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  • October Fine Art America Contest Wins and My First Solo Show!

    October Fine Art America Contest Wins and My First Solo Show!

    I had two third place contest wins at Fine Art America in October! “To Touch the Moon” won third place in the contest “Enchanted.” “Muse” won again (!), this time a third place win in “Best Digital Art on FAA.” But the best news is that both of these images will be part of my first Read more

  • Fog and Autumn Leaves on the Blue Ridge Parkway

    Fog and Autumn Leaves on the Blue Ridge Parkway

    Beautiful drive on the Blue Ridge Parkway today. In and out of the fog, sometimes so dense you could barely see the trees. But here and there a pocket opened up and I could get a shot or two in with my iPhone. I’m a sucker for both fog (as some of you know) and Read more

  • Apple Farm Photo and Edit Collaboration

    Apple Farm Photo and Edit Collaboration

    My son Wesley took this photo at an apple farm this weekend and asked me to have some fun editing. There may be more photos and edits coming…fun! Wesley just posted another photo from the apple farm that he also edited called Un Rêve du Natsu no Ringo. This proud mom is saying, “check it Read more

  • Old Photos, New Play: Back to Nature and Landscapes

    Old Photos, New Play: Back to Nature and Landscapes

    I take a lot of photos with my iPhone. That’s why I have 64 GB storage. I don’t like to let very many of them go. Recently I’ve been in a landscapes mood. I’ve been scrolling through my camera roll, my fingers itching to play with expanses of nature.  So I played and edited three Read more

  • Art Contest Win at Fine Art America

    Art Contest Win at Fine Art America

      So excited to win First Prize in the Office Art Decor Sepia Art Content at Fine Art America Sunday evening! The Office Art Decor group puts together galleries of the best artwork available on Fine Art America for professional spaces. This particular contest was focused on sepia tones only. There were 277 images in Read more

  • The Power of Art as Witness: Call Me Down the Rain

    The Power of Art as Witness: Call Me Down the Rain

    The second Creative Thresholds issue in July was a very special one and perhaps one of the most important ones we’ve done. It was a series of poems dealing with attacks by Boko Haram in the city of Jos and other areas in northern Nigeria. The cycle of poems began when poet Laura M Kaminski (who Read more