by jamesp | Oct 30, 2020 | Hiking, Landscape, Life on the Road, Outdoors, Photography
The past few years, I’ve rarely had the opportunity to shoot autumn color in my home state of Michigan. This year, due to a number of circumstances, was different. A quick trip up north yielded a surprising number of “keeper” images. Although I was... 
by jamesp | Jun 7, 2018 | Archive, Art Show Voodoo, Life on the Road, Uncategorized
In April, 2011, our art show trailer was parked at the Marriot Towne Place Suites in downtown Fort Worth. We were participating in the Main Street Fort Worth Art Festival. On Thursday night, the first day of the show, we came back to the hotel to find our trailer,... 
by jamesp | Nov 17, 2017 | Ghost Towns, Life on the Road, Photography
One summer ago, I met a lovely family from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at the Krasl Art Fair on the Bluff in St. Joseph, Michigan. She had grown up in West Central South Dakota, and we had a great conversation about the farm country. As it turned out, her grandfather had... 
by jamesp | May 17, 2017 | Archive, Art Show Voodoo, Ghost Towns, Life on the Road
My first show of the month is in Kansas City, MO. A favorite in KC, and a favorite of mine, the Brookside Art Annual takes place on Brookside Plaza just south of 63rd in Kansas City. The last time my wife Karyn and I were there, it was cold. And snowy. We tried to... by jamesp | Dec 17, 2015 | Archive, Life on the Road
I was nominated for the FiveDay Landscape Challenge by Oscar Matos-Linares, so I thought I’d do something a little different for the first image. This is a little animation I shot one morning on Grace Bay, in the Turks & Caicos. Grace Bay is one of the most... by jamesp | Jan 16, 2015 | Archive, Life on the Road
I’ve used the Graph Paper Press themes on a couple of web sites for other artists, and have found them pretty easy to work with. Steve Baldauf’s site uses the Chromatic theme, while the page for Antoni Kozlowski uses the Base theme. Check out the artists,...