PPRE (Professional Photographers of the Redwood Empire) has awarded Ron Crain a Merit award as well as The Print of the Month award during last night’s Print Competition, held in Santa Rosa. “Wind Swept Stare” shown below was one of two submitted images for the month of July. Many thanks to the PPRE judges.

Well the day has finally come… we’ve launched!!! So very exciting. We are all looking forward to doing business with you now that we’re ready to go. For those of you who have been waiting and watching along with us, thank you so much for your support and patience. Now let’s get back to work!…

This has got to be one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. This guy actually uses jumper cables to electrify flowers pressed right up against the film submerged in a silicone bath. Then he “paints” the film with a fiber optic cable to give it a white glow. What’s cool is since he’s not…

I took advantage of the beautiful day in the city yesterday and walked all the way to North Beach to check out the North Beach Festival. It was fun! Along the 3 mile journey there I encountered the World Naked Bikeride and talked to some interesting folks there. Some were there just because it’s fun…

Greetings, Arken Audience! I’ve been plugging away at this website for DAYS (well, months really, but quite intensely lately), and today’s project was getting the new shopping cart all customized and ready to rock and roll. I’m proud to announce that we’ve decided to use SmugMug, which so far I’m really liking the user interface…

Building this website has been a daunting task. Decisions are slow to be made with all the options available that need to be researched and evaluated. So far in the realm of Photo shopping carts I’m really liking smugmug.com which is surprising to me because I’ve always discounted it as a serious interface with that…