Fine Art Nature Photography Blog

Crow Country, Gallatin Mountains, Montana. A moment of Serenity. I love the sound of Meadow Larks and when combined with wildflowers and snow covered mountains I was in pure heaven... until I locked my keys in the car!

Relaxing under a tree.

I was interviewed last month on the Understand Photography Show by Peggy Farren. This was a really wonderful experience where we brainstormed on how to find your niche and create your own signature look to help build your brand...

Dye-sublimation aluminum prints are all the rage right now. Go to any art festival or photography gallery and the photographers are almost exclusively showing their images on dye-sublimation aluminum...

Earlier this year while doing the Utah Arts Festival in Salt Lake City someone made a comment that stuck in my mind. This person said in reference to my image “The Green Cellarium” something like “the colors are so vibrant and overwhelming, I don’t think I could have something that bright in my home...

So begins the almost age old debate. Photography has its roots somewhere in the forgotten past but the process of taking a picture and preserving it on some type of medium was invented by Louis Daguerre about 1839 in the daguerreotype process...

Years ago a customer picked up a roll of film from a lab I ran. After looking at the pictures, she complained parts of the pictures were out of focus. I examined the pictures and saw they were of teenagers in a field with a horse...

It has been a while since my last post. Life has been busy with building my website, editing more images and working my day job.

In my last post I talked about exposure and some adventures I have had in trying to teach others about how to get a proper exposure...

Over the years of working in photography and photofinishing I have seen a lot of changes.

I remember being in a meeting over 20 years ago with a Kodak rep and a Fuji rep. They were introducing us to APS film and explained this new film was going to be an intermediary until digital took off and film went away...

I have decided to start a regular blog post to let people get to know me a little better. I am going to tell stories and adventures of my 30 years in the field of photography! But first let me tell you a little more about me...

Thank you everyone who purchased from us! It was a wonderful event and we made many new friends and clients! Videos of the show!

We had a great time this year at the Heber Valley Western Music and Cowboy Poetry Gathering! Thank you everyone who came out and are now proud owners of my prints! Video of the show!

We had a wonderful time at the Soldier Hollow Classic Sheep Dog Competition August 30-September 2,2019! This event was not only fun to watch but very profitable for us to have a display in the Arts and Crafts area...

We had such a wonderful time this year at the Utah Scottish Festival and Highland Games! Thank you everyone who came out and supported this amazing event and purchased prints from us! It was so fun seeing old friends and the returning customers who come to this event every year and buy from us! Video of the event!

Thank you everyone who are now proud owners of my work! We had marked down all of the canvas prints we took and we ended up selling most of them! We sold 2- 11×14 canvas prints, 4 -16×20 canvas prints, 5- 20×24 canvas prints and 2- 24×36 canvas prints! We also sold many many matted prints, puzzles, posters, mugs and 2 neck ties! We love this show because of all the wonderful people who come to it! Thank you again for all your support!

We want to thank everyone who came out to the Mercantile at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada! We had such an amazing show meeting new people from all over the USA and many of Tom’s pieces found new homes! Nancie, the organizer of the mercantile was wonderful to work with and we made many knew friends in the other vendors! We will definitely be returning to this gathering next year!

What an amazing event! This was my best event of the season, we sold more prints than any other we have done this year! Thank you everyone who came by and admired my work and many thanks to those who are now proud owners of my prints! We are already on the list to do this show next year and I am already looking forward to it!

We want to thank everyone who purchased Tom’s work at the Western Legends Festival! We had so much fun and it was wonderful making new friends and finding new homes for Tom’s work. The weather was warm but nice and the few afternoon thunderstorms never caused any issues...

Thank you everyone who came out and supported the Summer Fest ’18 at the Bountiful City Park! We had a wonderful time making new friends and catching up with some old ones. The music and dancing was amazing and the international food was so yummy! We also want to thank all those who are now proud owners of Tom’s work, we hope you enjoy the prints for many years to come!

Thank you everyone who supported us at the Art Festival! We had so much fun meeting people and making new friends! We are so happy that many of my pieces now have new homes. Thank you all so much!

We want to thank everyone who came out to the Utah Scottish Festival 2018! We had record breaking sales, met so many new people and got to catch up with many return customers!

We want to thank everyone who braved the weather and came out to the Draper City Arts and Crafts Festival on Saturday May 12, 2018. What a cold and rainy day! We still had lots of fun meeting people and getting new clients and we are putting this show on our list to return to next year!

Well we just finished our 4th show at this event and wow how we have grown!! We had a 10×20 foot display and showed prints as large as 40×60 inches. We had such a wonderful show and honestly this is our favorite! We attend this show because of the fabulous music and musicians...

Thank you everyone who came out to the Art and Craft Market at Pioneer Park in Salt Lake City! We had a wonderful four Saturdays and despite being the first to arrive most mornings at 6:00 AM and the last to leave at 4:00 PM we really enjoyed this event!

We are already applying for art shows and events in the 2018 so we hope to you see you in the coming year!

Thank you everyone who came out and purchased from me at the Urban Arts Festival! We had a great time and really enjoyed talking to people and making new friends and new customers!

Wow Swiss Days in Midway, Utah was an experience and one we hope to repeat every year from now on! What a fun and profitable few days! They estimate 100 thousand people showed up for the two days and we believe it!

We got on site later than expected Thursday evening and didn’t get set up until about 10:30 PM...

Thank you everyone who came out to the Utah Renaissance Faire and purchased my prints of England and Scotland! We had an amazing time and loved seeing old friends and making some new ones! Erica and I were both into Renaissance Faires long before we met and now we have a lot of fun going to this faire and selling my prints together! This event is one of the highlights of our year and we are already looking forward to next year!

Thank you everyone who came out to the Utah Scottish Festival and Highland Games at the Utah State Fair Grounds June 9-11 it was an amazing time!!

This year we were able to be indoors which made such a difference in how we could display my photographs...

Wow we had such a good time at this years Celtic Festival in Evanston Wyoming!!

I have told the organizers of this event I will keep going to this festival as a vendor even if I don’t make any money...

Wow what a wrap up to our year!! We did eight shows this year and finished off with The Dickens’ Christmas Festival. We are exhausted and thankful to all those who supported us and are now proud owners of my work...

Thanks to everyone who came to Utah Winter Farie!! We had so much fun! I want to thank those who are now proud owners of some of my images, I hope you all enjoy those pictures for many years! Here are some picture of from this years faire...

Thanks to everyone who came out! We had a great time! We decided to wear our pajamas to this event and some funny elf hats. I hope we made a lot of people smile!

Thank you everyone who purchased prints from us at Comic Con! We had an amazing time! Erica and I never realized what big “geeks” we are until we saw all the cos play and knew so many of them! Comic Con was an amazing experience!

I want to give a big thanks to all those who made the Ren Faire such a great success for us!! We had a great time meeting and talking with everyone!

Thank you all who came out to the Scottish Festival in Payson Utah! We had such a great time meeting and talking to people and I want to thank all those who now are proud owners of my work! I hope you enjoy the prints for years and years to come...

Thanks to everyone who came out on Friday and Saturday the 10th and 11th of June and supported us!! We are still sore and tired but we had a ball, made a lot of new friends and had record sales of my work!!

Our new tent was wonderful and kept us and many others dry during the rain storms!

Watch for us next year at the Festival which will be held at the Utah State Fair Park...