Gallery Night July 24, 25

My second gallery night show is coming up fast. This one will be awesome. I have 7 or 8 brand new images printed on canvas. Large prints. New space. Better place. Great images. Stop by and see me.

So Much And So Little Time

This is crazy time for me. My responsibilities as a landscape architect and project manager take up all sorts of time. The colors of spring and early summer draw me like a magnet.

A million projects going and hundreds of photos backed up and ready to be edited. Friday I finally had enough and canceled (rescheduled) two appointments with landscape customers and shot a couple hundred images. I have another gallery to work with now (that makes 3) and my second Gallery Night coming up in July. Large canvas print sales have been a big surprise. Five big prints in the past 3 weeks. Two of them 48 inches wide.

Shot Of The Day

Shot Of The Day

Some people are shy about ringing doorbells. That's not me. Yesterday I was driving to a job and saw a whole landscape of crocus and daffodils. I'm not sure why I never noticed it before. I have always loved that house. A small prairie style on a small hill under mature trees. I rang the doorbell and asked if I could "borrow" their flowers for a bit. It made my day to be laying under the trees, in the leaves getting up close and personal with the flowers. It really made my day. Little did I know that I also made the day of the owners. It turns out that the mother of the gentleman who built the house in 1954 loved flowers and planted all of the bulbs and shrubs in the yard. He came out smiling and told me that his mother was smiling down from heaven while I was enjoying her work. He said I can come back anytime...and I will.

Shot Of The Day

Shot Of The Day

Being In The Moment

There is nothing better in the word than being out shooting and letting your mind relax. It's a form a meditation. You go out to a location or see something on the roadways to capture. As you start shooting the images you capture are more record shots, snapshots of the location. It's what most people who notice the scene would see. As you start the process of seeing and do what I call distilling the images you start to relax. As you relax you open your mind's eye to what it was you saw that made you stop. The world goes away. You blend in to the surroundings and really see.