Over time, our images become part of several competitions. During the year, we work with a single judge processing camera club digital entries. At the end of the ELCC Club year, Members choose prints and digital images in several categories. In the summer, printed entries are entered in a juried competition at State Fair level.
When selected images receive judge’s critical acclaim, they appear briefly in our Awards Category.
In the past, our website has been an early indication of individual image popularity and critical acclaim. Much of this acclaim comes from Smugmug and its band of happy photographers! To celebrate that acclaim, we share our Awards…
When selected images receive judge’s critical acclaim, they appear briefly in our Awards Category.
In the past, our website has been an early indication of individual image popularity and critical acclaim. Much of this acclaim comes from Smugmug and its band of happy photographers! To celebrate that acclaim, we share our Awards…
Bisti Badlands
One autumn mid-afternoon, my path branched and I began a new road. As I look back now, it's very reminiscent of Robert Frost's immortal lines,
"Two roads diverged in the woods,
And I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that
...has made all the difference!"
A point-and-shoot camera, mid-afternoon, a gorgeous Bisti Badlands hoodoo, and the luck of the Irish ~ these components would make such a tremendous difference.
A hoodoo is created when erosion removes a soft shale underpinning from a delicate, yet stronger sandstone cap.
At first, with an eye level near 6 feet, I could only see the hoodoo and the faraway background, just not together. I moved around it several times, staring at it, wondering, "What's the best way to shoot this thing?"
Finally, I realized, "Why don't you just lie down and shoot that delicate Hoodoo's tip above those incredibly dramatic Red Dog Hills in the background?"
So, shot number 0890 zipped to the flash card... A year later, I would enter this JPEG image in the 5th Annual Photo Contest for the New Mexico Magazine.
One day, a friend walked in with the most recent New Mexico Magazine and pitched it on the table.
"Look at this...!"
I picked up the magazine, looked at the cover, then thought "I've seen this picture before."
Seeing my uncomprehending look, excitement rampant in her voice, she said, "It's your picture!"
Dumbfounded, I looked on page 3. It said something to the effect 'Out of a thousand photos submitted to the contest, they chose Bisti Badlands for their January, 2006, Cover...'
The Bisti Badlands is a small, hidden jewel inset in the Four Corners Country, land of the ancient Anasazi, south of Farmington, NM. Once site for shoreline of an inland sea, dinosaurs and rain forests inhabited this country millions of years ago.
Now, the Bisti is a wilderness, capturing various surreal art forms from the Creator's imaginative hand. One out of every five visitors is international. A superb photographer, recently trekking with me in the Bisti, said, "There's just no way I could've found everything you've shown me, if I were by myself here for just three days!"
The Bisti became my photographic laboratory. Starting from a point-and-shoot with hand-held shots, I'm now in a professional 14 bit DSLR with better lenses and a panoramic head on a tripod.
Instead of shooting just daytime shots, I've graduated to much more complicated Moonrise shots at sundown, with Bisti Hoodoos carving spectacular epitaphs in difficult, multiple f-stop, bracketed images, and High Dynamic Range (HDR). And I've move onward from Photoshop Elements 3 to CS3.
And, on another road...
I'm now leading sponsored tours for digital photographers into the ancient Anasazi ruins of the Four Corners area, SW United States. You learn how to shoot, whats the best CS3 workflow, and allow your imagination to run with HDR... Check out the Anasazi Adventures section at BistiArt.smugmug.com.
So, I think you can now more clearly see Frost's paraphrased immortal lines
"I took the road less traveled,
And that
...has made all the difference!"
©2004-2008, Images and Text, Chopawamsic LLC, All Rights Reserved
One autumn mid-afternoon, my path branched and I began a new road. As I look back now, it's very reminiscent of Robert Frost's immortal lines,
"Two roads diverged in the woods,
And I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that
...has made all the difference!"
A point-and-shoot camera, mid-afternoon, a gorgeous Bisti Badlands hoodoo, and the luck of the Irish ~ these components would make such a tremendous difference.
A hoodoo is created when erosion removes a soft shale underpinning from a delicate, yet stronger sandstone cap.
At first, with an eye level near 6 feet, I could only see the hoodoo and the faraway background, just not together. I moved around it several times, staring at it, wondering, "What's the best way to shoot this thing?"
Finally, I realized, "Why don't you just lie down and shoot that delicate Hoodoo's tip above those incredibly dramatic Red Dog Hills in the background?"
So, shot number 0890 zipped to the flash card... A year later, I would enter this JPEG image in the 5th Annual Photo Contest for the New Mexico Magazine.
One day, a friend walked in with the most recent New Mexico Magazine and pitched it on the table.
"Look at this...!"
I picked up the magazine, looked at the cover, then thought "I've seen this picture before."
Seeing my uncomprehending look, excitement rampant in her voice, she said, "It's your picture!"
Dumbfounded, I looked on page 3. It said something to the effect 'Out of a thousand photos submitted to the contest, they chose Bisti Badlands for their January, 2006, Cover...'
The Bisti Badlands is a small, hidden jewel inset in the Four Corners Country, land of the ancient Anasazi, south of Farmington, NM. Once site for shoreline of an inland sea, dinosaurs and rain forests inhabited this country millions of years ago.
Now, the Bisti is a wilderness, capturing various surreal art forms from the Creator's imaginative hand. One out of every five visitors is international. A superb photographer, recently trekking with me in the Bisti, said, "There's just no way I could've found everything you've shown me, if I were by myself here for just three days!"
The Bisti became my photographic laboratory. Starting from a point-and-shoot with hand-held shots, I'm now in a professional 14 bit DSLR with better lenses and a panoramic head on a tripod.
Instead of shooting just daytime shots, I've graduated to much more complicated Moonrise shots at sundown, with Bisti Hoodoos carving spectacular epitaphs in difficult, multiple f-stop, bracketed images, and High Dynamic Range (HDR). And I've move onward from Photoshop Elements 3 to CS3.
And, on another road...
I'm now leading sponsored tours for digital photographers into the ancient Anasazi ruins of the Four Corners area, SW United States. You learn how to shoot, whats the best CS3 workflow, and allow your imagination to run with HDR... Check out the Anasazi Adventures section at BistiArt.smugmug.com.
So, I think you can now more clearly see Frost's paraphrased immortal lines
"I took the road less traveled,
And that
...has made all the difference!"
©2004-2008, Images and Text, Chopawamsic LLC, All Rights Reserved
Bisti Badlands
One autumn mid-afternoon, my path branched and I began a new road. As I look back now, it's very reminiscent of Robert Frost's immortal lines,
"Two roads diverged in the woods,
And I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that
...has made all the difference!"
A point-and-shoot camera, mid-afternoon, a gorgeous Bisti Badlands hoodoo, and the luck of the Irish ~ these components would make such a tremendous difference.
A hoodoo is created when erosion removes a soft shale underpinning from a delicate, yet stronger sandstone cap.
At first, with an eye level near 6 feet, I could only see the hoodoo and the faraway background, just not together. I moved around it several times, staring at it, wondering, "What's the best way to shoot this thing?"
Finally, I realized, "Why don't you just lie down and shoot that delicate Hoodoo's tip above those incredibly dramatic Red Dog Hills in the background?"
So, shot number 0890 zipped to the flash card... A year later, I would enter this JPEG image in the 5th Annual Photo Contest for the New Mexico Magazine.
One day, a friend walked in with the most recent New Mexico Magazine and pitched it on the table.
"Look at this...!"
I picked up the magazine, looked at the cover, then thought "I've seen this picture before."
Seeing my uncomprehending look, excitement rampant in her voice, she said, "It's your picture!"
Dumbfounded, I looked on page 3. It said something to the effect 'Out of a thousand photos submitted to the contest, they chose Bisti Badlands for their January, 2006, Cover...'
The Bisti Badlands is a small, hidden jewel inset in the Four Corners Country, land of the ancient Anasazi, south of Farmington, NM. Once site for shoreline of an inland sea, dinosaurs and rain forests inhabited this country millions of years ago.
Now, the Bisti is a wilderness, capturing various surreal art forms from the Creator's imaginative hand. One out of every five visitors is international. A superb photographer, recently trekking with me in the Bisti, said, "There's just no way I could've found everything you've shown me, if I were by myself here for just three days!"
The Bisti became my photographic laboratory. Starting from a point-and-shoot with hand-held shots, I'm now in a professional 14 bit DSLR with better lenses and a panoramic head on a tripod.
Instead of shooting just daytime shots, I've graduated to much more complicated Moonrise shots at sundown, with Bisti Hoodoos carving spectacular epitaphs in difficult, multiple f-stop, bracketed images, and High Dynamic Range (HDR). And I've move onward from Photoshop Elements 3 to CS3.
And, on another road...
I'm now leading sponsored tours for digital photographers into the ancient Anasazi ruins of the Four Corners area, SW United States. You learn how to shoot, whats the best CS3 workflow, and allow your imagination to run with HDR... Check out the Anasazi Adventures section at BistiArt.smugmug.com.
So, I think you can now more clearly see Frost's paraphrased immortal lines
"I took the road less traveled,
And that
...has made all the difference!"
©2004-2008, Images and Text, Chopawamsic LLC, All Rights Reserved
One autumn mid-afternoon, my path branched and I began a new road. As I look back now, it's very reminiscent of Robert Frost's immortal lines,
"Two roads diverged in the woods,
And I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that
...has made all the difference!"
A point-and-shoot camera, mid-afternoon, a gorgeous Bisti Badlands hoodoo, and the luck of the Irish ~ these components would make such a tremendous difference.
A hoodoo is created when erosion removes a soft shale underpinning from a delicate, yet stronger sandstone cap.
At first, with an eye level near 6 feet, I could only see the hoodoo and the faraway background, just not together. I moved around it several times, staring at it, wondering, "What's the best way to shoot this thing?"
Finally, I realized, "Why don't you just lie down and shoot that delicate Hoodoo's tip above those incredibly dramatic Red Dog Hills in the background?"
So, shot number 0890 zipped to the flash card... A year later, I would enter this JPEG image in the 5th Annual Photo Contest for the New Mexico Magazine.
One day, a friend walked in with the most recent New Mexico Magazine and pitched it on the table.
"Look at this...!"
I picked up the magazine, looked at the cover, then thought "I've seen this picture before."
Seeing my uncomprehending look, excitement rampant in her voice, she said, "It's your picture!"
Dumbfounded, I looked on page 3. It said something to the effect 'Out of a thousand photos submitted to the contest, they chose Bisti Badlands for their January, 2006, Cover...'
The Bisti Badlands is a small, hidden jewel inset in the Four Corners Country, land of the ancient Anasazi, south of Farmington, NM. Once site for shoreline of an inland sea, dinosaurs and rain forests inhabited this country millions of years ago.
Now, the Bisti is a wilderness, capturing various surreal art forms from the Creator's imaginative hand. One out of every five visitors is international. A superb photographer, recently trekking with me in the Bisti, said, "There's just no way I could've found everything you've shown me, if I were by myself here for just three days!"
The Bisti became my photographic laboratory. Starting from a point-and-shoot with hand-held shots, I'm now in a professional 14 bit DSLR with better lenses and a panoramic head on a tripod.
Instead of shooting just daytime shots, I've graduated to much more complicated Moonrise shots at sundown, with Bisti Hoodoos carving spectacular epitaphs in difficult, multiple f-stop, bracketed images, and High Dynamic Range (HDR). And I've move onward from Photoshop Elements 3 to CS3.
And, on another road...
I'm now leading sponsored tours for digital photographers into the ancient Anasazi ruins of the Four Corners area, SW United States. You learn how to shoot, whats the best CS3 workflow, and allow your imagination to run with HDR... Check out the Anasazi Adventures section at BistiArt.smugmug.com.
So, I think you can now more clearly see Frost's paraphrased immortal lines
"I took the road less traveled,
And that
...has made all the difference!"
©2004-2008, Images and Text, Chopawamsic LLC, All Rights Reserved