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Mosier Turn
"Mosier Turn" "Grant passage to all who've dreamt of wanderlust then answer the call' ~ By LuAnn Ostergaard Available as a print to frame or as a ready-to-hang piece. Custom sizes to fit your space available! To purchase, please email me at luannostergaard@gmail.com. The prints are created in my studio using pigment inks on archival fine art paper. Each print has a 2" white border on all sides for framing purposes. Signed and numbered in the white margin. A certificate with edition number and other information is affixed to the back. The ready-to-hang box-mounted pieces are also created using the...
Juxtaposition
Juxtaposition is the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.This image, I think, shows this concept very well. I went out with my shooting partner Bill Leahy and we happened upon this area behind a large grain elevator and it produced many fine geometric shots for us that day.
Waxing Poetic
"Moon of White Light" "Oh moon of white light How will you shine tonight Waxing full and round Glowing light sky and ground A beacon you are To all those wide and far With eyes turned above Searching for luck and love” ~LuAnn Ostergaard © 2017 LuAnn Ostergaard
Looking for Landscapes in Rusty Metal
While I’m shooting I may see a hint of a landscape or cloud I plan to use later, but mostly I just shoot what looks interesting and know I will have ‘discovery’ later as I get them into the computer and see what I have. I do not change the color of an image, I just bring up the saturation and contrast and that usually reveals gorgeous color combinations and textures that I would never think of creating on my own. It’s magical and I feel a bit of alchemy as I transform an image of scrapyard castoffs to a...
Abstract Photography
"Ethereal Dream" An archival giclee print. Abstract photography, sometimes called non-objective, experimental, or conceptual photography, is a means of depicting a visual image that does not have an immediate association with the object world and that has been created through the use of photographic equipment, processes or materials. An abstract photograph may isolate a fragment of a natural scene in order to remove its inherent context from the viewer, it may be purposely staged to create a seemingly unreal appearance from real objects, or it may involve the use of color, light, shadow, texture, shape and/or form to convey a...