Promoting Nancy’s photography and educating the public about nature, photography, and God

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  • The Photographers’ Choice Award:

    A Draft Proposal For A Supplemental Award For Festivals Judged By “Old School Art Snobs” Old-school art snobs are highly educated and trained art professionals who, among other things, believe that if it wasn’t around by the end of the nineteenth century, “can it really be called ‘Art’?” Many of the finer art festivals hire…

  • An Apology And Activity Update

    Some of you have been flooded with “new blog post” announcements just this week. Some of these had unintelligible titles, but all of them led to “file not found” messages. I’m sorry to bother you like that. Among other things, I’ve been working on deferred maintenance on our website and blog this extended off-season. Some…

  • We Updated Our Display Panel Instructions

    A year ago, we published plans and instructions for building the display panels we use in our art festival boothannounced. Since then, we’ve added a section on how we attach the panels to the booth without using the legs and another section on how to make sure neighboring panels stay aligned. You can find this…

  • Tell It To The Judge: In Defense Of Photographers & Canvas

    To be transparent, I must say I’ve developed some theories about the biases of art critics and the judges of art festivals, based mostly on their selections of art to be awarded prizes at these festivals (and maybe my own biases).  I’ve noticed certain patterns that I was hesitant to discuss here until I had…

  • A Question About Pixels

    Christine, whom we met at the Deerfield Beach Festival, asked I see your (SD card) info indicates pixels. I have a 7-inch digital frame and wonder if that would be appropriate for a beautiful presentation. I replied If I understand your question, you are asking if your 7-inch digital picture frame would be compatible with…