Free Shipping for Online Purchases

Treat your Valentine or yourself to a photograph custom printed and framed and enjoy free shipping if you purchase by midnight, February 8, 2010. This applies to all orders over $30 on my online store.
One of the advantages of buying art this way is the wide variety of paper, canvas, matting, and framing available. If you really want to make an impression and fill wall space, consider a gallery-wrapped canvas print. If you go for custom framing, be sure to look through the many mat choices and frame galleries.
To take advantage of this offer, visit my online galleries and store here and use promotional code VDay10.

Whidbey Island Book

My new book, Whidbey Island: The Jewel of Puget Sound, is now available. I've been selling copies at Ann's Coup d'Art, where my studio is. It is also available online at Amazon.com here.
The book is a portfolio of images representing Whidbey Island from the Deception Pass Bridge to Langley.

Metal Prints

Here are six of eight square images that are being produced by one of my labs, printed on metal. They will have 1/8" rounded corners and be mounted on blocks to float off the wall without frames. It seems an interesting and different presentation for photographs (it is pretty new) and these will be introduced at my holiday shows (see home page of www.whidbeypanoramas.com).

About the Photos

From top left to bottom right: The grave markers in Istanbul were shot in infrared and processed with sepia toning. IR is great for clouds! I noticed the trees in the pasture where the sheep graze on the edge of Barzitsa and watched for a foggy morning to shoot them. This was infrared converted to pure black and white (the raw IR images have some color in them). The fishing boat was near Varna in an estuary that serves as an extension of the port. It's another IR shot. The outdoor sink with dish is conventional digital color. It is in the back yard of the small pottery near the village where Bulgaria Art Workshops is being established (watch for news). Though it might look staged, the blue dish was there, waiting for my eye. The orange lifeboat was moored behind a dilapidated waterfront home on the Bosporus. The original shot is in color but I desaturated everything in the scene except the boat. I spotted the staircase while walking around the same Bosporus village in drizzle and was taken with the Mediterranean colors juxtaposed with potted flowers and weathered wood.