Absolute Blogmusings from an absolutely blank mind New Exhibitions for 2014I'm pleased to announce that two of my images have been selected for inclusion in new exhibitions coming up in the new year. "Five Elements", Darkroom Gallery (Essex Jct., Vermont) My image "The Sea, the Sky" was selected for gallery exhibition and awarded an Honorable Mention. The Sea, The Sky This show includes images by photographers from the US, Canada, The Netherlands, Sweden, Russia, Brazil, Italy and the UK selected by photographer, writer and teacher, Eddie Soloway. Photo District News named Eddie one of the country's top photographic workshop instructors and today he divides his time between making fine-art prints, teaching, speaking on creativity and the photographic life, and photographic publishing projects. Check out the show HERE. The exhibition will run from January 9th through February 2nd, 2014 Gallery Hours: Monday-Sunday 11:00-4:00 and by appt.
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"New Color Photography", Black Box Gallery (Portland, Oregon) My image "Diamonds" was selected for inclusion in the online gallery. Diamonds The images for this exhibition were selected by Kelli Pennington, an instructor of photography in Portland, Oregon, who received her MFA in photography from Syracuse University and has been exhibited and written about nationally and she has won fellowships and awards.
The exhibition will run from January 1st through January 20th, 2014 Gallery Hours: Thurs-Fri 12am-5pm, and by appointment.
Gallery address: Check out the show HERE (Link will be added later) 2013 Holiday StuffsHoly moley! Christmas is here quickly this year! As in previous years I have a calendar, some random stuff, and a holiday discount on artist prints. 2014 Calendars Friends and family who regularly receive calendars from me will continue to do so, of course, but now everyone can have one! (And if you are already getting one, buy more as gifts!) Just click on the link below! These calendars are saddle stitched, printed on heavyweight paper, just like calendars you typically see in stores. The theme this year is “Water” and includes 14 brand new images, covering 13 months plus the front cover, with both US and UK holidays marked. The 2014 calendars are available now directly from Magcloud for just $9.99 plus shipping. You can browse through the calendar and order your copy here: 
2014 calender featuring art photography by nationally exhibited photographer Nick Winkworth on the theme "Water".
Notecards
Yes, still a few left! Packs of six notecards. (Six different images, 5"x7", $15+$3 shipping). Order here.
Postcards I still have a few exhibition postcards left from some of my early shows. Get 'em before they're gone! Just $2.50 for three different postcards including postage. Click here for more information.
Holiday Offer – 30% off any Artist Print
To celebrate 2013 – a year which saw no less than 12 of my images selected for juried exhibitions across the country, I want to close the year with a special offer for anyone who would like an exhibition quality print of their own. Artist prints are hand made by me in my studio, signed and matted using 100% archival quality materials, ready for you to frame. The larger sizes are offered as limited editions of 15 or 25. Just choose an image from absoluteblank.com and enter the code APRINT30 at checkout. (But don’t procrastinate too long – this code expires on Jan 13, 2014!)
Enjoy the holiday season!
Three-in-OneAs you know, my "featured image" each month is usually a photograph which does not easily fall into a series or body of work that I'm currently working on (though, of course, it may become the seed for a future series). I've long had a slight obsession with the ability of glass - and especially windows - to show multiple levels of depth simultaneously: the the view through the glass, the reflection behind the viewer and the glass surface itself. This recent image is an example of exactly that. Click here to see the image in the gallery. The subject here is an exotic flower in a greenhouse, framed behind a dirty glass window pane. The flower seems to intrude into the world of the reflected landscape behind the viewer - we see a blue sky, what may be palm fronds or tree branches, the vague impression of buildings. These three planes of existence are combined in the image -- three dimensions into one! Joining the ClubTo quote Groucho Marx, "I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member", however I'm pleased to announce that I have just been accepted as a member of a small exclusive group of photographers here in the San Francisco Bay Area called the the "Bay Area Photographers Collective". BAPC is a nonprofit, cooperative photographic community of about 30 photographers dedicated to promoting and encouraging the development of photography and photographers in the Bay Area. The Collective provides a "home base for Bay Area photographers to promote and encourage independence, experimentation, cooperation, and creativity" and I'm looking forward to taking advantage of their collective expertise in peer reviews of future projects and in exhibiting with the group at shows throughout the year. You can see my page on the BAPC website, here:
Don't forget to check out the work of all the BAPC members. Just about every photographic style and technique is represented. Did you miss it?
"Was there a featured image for September?" I hear you ask. Well, yes, but as I completely failed to blog about it, you may have missed it. Here. Now here we are already in October and a new "featured image" is up! Click here to see the image in the gallery. From time to time we are witness to strange or unusual phenomena - those fleeting and elusive events that defy explanation. When this happens our minds tend to look for patterns, connections and causality. We ask "what does this mean?", or "why did that happen"? As if nature owed us an explanation. Here, ridge-top clouds parted for a a split-second to reveal a sunlit hillside that almost jumped out of the shadowed landscape, topped by a miraculous single glowing cloud. In the foreground, the cloud is mirrored in miniature by a small scrap of discarded paper. The symbolism doesn't have to be meaningful - it's enough that it's mysterious. We impose our own meaning. With hindsight, some might connect these phenomena with subsequent events and see the moment as one of mystical foreshadowing. Actually of course, this "meaning" may just be the unconscious mind trying to tell conscious one that it's doing something really stupid that will have (as yet) unforeseen consequences. Either way, you can make up your own mind. A simple natural phenomenon, or a warning sign...? |
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