UnWanted

Jan 29, 2020

I have loads of great images from this session that I plan to keep under wraps as I may use them somehow this year for competitions.But the 2nd image that I worked and decided to submit for IPC Photographic Open category this year was of Timmy.  Tim has the most amazing, hilarious, stunning, variety of solo images you could fathom.  He was funny, mad, sad, playful…..everything.  He was the first one off the make up line so we were experimenting a lot to see how things ...

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Woohoo!

Jan 29, 2020

PPA’s International Print Competition is one of the best ways I know of to challenge oneself as a photographer and artist.Last year I entered IPC for the first time and the amount I learned and grew as a photographer and digital artist amazed me.  I had a great year last year entering the Photographic Open category.  I entered 4 images and all 4 merited and 3 out of those 4 were voted as loans.  I became a 2016 Platinum Photographer of the Year last year which meant ...

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Night Terrors

Jan 28, 2020

This one was fun!  Night Terrors was judged at Western Districts and was my only art piece submitted to merit and seal for IPC.  This was my one in the bank and my very first MA merit.Night Terrors is another very personal image as it represents my childhood nightmares that still reside in my head to this day.  As a child I watched the Poltergeist movie and the light coming from the closet combined with the joker under the bed morphed into a terrifying entity for me.I knew what I ...

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Self-Made Widow

Jan 28, 2020

The police pulled over and said ‘Everything okay here?’I said ‘Just taking some portraits – nothing to see here!’. Billy didn’t miss a beat and said ‘Just taking some anniversary pictures with my wife!’ and we all laughed. The policeman hung around with a few others on the beach to watch the show we were putting on.A few days before, while still living on Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands, I spotted Billy and Ornela in line with me at the Post ...

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