Buy my photos on Imagekind! Framed, Unframed or on Canvas.
Category: Art and Photography
Some of you have asked me if any of my prints are for sale, and now they finally are! I have set up an online art store with Imagekind where you can purchase my prints in various sizes - framed, unframed or on canvas. I have a gazillion other photos that I can sell, so if you see something else of mine, either in my MySpace gallery or Flickr gallery, feel free to let me know and I'll upload it to Imagekind for you.
I am also offering limited signed prints by request... again, let me know!
Imagekind is great because it allows you to choose your own desired framing, matting and paper types. I have tested it out myself and their giclee prints are of fantastic quality! So far I am very pleased with Imagekind.
I currently have 5 galleries: Nature, Scapes, Colorful, Black and White, and Rustic Beauty. Below I have posted scrolling banners of three of those galleries for you to peruse. The frames & matting you see are what I chose for the default framing, but they are easily customizable to suit your taste & decor!
If you are having trouble viewing the above scrolling banners please click the Imagekind banner to go to my art store:
Thank you & Enjoy!
~libby
Currently
listening
:
The Contino Sessions
By
Death in Vegas
Release date: 1999-09-14
So I'm going to try a new way of blogging here on MySpace. Honestly it just takes me too much time to post individual photos here, and it has been a deterrent to my blogging habits...
But I think I've said this before, I don't want to seemingly disappear off the face of the earth. so, I have found a cool way to link you directly to the selected photos I am blogging about... And you get to see them on black too.
Also, you can still hit your back button and leave comments on the MySpace post, or if you have a Flickr account you can click on the photo and leave a comment there. Feel free to add me as a contact while you're there!
Either way, I hope you enjoy my "Springtime in Raleigh" photos!
These photos were taken in mid March... about a month ago. It was beautiful weather, the early spring buds and blossoms were on display at the JC Raulston Arboretum in Raleigh, NC. I was also trying to recover from a being stuck indoors due to a severe head cold. So I spent a little time tip-toeing through the daffodils and magnolias with my camera... a pleasant day it was.
[photo] Published in Schmap Toronto Guide
Current mood: pleased
Category: Art and Photography
Not a big deal, but a still a nice way to start the new year...
First, I was short-listed:
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Hi Libby,
I am writing to let you know that one of your photos with a Creative Commons license has been short-listed for inclusion in the fourth edition of our Schmap Toronto Guide, to be published early January 2008. --
Then I approved the submission:
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Hi Libby,
I am delighted to let you know that your submitted photo has been selected for inclusion in the newly released fourth edition of our Schmap Toronto Guide:
I went to the North Carolina State Fair last weekend with my photog bud Jen. We both brought all our equipment - lenses, flashes, tripods... it was quite a lot to haul and made it tough to eat all the wonderfully, repulsive, indulgent fried foods (Jen catches me indulging here)... but we still got some great shots.
Here are some of my favs, which one's your fav? *You can see the entire set here on Flickr, enjoy!
History and Origin of Canadian Thanksgiving
Current mood: awake
Category: Blogging
To my Canadian friends... Happy Thanksgiving!
In Canada Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday in October. Unlike the American tradition of remembering Pilgrims and settling in the New World, Canadians give thanks for a successful harvest. The harvest season falls earlier in Canada compared to the United States due to the simple fact that Canada is further north.
The history of Thanksgiving in Canada goes back to an English explorer, Martin Frobisher, who had been trying to find a northern passage to the Orient. He did not succeed but he did establish a settlement in Northern America. In the year 1578, he held a formal ceremony, in what is now called Newfoundland, to give thanks for surviving the long journey. This is considered the first Canadian Thanksgiving. Other settlers arrived and continued these ceremonies. He was later knighted and had an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in northern Canada named after him - Frobisher Bay.
At the same time, French settlers, having crossed the ocean and arrived in Canada with explorer Samuel de Champlain, also held huge feasts of thanks. They even formed 'The Order of Good Cheer' and gladly shared their food with their Indian neighbours.
[photos] More antiquation - an old fishery plant
Category: Art and Photography
There's an old fishery plant on the Beaufort inlet that's shut down and getting ready to be torn down any day now... apparently the tearing down of the fisheries is becoming quite a common practice along that part of the coast to make way for new condo/community development.
But Mizz BRae and I got a chance last weekend to go explore it with our cameras in hand... lots of little nooks and crannies, lots of neat light, lots of rust and LOTS of mosquitoes!
Been going through some old photos I have been neglecting until now. These were all taken in Goldfield, Nevada (old Nevada) last April.
FYI, I'm now in Raleigh, NC and in MY own apartment so this is kind of a metaphoric 'goodbye' to my life in Nevada, where I was hopelessly displaced for the last 7 months. ------------ an·ti·quate
–verb (used with object), -quat·ed, -quat·ing. 1. to make obsolete, old-fashioned, or out of date by replacing with something newer or better ------------
Bruno loves lettuce. He begs for it like a dog begs for a bone.
When we come home from grocery shopping and lay the bags on the floor he immediately begins searching for the lettuce.
If you make a sandwich and take the lettuce out of the fridge he comes out of a deep sleep from the bedroom at the other end of the apartment because he hears, and I guess smells the lettuce!
I saw this highly respected (and murderous) black widow at the foot of my staircase this morning. She was still in her web finishing off breakfast before retreating from the hot sun underneath the step...
I wish I had a real macro lens! But then again, maybe getting too close isn't such a smart idea...
I love California! It has to be my favourite state. You can find so many different terrains and landscapes there from north to south and east mountain ranges to the west coast. Each city has it's own unique personality (see my previous San Fran photo blog as well). I wish I could live there but it's just too expensive for me right now (to live on the coast). In the mean time I'm close enough to take road trips and explore the state's glory.
Enjoy!
(Remember you can click on each image to get a larger view on Flickr...)
[Lake Shasta]
[Ocotillo in Joshua Tree National Park]
[Mono Lake, near Yosemite National Park]
[Bladder Sage. Joshua Tree National Park]
[Pier at Port of San Diego]
[Urban Flora. San Diego]
[Convexed. San Diego]
[Urban garden (horsetail). San Diego]
[San Diego architecture.]
[Urban Trees sculpture: Invasion of Time. Artist, Kate Witseipe. Port of San Diego]
[Tracks. San Diego]
[Urban Trees sculpture: Bonsai. Artist, David Boyer. Port of San Diego]
I took a billion photos in San Fran back in April, but my camera's sensor had some later discovered dust & dirt issues after a fall I took on Telegraph hill. Hehe, yeah it was funny, but the fact that a lot of good shots are unusable is not funny! :( But here are a few that made the cut anyway.... I hope you enjoy them!
[San Francisco]
Try backing out of this every morning! A typical SF garage.
Urban clutter. Looking towards Nob Hill from Chinatown.
Pretty red flowers on someone's teeny balcony.
Busker in Chinatown, playing the Erhu.
Rose shrouded in webs and dew. The Japanese Tea Garden.
Evening shadows. The bathroom door in our hotel room lit up by a neon light outside the window.
Inside the Frank Lloyd Wright building on Maiden Lane. Looking through one of the wall cutouts.
Inside the Frank Lloyd Wright building on Maiden Lane. Looking up at the lighting.
impressed
awake
relaxed
silly
