His photography avoids digital manipulation. He believes work that has been digitally manipulated shifts it into photographic art and is a separate medium. His photography has been labeled “Straight” photography, where the objective is to capture the moment using natural light and setting. Post processing may used, but is limited in scope. This is the exception, rather than the norm.

Over the last couple years, he has work to expand boundaries to explore different genres, but always returns to events and settings that are natural, not staged. Recently, he has been working with a celebrity/model photographer to explore this genre.

In 2007, his efforts shifted to contemporary art and developed a new style that is photography-based. For the next two years he created cutting edge studies in art and design that produced three styles: Palm Seed Pod, Zurich Collection and Transformations. Work from these three styles are featured here and are submitted in the “Design & Illustration” category.

His writing encompasses several genres from poetry to blending his words with images and a book of anecdotes and observations. He has included one work for Art Scope from the upcoming book. He was recently asked to contribute to a literary collection featuring authors on the New York Times Best Sellers List, playwrights, and published authors. The first poetry book is to be published late 2011 with the others to follow in 2012.

He also uses his photography to tell a story or a back story on his web site and through his social media presence on Twitter, where he tweets as @5wa. He has been a part of or assembled several events that have provided a venue for his writing and photography. The social media events covered this year are NASA and Tampa Bay Rays Tweetup, Grand Prix St Petersburg, Surfers For Autism and The Dali Museum’s first social media event. Each has provided experience in developing photo essays and a story.

Overall, Robert Neff’s work offers a refreshing perspective. His work engages the senses and is “Art with a story; Art with a vision.”

Science and humor go hand and hand in my art.  I have strived, and have had some success, at presenting my personal experience in this voyage of earthbound awareness.  I continue to attempt to expand my horizons in different medium and hope my images relate to a kindred spirit in humanity.

Jenny is an active member of The Portrait Society of America and The Florida Watercolor Society. She has shown her work in local and national group exhibitions, including the American Women Artists Master Signature Show & Exhibition in Dallas, TX.

Donna attended Furman University in Greenville, SC and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration with a bent for advertising design. She worked as a Chamber of Commerce Communications Manager and as a graphic designer. She created and ran her own company Bayou Graphics, Inc. which focused mainly on print design and execution. After ten years she sold her company and moved into fine art exclusively. Donna has shown her work and earned numerous awards and praise throughout the state of Florida and beyond. She has also participated in traveling national exhibitions and is an active member of many local and state art organizations including holding a board position with the Florida Watercolor Society. Recent awards include Best of Show in the Florida Suncoast Watercolor Society 2010 member show, the Brandon League of fine Arts Artworks 2010 and the 2010 Bay Area Art Show in Tampa, Florida. She most recently secured her second acceptance into the Paint America Top 100 traveling exhibition as well as acceptances into the Louisiana Watercolor Society’s 40th International Exhibition and the 22nd Tri-State Juried Water Media Exhibition. She holds her signature membership with the Tampa Realistic Artists Association and the Florida Suncoast Watercolor Society. Most of her work can be viewed online at www.donnamorrison.net or in Tampa at 110 S. MacDill Avenue.

Donna was born on January 30, 1964 in Bradenton, Florida where she was raised and greatly influenced by the native Florida surroundings and culture of Anna Maria Island as well as native cattle ranches and farmers. After college Donna met her husband Howell, a fellow native Floridian and lover of everything Florida. They reside in Tampa, Florida and have two daughters Alexandra and Grace.

Sherry has always enjoyed “taking pictures”, an interest that was passed down to her from her father.

After retiring from Corporate America, Sherry was afforded the time to build on her passion by creating photographic art.

Sherry is a member of the   Photographic Arts Society as well as several Meetup photography groups.  Her works are often part of the Photographic Art Society’s exhibits at the Summit Office Complex in Clearwater FL. While showing at the Summit Sherry has been awarded two Honorable Mentions from the judges as well as three People’s Choice awards. When her work was exhibited at the Tampa Museum of Art’s “open call”, Sherry was awarded an Honorable mention by the Judge in the documentary category. Sherry’s works also includes photographic prints on Canvas media, which have been on display at the Jewish Community Center, Oldsmar City Hall and the West Tampa Center for the Arts. Sherry received First Place for one photo and Honorable Mention for a second photo in the 2010 Kelby Photo Walk in Palm Harbor.

Through photography, Sherry has discovered there are surprises to be captured in this journey called life.

I use vibrant hues and bold strokes to represent my subjects. These aesthetic effects create sensual dynamics and physicality to their forms. Figurative art is dependent on lines, shape, color, light, and emotion to create visual impact.  Each of these elements has significant value and evokes an intimate voice that speaks to a myriad of interpretations.

Throughout over 30 years as a professional photographer, I have captured a wide variety of man-made landscapes through the lens of a camera.  In recent years, many of these images have been the inspiration for paintings, where the hand and eye create the light, better than camera and lens.

Painting and drawing since an early age, art came naturally as well as music.

I studied at the Art Student League in Manhattan taking Life drawing and Oil painting.

Later I studied Art and Advertising Design at NYC Technical College.

Given the Rothchild Von Holzbrink Award from the National arts club for my painting Fruits of Starvation . I later exhibited my work at Gubala Gallery,and Ward Nasse Gallery in Soho. While paintings murals commissioned work and portraits.

Upon moving to Florida in 2001, I started working as a decorative artist. Later I exhibited my work at Myrtas Gallery, I also exhibited and sold work at, Art for Life, The Wine Exchange, Nude Night and the Boys and Girls Club fundraiser.

Married with a son and daughter, living in the tampa bay area.

I currently am working as a Muralist / decorative painter for Splat Paint.

My Art:

I USE INTRICATE IMAGERY BOTH SURREAL AND REAL. TAKEN FROM WHAT HAS BECOME EVERYDAY REALITY. I USE BOTH BALANCE AND COUNTER BALANCE TO INVOKE PASSION AND BEAUTY WHILE WORKING OUT QUESTIONS OF LIGHT AND DIMENSIONAL PERSPECTIVE. THE END RESULT IS a FUSE BETWEEN REAL, SURREAL AND ABSTRACT PURISM.

Detroit Free Press
Detroit, Michigan
Illustrated and creator of “Larry” cartoon for the weekly Detroit Free Press Carrier Paper.

Gallery 454
Grosse Pointe, Michigan
Rendering prints of Greg Tisdales ships of the Great Lakes along with various showings of my original prints.

Transition Publishing
Southfield, Michigan
Created, illustrated and wrote whimsical greeting cards for a New Age greeting card company.

Bradenton Herald
Bradenton, Florida
Created and illustrated a successful seven day one panel cartoon called “Nitt Witts” for two years.

Continue to participate in local art venues, including New York City’s Washington Square. Having sold various pieces at art festivals and galleries. Recently sold four pieces at the Zoofari event that took place November, 2011 at Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo.

Faith Bradburn Keller, an award winning artist and graduate of Ringling College of Art and Design has spent the past 25 years trying to live by that statement. “Life is too short not to do what you enjoy and were created to do,” she says.

With Faith’s love of nature, she finds it intriguing to explore and discover texture, form and light. The way light and color reveals itself in nature is exciting which influences new possibilities as depth and realism is revealed in each of Faith’s paintings. Which in turn, expresses beauty and identity in her art that allows the viewer to participate as well, oftentimes reflecting on past memories, experiences and feelings.

Since a small child, Faith has been fascinated with expressing her observations and experiences creatively. Gaining insight and skill through painting en Plein Air, on location, and capturing light, colors and the moment as it exists in the natural world. Painting on location allows Faith to feel more connected to her subjects and to understand the light and mood. She also enjoys spending time photographing nature, landscapes, and man-made items to use as reference back in the studio for future paintings.

Painting in acrylics and oils and pushing the medium further each time she paints continues the growing process as she evolves as an artist. “This growth brings with it a new level of creative awareness in myself and in my art.”

Outside of my work at Hallmark, I spend lots of time doing what I love…painting.  I have such a passion for applying oil and acrylics to canvas.  I am currently working on a new series of paintings for the “fight against breast cancer.”  This idea came from watching my mom go through the struggles and emotional roller coaster called breast cancer.  The works are based on these emotions, which I have experienced through my mother and countless other women. I have incorporated inspirational quotes into my painting in hopes that they bring enlightenment to those facing and experiencing this terrible disease.

O’Connor’s work celebrates the brief, unacknowledged gestures, reactions, and little bursts of laughter sisters and their friends share with each other. In refusing to dismiss the trivial and informal, she strives to leave the viewer conscious of the unlikely places and moments in which beauty can be found.

I taught  basic riding and classical dressage for more than 25 years until I developed rheumatoid arthritis several years ago.At that point I became an artist full time. My equestrian background has found a way to incorporate my love and understanding of horses into my artwork.

My goal as a traditional painter is to merge the contemporary world in which I am engaged with the art of the High Renaissance. My paintings are a combination of careful observation of the world around me and my imagination. The works I create are built of several layers of paint carefully manipulated in order to obtain a finished product that is true t real life while retaining the look of a painting. In a world where we are constantly bombarded visually my intention is to provide the viewer with something t take them out of the ordinary or to look at the ordinary in a new and refreshing way.

I have recently moved from Nashville, TN to Hudson, FL where I am employed as an instructor with the Pasco Art Council. My work has been exhibited in singular and collective venues and many of my works hang in collections in the US and Europe.

When not working his mild mannered day job as a graphic artist for an education company, he’s probably working on an indie comic or two.

The eye of the beholder being the camera’s lens, captures with a single click a moment in time. One single image can speak multitudes. I embraced photography for the sheer love of it and love to photograph anything that catches my eye.

My drawings/painting have been influenced by my missionary trips to South Africa. It was there that I became aware of my abilities. Never having been taught in photography, drawing, or painting I truly believe this ability has come from God. My goal is to one day be a part of an organization like National Geographic. My other self taught passions consist of …..handmade jewelry made from Swarovski crystals, semi precious stones and freshwater pearls, wedding/event planning and flower arrangements.

It is my desire that my photos, jewelry and art work will speak to you since now you have become the eye of the beholder.