Turquoise Trail Storm
This precious image that evolved from a color photograph to a sepia tone to a black and white photograph found glory last night in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
KABC Radio BLACK & WHITE LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY OF NEW MEXICO
On this warm summer's night my friends Cynthia, Donna, Tom and I walked over to hear the winner announced at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum on Johnson Street. We were an hour early and looking for something cool to drink, but settled for waiting until the contest announcement was over. The images entered by the ten finalists were soon going to be projected in the very same room where the history of Georgia O'Keeffe is shown. So we had time to kill and were easily distracted by the paintings of O'Keeffe and photographs of Ansel Adams.
The museum was crowded and I viewed whatever painting or photo that didn't have a tourist in front of it at the time. G O'K's paintings colors are so vivid. Just the memory of the deep reds warms me. I walked towards the Ansel Adams photographs which filled an entire room and was drawn to the one at the far end. Thunderstorm Espanola Valley, 1961:
It was the older brother to my Turquoise Trail Storm so I thought.
No more time to view the exhibit because the winner of the competition:
was going to be announced soon.
In the small dark video room the ten finalists images were projected. Each finalist was called to receive a hard cover book of the main exhibit's artwork. My name wasn't called. My friends looked at me like "Uh-oh, they forgot Ruth!"
Just my luck I figured, but then my name was announced... as the winner.
What an adrenaline rush.
I received a thick envelope filled with several prizes and the smiles from my friends. We walked to the Eldorado Hotel and celebrated shouting above the piano music. A lovely day indeed:
Thank you for your votes!
p.s. See you at Jeannie's next week.
p.p.s.
KABC radio b&w contest information is down, but sign up for new contest alerts. You may be next year's winner.
I love the saying "You must be present to win."
It has a Zen like undertone. And leads me to my story about 'Turquoise Trail Storm'
Storms like this one although frequent aren't always in my field of vision.
Many times they are
obscured by telephone poles, buildings and trees. I had to be in the right place at the right time with camera and looking out the window. Luckily my friend who was driving pulled over and I took this shot a few years ago. I have always liked it and last week entered it into well... I'll let this e-mail tell the story:
You have been selected as one of the ten finalists for the 98.1 Radio Free Santa Fe Black and White Landscape Photography of New Mexico contest. Your photograph will be framed and exhibited at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Education Annex this Friday June 6.
Online Voting will commence on this Friday June 6. Photos may be viewed at http://www.kbac.com/section/view_authent/?fnode=81. (Note: All voters will need to register for the site.) For non-digital folks, paper ballots will be available at the Education Annex located at 123 Grant Avenue. Voting is scheduled between June 6 to June 20.
What a great publicity opportunity. My work will be online with nine fellow photographers.
It will have a presence and this alone makes me feel like a winner.
Hi All,
I created an image from a digital photograph in Painter and
Photoshop. I was almost done, but didn't like the clouds -- they were like a bull's eye in the center of the
image.
I came up with a simple solutions so I didn't have to start all over.
This is the finished piece and the sequence below it shows the transition:
Abiquiu, New Mexico
I began with this image:
I painted the photograph in Corel painter and it looked like this:
The image below shows..
... the next step.I moved it into photoshop and brightened it up with one filter and and color adjustments. Wow, I don't have to be an expert in Painter to achieve the paintings I want. But the center of the sky looked like a bull's eye. I didn't want to start all over again. That's when I thought of the warping tool.
I selected the sky and made it into a separate layer and placed the warping tool over it. Then I warped the clouds over to the right.
Pretty cool, huh?
If one person writes and requests a video. I will create a post a video version of this post.
write to on this blogger or ruth@mydigitalphotographytips.com
Thanks for reading my blog.
Ruth
in Santa Fe, NM
You probably have a
photography series idea and don't even realize it. You have a visual series wrapped up in your dreams. Some people have recurring dreams and those are easy to
remember. Others may have to quickly jot the dream down in the morning before it's forgotten. Ask
someone what they dreamt about recently and that might help you to remember yours.
Why do dreams make for a good digital photography series?
They are unique, personal, abstract and visual.
Dreams are open to artistic
interpretation. They can be hazy, incomplete, enigmatic, sensual and striking in the
subliminal way others will relate to them.
Think of the dream as 5-10 still shots that tell a story. A story so personal you will learn about yourself in its
transformation to photographs. A story so personal you may be afraid to tell--that's the one we want to know.
"
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost." – Martha GrahamThanks for visiting my blog for our success,
Ruth
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Post a CommentWhat a great story! I loved being a part of the winning ceremony. It was so great to watch something so wonderful happen to me friend. Congratulations!
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