While exploring Warsaw last spring, I came upon this lovely old woman knitting on the sidewalk. She has the most amazing face! (click for larger image)
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I’m pleased to announce that my photography will be featured in a solo exhibition at the Denver Photo Art Gallery in the Arts District on Santa Fe. The show runs July 1 to August 25.
The exhibition is titled An Intimate Look at Nature and includes 15 photographs selected from my close-up nature collections, presented as large prints with contemporary finishes.
My artist statement for the show: “Nature is all around us, but much of its beauty goes unnoticed. Subtle textures, patterns, colors and shapes beg for a closer look. These photographs invite you to contemplate the simple yet sophisticated beauty of the natural world, and will impart peace and tranquility to your surroundings.”
The signature image for the show, titled Flow III (above right), is presented as a 40×40-inch fine art print on canvas. The image depicts the shallow water of a mountain stream, flowing over brightly colored pebbles. As a large print, this photo has great impact and fine detail.
Please join us for the opening reception Friday night, July 1. Additional openings are scheduled First Fridays and Third Fridays through July and August. All work is available for purchase during the receptions and regular business hours, or by appointment other times.
I’m excited and honored for the opportunity to show my photographic art in one of Denver’s premier galleries for photography.
Denver Photo Art Gallery
833 Santa Fe Drive
Denver, CO 80204
303.744.7979
For more info about the exhibition and gallery please visit www.DenverPhotoArt.com
I’ve launched my new web site at http://www.NatCoalson.com and welcome your comments, suggestions and other feedback. Thanks for having a look!
This image is part of a series of 20 I made in San Antonio, Texas in January 2011. I shot the entire series in the front of a vacant, boarded up building near the city center.
I’ll post others from this series as I am finished processing them… this is a new direction for my work and is still evolving. I welcome your comments!
Just signed the contract to give a feature presentation at the Professional Photographers Association of Massachusetts’ annual convention next March. I’ll be presenting on Nature Photography, which is timely since my new book on the subject will be coming out right about that time. I’m excited to present at PPAM!
Fog in the forest near Vorselaar, Belgium today.
Singh-Ray (filters) has a nice blog with posts from guest photographers. There’s some
nice nature photography work here and I think you might enjoy it.
I particularly enjoy the work of Dan Stainer.
Near Crested Butte, Colorado.
Here’s a photo I made today in the White River National Forest, Colorado.
Last weekend Bret Edge and I led a photo workshop in Jackson Hole, mainly within the Grand Teton National Park.
Prior to the workshop, I had a chance to do a bit of photography on my own. Here’s one of the resulting photos, of String Lake and Teewinot Peak.
Click to see the large image.
Feel free to provide comments and critiques! Thanks for looking.
A few weeks ago, I visited Cape Cod and had a great time shooting around the coast, harbors, lighthouses, etc.
While I was out there, I was thinking a lot about Lightroom 3 beta and how I might improve my workflow and the quality of my image files. I captured a whole bunch of frames to put Lr 3 beta to the test. Here is the first example.
This is Nauset Light, in Eastham. I arrived about 45 minutes before dawn. (I like to shoot lighthouses before sunrise or after sunset, when we can actually see the light!)
1.6 sec at f/16, ISO 250
Canon EOS 5D mark II
Canon EF 24-105 at 35 mm
The first image is the original capture. The second is the final image, processed entirely in Lightroom. Lens Corrections, white balance changes, sharpening, improved demosaicing on the raw capture… I was really impressed with what Lightroom could do with this capture. One more example of a photo that may never need to see Photoshop 
Let me know what you think!!
Here’s one shot from my recent journey through Cape Cod. This is Nobska Point Lighthouse, in Falmouth Mass.
This is the first photo on which I’ve used Lightroom 3, Photoshop CS5 and the new and improved “HDR Pro”.
The HDR Pro script in PS CS5 did a pretty good job of making the blend, which I then finished processing in Lightroom as a TIF. In Lightroom, I also used the Lens Correction feature, which works great.
What do you think? Comments and critiques always welcome!
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