living the photo artistic life - issue no. 14

pushing photography further

LIVING THEPHOTO ARTISTIC LIFE

NO14APRil 2016ISSUE

pushing photography further

LIVING THEPHOTO ARTISTIC LIFE

026 Michele McCain

027 Beverly Everson

028 Johanna Goudsblom

029 Jean Hutter

030 Ray Kingsbury

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036 Waynetothemax

037 BRosenleaf

038 Cindy Vondran

039 Charlene Maginn

040 Lou Ann Goodrich

041 Michelle Mondragon

042042 Judi Lapsley Miller

043 Denise McNickle

044 Nicole Wilde

045 David Walker

046 Joan Stokes

047 Julie Mead

048 Colleen Edwards

049049 Dan Lavery

050 Tim Palmer

051 Jennifer Hunter

052 Susan Crosby

Contributing artists004 letter from the editor

005 Doris Seybold

006 Carol Ann Lang

007 Sue Masterson

008 Paula D Powers

009009 Steve Morovek

010 Maria Minogue Karlsson

011 Rosemary S Smith

012 Janine van Holthe

013 Siegart von Schlichting

014 Jeffrey Stoner

015 William M. Thomson

016016 Billa Bozem

017 Caroline Julia Moore

018 Soumaya Schnur

019 Matt Shalvatis

020 Bronwyn Kenmir

021 SaijaKristina

022 Bob Rude

023023 Ann Wehner

024 Susan Pulaski

025 Catherine King

Featured Artist:

Jo Wilmot

NO14APRil 2016ISSUE

Front Cover Image:

Jo Wilmot

078 Barry Rosenfeld

079 Marianne van Arnhem

080 Julia Mae Thies

081 Deborah Pugh

082 Patricia Mariano

083 Ken Brakefield

084084 Margot Ashley

085 Viv Buckley

086 Rebecah Thompson

087 Dianne Carey

088 Inna Malostovker

089 Andrei Tallent

090 Terry Fleckney

091091 Laura Lipke

092 Shelly Erwich

093 Trish Hoskin

094 Joanne Caruth

095 Sharon Rankmore

096 Louisa Hickman

097 Ilene Sokol

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053 Kristin Couch

054 Ashby Presley

055 Mary Knaggs

056 Sherri Reed

057 Tony Stephenson

058-059 Charles Ragucci

060060 Laurie Baker

061 Amy Ecenbarger

062 Roxi Hardegree

063 Nancy Brizendine

064 Albamass

065 Dennis Carson

066 Michael Strevens

067067 Barbara Case

068 Bev Holoboff

069 Guido Schulte

070 Michelle Joy Giaimo

071 Ingrid Pomeroy

072 Cindy Collier Harris

073 Andy Dench

074074 Diana Boyd

075 Janice Batterbee

076 Viktor Doro

077 Sandi Terry

CONTRIBUTING ARTIST

Spotlight

At last it really ISN’T about the gear.

Photographers tend to obsess about their equipment, and “Gear Acqui-sition Syndrome” is a very real problem.

I’m certainly not exempt from it. Few photographers are. And over the years I know I’ve picked up way too many cameras, way too many lenses, way too many filters and accessories of all kinds.

And I mean, sure, the gear can be And I mean, sure, the gear can be fun.

But what excites me about the But what excites me about the photo artistry we find in this mag-azine each month is the way we can move beyond the gear and create great art irrespective of how fast and sharp our lenses are, and with next to no thought of camera brands.brands.

Because when you turn to creating works of digital art, what matters isn’t the kind of camera you used to make the original image, but what you DO with the images once you have them.

What matters is the vision you bring to the canvas after the images are captured.

What matters, really, is having something to say. And saying it as well as you possibly can.

I see works of amazing photoartart being created within our group every day; and finding out that the

original images came from a simple point-and-shoot (or even an old iPhone) makes no difference at all. It’s almost beside the point.

And I love that.

I think it’s awesome.

TooToo many photographers seem to spend more time thinking about their gear than they spend finding something worthwhile to capture. And then, afterward, they seem to spend the rest of their time in Lightroom obsessing over every pixel.pixel.

The artists here are different. They’re more like painters, I think. They (rightly) see the images themselves as only a start-ing point. A place to begin. They want them to be good, sure, and they want them to mean some-thing. But what matters more is the end result: the composition, bringing an array of images to-gether onto one canvas … in just such a way that something extraor-dinary can happen.

Might have begun with a camera. Any camera.

But that hardly seems to matter.

Because in the end, it’s the ART that counts.

- Sebastian

Doris Seybold(Austria)

The King

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Carol Ann Lang(USA)

Descending

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Sue Masterson(Australia)

http://www.sue-masterson.pixels.com/Oasis

Marzy 3

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Paula D Powers(USA)

Princess Ada and Ayla

Eyes Wide Open

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Steve Morovek Photography(Canada)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/stevemorovek/albums/72157645363660527

Julia's Way 9

Maria Minogue Karlsson(Sweden)

Bird Girl

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Rosemary S Smith(Australia)

http://www.5-rosemary-smith.pixels.com/

Child of the Forest

Zen Woman

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Janine van Holthe(The Netherlands)

Waiting and Thinking

A Place

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Siegart von Schlichting(Germany)

http://500px.com/siegartFlora 13

Cheryl Stiefvater(Canada)

The Angel

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Jeffrey Stoner(USA)

http://www.jeffreystonerphotography.com/

Clock Watcher

William M. Thomson(USA)

Afternoon at Versailles

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Billa Bozem(Germany)

Abdellatif

Najuk

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Caroline Julia Moore(UK)

http://carolinejuliamoore.com/

When The Night Possesses Everything

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Soumaya Schnur(USA / Morocco)

En Vogue

Beauty 18

Matt Shalvatis(Ukraine)

http://www.mattcreate.com/

Mariinsky Dreamscape

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Bronwyn Kenmir(Australia)

http://www.smiletime.photography/

Deceptive Refuge

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SaijaKristina(Finland)

https://www.facebook.com/SaijaKristinaDigitalArtist

Kris

Kelly

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Bob Rude(USA)

Fruit Basket

Mystery in the Forest

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Ann Wehner(Australia)

Wishing on a Star

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Susan Pulaski(USA)

Broken

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Catherine King(USA)

http://www.ckingfineart.com/

Luminous

SleepingBeauty

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Michele McCain(USA)

http://mccainimages.com/

The Girl in the Yellow Dress

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Beverly Everson (USA)

http://www.eversonphotography.com/

The Collector

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Johanna Goudsblom(New Zealand)

Letting Go

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Jean Hutter(USA)

http://www.jeanmhutter.com/

Eyes Closed To The Chaos Around You

Eyes Closed To The Coming Storm 29

Ray Kingsbury(USA)

http://www.rk2studio.com/

Sailors Beacon

Solitude

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The Angel At My Bedside

“ When I awoke to the Photo-Artistic Life, it was the biggest, baddest,most crazy-wonderful ah-ha moment I've had as an artist. It was inthat moment I finally found my real self and my artistic purpose. ”

Featured Artist

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Primavera

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Rara Avis

“ I am addicted to the zen of the creativeprocess, that magical and mysterious

moment when artist and creation cometogether. It’s a lot like falling in love. ”

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An Angel Calls

“ Lately I seem to gravitate toward portraits of women. I’malways looking to conjure up that Rare Bird — the one with

pluck and panache ... And maybe I can make her real, on paper,for someone else to fall in love with. But if not, that’s okay too,

because I’m still smitten every time. ”34

http://www.facebook.com/Jo.Wilmot.Artist

First Frost

Past LifeRevelation

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WayneToTheMax(USA)

http://www.waynetothemax.com/

Balance

Left Behind

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BRosenleaf(USA)

http://brosenleaf.com/

Floral Series - #3

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Cindy Vondran(USA)

http://facebook.com/CindyVondranPhotography

*Model image courtesy of The Colby Files

Silent Banshee

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Charlene Maginn(Canada)

Giraffe Lady

Finding Myself

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Lou Ann Goodrich(USA)

http://louanngoodrich-photoartist.com/

Dive

Playing withDragons

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Michelle Mondragon(USA)

http://mondragonphotoanddesign.com/

Alamosa

Canyon No1 Canyon No241

Judi Lapsley Miller(New Zealand)

http://jlm.myportfolio.com/ When I Sing My Heart Ascends

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Denise McNickle(USA)

Breaking Through Depression

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Nicole Wilde(USA)

http://www.nicolewildephotography.com/

The Ethereal Egret

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David Walker(UK)

http://vista-foto.com/

Loch Maree, Scotland

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Joan Stokes(Canada)

Peace

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Julie Mead (USA)

http://www.e-scapeandscrap.com/Jemma Rains

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Colleen Edwards(Canada)

Own Kind of Beautiful48

Dan Lavery(Canada)

http://danlaverydigitalphotoartist.com/

Treasured Memory

PermanentlyDocked

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Tim Palmer(USA)

http://www.timpalmerphotography.com/Bars

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Jennifer Hunter(USA)

Vortex

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Susan Crosby(USA)

The Aftermath

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Kristin Couch(Sweden)

http://www.kcfotos.se/

Happy happy

Magic

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Ashby Presley(USA)

http://www.ash3photography.com/

Bridge Over Tranquil Waters

The Alley Way

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Mary Knaggs(Australia)

The Guardian

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Sherri Reed(USA)

http://www.sherrireedstudios.com/

Fountaingrove

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Tony Stephenson(Australia)

http://tonystephenson.photoshelter.com/

Hayley

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Charles Ragucci(USA)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/charlesragucci/

Cracked Up

Woman with Urn

Look IntoMy Eyes

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Laurie Baker(USA)

Roses in Oil

Only for a Rose

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Amy Ecenbarger(USA)

The Headline

The Painting

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Roxi Hardegree(USA)

http://roxihardegree.com/

Gemini

Beauty

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Nancy Brizendine (USA) http://www.facebook.com/nbrizphotoartPretty in Pink

BlueMoon

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ALBaMass(Australia)

Pretty Bird

SheMovesMe

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Dennis Carson(USA)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/carsonations

The Liquor Cabinet

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Michael Strevens(UK)

http://www.mikstyx.com/

Wood Nymph

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Barbara Case(USA)

http://www.barbaracasephotos.com/

Painted Roses

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Bev Holoboff(Canada)

http://bevholoboffphotography.smugmug.com/

Storm WatchTug’N

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Guido Schulte (Germany) http://signthetimes.de/Liquid Flower69

Michelle Joy Giaimo(USA)

Awakening 2

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Ingrid Pomeroy(USA)

Through Her Eyes

At Nightfall

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Cindy Collier Harris(USA)

http://creativearts.artistwebsites.com/

BlackSwan

The Cellist Vivace

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Andy Dench(Canada)

http://andy-dench.pixels.com/

The DarknessWithin

Wild, Happy, & Free

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Diana Boyd(USA)

http://diana-boyd.pixels.com/

Once Upona Time

Cheetah

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Janice Batterbee (Spain)

RitesofSpring

Lacy in the Sky with Almonds

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Viktor Doro(Germany)

The POWER of CREATIVE FLOW

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Sandi TerrySugarbushStudio(USA)

Botanical Study #1

Botanical Study #2

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Barry Rosenfeld(USA)

http://theartographer.net/

New Hope Lunch

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Marianne van Arnhem(The Netherlands)

Marvelous

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Julia Mae Thies(USA)

http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/julie-thies.html

Fiery Femme

Floral Door

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Deborah Pugh(UK)

Aphrodite Reborn

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Patricia Mariano(USA)

King Kong Park

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Ken Brakefield(USA)

http://www.kennethbrakefield.net/

Street Life

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Margot Ashley(USA)

The African

Reflection

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Viv Buckley(Ireland)

http://www.vivbuckley.com/

Tea Time

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Rebecah Thompson(USA)

http://www.rebecahthompson.com/

Red Chairs

Urban Pelican

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Dianne Carey(USA)

Breaking Apart

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Inna Malostovker(USA)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/49090396@N02/

Alien Planet in Purple

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Andrei Tallent (USA) http://decemberorigami.com/

Final Escape

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Terry Fleckney (Canada)

http://terry-fleckney.pixels.com/

Lost Innocence

Plant YourOwn Garden

90

Laura Lipke(USA)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/lauralipke/

Golden Memories

91

Shelly Erwich(Canada)

Amelia Dream

92

Trish Hoskin(Australia)

http://trish6150.wix.com/trishhphotography

Ancient Secrets

Rosamundeand Isabella

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Joanne Caruth(USA)

Brooklyn Overview

94

Sharon Rankmore(Australia)

Secrets95

Louisa Hickman(USA)

Photography

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Ilene Sokol(USA)

Dragonfly In Bloom

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CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS

Designer DigitalsKatiePertiet

http://www.katiepertiet.com/

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Jen Maddocks of ScrapbookGraphics

http://jenmaddocks.com

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Caroline Julia Moore

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/CarolineJuliaMoore

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Foxey SquirrelTeddiRutschmanhttp://www.foxeysquirrel.com

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Amanda Rockwellhttp://www.brushworkshop.com

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Tangie Baxter & Rebecca McMeen

http://shoptangiebaxter.com

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2 Lil’ Owls StudioDeniseLove

http://2lilowls.com

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http://www.on-a-whimsical-adventure.com

Anja De Dobbelaere

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Janine van Holthehttp://jvanholthe.wix.com/janinevanholthe

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Anna Aspneswww.annaaspnesdesigns.com

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