New Photographs in Gallery

I have a few new photos up in my gallery, all pulled from local scenery. VERY local. Our backyard local – LOL.

The first one is “Lunar Hilltop” – I loved the way the moon was hanging over what seems like a bald spot on top of the tree-covered hill! I chose to do it in black and white because I thought the golden-orange of the hills here at sunset was actually a bit much. I like the way the black and white looks much better!

The second one is a triptych of photos of our bare walnut trees against a cold sky. I altered the blue sky tones for each crop in photoshop, and I liked how the grey frame completed the cold, bare, wintery look.

The third image is just kinda kooky. It’s a picture of some metal letters hammered into one of the telephone poles here. I’m guessing it’s for the phone company, but loved the ‘half’ added here to the numbering system. Plus it looked so rustic in black and white.

Prints are available by clicking on the images if you’re interested, but in any case, thanks for looking, and Happy December!

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Temples of Damanhur

The Temples of Damanhur are amazing cave creations secretly built into the Italian hillside, by a 57-year-old insurance broker. Click the link – you’ve GOT to see these photos!! Wouldn’t it be amazing if this kind of passion and art was put into all modern architecture? Just wow. Reminds me of the amazing Wieliczka Salt Mines in Poland – once they’d mined out the salt they used the space to create gorgeous opulent rooms.

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Art of FoxVox Holiday Newsletter

I just sent out a holiday newsletter for my Art of FoxVox Shop. The newsletter includes highlights of the new Celtic porcelain ornaments and Christmas (and Yule/Solstice) greeting and note cards sets, the Celtic & Funny t-shirts, sweatshirts and other cool products offered (we have new keepsake boxes this year – very nice – lined in white velvet!), as well as an excellent coupon discount code! To break the suspense (which I’m sure is keeping you on the edge of your seat), instead of me repeating everything I just wrote, just CLICK HERE to read the online version of the newsletter if you’re interested.

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Infinite Potential

A recent black and white photograph I took (chrysanthemum flower), which I titled “Infinite Potential” because it looks like the petals are constantly unfolding from the center. (The original flower was part of a bouquet of yellow chrysanthemums and purple and yellow irises that John brought home on Friday.)

You can click on the image to get a framed or unframed print, or to see a zoom of the photo.

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New and Updated Web Sites!

The last few weeks I’ve been really focused on building a couple new websites, one of which required dusting off my old programming skills and learning a bunch of new ones as well.

Wine Taster Tees – This is a collection of wine designs that people offer on t-shirts, sweatshirts, keepsake boxes, ornaments, and other gifty type items. There’s wine humor, wine snob designs, and tees for specific kinds of wines too. So if you’re a wine type or know one, feel free to stop by and browse.

Art Up Your Walls – This site will feature one new art print every day or so, but also has browsable categories of artist, genre, and subject. (I’m particularly and geekily proud of this site since I had to learn how to create a database, import a datafeed into it, and then figure out how to access that information from web pages using php – google was definitely my friend – LOL. I also found a cool script for displaying zoom images of the prints in the category results – swanky!) This site is mostly focused on popular and classical artists, so there’s lot there you might recognize. Also, all the prints are purchased and printed through Imagekind, and they do fantastic quality prints! Anyway – this site is just one of my ways of bringing a little more art into the world.

Winter Holiday Central – This is actually a site I created last year, but updated to include new holiday greeting cards and ornaments (including Yule/Solstice and Hanukkah themes), and new Christmas-y type links as well. (I have my traditional Christmas Cookie recipes there too.)

So, yeah, been a bit busy and very intensely focused the last few weeks. I think I need a break from squinting at the screen for so long!

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