The Valparaiso Art Gallery

Everglades of the North: The Story of the Grand Kankakee Marsh | The Story of the Grand Kankakee Marsh | Lakeshore PBS EVERGLADES OF THE NORTH explores the controversial saga of the Grand Kankakee Marsh.

Nate Venturelli to Perform at Blue Point during the Popcorn Fest Nate Venturelli will be performing at Blue Point (13 Lincolnway, Valpo) on Saturday, September 9th at 1pm. The Popcorn Fest is taking place all day today from 8am to 6:30pm. Stop by to see Nate perform

Some energy spun up from Idalia last night Siesta Key around 12:30 am. More to come. This from Dylan Jon Wade Cox Photography .

"We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children." -Native American Proverb

📷 NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN POND © 2021

During the spring, flowers fill Myakka State Park. As I walked along the trails lined with flowers I felt like I was on my way to heaven. I had always wanted to photograph this period of time in Myakka, but my schedule didn’t coordinate with my desire. Finally, I got the chance and grabbed it. I had a great time taking many photographs of the fields filled with flowers.

MYAKKA FLOWERS © 2014 | Myakka River State Park, Sarasota | Learn more: https://bit.ly/39X1qnR

Ansel Adams made this image before 1950 with an 8" x 10" view camera; the precise date is unknown. The looming darkness of the granite face contrasts dramatically with the brightness of the snow-clad trees on either side of the Merced River . Other photographs of this image have a reversed tonality, dark trees and shadows framing the brighter rock.

On winter days, as the sun warms the frozen face of El Capitan , rocks often shower down from above as the ice holding them in place melts. After the thousand-foot fall explodes the rocks on impact filling the valley with booming echoes.

During his career, he took many images of El Capitan's dramatic face, notably one of his first known photographs taken in 1916 on his first trip to Yosemite . Using a Kodak #1 Box Brownie, he offered an early hint at the visualization that would later become his hallmark, framing the pale granite face with leafy trees in the foreground to downplay the overwhelming size of El Capitan . After that early photograph, Ansel Adams returned to El Capitan over and again photographing it in every time, season, and light he could. This particular image of El Capitan has not been published.

El Capitan, Winter by Ansel Adams

Born in 1887—Georgia O'Keeffe was one of the most influential American artists of the 20th century, promoting new ideas of abstraction and helping redefine modern art.

Here she poses beside “Sky Above Clouds IV” during the opening of her 1966 retrospective at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. In 1983, the painting came to the Art Institute as a gift from the artist.

See this monumental work among 19 paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe now on view at the Art Institute.

IT’S THE RETURN OF THE BLOW YOUR OWN PUMPKIN CLASS! The event will take place Saturday and Sunday Oct. 15th and 16th. The slots are extremely limited so we will do text in reservations as usual:
We will accept texts starting SUNDAY OCT. 9th at 9 AM SHARP (Central time). To secure a spot simply text: “pumpkin” to 219-477-7783
DO NOT TEXT EARLY and ONLY TEXT ONCE. If you text again you will drop out of order and lose your space in cue. We can only take one reservation per text. The class will be approximately 30 minutes long and cost $80. This event sells out in seconds so please set your alarms and hit send right as the clock strikes 9.
We will do call backs Sunday evening Oct 9th from 4:30-8. If we don’t get through all calls that evening we will finish up Monday evening 4:30-8. Please have your phone available and ready to answer during those times. If we can’t reach you we will be forced to move to the next text. REMEMBER don’t text more than once. We are excited to have you back in the studio.

Ink, 38x28 cm

"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."
~ Salvador Dali

Claude Monet in his garden, 1905.

“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.”

Hey Ken.........Buy me an ice cream.

Our 1st campout for the year. Ken, you set up. I'm going for a ride.

Vladimir Kush (Russian surrealist painter and sculptor born 1965)
In Full Sail