Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Mark's' dream come true

Mark has always dreamed of taking a photograph worthy of blowing up big and hanging on the wall. When we lived in Omaha we would go to Thomas Manglesen's Images of Nature gallery in downtown and stare at all of his amazing wildlife photographs and dream of buying one of his photographs. Mark would also dream about taking one just as amazing. Mark set his sights high.

Over the years, he has taken many amazing photographs. He truly has a gift that I do not have. He understands all the science of good photographs (aperature, lighting, etc). But he also has a very artistic eye for framing and composing photographs.

In Canada this summer, he captured the above photo at Sunwapta Falls in Jasper National Park. You have to look closely on the right side to see the trees to understand how huge and incredible this waterfall was. I loved it. I want to go back in the winter sometime and hike the frozen falls.

We sent his image to mpix.com and had it printed on professional paper. It arrived last week and I took it to the framing shop. Mark hung it in the dental office where everyone can see his work of art.

3 comments:

nanadover said...

Absolutely beautiful! Job well done, Mark!

Anonymous said...

We were at the office twice this week. It's awesome! I found this link to some photocontests:
http://photojojo.com/content/guides/photography-contests-2008-2009/

One is for a National Geographic contest and the other for travel places. Anyway, you might have fun checking them out.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Tanya Dow said...

WOW! That is an amazing picture.