Chihuly Exhibition at the Halcyon Gallery which includes the Sunset Boat.

I've been following Dale Chihuly's work for almost 7 years and he keeps surprising me.
Chihuly is renowned for his ambitious architectural installations around the world in historic cities, museums and gardens. He also has some work at the Botanical Gardens here in St. Louis. www.chihulyworkshop.com

Chihuly May 2014 Exhibition at the Arthur Roger Gallery. Photos taken by Michael Smith.

Chihuly May 2014 Exhibition at the Arthur Roger Gallery. Photos taken by Michael Smith.

Chihuly May 2014 Exhibition at the Arthur Roger Gallery. Photos taken by Michael Smith.

Chihuly May 2014 Exhibition at the Arthur Roger Gallery. Photos taken by Michael Smith.

Chihuly May 2014 Exhibition at the Arthur Roger Gallery. Photos taken by Michael Smith.

Chihuly May 2014 Exhibition at the Arthur Roger Gallery. Photos taken by Michael Smith.

Chihuly May 2014 Exhibition at the Arthur Roger Gallery. Photos taken by Michael Smith.

Chihuly May 2014 Exhibition at the Arthur Roger Gallery. Photos taken by Michael Smith.

Chihuly May 2014 Exhibition at the Arthur Roger Gallery. Photos taken by Michael Smith.

Colin Wayne

Logan and Lloyd Herford

These are by Pat Lee.  He takes a variety of photographs but usually focuses on professional fitness models and developing their portfolios.  www.patlee.net

Vivian Maier was as street photographer. She also took some self portraits that were a bit unusual because she stand in a reflective surface and it would usually show her in two places at once......sometimes many images of her like this one. It is one of my favorites.    http://www.vivianmaier.com/

Ethan Pines makes portraits with celebs and everyday people. He also photographs landscapes and other subjects of interest.  www.ethanpines.com

Dave Hill creates many different photographs for commercial use, the music scene and other mediums.
http://www.davehillphoto.com

Dan Winters has a Will Ferrell collection with some interesting videos too.
http://www.all-about-photo.com/photographer.php?name=Dan-Winters&id=484

This is typical of Hitch; Richard captures his humor perfectly.
Tippi Hedren and Alfred Hitchcock, The Birds, 1963 (Corbis Picture) from Mai Mano Haz blog
Taken by Richard Avedon  www.richardavedon.com

Damon Winter is a New York based staff photographer at the New York Times specializing in documentary, editorial and portrait photography. damonwinter.com

.
Damon Winter also displays some landscapes and other types of photographs.

Gary Randell is a facebook friend and I admire his approach to shooting landscapes (mostly in Washington, Oregon and Alaska). He takes as much time as he needs to photography the picture he wants and will camp, hike or endure extreme weather to get it.

I first encountered Nigel Barker's work on America's Next Top Model; he tends to be more mainstream but his photos have something special.

Mr. Eggleston's body of work gave me the understanding that you can photography anything and make it into whatever you want......simple or not.

Jill Greenberg captures Henry Cavill without his cape :)
She ads her unique style to her portraits. www.jillgreenberg.com



She also takes away some of the 'evil' from Michael Shannon's General Zod.

Kelli Connell has interesting concepts for multiple portraits.
www.kelliconnell.com

Sally Mann....................quite amazing.
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/sally-mann

Spring is here :)

Annie Liebovitz, what an inspiration to photographers and the like.
www.vanityfair.com/contributors/annie-leibovitz

From Tim Mantoani's book Behind the Photographs...........
Mark Seliger with his photo of Kurt Cobain that was on Rolling Stone 20 years ago.
http://www.mantoani.com/

Straight from south Texas; near my sister's house :)

I finally made it to the gallery to see the SCC photography display.
I enjoyed all them :)

  Happy St. Patrick's Day ;)

Finally, I captured one...................

I glad spring break starts soon.......then I can catch up on the movies I've been trying to see and use all the birthday free-bees :)

These are the photos submitted for the Art Walk/Coffeehouse event.

                                                              He will be missed.
                                                              http://tmto.es.1dqOSCn

Finally, I was able to visit this 'American Icon' at work a few weekends ago.

A huge icicle on a bush next to the porch.

This is Lexi last spring.

She really enjoys being outside.

Today, as I was driving home from school, I saw a hawk.  It was on the ground instead of perched high above the road; actually eating something.  That was beautiful, if only I could have captured it on film.