Recently, I’ve been attempting to see patterns and light before taking a black and white image, and I seem to be seeing them everywhere we go lately.  Sitting at a stoplight, driving down the road, walking down the street.  It’s everywhere!

This week’s Monochrome Madness entry was taken in the early evening when the sun was lower in the sky.  The light was beautiful as it danced off the leaves and I love how my 300mm lens achieved that nice bokeh.

The entire challenge can be found here on Leanne Cole’s Site “Monochrome Madness”  so please check it out.  It should be up later today.  Hope to see you all there commenting away!

Dance of Light

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A beautiful night for astrophotography,  starry sky with the Milky Way over rural country agriculture Jackson Lake, in Jackson Lake State Park.  Morgan County,  Colorado.

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As many of you know, I love to create maps using my original paintings.  My World maps are extremely popular with my country maps running behind in second.  Sometime last year, I got a special request to produce a map of India. I was delighted to work on this piece because India is a very uniquely shaped country which for an artist keeps it interesting.  I finished the work and listed it on Fine Art America.  It wasn’t long before another artist who was Indian pointed out that I had left off the upper most region.  This region is called Kashmir.

The region is divided among three countries in a territorial dispute: Pakistan controls the northwest portion (Northern Areas and ‘Azad’ Kashmir), India controls the central and southern portion (Jammu and Kashmir) and Ladakh, and the People’s Republic of China controls the northeastern portion (Aksai Chin and the Trans-Karakoram…