New blog address!

New Blog Address!! For you that follow or happen to come across this blog...thanks to you for checking in. But updates are no longer here at this site. You can find me at the TRUE IMAGE PHOTOGRPHY blog for the continuing story of TRUE IMAGE PHOTOGRAPHY and more. Please come and see me...I love to hear your comments and imput! Thanks! I will see you there.

WOW!!! The studio tour was a great success....way beyond my expectations. It is good to see people about and enjoying art! And Photography is an art form. Comments have been said that photography can't be considered art because it is just tooooo easy! Early arguments stated that it was purely mechanical and contained no human sensibilities. Art must fulfill the following to be art...."In each, lines and colors combined in a particular way, certain forms and relations of forms, stir our aesthetic emotions." Stirring our emotions...Isn't that what good photography should and does do. "There are many schools of painting. Why should there not be many schools of photographic art? There is hardly a right and a wrong in these matters,but there is truth, and that should form the basis of all works of art," Alfred Stieglitz, American Amateur Photographer 1893

Alfred Stieglitz Dorothea Lange....Migrant MotherAnsel Adams

Will do better....

Okay....so I don't do well keeping up with new posts...but from here on I will try! Life is full with lots to do in the way of pictures....God is good! In the meantime check out my other blog on my web site....there I do post frequently. Till then....

2010 BARN calendar now availble!

A love of old barns prompted the publication of this new calender. Who cannot love these old beauties that are fast becoming extinct! Three of the ones pictured are already gone.

To quote EB White....
"The barn was very large. It was very old. It smelled of hay and it smelled of manure. It smelled of the perspiration of tired horses and the wonderful sweet breath of patient cows. It often had a sort of peaceful smell....as thought nothing bad could happen ever again in the world."

Our New Studio...

It's a GRAND OPENING of our new studio! Come and see what we have accomplished and take part in the "Art Harvest Studio Tour" of Yamhill County. See some fine art work....go out to lunch with a friend....take a country drive. All in all a great day to enjoy.

Save The Date...

Come join me and 60 other artists at one of Oregon’s premier art shows. Carlton’s Walk in the Park, a benefit for local charities, combines fabulous artists and musicians with outstanding local restaurants and wineries for one magical August weekend in Yamhill County’s wine country. August 1 & 2
www.carltonswalkinthepark.com

My dream assignment....

An idea came to my head a while back...and as I pursue it this site came to my attention. Take a look and do as you wish...thanks.

http://www.nameyourdreamassignment.com/the-ideas/Marilyn/my-little-towna-documentation-of-small-town-america-through-the-photograph/

or take a look at yet another blog that i have started...
http://mylittletownmarilyn.blogspot.com/

Corporate America with a human touch...

Krista...the CEO and founder of Sotto Marketing wanted a business portrait that captured who she really was...it was a discovery of a fun, passionate intelligent woman. For more images go to
blog.marilynaffolter.com

NEW WEB SITE!!

Yes the web site is up and live...and the new blog...thanks to my web developer. He "quote" said that this blog venue would give me a lot more control of the looks...What he really meant is "you got a lot to learn so you can have more control of the looks". The learning curve is a little steeper(html..that other language) but I do like it....and there is a direct link from my web site. Once I get all of the other gadgets understood...there will be different colors, different fonts, and who knows what... Hope you like it!
www.marilynaffolter.com

It's for Charissa...

NEW WEB SITE!!

Yes!!!! It has finally happened!! My new web site went live today....check it out at www.marilynaffolter.co

A study of an orchard...

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and
melodious thoughts descend upon me?
- Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road

winter beautiful...

Snow camping 2008

Living life is fun and we've just begun
To get our share...