This week the online Accent Gallery released the winners of their “Black & White” show and I’m pleased-ish that my two entries were finalists. I’d have been more pleased if they won, but c’est la vie (speaking of accents).

You can see the real winners and the rest of the finalists here.

Sometimes you make photos that aren’t perfect…

Sometimes it’s all you can manage to get the subjects to stay still…

Sometimes you can’t get the Photoshopping quite perfect…

And yet…it’ll be the most important photo to make that year.

Kudos to Jack, Charlie, and Ollie who mostly behaved and sat while I tried to get Rocky and Shadow to cooperate. Yes, these are composites, but not as many layers as you’d think thanks to those three.

Today the Phi International Photo Awards released their alphas, betas, and gammas…well, their choices for their winners anyway.

I’m pleased to announce that LA Sunset was awarded Third Place in the architecture subcategory Cityscapes.

“Dreamtime” also took various awards, and you can see that on the www.myq-art.com blog.

A year ago as if this writing we were wrapping up day 2 of 2 of shooting for The Android, an idea I conceived that may be the project that took the most work in a short period of time (vs a long project like “Dreamtime” which has been ongoing for years). It involved making a shot list, organizing people to help, buying and assembling cheap furniture, and generally going a little crazy all right before I went on a 2 week trip to Hawaii.

I actually finish the edits months ago but kept forgetting to post it, and the anniversary of its shooting seemed like an ideal time to get on it.

So, without further ado…please study The Android

Quoi?

The end of December seems a silly time to experience the end of Summer…unless you’re “down under” I guess (that’s Australia to you), so fair play?

Anyway, the online Lioncourt Gallery unveiled their show about a month ago (I’ve been in India so just now catching up on posting things).

Two of my submitted images were accepted and you can see them and the rest of the gallery here.

Stay cool!

Not likely, but people are animals too, especially children, those little…

ANYway…the Wild Heart Gallery let out not only the dogs but all the other animals in their 4th Annual Animal Portrait show (online). They selected a best of show, an overall runner up, two specialty awards, honorable mentions, finalists, and “selected.” My cape buffalo and his bird friend received one of the honorable mentions. It’s always especially nice to get recognition for a genre in which I spend little time.

You can see the entire show here.

Today, December 11, I received the results of this year’s Spider Awards. This particular contest is one that draws a lot of excellent work from all over the world and consequently the competition is a rather difficult one in which to place. At at the same time some of the choices or exclusions by the jury baffle me, but that’s art…not everyone likes the same pictures.

My main blog post for this is on the http://www.myq-art.com page, but three of the images are more suited for that page.
But “Imp in the Evening” seems more suited to this site so I’m sharing it here.

“Imp in the Evening” – Nominee in “Children of the World.”

I actually prefer the color version, but the Spider Awards are black and white.

On November 14th the Motif Collective revealed their show of architecture photography and my “LA Sunset” was included in the online gallery. This photo is one of my favorites and one of my best outside of my usual work.

Another trip around the sun accomplished so it must be time for an annual selfie of some kind. This one was inspired by actually two days before feeling like I wanted to pull my flesh off myself. It’s been an ongoing battle for a long time which is only become more and more into focus between what in the faith we call the old man and the new, not old as in oh wow I’m old, but old as in before baptism and the renewal of water. But sometimes the old man doesn’t wanna die, and we’ll fight fist tooth, and nailed to continue to exist. This image was made to try encapsulate that feeling.

The Prix de la Photographie Paris 2025 (PX3) award winners were announced this week.
I’m pleased to share that “An American Addiction” received another honorable mention from this block of international awards (PX3, Tifa, Bifa, and IFA are all from the same sponsor I think).

You can see all the winners here.