The Thing Itself: Lesson learned first, able to deal with the actual, to be treasured and not just dealt with. Can defeat a photographer. It gives the real world the opportunity to show the thing itself through the camera lens and can show what in the world is around us.
Friday, May 20, 2022
Thing Itself, Detail, Frame, Time, Vantage Point
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
The Photographer's Eye
Artist: Larry Beard
Title: Fire and Ice
Taken: 5/03/2013
Title: Foam Bones
Taken: unknown
- National Geographic photographer
- Profession surfer for 12+ years
- From San Clemente, CA
Artist: Ansel AdamsTitle: Juniper Crags
Taken: 1963
Title: Shore, South of Timber Cove
Taken 1962- 1963
- American landscape artists
- Drawn to nature's monuments
- regarded by environmentalists as a monument himself
- believed that photography could give vent to the same feelings he experienced through his music
Artist: Imogen Cunningham
Title: Canna 2
Taken: 1920
Title: Cornish School Trio, 2
Taken: 1935
- Photographer for 70 years
- Founding member of the f.64 Group
- From Portland, OR
- Resided in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Eliot Porter
Title: Shad Tree, Spring
Taken:1957
- Started photographing birds and landscapes
- In 1930 received a Leica
- Inspired by Ansel Adams
Title: Spruce Trees in Fog, Maine
Taken; 1954
Artist: Eliot Porter
Artist: Thomas Heaton
Title: The Narrows, Zion National Park
- Became serious about photography at 16
- All of his images are about the outdoors, and all tell a story
- From North East England
Title: Rio de la Cascada
Artist: Ted Gore
Title: Oceanside Swirl
- California- raised landscape artist
-Was the USA Landscape Photographer of the Year in 2015
- His portfolio is his testament to the incredible range and his ability to translate scenes with unconventional features.
Artist: Ted Gore
Title: Maui's Pearl
Title: South Greenland
Taken: 2016- 2017
- Nature is his inspiration
-Currently in Bali, Indonesia
- Loves Lofoten islands
Title: New Zealand
Taken: April 2015
Title: Future Memories
- From the Netherland
- Landscape photographer
- True and deep passion for mountains and landscapes
Title: Dolomites Autumn
Title: Unknown
- Conventional photographer for 17 years
- Last 5 years has been teaching landscape photography workshops and guides backpacking trips
- Brand ambassador for several products that she believes in, uses, and shares similar values.
Title: Unknown
Artist: Callum Snape
Title: Unknown
- From Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Commerical, tourism, outdoor photographer
-Work reflects his passion and layered with landscapes, lifestyle, travel, adventure, and personalities that have a meaning
Title: Unknown
Monday, May 16, 2022
This is me.
ShaLee Maree Smith
Hard working, independent, and supportive.
Daughter to two wonderful parents.
Who loves my daughter, husband, and family.
Who feels admiration, courageous, and fortunate.
Who finds happiness in the children I teach, co- workers I mentor, and seeing my child grow.
Who fears loss, defeat, and heights.
Who likes to wear green, black, and blue.
An native of Montana.
ShaLee, who some day wants to be able to see the changes I have been able to assist in.
The Journey of a Dandelion.
For my non- linear narrative, I choose the journey of a dandelion. The journey can start in many of places and end the same way. This choosi...









