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From gallery shows and competition, these images are among my faves.

CARD SHARPS (after Caravaggio) ‘Card Sharps’ name and idea comes from artist Caravaggio, his 1594 Italian Baroque painting of the same name. Reinterpreted here, the picture won a 2nd place in the Strathmore 2023 Annual Open Art Competition, “Play”. Juror Zoma Wallace remarked on the picture: “I saw this piece during the jurying process, it instantly jumped out at me and became one of my favorite works of all those (some 900) submitted. This was the perfect example of a ‘play’ on an idea by reimagining and updating a classic work. My favorite aspect of the piece is the use of the cell phone to signal the dupe’s hand to the sharp. The scene is smartly composed with no superfluous information. What’s more, Caravaggian lighting is spot-on, and so well handled in the medium of photography, in relation to the original painting. This work is truly a delight that never approaches caricature or kitsch. I love this piece!

YOKO K SEN Sound Alchemist Image is taken from video projection project ‘Strathmore Monuments’ by artist Craig Walsh

Portrait photo was selected by editors to be featured in the Lens Culture Summer Open 2022 Competition Gallery. The Competition Gallery is a highly curated group of images showcasing the best photos from participating photographers. Use link below to see Gallery.

LensCulture Summer Open 2022

In Shadow Of

The MLK monument in Washington DC portrays the massive sculpted image (to the left) of Martin Luther King emerging from a mountain of stone. In so doing, the figurative portal to freedom opens. And in the picture, the figures in shadow emerge allegorically to pass through the portal and ultimately into the light.

BOY AND BIRDS
Many remember the same experience but none remembers what they would have done with the bird (if they caught it).

INNER SANCTUM
An unlikely observation, from an ordinary street in Rome, Italy
ABSTRACTS IN NATURE
Near Orlando, FL, the Split Oak Forest park, abundant with spanish moss.
SAN DIEGO FREEWAY
observed from Torrey Pines Park near San Diego, CA
Thornbushes planted along Atlantic Ocean beach highway.

STARRY NEW YEAR
At OBX looking norththerly
5000 YEARS HOME
….for diverse peoples, of mysterious origin. Skara Brae, Orkney, on the North Sea, Scotland.
THREE MOUNDS
Jockey Ridge sand dunes, NC
KOUSA IN SNOW
A beautiful Kousa Dogwood in winter decorated with snow, though many see flowers. The abstraction is real, nothing is modified, except for the absence of color.
PALOUSE PLOWEFIELD
The endless farmlands under spectacular sky of eastern Washington State
FLOCK OF POLLOCKS
Many see birds as the name suggests. A splatter of black, white and gray, its name also acknowledges the style of Jackson Pollock. This image takes a photo, layers colors separately, desaturates, and reassembles layers at different relative scales. A cacophony of sound and light within the grace of avian flight is the result.


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