Fun with Presidents

February 20, 2012 by Diane Huntress | Leave a comment
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Presidential Rock Stars ©Diane Huntress

 

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, South Dakota.  Happy Presidents’ Day!

Have you been to Mount Rushmore?  I went as a youngster on a family driving vacation through the Badlands.  Pretty amazing.  About 2 million people each year visit this granite sculpture by Danish-American Gutzon Borglum and his son, Lincoln Borglum.

 

 

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What to do for Valentines?

February 14, 2012 by Diane Huntress | Leave a comment

Send a Valentine to people and clients you care about.

And, a little chocolate and something in red lace sends a message too!

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Red lacy skirt at Forever 21

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Holiday online shopping sale a success

December 3, 2011 by Diane Huntress | Leave a comment

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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.  This was ONLY from December 4th to 7th, 2011.  It was unprecedented for my business.

This was a unique sale of photographs that did not include any images handled by the galleries and agents representing my work.  All images are ©DianeHuntress.

The work in this sale will be available at the regular prices in a few weeks (December) on my new art and architecture site.

 

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water tower evening sky

 

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Online Shopping Sale

November 27, 2011 by Diane Huntress | Leave a comment

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.

 

 

 

The historic Edbrooke water tower in LoDo, Denver, Colorado

Water Tower ©Diane Huntress 2005

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 agents and galleries.  This is a rare sale by me and these special prints are being offered at 50% of the normal pricing.

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Clifford Still Museum Opens

November 18, 2011 by Diane Huntress | Leave a comment
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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 not.  My attention as I entered this Hitchcock Gallery from a little zen-like terrace was on the painting, then upward to the ceiling treatment with mini oval windows and then onto the woman as she sat down.  Love that split second thought of Henri Cartier-Bresson and camera grab that is one of my reasons for getting up everyday.

 

 

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Phil Bender winner of Mayor’s Award for Excellence

November 7, 2011 by Diane Huntress | Leave a comment

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.

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Phil Bender at Emmanuel Gallery

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 in the Arts at the Ellie, on November 3rd.  Phil is the founder of Pirate Contemporary Art in 1980 followed by a 31 year history of showing emerging Colorado, regional and international artists.

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Luminocity Gala

November 2, 2011 by Diane Huntress | Leave a comment
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Luminocity ©Diane Huntress

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 time to dance!

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Fine Art Photography Opening

September 30, 2011 by Diane Huntress | Leave a comment

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 that I have collected and carry to typically arid locations far and near.   On one Denver NBC-TV broadcast we used real smelts!  The news special celebrated the 150th birthday of photography.

On October  6th I’ll be showing a new work, “Yipes!” shown here.  I was asked to present the print in the 35th Anniversary invitational group show, “Confluence”, at the Emmanuel Gallery on the Auraria Campus.    The opening reception is from 4-7 pm and you are invited.

It is my good fortune to work with Ron Landucci, fine art printer of Infinite Editions and Randolph Laub of Randolph Laub Studio who created an original profile to frame the piece.

 

 

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Yipes! ©Diane Huntress 2011

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Gesture Photography

September 20, 2011 by Diane Huntress | Leave a comment

Gesture + Color =  expression

Late afternoon sun creates shadow at Museum of Contemporary Art

Gesture in shadow ©Diane Huntress 2011

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Carrara Marble Silhouette

September 7, 2011 by Diane Huntress | Leave a comment

“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 love this effect particularly in my Landscape of Wine series in the NW Italian region of Piedmont.   In the art of paper cutting out of  black paper creates a strong contrast telling a story emphasizing the lines and shapes of figures in silhouette.

Taking inspiration from a cool iphone app + Larry Kirkland’s public art piece, “East 2 West Source Point” + recent portraits I’ve created in silhouette this was fun to create.

The visible lines in the location  relate to the texture of the Carrara marble used to create this sculpture.

 

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Lips Silhouette in Blues ©Diane Huntress

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