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2016-08-29T20:10:00.001-06:00

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Summer Time ~ Montana Fine Art & Editorial Photography

2014-08-11T08:56:00.000-06:00

It's ok that I haven't posted here since June. The summer is so short and we are trying to relax and enjoy it. A barrage of photos will commence as soon as the weather cools.

Flight ~ Montana Fine Art & Editorial Photography

2014-06-20T14:55:00.001-06:00

Coming home from a whirlwind experience at LOOK3's LOOKbetween in Virginia.

Insect ~ Montana Fine Art & Editorial Photography

2014-06-09T20:15:00.002-06:00

Struggle. Summer on the porch.

Inspired ~ Montana Fine Art & Editorial Photography

2014-05-20T20:37:00.000-06:00

Recently I had the wonderful assignment of photographing and meeting a local inspiration for Arthritis Health Monitor magazine. Kathie Lapcevic is a farmer, teacher, and writer and recently lost 111 lbs. to ease her symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis. It was a joy photographing her as you can see here in my three favorites from our shoot.

Follow Kathie at Two Frog Home and Homespun Seasonal Living.

From the Archive: Antigua ~ Montana Fine Art & Editorial Photography

2014-05-19T20:56:00.001-06:00

Straw hats for sale in Antigua, circa 1986.

Castle Doctrine Shooting for The New York Times ~ Montana Fine Art & Editorial Photography

2014-05-09T11:20:00.000-06:00

It was a great opportunity but a sad occasion when I was asked to photograph my first assignment for The New York Times of the events surrounding the recent tragic shooting in Missoula, Montana. Below are some selects of the memorial and candlelight vigil for German exchange student, Diren Dede, who was shot and killed by his neighbor, Markus Kaarma.

For the full edit please visit this gallery on my website. Click here to read the story on The New York Times' website.

Spring ~ Montana Fine Art & Editorial Photography

2014-05-06T09:33:00.001-06:00

On my hike the other day this tiny bird's song filled the whole sky.

From the Archive: Crawfordsville, Arkansas ~ Montana Fine Art & Editorial Photography

2014-05-05T10:52:00.000-06:00

Crawfordsville, Arkansas, 1988.

During Spring Break my freshman year I bought a ticket to Nashville and spent time driving from there to Memphis and exploring a bit across the Mississippi. On a hot Palm Sunday during one of the worst droughts in the Midwest since the Dust Bowl years, I stumbled on this welcoming family.

From the Archive: Peeping Jane ~ Montana Fine Art & Editorial Photography

2014-04-27T20:16:00.000-06:00

In the summer of 1990 I was the only sighted person staying in the dorms at the University of NM. They hosted a program for blind/visually impaired NM teens to help them develop job skills. The counselors were also blind/visually impaired.

This is the only photo I took of any of them through the peephole in my dorm room door.

Desert Sunset ~ Montana Fine Art & Editorial Photography

2014-04-25T22:23:00.000-06:00

Driving through SE Utah last June. The kind of sunset that makes everything else irrelevant.

Shiprock ~ Montana Fine Art & Editorial Photography

2014-04-25T09:39:00.000-06:00

Heaven.
Sights and sounds of Shiprock on a summer day 2013.

Heaven from Lauren Grabelle on Vimeo.

From the Archive: Powwow ~ Montana Fine Art & Editorial Photography

2014-04-18T17:21:00.000-06:00

In 1996 I found myself in Connecticut and had a chance to attend one of the biggest powwows of the time on the Mashantucket Pequot reservation. Schemitzun was the most visually and aurally stimulating thing I had experienced. It was a blur of motion and music until I got up the courage to focus on one individual, Tommy Christian, Assiniboine Sioux, and photograph him in his little red sports car when the rains began.

Eclipse ~ Montana Fine Art & Editorial Photography

2014-04-15T20:28:00.000-06:00

My psychedelic impression of last night's event.

Watching ~ Montana Fine Art & Editorial Photography

2014-04-15T12:10:00.001-06:00

Watching the watcher.

Stonehenge ~ Montana Fine Art & Editorial Photography

2014-04-14T21:02:00.002-06:00

Geographically weird and surprising: Maryhill Stonehenge in Washington, with views of Mt. Hood and Sugar.

LensCulture ~ Montana Fine Art & Editorial Photography

2014-04-07T09:04:00.000-06:00

I'm really pleased to have my iPhone project, Strange Days: Woods Bay, featured on the home page of LensCulture today.

From their About page: "For almost 10 years, LensCulture has become one of the most authoritative resources for contemporary photography. We have been committed to discovering and promoting the best of the global photography community. We look for exciting work from every continent, and from diverse points of view: documentary, fine art, nature, photojournalism, activism, street photography, sports, fashion, poetic, personal, abstract and human."

My Superhero ~ Montana Editorial & Fine Art Photography

2014-04-04T09:02:00.002-06:00

Batgirl.

Film Stills ~ Montana Fine Art & Editorial Photography

2014-03-23T09:34:00.001-06:00

From a series I never completed in the early 90's: film stills from movie sets I was never on, and the pictures I would have taken had I been. Can you guess the movie?

Portland Photo Month ~ Montana Fine Art & Editorial Photography

2014-03-20T19:41:00.001-06:00

Last February 2013 we travelled to Portland to see my work in a show at the Newspace Center for Photography and had time to make it out to the coast as well. I just found out that two of my images from that trip will be included in Photolucida's juried show Then. Here. Now.:

"...a slideshow celebration of Oregon – its people, its landscape, its unique character and special history. Curated by Laura Moya and Laura Valenti Jelen, the slideshow includes images by contemporary photographers paired with historical images of the beautiful state we call home. The slideshow will be presented at a gala event at the Oregon Historical Society on April 16th and will run in a continuous loop in the front window of Blue Sky/Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts throughout the month of April."

So if you are in Portland watch for Dead Things With Sugar in Blue Sky's Pacific NW Viewing Drawers from April 2014 through March 2015 and my landscapes in their windows throughout the month of April. Someday maybe I'll be on their walls too.

More info here: Then. Here. Now.

Dead Things With Sugar: The Birds ~ Montana Fine Art & Editorial Photography

2014-03-07T11:22:00.000-07:00

Dead Things With Sugar continues - much to my surprise. I thought she had found all the interesting bones there were to find and then she found feathers. A nice change to the hard edges of bones.

For the complete series visit my website and the Dead Things With Sugar portfolio.

LOOK3's LOOKbetween ~ Montana Fine Art & Editorial Photography

2014-02-25T20:57:00.002-07:00

Went on Sugar's walk with her today in the perfect cold and watched snow gently falling off the trees (see photo below). Then I got some amazing news that I had been nominated (nominator unknown) to attend the LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph's Lookbetween weekend in VA.

From the email: "LOOKbetween is a forum for the critical engagement of ideas and craft, addressing the issues that photographers grapple with today. Attendees participate in presentations, discussions, collaborative projects, collegial critique and more with many of today’s leading photographers and industry professionals. Attendees are nominated by an international community of photography professionals and selected based on accomplishment, commitment, and vision. With an emphasis on diversity, we’ve invited seventy-five early career photographers from seventeen countries to participate in LOOKbetween 2014."

Surprised and honored and I look forward to attending and getting to VA in early summer.

Keep Calm ~ Montana Fine Art & Editorial Photography

2014-02-04T18:47:00.000-07:00

Oral surgery.

Frosty Day in Kalispell ~ Montana Fine Art & Editorial Photography

2014-02-03T21:30:00.000-07:00

Hoar frost settled in the Kids Athletic Park in Kalispell.

Vintage Chevy ~ Montana Fine Art & Editorial Photography

2014-02-03T19:39:00.002-07:00

Frosted 3100 series pick-up seen while walking the dog last week.