I hope everybody checks their Email one last time before leaving work for the weekend because I”m getting this announcement out a little late.  I’ll be showing my work tonight, Friday June 5th at Luxe Home Interiors in downtown Bend , Oregon.   During Art walks, the wine usually starts flowing at about 5:00PM and end at about 8:30PM.  I’ll be there at about 5:30 due to some parenting responsibilities.   If any of you are in the vicinity, please stop by and say “Hello”.  Luxe is located at 856 NW Bond St.  which is the same street that the Deschutes Brewery is on but Luxe is a couple of blocks to the south.

Photograph/Picture of South Sister reflected in Sparks Lake in the Central Oregon Cascades

The above Sparks Photograph will be amongst the many fine art landscape photography prints of mine on display tonight, so please stop by get some free wine and patronize the arts!  I hope to see you all tonight.

Mike Putnam

     I’d like to thank the good people from U.S. bank, in Bend, Oregon, who recently purchased some of my fine art landscape photography for their newly remodeled downtown branch.  
The above photograph is one of those now on permanent display at the downtown Bend, Oregon branch of the U. S. Bank.  This beautiful [...]

One of my favorite Central Oregon Landscape photos is pictured below on the last of my new line of art cards to be introduced.  This mountain image was captured from the summit of Central Oregon’s South Sister Mountain at sunrise.  The Pink alpenglow experienced during that clear morning sunrise is one of the special things [...]

This is installment number 7 out of 8 images in my soon to be released line of Central Oregon Cascades greeting cards.  The cards have allegedly been printed and are in route to Bend but the shipping will take several more days.  I’m in the process of setting up e-commerce options on my website and [...]

Continuing on in my series of new greeting cards which will soon be released, I’ll share a photo of Oregon’s Mt. Washington, one of the lesser recognized of the Central Oregon volcanoes. Mount Washington has its own wilderness area and is easily visible from both Santiam Pass and McKenzie pass.  From along Santiam Pass and [...]

The following fine art greeting card of Central Oregon’s Broken Top Mountain has become one of my signature shots and includes one of the best wildflower displays you will find in Oregon.  I’ve hiked around Broken Top dozens of times and I’ve always found some beautiful subject matter for photography purposes but the day I [...]

     Living In Bend, Oregon it is almost impossible to not be familiar with the Three Sisters Mountains.  Most commonly they are referred to as South Sister, Middle Sister, and North Sister.  They are also referred to as Charity(South), Hope(Middle) and Faith(North).  These names are usually attributed to early settlers in the Central Oregon [...]

The following Mt Bachelor greeting card is the third in my series of eight Central Oregon Greeting Cards.  Hopefully they will arrive for purchase in about two weeks.  As you ay be aware, my first series of art cards is focused on the beautiful volcanic mountains that highlight the skyline around Bend and the Central [...]

The following image is of my second greeting card in the series of eight Central Oregon Cascade Mountain images.  This picture was captured in the upper meadow in the Canyon Creek area high on the flanks of Three Fingered Jack Mountain, which is located in the Mt. Jefferson Wilderness area of the Central Oregon Cascades.
This [...]

For those of you who are regular readers of my updates, hold on to your hats as I’m branching into something entirely different.  I’m about to launch a small but super high quality line of art cards, greeting cards, note cards, or whatever you want to call them.  they will open to a blank inside [...]