recent work

I've put a lot of new work on flickr recently, http://www.flickr.com/photos/frankfoto/sets/72157627225886772/

I'm going to have a show at the Ithaca Visitors Center in November! Time to start printing! And, I will have a picture in a mixed show at Moving Box Studios in the CSMA Building in October!

TWO ART EXHIBITS on the Ithaca Commons - May 2011

GVA Spring/Summer Exhibits

Mansour Jewelers - May 2011

Waffle Frolic - May and June 2011

 

New work - website updated!

Finally sat myself down and did a long overdue update of my yolasite over the past few days. I had accumulated too many photos that begged for processing, but there was always something else more pressing to attend to. No more! Being tired of the embarrassment of making endless inane excuses, I worked from morning till late into the night for several days and got the main part of the update behind me.

Of course there is much more to do - I still want to add some of the watercolor pages from my Book of Water to the painting section and do a proper photo of the male nude, but that will be another large project and of course there still is my long neglected blog. Ok, one step at a time - for now I am just so happy to have gotten this far! Go click on the headline of this post and take a look...

amazing local artist, CLICK HERE TO SEE

I met Nick Wednesday Evening at the Castaways Pants Party Art Bazaar! He is so talented, there are no words to express it! I am hoping to convince him to join us. The Art bazaar was a cataclysmic success. They will do it every month. Join us next time, it's free!

Iridescen Feather Hanging on the Wind

Scribbler is fuzzy

Yikes - seems to me I did better when I first found the scribbler years ago, did they change it? Probably me only...

Snowy Drive

An Attempt to load a Scribbler Scribble

!http://www.zefrank.com/scribbler/scribblertoo/!

Interesting links for GVA Photographers

Feeling guilty about my lack of participation recently, yet having nothing too creative to share yet I thought to share some interesting links I found recently. The first is a young photographer from Iowa whose website I found last night and whose photography has kept me up till all hours. He is a storm chaser, so he has some awesome lightning and super cell photos on his site you might want to check out, but he also is into bird photography and he really likes to shoot at night. So there are very beautiful photos of places like the Badlands in South Dakota or Yellowstone Park. Very inspiring and despite his obvious talent this young man says he does not know what to do with his life yet - seems he is doing just fine with what he is doing presently!

http://extremeinstability.com/imagesbyyear.htm

Next comes a couple of links to a useful free application which allows photographers to calculate when the best time is to get those wonderful sunrise and sunset pics. It gives you this information for any location in the world plus it also informs you of the extended period beyond sunrise and sunset where you can see the stars as well. There is also an app for cellphone available, but this one will cost you about 9 bucks.

http://www.digital-photography-school.com/it%E2%80%99s-all-about-the-light-the-photographer%E2%80%99s-ephemeris

http://photoephemeris.com/

First link is to a short article about this program and then follows the link for the download. Btw, the first link is pretty cool to check out for those of you who would like to learn more about digital photography. You can sign up for free and then you will receive weekly newsletter with all kinds of information about different techniques as well as challenges using these techniques which you can publish on their forum for exposure, inspiration and constructive criticism.

While I was writing this it occurred to me that I have not been entirely without any artistic output and while here I may as well share it. It is a little exercise in digital art using several photographs Photoshop Elements and Gimp. Hope you like it!