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Happy New Year!
Looking forward to a great new year of new ideas and creative endeavors. The diptych two-panel piece shown here is my latest completed artwork. It is installed in a beautiful new home high on a hill.
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...
Wintry Landscape
Wintry Landscape Columbia Gorge...wild wintry landscape Seems like a painting in which to escape Snow lined trees and crystalline waterfalls Deep chasms etch canyon cathedrals Blue grey ice icicles hang like jewels Or as dangerous daggers or tools Snowy white, black, taupe and grey Ravens plying skies and birds of prey Watch a cold river closely for fish To catch mighty salmon is their wish A lone blue heron sits by the shore Hoping this still backwater offers more Craggy oak trees lend cover for rest To small creatures in burrows and nests Big horn sheep tracks in cold...
Imagination
"It is the imagination of the photographer that creates rich complexities for our interpretation which, in turn, take us beyond the visual recognition of what is depicted in the picture".
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.