Okay, so it’s actually second place, but for me it is the highest award an individual piece (or a series for that matter) has achieved to date. I was surprised to find I was one of seven prize winners on Tuesday and never expected to receive more than an honorable mention. To be honest I’m still a little stunned.
I’m especially pleased because the trend, rightly, is that photos that win contests are usually of a journalistic nature or political, and one can argue that this is appropriate given that we need to document the important happenings in our world. My work is purely artistic and so a bit of a luxury creatively, but as a couple of friends have reminded me sometimes we need art for art’s sake. Sometimes we need calming and pretty images. Many have said they find “Into Dreamtime” peaceful and soothing. Maybe it’s an ideal second image to look at after all the politics and turmoil of the year.

Yesterday I spent 8 hours at Arcosanti for a photography workshop. If you’ve never been it’s about an hour north of Phoenix and I recommend taking one of the tours, especially if you like architecture. 

I’m not really an architecture photographer and we had very little time with the perfect light, but I whipped up a few decent little shots from the surroundings.

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Another throwback, this time to the first group shoot I organized. It was based on “The Crow: City of Angels” (yes, I know the FIRST one is the best, no question, but I like many elements of the second one)

https://mrpvisionaries.com/day-of-the-dead/

Yes, I know it’s not Thursday, but I’m thinking it NOW : P

These are some of the photos I made from Scorpius’s “Vampire” in 2018. Sadly, they aren’t able to perform the annual show this year, but once they’re able to perform again you should definitely go see them; they are AMAZING to watch and some really neat people.

https://mrpvisionaries.com/scorpius-vampire/

This beauty is the latest from the underwater series to be accepted to a gallery. This time it’s off to Kentucky.

I went to another meetup tonight and as if often the case there were more peeps with cameras than subjects for said camera peeps. But I managed to snitch this young lady away for two quick photos with which I’m rather pleased. Plus I got out of the house which we homebody types must do on occasion.

I recently had a photo in the Praxis Gallery Show “Making Strange.”

Ironically it was probably the least strange of the images I submitted.

A few more digital appearances around the world courtesy of GuruShots.

Last night I did my first photographer / model meetup in a couple years (and first one solo). I had some deadlines at home, but I stayed about 70 minutes and got to photograph three models. I’m rather pleased with the results; with Covid I haven’t been able to do too many portraits.

I received notice yesterday that I’m a “gold winner” at the PX3 – Prix de la Photographie Paris annual contest for some of the photos from the ongoing family project (which sadly will have a gap this year, much like all our lives). This is the highest international award I’ve received to this point. I’d received an honorable mention for photos from this contest back in 2016 (though i didn’t realize it until sometime in the last year or so).

Thank you to all the families that share of their time and each other.