Ashland Artisan Gallery has had a great soft opening in January. Now it is time to celebrate the Gallery’s Grand Opening at the First Friday Artwalk on February 2nd from 5:00 to 8:00 PM. The Ashland Chamber of Commerce will perform a ribbon cutting ceremony to commemorate the Grand Opening and many of the Gallery’s artists will be on hand to meet the public. Ashland Artisan Gallery will now be a regular stop on the First Friday Artwalk every month. If you are in the are you are invited to come by and meet the artists, view the art and enjoy some food and a no host wine bar. Hope to see you there.

A little while back OutdoorExposurePhoto.com added a new stock photography database. In addition to all the same images found in my signed art print collection the stock libary houses images that may have uses outside of the world of fine art. Stock photography consists of images that can be licensed or “rented” for any number of uses. Every time a photograph appears in a magazine article, advertisement, postcard, calendar, or website it either had to be created for that purpose or it came from somebody’s stock. It can be much more cost effective to license the use of an already existing image than to pay for the creation of an image.

I have been adding images to the stock database for the last month, and it now houses hundreds of images not found in my fine art print collection. As I continue to add images the stock section will grow to become a bank of many thousands of images covering a wide variety of subjects and topics. Like my prints, my stock images are arranged in themed catagories and can also be accessed using the search feature on my site. You can also obtain open edition prints (not limited) of stock images not featured in my fine art selection.

You can browse all the most recent images added to the stock library by clicking HERE.

I have been doing my best to get out during the colder months. Winter is not my most productive time for photography, but I really like how snow and ice can transform a familiar place into something unexpected. Everything is much more still and quiet in winter and snow makes everything look clean and simple. The warm tones of a sunset or sunrise stand out against the cool blues found in shaded snow and ice. I also like that I don’t have to get up at 3 AM to catch the sunrise!

Click HERE to view new prints recently added to my collection at OutdoorExposurePhoto.com.