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Monthly Archive for September, 2008

The FotoFest organizers have announced the upcoming 2010 International Meeting Place Portfolio Review.  Fotofest is held in Houston Texas every two years. This is a great place for dedicated photographers to show their well-formed new series to top international & US curators, fine-art photography magazines, etc. The Portfolio review will occur in four sessions between [...]

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Mark Rothko’s 105th Birthday Today

Today is Mark Rothko’s birthday, September 25th.  It has been 105 years since he was born. Rothko’s work must be seen in person.  Little jpgs just are blocks of color, but his paintings are really so much more.  Rothko painted intimate paintings, that is why there were painted so large.  He once said that the [...]

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I just found out that I won two awards at the International Photography Awards (IPA) 2008. which had more than 22,000 participants from 124 countries.  I won two honorable mentions.  One for new images from my series “Layer(s) Inorganic” and one for a new series of images from “Tempus Incognitus”.  The awards were in two [...]

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We’ll start off this month with a bit of abstraction and then work our way into a variety of appropriations and repurposing. Also I’ve decided to post even more photos that aren’t in this main posting go to the very bottom and click read more to see those. On with it… Michael Knutson‘s paintings are [...]

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Vaux Swifts now in Portland Oregon

The Vaux Swifts have returned to Portland Oregon!  The 2008 seasons is building quickly.  There were about 1,000 or so birds at sunset on Labor Day.  Click below to see the video I took on September 1, 2008: Get the Flash Player to see this content. Chapman School in Northwest Portland can host up to [...]

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