Published work

For those of you who have viewed my blog in the past, you have seen this piece before, it's Nancy's bead embroidered necklace Dryad.  This piece was selected as a finalist for the 2010 Bead and Button Bead Dreams competition, and while it did not place in the "winners circle" it was quite an honor for us to see it get so far.  After Dryad returned from the show it            spent some time in the Sharon Arts Center as part of Nancy's featured artist exhibit, and returned later in the year as part of the Members' Artists show.  It was also on display for a couple of months in Keene New Hampshire at New England Beads.  Life has been a lot quieter for Dryad this past year, with one exception;  she came out of her private storage container to be photographed for a book.  That book, Beaded Fantasies by Sabine Lippert, was recently published and our copy arrived this afternoon.  Dryad was joined by Nancy's Regal bracelet and earring combination, and both can be found on page 136 of the book. Needless to say I am exceedingly proud on Nancy and her work.   

Oh yes Nancy would be upset with me for not mentioning the photo credit I received.

You can find the book at Amazon.com click on the link below to go directly to the book

Beaded Fantasies by Sabine Lippert

The photograph of Dryad was shot with the following settings

ISO 200 f/10  1/100th of a second 70mm lens  Studio lighting condition

Nancy's Necklace and Earring Set: Juliet

A stunning and sophisticated piece!!!

ISO 200 f/9 1/160th of a second  150mm lens under studio lighting conditions

Empress Necklace and Macro photography

ISO 200 f/16  1/160th of a second  150 Lens 

Studio Lighting conditions

ISO 200 f/16 1/160th of a second 90mm Macro Lens

Studio Lighting Condition

Enlarged version of the photograph above

This afternoon Nancy completed her new necklace, "Empress" and I was able to photograph it this evening.  I very much enjoy photographing Nancy's work and one of my favorite lens to use for this task is a 90mm Tamron manual focus macro lens.  The second shot was done with that lens and then I cropped and enlarge to get the third photograph.  No photoshop necessary when you have a lens that is as crisp as the macro lens tends to be.  

Nancy's necklace "Regency"

Yesterday Nancy received word that "Regency" will be 

included in a book to be published by Lark Books in of August 2012 titled "Showcase 500 beaded jewelry".  

ISO 200  f/8 1/60th of a second  75mm lens 

studio lighting conditions

The photograph above along with three others that I shot for

 another beads artist will be published in this book

  

Along the Road: Neither snow nor sleet nor dark of night

ISO 12800 f/14 1/4000th of a second  150mm lens

Snow in the trees

ISO 12800 f/13 1/2500th of a second 150mm lens

Snow on the roof

ISO 200 f/5.0 1/250th of a second  20mm lens

Sugar Plums

Nancy's purse design; "Sugar Plum"

ISO 200 f/14 1/125th of a second 100mm lens under studio lighting conditions

"Refuge"

ISO 200 f/4 1/60th of a second  100 mm lens under studio lighting conditions

This truly amazing piece titled "Refuge" created by Linda L. Jones a wonderful artist and friend she gifted this to Nancy a couple of weeks ago she asked me to photograph it for her, I only hope that I did it justice. It currently hangs in our home in a place where Nancy and I both can look at it every day.  

Ms. Sydney Belle

ISO 400 40mm lens f/8 @ 1/125th of a second shutter  lighting supplemented by a camera top mounted Sunpak Flash unit.

Sydney is our Chow Chow, she is not a fan of photography and it is not easy to get a photograph of her but every once in a while you get lucky 

Nancy's necklace 10/2011

This is Nancy's newest necklace creation that has yet to be named, I shot it under studio lighting condition with a 100mm Macro Lens.

ISO 200 f/18  1/125th of a second  100mm Macro Lens

Teddy Bear

From my iPhone 

Nikki Bean

ISO 1000 f/2.5  1/15th of a second 38mm lens  existing light from a table lamp 

In The Glass

ISO 200 f/11 1/125th of a second  100mm Macro Lens  Studio Lighting Conditions

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ISO 200 f/11 1/125th of a second 100mm Macro Lens 

Along the Road: In the Rain

I like taking black and white photographs, while color gives you a "real life" perspective, there is nothing quite like the power this scene represents when displayed in this format.

The color image of this same photograph is below so that you can see what I mean.

ISO 400 f/11 1/80th of a second 40mm lens