Article in Feb. 17 Georgina Advocate Newspaper on us going national with our new publisher
Rainbow Country and Spirit Wolf are two of eight photographs by Peter Pauer selected for inclusion in an exclusive line of canvas reproduction prints by Canadian company Access Fine Art featuring North American artists and photographers. Doug Morden’s photograph Inseparable was also chosen.
As promised here is the text from the article in the scan image above!
Click the image for a larger version!ARTS & Culture: Prints available at Kat’s Gallery, Eustace Pharmacy
Photographers’ works win national acclaim
by Heidi RiednerAn artistic eye behind a lens focused on Georgina has developed national exposure for two local photographers.
Peter Pauer and Doug Morden both live work in Georgina and their passion for photography has always been part of who they are, so it was very exciting for the pair to have their work chosen to be printed and distributed by Access Fine Art, one of the leading Canadian distributors of vine prints, posters, canvas reproductions and Giclée prints.
The French term Giclée, pronounced gee’clay, means to spray or squirt, which is how an inkjet printer works, however, it is not the same as a standard desktop inkjet printer and is much larger. In Giclée printing no screen or other mechanical devices are used and therefore there is no visible dot screen pattern. Affectionately referred to as knitting machines for their similar appearance, Giclée prints are a little over a meter wide with the image retaining all the tones and hues of the original.
Established in 1986, Access Fine Art has developed a bestselling line of exclusive canvas reproductions prints created by North American will now include the work of both Mr. Pauer and Mr. Morden.
Eight of Mr. Pauer’s photographs were selected including panoramic colour shots, Summer Cedar Grove and Winter Cedar Grove, taken at Sibbalds Point Provincial Park, and Rainbow Country, a landscape of a barn with a double rainbow in the background snapped just off of Woodbine Avenue. Black and white selections include Weeping Willow and Winter Brush, where were taken at Willow beach.
Two exquisite shots of trees, Windswept and Laying Down Roots, which are quite the hot trend right now, round out the list, according to Kat Taylor of Kat’s gallery in Jacksons Point.
Mr Morden’s colour photograph of two horses taken at a local farm on McCowan Avenue, entitled Inseparable, was also chosen.
In her role as an Ontario sales representative for Access Fine Art, Ms Taylor chose the images by Mr. Pauer and Mr. Morden not only for their high calibre and composition, but because the finished products are true representations of art.
“Anyone can take a picture, but photography is art when it captures the mood and light of a subject.” She says. “It has to speak to people in one way or another.”She adds that she is extremely excited about two of the area’s local photographers being included in the exclusive line, especially since their subject matter is largely local as well.
The photographs were launched the first week of February and were among the best sellers during the Toronto Gift Show, with requests coming from across Canada, as well as the state of New York.
One of Mr. Pauer’s most popular, Spirit Wolf, a beautiful double image of a marshy landscape with the subtle outlines of a wolf appearing in a mist from the watery depths, accounting for 25 per cent of the entire sales from the show, adds Ms Taylor.
All of the pieces are available at Kat’s Gallery and Eustace Pharmasave in Jackson’s Point.
One of our favourite lenses (Sigma EX 120-300 f/2.8) has been discontinued!
The SIgma EX 120-300 f/2.8 is dead, long live the Sigma EX 120-300 f/2.8 OS!
Just learned that one of our favourite lenses has been discontinued!
But has been reborn with optical stabilization built in!
You can read about the new arrival on the Sigma Photo site here
Here is a sample test shot originally done to test a Canon EOS XTi we obtained from ebay using the original Sigma EX 120-300 f/2.8 .
The shot is just Canon EOS XTi camera and Sigma EX 120-300 f/2.8 lens pointed out the living room window!
The lens performed very well as usual, and the little dslr proved to be in fine working order too!
Image tech detail settings
Exposure 1/320
Aperture f/3.2
Focal Length 300 mm
ISO Speed 400
posing fee cup of bird seed.
Updated and added a few galleries
Finally found a minutes to process a few images from places we have visited this fall, like Bracebridge and Algonquin.
Most of the new images were , made with very long exposures in excess of 30 seconds to get the dreamy look on the water.
Killbear visit
Killbear – Images by Peter Pauer
Images beginning to appear from our short visit to Killbear provincial park in Parry Sound
We arrived there just 1 day after a Tornado howled through the area and a severe weather watch was continuing.
Another nights updates to the pauerstock site.
New gallery / in collection eco-natural
Weather
Weather
New images added to galleries:
Stone
Superior
Slowly but surely we will get them all done.
New updates to the pauerstock site.
New Galleries added
Digitalis – Digital Art
Small town Ontario – Katrin
New Images added in galleries:
Finlayson
Superior
Limited Editions
Finally getting some time to look at and process all the images we took during the August travels. Hope to have new additions each coming day.
Images of Algonquin
Algonquin – Images by Peter Pauer
Slide show of a few images from a short stay in Algonquin Park.
image bank
The ePortal to our image bank is coming along nicely!
Most basic site and commerce setup are complete with the agency. As are the customizations to integrate its look and feel into our current main site layout.
The rather arduous task of combing through all the digital image files for image selection, prep, upload and key-wording will soon begin for not only digital files but the many chromes that are waiting to be scanned.
To see images currently available for Rights Managed licensing or as prints through our parent stock agency
Given up on local Shopping cart system
After a lot of testing, trials and problematic tribulations we have chosen to outsource the shopping cart functionality to PhotoShelter .
PhotoShelter provides image archiving and a very robust image search and sales system. Which includes industry standard pricing provided from the embedded FotoQuote module.
The Black & White conversions continue!
Completed searching the first 4000 images stored in the library and from that 47 selections were used to create monochrome conversions
Just over 3000 images still to examine to get caught up to date and start working in the present!
A few more conversions done and five new Black and White images from around Ontario and Quebec were added to the MonoChromes Gallery .
Here’s a samples of the new additions
Monochrome – Images by Peter Pauer