January 2023

Compendium

Happy New Year! Hope 2023 has started off well for you and you're on your way to achieving your 2023 dreams.  Every year starts off slowly for me artistically. I struggle to find what I want to create. I often trying several things before I settle on one, but I have always found one and I know that it will happen this time. In the meantime, I am in a state of angst uncertain about how to spend my energy.

 

I have turned back to my comfort zone, Photography. I have been out with my new camera and lens  looking for birds. I have taken several photographs that I like but theyare not great bird photographs by today’s standards. The current state of art in bird photography is phenomenal. I am not there. It's fun to learn new techniques, try some new software and think about the whole thing differently. In fact, taking pictures of birds using today’s techniques dispenses with the photography rules I learned 50 years ago. That is a must. 

Many of you have seen the photographs of birds in flight, wings spread, eyes bearing down on you or two tangled together doing extraordinary things that we can't see with our naked eye. The camera has frozen a thousand of a second in time. These images are possible because the auto-focus in the camera is much improved and post-processing software removes “noise” and “sharpens”. 

"Bird on a Stick”  

Photos of static birds are not considered high value especially when  it is a very common bird.  Oh well, I like this photo because it shows how this bird has adapted to its environment.  He fits in so well.

 

Events on the Calendar:

 

Northwest Art Beat Studio Tour, July 15 and 16, More details soon

 

Museum of NW Art, La Conner, WA and the Schack, Everett, WA shops continue to carry my art.