JUST RELEASED – “ARTISTS OF THE WEST” COFFEE TABLE BOOK / By Skamania Mines Publishing !http://images-0.redbubble.net/img/art/size:ul…
JUST RELEASED – “ARTISTS OF THE WEST” COFFEE TABLE BOOK / By Skamania Mines Publishing / This beautiful collectors edition, hard cover book includes 171 full color pages of works of art that were juried into the book from artists living in or near the Western United States. This unique coffee table book features four bold and impressive works of art from Washington County resident and artist Carrie Glenn. The unveiling and first book signing was at the Lofted Lair Gallery in St. Helens, Oregon in June of 2008. Your chance to meet Artist Carrie Glenn is at the Astoria Sunday Market on July 27th 2008, from 10-am to 3-pm. Carrie will be available to sign the newly released “Artists of the West” coffee table book featuring her artwork. Books will be available for purchase at the Astoria Sunday Market Carrie Glenn Studios and coming soon to Amazon.com The Astoria Sunday Market / / Map of the Downtown Astoria Area / A Selection of Carrie’s original artwork and paintings as well as signed, limited edition prints will be available for sale on July 27th, at the Astoria Sunday Market Show. Carrie’s work has been juried into numerous art shows throughout the North West such as the “Ocean Shores Fine Arts Show” the “Lake Oswego Fine Arts Show”, and shows and sells in online galleries like RedBubble.com and Zazzle.com See for yourself why Carrie has earned the title “The Painter of Life”. The detail in her superb drawings and incredibly varied range of artistic talent puts Carrie Glenn at the top of up and coming artists to collect! For any additional information on the event, you can contact Carrie at: carrie@carrieglennstudios.com Written By Robin Mann
For everyone in the Portland/Vancouver area, you might be interested in a local group that hosts photoshoots. Meetup.com....
For everyone in the Portland/Vancouver area, you might be interested in a local group that hosts photoshoots. Meetup.com has an upcoming photoshoot at the Japanese Gardens on March 22. Check it out. This is quite the active group. / Also Pro Photo has a number of workshops/photoshoots for our area. Coming up is the Canon Macro Photography class at the Tulip Festival (April 11th and 12th). I am signed up for the 12th. This is a free class and it fills up really quickly. / Also, check out the Zoo photography classes. I have taken some of these and they are quite well done. / If anyone is attending any of these workshops, please post a note under this journal and we will try to meet up. Four of us went to the Japanese Garden last weekend for a Workshop. The trees are just starting to bloom.
(cross-posted to DeviantArt.com – http://jstengren.deviantart.com) My photography obsession began in high school… I took a lame phot…
(cross-posted to DeviantArt.com – http://jstengren.deviantart.com) My photography obsession began in high school… I took a lame photo class as an elective (this was Los Angeles, mind you) where we learned how to develop 35mm film in the darkroom. Assignments were ill-conceived and half-assed, at best. “Go take a picture of someone playing sports.” was one, “Take a picture of something with sharp contrasting lines.” was another. There were crushes to be had, friends to be made, and since it was the last period of the day… shortened school-hours to be had. On to college where my dad let me borrow his manual Nikormat SLR. That was an interesting beast. Manual rewind, shutters as loud as your bedroom blinds falling unexpectedly in the middle of the night… but wow, the photos were incredible. I lived in Humboldt at the time (see Arcata, CA), home of the redwoods, hippies, and mud. I took a few field-trips with my dad’s camera into the various hiking trails surrounding the city and experimented with the finer aspects of technical photography – namely aperture and shutter speed. I also fell in love with macro photography, abstracting the hell out of anything I ran into. I took quite a few nice fern shots w/shadows, dew drops, ocean shots, and the likes. After moving up here to Portland, I bought my first digital camera – a Casio Exilim subcompact – and visited my friend back in Humboldt. I told him, “Lets go somewhere cool for a photo shoot.” We ended up at this weird junkyard near the bay where someone(s) had left tractors, car bits, etc. This is how I got my start in urban decay photography. If you framed a shot just right, you could accurately convey the lonliness and isolation of these machines, standing alone in the Northern California coastal mist, rusting, and being slowly, steadily overthrown by the sands of time. I loved it. I purchased a couple other cameras after that Exilim, briefly joining the megapixel war frenzy, and eventually ended up at the Fujifilm F30 subcompact. This camera, my friends, is fucking amazing. If you ever want a subcompact that takes awesome photos, has full aperture and shutter speed controls, excellent night time capability, and low low noise… this is the toy for you. I’ve used the F30 for countless club nights, raves, outdoor events, parties, and random photography wanderings. Unfortunately, I eventually ran into a wall in terms of what I could get out of this camera. I wanted those beautiful shots I saw on Deviant Art and Flickr, with the saturated colors and near-absent noise. I sunk my tax rebate into my very first DSLR, a Nikon D40x, and I’m in love. No doubt, I’m absolutely baffled by the amount of setups and features available, but the quality of the photos is amazing. I’ve created my first working portfolio using this camera, and have also become intimately familiar with Adobe Lightroom – an excellent digital photo archiving/editing application. My very first gallery is on June 19th at a local pub called Green Dragon, and who knows what’s next! For now, I’m just gonna play around here on Deviant Art and find other like-minded photographers to chat with. If you have any hints/tips on how to find cool spots for urban decay style photography, let me know! Right now, I just pick a direction and drive… hoping to stumble across something good.
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