has opened my eyes. Not just to a new art form but but also to the importance of preserving what is naturally beautiful. From fleeting scenes inspired by the coming and going of ever changing light to the seemingly [...]

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| April 28, 2012 | 10 Comments
April 2012 Painting Challenge Gallery

April 2012 Painting Challenge Gallery

You have arrived upon the gallery submissions for the April 2012 ADNW painting challenge. Past challenges and associated galleries can be found by clicking the “Painting Challenge” tab at the top of the home page. Thanks to all that submit their work! Please take the time to click on the artist’s name and visit their website. Words [...]

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| April 14, 2012
April 2012 Painting Challenge

April 2012 Painting Challenge

Wowzer! It’s been a while. So sorry for being so late in getting this up this month. Since I am late, feel free to take until the end of the first week of May on this challenge. Truth is, I have been really busy lately and, well frankly, feeling a little uninspired. Enough of that [...]

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| April 14, 2012 | 1 Comment
The Zeiss Distagon 21mm Prime vs Canon’s 17-40mm Zoom

The Zeiss Distagon 21mm Prime vs Canon’s 17-40mm Zoom

I admit that taking a close up of our first spring flowers is not quite the broad sweeping landscapes I usually like to shoot with my wide angle lens but it proves an important point. It proves that the extra $1,000 I spent on my new Carl Zeiss Distagon 21mm f/2.8 wide angle lens was [...]

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| March 24, 2012 | 7 Comments
March 2012 Painting Challenge Gallery

March 2012 Painting Challenge Gallery

You have arrived upon the gallery submissions for the March 2012 ADNW painting challenge. Past challenges and associated galleries can be found by clicking the “Painting Challenge” tab at the top of the home page. Thanks to all that submit their work! Please take the time to click on the artist’s name and visit their website. Words [...]

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| March 4, 2012
March 2012 Painting Challenge

March 2012 Painting Challenge

Let’s try something different for March. I am giving you two photos work work from. One is an original photo and the other has been digitally simplified to give you some ideas about how to simplify the subject matter. I sometimes use this method to help me sort through the clutter. Look at the trees [...]

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| March 4, 2012 | 4 Comments
Snowshoeing in Rocky Mountain National Park

Snowshoeing in Rocky Mountain National Park

Photo details: Canon 5D Mark II, Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L, ISO100, f/8.0, 1/640th, handheld) I could not wait to share some details about our awesome President’s Day weekend adventure snowshoeing in Rocky Mountain National Park. As fate would have it, a long time friend owns a house in Estes Park, which is right on the [...]

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| February 25, 2012 | 4 Comments
Oregon Part 4: Taming Cape Arago

Oregon Part 4: Taming Cape Arago

After making photographs of eagles in Klamath Falls, we made a four and a half hour trek by car to the beautiful Oregon coast. We had originally planned to drive to Crater Lake but found out that the area was already inundated with snow, which made access to the lake impractical without proper planning. So, [...]

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| February 20, 2012 | 2 Comments

The ADNW Painting Challenge