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The Color of a Mood

I Love Color! It’s no secret that I love color! I know a lot of people feel the same way I do. As I was processing today’s photo, I was thinking about how color is such an intricate part of our lives that we even use them to describe feelings. What’s more, everyone knows exactly what…

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Intersections of Place & Time

Lending Focus to a Grand Landscape When a big, fat, sprawling landscape spreads out in front of you, it’s easy to get overwhelmed and wonder how to compose it. To make sense of it all, I always look for some structure… and a point where the story lives. In this case, it was where the…

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Depth of Mustard Fields

Mustards in Spring I’ve been wanting to photograph the mustard fields in Napa, California for a couple of years. Typically, you have to be there in January or February (at the latest) to accomplish this. Well, I finally made it there in early March – and despite it being completely cloudy, I came away with…

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Painted Skies of the Divine

New Episode of “The Chat” on Monday! A brand new episode of “The Chat with Karen Hutton” goes live tomorrow!! And here’s your third and final clue to my stunning guest’s identity: Hint #3: When she began, her materials were found, but now she plays with her food.  PLUS… her name is a color. Wink.…

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Sometimes Seeing Double is Awesome

First things first! Hint #2 about my FABULOUS ALL NEW GUEST on The Chat this coming Monday:  SHE is an artist. An amazing, amazing artist!! OK, you just got two hints. Who loves ya, baby! So there I was in Napa, California. Went there to get out of the smoke from the huge Rim Fire…

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The Textures of a Story

I’ve been on a bit of a roll lately, on the art-meets-inner-life department. It kind of all started with textures, which I’ve been playing with over the past several months. I love the look of old paintings… the textures, the life, the stories contained within each crack and mysterious tactile anomaly. To me, there’s something…

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