Variations on the Forest

I wanted to pop in today to tell you about a few great iPhone photography resources that are free for a limited time. All of the Mobile Photo Interactive eBooks from Dan Marcolina are available FREE in the AppStore until August 1. These include edit recipes and app tutorials by some amazing mobile artists. I go to these apps when I’m in need of a little inspiration.

Don’t miss out! Here’s the list:
Mobile Masters (iPad Only)
Mobile Masters Second Edition (iPad Only)
AppAlchemy (iPad Only)
AppAlchemy Pocket (All iOS devices)
iObsessed Companion (iPad Only)

Personally, I am more in need of TIME than inspiration lately. I’ve had more early morning meetings for work which eats into my hiking and creating time.

Ah, well. That’s the challenge of balancing an artistic practice with a corporate career. At least when I have time to create, I’m making work I love! This is the latest in my Variations on the Forest series, called Invitation.

You are invited to join me in the forest, any morning I can get out there!

There is a time in the creative process when you need to protect your work, let it develop and form in a safe place. And there is a time in the creative process to gather feedback and other points of view, opening your work up for a constructive critique.

My latest body of work, which I’m calling “Variations on the Forest,” is ready for critique. Usually a critique is something I request from trusted sources, in private. But this time, as I prepared a sampling of images for an upcoming PhotoArts Guild Critique Night, I thought I would share them here and invite your feedback and discussion as well. Why not? This blog is a place for work in progress as much as finished concepts.

The work shown here is a sampling of images created in this series over the last two years. As in all of my portfolios, I didn’t develop a concept first and then create the work. It evolved as a response to what I do and what I see as I move through my life, in this case my regular morning hikes. There are some common elements I’m seeking in order to include an image in the body of work, but rather than define them for you I’d like to get your words.

Here are a few prompt questions, to get the conversation started: