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Greetings everyone. Welcome back

The Soulard Coffee Garden and Cafe will have 20 of my images hanging from March 6-April 16. There will be an opening reception there on March 10th from 2-4. The theme of the exhibit is "Nature in Monochrome". It will be landscapes and birds. 

Over the last couple of years I've been gradually channeling more of my work into monochrome. Not a radical shift, but I feel like I'm slowly learning how to interpret a scene in black and white and that makes me want to do more.This shift in my vision actually rather surprised me. I've always considered myself a color guy. Any B&W images worth a second look were pretty much coincidental. But my wildlife work handed me a nice present here-egrets and swans. We have lots of those birds around St. Louis and I could see right away the possibilities they have for B&W. Then late in November last year we went to Eastern Pennsylvania for a wedding. I took my camera of course. All the fall color was gone. But we found some covered bridges that were begging to be photographed in B&W. I had a ball. Instead of lamenting the lost opportunity for fall color pictures I was rejoicing that all those pesky leaves were out of my way. That's new thinking for me.

 So now my monochrome work has landed me in my own exhibit. I hope lots of you can come. This is my first time at this. I need my hand held. JM says if this is a success I can quit my day job.

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