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Thank you Funding Arts Broward for the amazing evening at the "Living Lens Photographer's Showcase 2025". It takes a dedicated community to flawlessly pull of such as huge event. From Board members, to the selection committee to the jurors, to the host site MAD Arts, to the lovely music from South Florida Symphony, caters and more. Extra special thanks to the inspiration behind this event, Wayne Lee, and Katiuska Sierra, Director of Operations of FAB, who made everything look so easy.
Thanks to everyone who attended and supported the event, congrats to all the prize winners, all photographers juried into this stunning exhibit and the new collectors. My apologies for not getting pix of everyone. I am grateful to have my piece "Milky Way Over the Keys" win First Place in Scapes category. Click to see highlights from the evening.
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Must admit it was quite a thrill to learn that my newest #astrophotography, #nightscape and #waterscape photograph, Milky Way Over the Keys, won 1st Place in the Scapes Caregory in the extraordinary Funding Arts Broward "Living Lens Photographer's Showcase". Many thanks to Funding Arts Broward and the selection committee and jurors. Let me know if you'd like one for yourself or to give as a gift, [email protected]
Honored to be a finalist in the distinguished "Birds of the World" Pangolin Photo Challenge 2024. There were thousands of entries. Ruby-throated Hummingbird photographed at one of my favorite places, Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge. Click to see more images in the Winged Life Collection.
Quite honored to share that the City of Sunrise recently acquired five works from my Everglades Collection for their permanent collection for their new City Hall. They custom sized them for placement in specific locations. Printed on canvas and placed in shadow frames, sizes vary from 24x36" to 40x40" to 5 feet wide.
I recently had a chance to see the installation. The works are, top to bottom: "Pride," "Early Morning Fog," "Mother and Child," "Athena" and "Everglades Sunset". If you do business with the City of Sunrise, hope you'll check them out. Click link to see the Everglades Collection. 22nd Julia Margaret Cameron Award is a prestigious contest open only to women photographers worldwide. I am honored to announce that I was one of the few to win an honorable mention for the Wildlife Single Image Section. They only select Best in each category and honorable mentions. My winning works are above, left to right: Double Vision, Red Fox and Mother and Child. All are available. See them larger and related images in the following collections: Everglades, Alaska and Wildlife.
22nd Julia Margaret Cameron Award is a prestigious contest open only to women photographers worldwide. I am honored to announce that I was one of the few to win an honorable mention for the Landscape and Seascape Series Section. They only select Best in each category and honorable mentions. My works are on the right hand page, in order top row to bottom, left to right: Early Morning Fog, Summer Solstice, Blue Night Over Ballybunion, First Flight, Alaska Sunrise and Blazing Sunset Over Bosque. All are available. See them larger and related images in the following collections: Landscape/Waterscape, Everglades, Ireland, Bosque del Apache NWR and Alaska.
"Inch Beach" (24"x36" on metal) won third place last month in the 3rd Annual Collaborative Exhibit of the National League of American Pen Women - Fort Lauderdale and Boca Raton Branches).
This seascape was taken during my Artist is Residency in Ireland. We arrived just after sunset and I was captivated by the convergence of clouds in the sky, land and sea. Thanks for viewing. Just announced..."Pride" was awarded Highly Commended Winner in the Wild Photo Awards. Honored to be among these fantastic international photographers.
See more in the Winged Life Collection Love happy surprises like seeing "Double Vision," photograph of doe and her young buck on cover of 2023 Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, @loxahatcheefriends calendar. Plus several other images are inside. You can pick-up your copy of this calendar filled with wonderful photos by local photogs at the Visitor Center.
Thanks to urgings from street photog Sharron Demarest I entered the 19th edition of the Julia Margaret Cameron Award. On Sunday while out photographing eagles in southwest Florida Sharron called not once but twice. First she called to share that I won an honorable mention for my nature series. Then she called back again. She just discovered that I won the bigger prize, the Best in Category for Landscape and Seascapes. This series of images are posted above. This is a huge international contest for women photographers. Honored to be selected by jurist Barbara Davidson, three-time Pulitzer Prize and Emmy award-winning photographer/ director as well as past recipient of this award.
Pictured Top to Bottom, L to R: Early Morning Fog First Light Harvest Moon Milky Way Over Casperson Beach Moon Over the Marsh Summer Solstice Click to See more Landscapes and Waterscapes |
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