Chuck Gardner


Profile

Chuck Gardner
Age: 69
City: Veneta
Country: United States
Joined: Sep 2008

I came to Oregon 35 years ago because my wife and I were going to be parents and we didn’t want to raise our children in Southern California. I loved to hunt and fish, and enjoy the outdoor life that Oregon had to offer my new family. I still love the outdoors, but I now do my wild game hunting with my camera. It’s much safer and a lot more enjoyable and challenging. Plus, I see so many things I missed before, like the beauty of all the small things around me. I can now do my part to save all the beauty that life has to offer in the pictures that I take. I hope everyone can enjoy and benefit from them.
I got interested photography four years ago when my sister gave me a HP PhotoSmart 618 prototype that HP gave her years earlier to evaluate for them. Needless to say, I got hooked. Now that I am retired, I take my camera everywhere I go never wanting to miss a good shot that might turn out GREAT.
Please enjoy my pictures in my portfolio. Your comments will be greatly appreciated. Thank you for taking the time to view my work, Chuck Gardner.

Winner of A Vision Of Flight Photography group Challenge Captures with Clouds. on Jan 2, 2010

Groups

Chuck Gardner hosts Wild Nature Photography & Writing (only 2 images per 24 hours) and is a member of All Things Orange Artwork Gallery, I LOVE BIRDS !, The Fruit and Veg Shop(2 uploads a Day), Yellow Gallery, ! 100% !, "Old Things - 3 per Day", "Streams & Stream Crossings" 2 posts a day!, # 1 ARTISTS OF REDBUBBLE-5 per day, Please., ** Super Macro Photography (Two Per Day ), **FOCUS and LIGHTING**, **SPRING, GLORIOUS SPRING**, *A Beautiful Blur, *Accidental Images*, 1:1 Macro Photography (Limit: 2 posts per 24 hour period), 49er with Wheels - ground transportation prior to 1950, 5-6-7 Autos, Trucks and Motorcycles, 60 and Beyond, A Place To Call Home, A Vision Of Flight Photography (AS IS ONLY) 2 per 24 hour period, Abandoned Dark Creepy, Abstract Realism, Abstracts from Nature, All About Flowers, All About Water, All Animals Great And Small., All Oregon USA, All That is Nature (Photography Only / 4 per 24 hrs), All the Colors of the Rainbow, All Things Poetic, Artistic, Philosophical, All Water in Motion and Reflections in Water (A Camera In The Description Before It Will Be Accepted), Amateur Photographers' Association, Americas ~ Rural, Urban, Wild, Free, Animal Kingdom, Animal Portraits (No Cats or Dogs), Animals in Action two a day , Arachnids, Art By Bubble Hosts , Artistic Motion Blur, Backyard Macro and Closeups (3 a day), Backyard Photography (NO MACROS, DOGS, CATS, INSECTS, SKYSCAPES), BARNS & Old Grist Mills and Covered Bridges from around the World!, Beach Art, Beach, River and Lake Treasures ( With location ), Beautiful ~ 1 submission per 24 hours, Bee & Wasp Passions, Benches, Birds and Creatures of Flight, Birds Of Prey (3 per day), Bits and Pieces, Black and White Photography, Boredom Competitions on the 24/7, Both Sides Now - (CLOUDS ONLY), Bridges, Bug Hunt! (with Location please), Butterflies, Skippers, Moths, & Other Winged Insects (2 a Day), Canon DSLR (One Image Per Day & A Canon Camera Must Be In The Description Before It's Accepted), Caption Fun, Cars, Motorbikes and Motorsports, Cee's Fun Artsy Friends (no greeting cards or snapshots please), Childhood, Christian Churches, Statues and Crosses, Communities (NO SUNSETS OR SUNRISES OR CLOSEUPS OF PERSONS, PLACES OR THINGS!!), Conservation Photography, Construction and Demolished, contrasting perceptions, Country Bumpkin, COUNTRY GARDENS! Come and grow with us! *NO SINGLE FLOWER SHOTS*, COUNTRY ROADS / around the World, Covered Bridges, Creatures that Slither and Slide (2/Day), Damselflies - (Zygoptera), Dawn and Dusk Light [No Sun], Day Hikes , Descriptions, Dilapidated Buildings, Dragonflies, Everyday Life, Everything Winter, Extreme Close-Ups, Fabulous Flowers, Fabulous Froggies!, Falling Leaves, Farms and Countryside, Fireworks, First Things, Flotsam & Jetsam, Flower and Foliage DETAIL - 1 per day (24 hours), Flowers in macro, For the love of Canon - 2 Images per day with type of Canon camera used, Forests, Freedom to Shine, Friends of RedBubble, FROM THE EARTH - Jewels, Gems, Shells, Rocks & Fossils, Fungilicious, Funny Kritters, Going Coastal (2 art per day), Green!, Historic Places *2 per day*, Human and Nature, Hummingbirds of the World, Humour Captured, ImageWriting (2/24), Insects, Bugs and Creepy Crawlies (2 A Day), Just Brown, Just Pure Nature., Lakes and Inland Waterways *one* per day, focal point - the water!, Landscape and Abstract Photography, Landscape Photography, Leaves , Light and Reflection 1/24, Live and Let Live ( 3 per day), Live, Love, Dream: , LMAO ART - Your funniest work, Macro Untouched. 2 per day only , Mills & Mines, Miniatures and Mammoths, MIRTH (Members Images Relating To Humour), Mood & Ambi(e)nce - Strictly Photos / ( No need to enter images in the group for the challenges), Mother Nature's Finest, Nature's Wonders, Numbers One to a Trillion, Old farts of redbubble, Out of the Blue (75%+ Blue), Outsiders, Pacific Northwest , Photography 101:remember to put settings of camera in description, Point and Shooters, Prize Challenges!!, Public Art, Railway Art and Photography, Retired and Happy. 2 a day limit., Rivers and Streams, ROAD PHOTOGRAPHY - your dashboard point of view!, Ruins, Ancient and Derelict Buildings, Rural Around The Globe, Rustic, Rusty, Crusty and Falling to Bits - 2 Per 24 Hours, Safe Haven, Scenery, SEA, Seasonal 'Scapes, Shadows & Reflections, Shoot The Moon, SHOPFRONTS , Shots in the Fog, Signs, Silhouette, Skyscapes, Snow! Glorious Snow!! 2 a day, Something Fishy, Songbirds of North America 2 a Day, Squirrels & Chipmunks, Statues and Such, Stillness Speaks **Max 2 uploads per day** {{No NUDES, ABSTRACT, CANDIDS or ACTION IMAGES}}, Stop and Smell the Roses, Street Photography and Photojournalism, StreetArt, Sun Rays, Sunrise, Sunset, That One Great Shot, The 100 - 499 VIEWINGS GROUP, THE 500 TO 5000 VIEWINGS GROUP, The Addicted Photographer►2 Per Day◄, The Beauty of Nature (Nothing Man-Made), The Birds, The Greatest View in the World, The Male Photographer, The Passion of Couples, The Scavenger Hunt, The true beauty, The World, Top Shelf Wildlife & Nature Art - 1Day, Trains, Trees - 1 image per day with trees as the focal point, Two Beings Group, United States, United States Challenges Only - FEBRUARY THEME: Portraits of Elders (3 max per month), Urban Wildlife, Waterfall Photography, Waterfowl, Waves, Western United States Artists and Photographers, Which Way - walkways, pathways, stairways, roadways, and railways, Who are YOU to Judge?, Wild Birds in Flight, Windows and Doors, World Wildlife Photography, You're Accepted, Your Country's Best (2 images per day) and Your Magic Place (PLACES only!!).

Journal Entries

Thank you!!! "Arachnids" group

Posted 4 months ago, 4 comments so far.

Thank You! ‘Fabulous Froggies!’ Members

Posted 10 months ago, 4 comments so far.

Thank you !!! “ImageWriting” Group

Posted 11 months ago, 8 comments so far.

Thank You !!! “Extreme Close-Ups” Group for the Feature

Posted 12 months ago, 4 comments so far.

Thank you !!! “Outsiders” Group

Posted 12 months ago, 6 comments so far.

Thank you!!! “Miniatures and Mammoths” Group

Posted 12 months ago, 6 comments so far.

Thank you!!! Butterflies, “Skippers, moths & other Winged Insects” Group

Posted 12 months ago, 3 comments so far.

I Cannot Believe My Eyes… I Won A Challenge

Posted 12 months ago, 9 comments so far.

Thank You!!! “Macro Photography” for the Feature

Posted 12 months ago, 8 comments so far.

Thank You Sooo Much!!! “Day Hikes” Group

Posted about 1 year ago, 8 comments so far.