Call for Entries – Deep Valley Arts Collective

Call For Entries — ‘Fresh Eyes’ an online art exhibition featuring works of art that explore new perspectives, changing attitudes, and a turn toward hope as we begin a new year and move beyond the events of 2020. Share your symbols of transformation, newly discovered artistic processes, and visions of the future.All art forms are

UPC March Meeting

Sunday, March 7, 2021, 11:00 AM, via Zoom Our theme this month is “orientation” – meaning anything other than the usual landscape or horizontal. In other words: square, vertical or portrait, panoramic, or fisheye. As always, this is for members to interpret or ignore as they choose. We’ll talk about continuing the mid-month, mid-week supplemental

From the archives . . .

Ukiah Daily Journal, February 4, 2016

UPC Mid-month Mid-week Meeting

Tuesday, February 23, 2021, 7:00 PM, via Zoom (rescheduled) This is our non-agenda, no-pressure experiment with a meeting at a different day and time than the usual.  We’ll talk about photography or whatever is on our minds.  If you have any photos to show we will do that through screen-sharing.  Maybe we will have a Mystery Photo.

Yosemite People

Presented by the Grace Hudson Museum & Sun House Through April 11, 2021 See the exhibit here. Yosemite People is an exhibition from Exhibit Envoy and photographer Jonas Kulikauskas. All images © Jonas Kulikauskas

2021 UPC Themes / Sparks

Jan Weather (clouds, ice, precipitation, wind) Feb Indoors (indoor scenes, food, photo booth set-ups) Mar Orientation (vertical, square, fish eye) Apr Distance (macro, telephoto) May Painterly Effects (abstract, kaleidoscope, brush strokes) Jun Liquid, translucence, patina Jul Time of Day / “Sign of the Times” Aug Textural details (in nature or man-made) Sep Lighting (backlighting, night photography, flash) Oct Imperfection (unsymmetrical compositions, insect eaten leaves, jam smeared face) Nov Domestic animals (dogs, cats, chickens) Dec Best /

Showing at the Scott Nichols Gallery in Sonoma: Ansel Adams and Sebastian Salgado

Open Thursday-Monday, 11-5 on the Sonoma Square, 450 1st Street East, Suite G, and by appointment.  http://www.scottnicholsgallery.com Thanks to Dave Lohse for bringing this to our attention.

The Photographer in Your Town

Henry Wonacott was a tenacious and adaptable commercial photographer working in Mendocino County between the years of 1908-1947. Equipped with the capacity to cater his skills to a changing market, his photography chronicles an evolving economic landscape. https://spark.adobe.com/page/7JFfZYoQ9AKOE/ https://spark.adobe.com/page/ago6hWiEWpf2N/

Deep Valley Arts Collective

An online gallery exhibition of artwork that explores our country’s current state of affairs as we navigate a worldwide pandemic, sheltering in place, and widespread protest against the mistreatment of people of color by law enforcement across the nation. Featuring the works of: Amelia Rubie, Aaron Aguilar, Chris Pugh, E.D., Jane Russell, Janet Rosen, Josh

Volkhard published on 1x.com

Volkhard Sturzbecher’s stunning “Upper Fall” was recently published on 1x.com, which accepts less than one percent of submitted photos. Congratulations Volkhard!