Seedplanter’s Porch

I’ve been anticipating Spring for months. I could almost smell the sunshine-warmed earth even when snow still frosted our valley and March mornings welcomed us with icy windshields. Sometime during my bout with the flu, Winter danced away and Spring settled into my backyard.

In celebration of Spring, I’ve updated a lens that showcases some of my favorite nature photos. My Zazzle Gallery Showcase is so much more than a lens about a Squidoo-Zazzle connection. It’s a snapshot of my passionate love for nature photography, and a call to take a closer look at your own little corner of the world. I chose samples of my photomontage work to whet your appetite for the outdoors, and to share how photography isn’t just photography anymore. For every photo, there’s the possibility of making art beyond the snap of a shutter.

Enjoy my new collection of art…and get out there and enjoy the beauty of Spring for yourself!

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I don’t have a trained eye in critiquing art, but I do know what I like. I know what pulls an emotional response. Sometimes the response is negative, and other times it makes me want to see more.

This week I completed a lens that began when I ran across an unusual art form online. I’m admittedly behind the curve when it comes to the latest, greatest anything in the art world, but let me just say that this woman captured my attention and sent me off in a flurry of researching to find whether others were doing what she has done.

Have you heard of Altered Books? I hadn’t. They’re not scrapbooks and they’re not dressed-up journals. They’re actually a form of recycling that becomes art when someone like Karen Hatzigeorgiou steps in. Check out her altered books and also the amazing wall hangings she makes from paper sculpting used books. I’ll never step into a used bookstore again without thinking of her.

Artists with Pizzazz! focuses on three artists, each unique and remarkable in their own right, who crossed my radar this week. My Art Appreciation professor from college days would be proud of me for noticing.

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Image by Santa Claus…!!! via Flickr