Art Show

Saturday was the opening of the Gilrose Studios Juried Art Show in which my piece "Plains of New Mexico" was displayed.



Turns out the photo didn't win a prize, but it was still a cool experience to have artwork on display. Plus it was one of only 2 photos in the entire show!

Vote please!

Thanks to Caitlin I discovered JPG Magazine a few months ago. Through this site you can submit photos for various themes that will appear in future issues and possibly get work published. I just checked the site today and one of the upcoming themes is "Creatures". Initially I thought I should take a photo of Tiggy for it, but then I remembered a photo that I took of Henry last summer out in CA. I've submitted it for possible publication, but in order for it to be considered I need at least 100 votes for it... so please, if you have a few moments, vote for it!! You can get to the site using the link on the right side of the page (Under "Vote for me please"). Oh, and if you're feeling especially generous, feel free to send friends and others to vote too :)

Thanks!

Woohoo!

So I just found out today that one of my photographs has been accepted into a Juried Art Show here in town. I submitted 3 pieces and "Plains of New Mexico" was selected!



Now I just need to get it framed and to the gallery for the April 26th show. I'm so excited about this!

Oh well

I didn't win, but at least my photo was one of the top ones. Check out Keri's blog to see the winning photo!

Wichita Falls

I recently found out about a contest that Keri Doolittle Photography is doing on her blog... she's asked for people to take photos that represent where they live. So with that goal in mind, Los & I went downtown in search of things for me to photography. I ran into a problem though... our downtown really doesn't have much except run down or abandoned buildings and the commercial area of town really just looks like every other shopping district in this country.

I obviously could have photographed the Falls, however I ran into 2 problems with that. 1.) It just seemed to obvious. As Keri said in her post, she wants people to think outside the box. And 2.) the Falls were turned OFF this weekend! That's right, our town turns off the man-made falls after we've had any rain... seems counter-intuitive to me.

Well after 2 strikes, we headed on to base to fill up the car and while we were there, it dawned on me that the base defines Wichita Falls. Without Sheppard there would be very little here, so with that realization I set out to find something on base to photograph. Since one of the main programs here is a pilot training program, I decided that a photo of the t-37 "Tweet" would be fitting. Plus with a little photoshop action, a static display airplane looks pretty cool!

So after all that, here is the image I submitted...