Author Archives: Diane Huntress

Great arts education from grade school in Kansas to a BFA in Creative Arts. Over 20 years in editorial and business photography specializing in portraits of people and the built environment. At the same time, to stay in the creative flow, I exhibit in galleries and museums.

Fun with Presidents

  I’m known for photography of people and the built environment + having fun ‘at the same time!’   Couldn’t resist creating this picture of George, Thomas, Teddy and Abe which was inspired by, Adam Lerner, friend and Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in  Denver.  Thanks to these great guys from Rapid City, [...]

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What to do for Valentines?

Send a Valentine to people and clients you care about. And, a little chocolate and something in red lace sends a message too! Did you like this? Share it:Tweet

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Holiday online shopping sale a success

jQuery.noConflict(); jQuery(“#gal_images_367_2″).hide(); function iframe_367_2_loaded() { var iframe = jQuery(“#g367_2″) var height = iframe.contents().height(); iframe.height(height); }     3+ Day Sale. Prints were offered at a discount of 50%.  Are you kidding me?   This gave my friends and best clients a chance to buy my work at a great price.  And, it’s good business for me.  [...]

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Online Shopping Sale

Announcing my 2011 Online Shoping Sale of signature prints from Diane Huntress Photography llc! It’s a 3-day only sale starting this Sunday the 4th of December.       More details will follow, but these prints will only be on sale for 3 days and will not be images that are represented by my valued [...]

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Clifford Still Museum Opens

Clifford and visitor by Diane Huntress   The Anticipation is over. The new Clifford Still Museum is open! This visitor seated to look at this painting of mostly dark tones with red lightning plus white yellow vertical streaks seems to match in line, color and gesture.  It could look suspiciously set up, but it was [...]

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Phil Bender winner of Mayor’s Award for Excellence

Phil Bender in front of his work, “Mashers” 2008, at the Confluence exhibition opening in October, 2011.  Phil is known for his delightful sculptural works created of found objects. Phil glibly thanked the Mayor of Denver, his friends, late Mother, “The Academy” and his first and second wives when accepting the Mayor’s Award for Excellence [...]

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Luminocity Gala

What’s a photographer to do?  You are a non-working guest at a wonderful, fun, artful gala event and your natural urge is to capture it all.  You have another sip of the fabulous extra dry, extra dirty martini with three olives, get out your iphone and take the picture!  The DJ is spinning and it’s [...]

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Fine Art Photography Opening

Have you ever felt like a fish out of water? I’ve illustrated that metaphor in a series of fine art images which have been featured “On TV!” in magazines, galleries and museums for more than a decade. The technical concept:  fish are tossed by an assistant and are captured (photographed) in camera.   I use fish [...]

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Gesture Photography

Gesture + Color =  expression Did you like this? Share it:Tweet

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Carrara Marble Silhouette

“Recent research at Stanford University indicates that where previous studies of face recognition have been based on frontal views, studies with silhouettes show humans are able to extract accurate information about gender and age from the silhouette alone.” In photography a silhouette is normally created against the light as in a french term, ‘contre-jour’.   I [...]

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