First Friday Art Walk at my newest Bend Art Gallery: Volcano Vineyards Tasting Room

The First First Friday Art Walk for February 2010 is almost upon us and I’d like to officially invite everyone to the Volcano Vineyards Tasting room located at 126 NW Minnesota St(between Bond St and Wall St.) in Downtown Bend.  I’ll be there Friday February 5th between 5PM and 9PM and my Fine Art Photographs will be hanging there through March 2010.  I will have several new fine art photographs on display and the Quons will be playing as well, which should make for an entertaining evening.

Interior of the Volcano Vineyards Tasting room in Downtown Bend, Oregon

As the First Friday art walk for downtown Bend was cancelled for January( because it was on New Years Day) This Art Walk for February should be especially busy and exciting.  Below is another shot of the interior of The Volcano Tasting Room with some of my fine art landscape photographs on the walls.

My fine art photographs hanging at the Volcano Vineyards mothership in downtown Bend.

Finally one last shot of the lovely and affable Liz Ratcliff who along with her husband, Scott, is the owner and operator of Volcano.  If you see Liz on Friday night, buy a glass of their amazing Syrah and tell her the landscape photography looks stunning!

Liz Ratcliff of Volcano Vineyards fame!

I hope to see some of you Friday Night At Volcano! Come enjoy the Great Wine, Great Music and Great photography at my newest fine art photography gallery in downtown Bend!

Thanks for Visiting,

Mike Putnam

Feb 04, 2010 | Central Oregon Fine Art Landscape Photography, First Friday Art Hop/ Art Walk in Bend, Oregon, Oregon Landscape photography blog entries, Oregon landscape photography exhibits | 1 Comment »

Crooked River Canyon in Autumn, My next Fine Art Print.

I have recently order several new fine art prints, my biggest order in quite some time.  The following image of the Crooked River Canyon with some awesome fall color is part of that order.  The timing of this image was great.  Nice delicate overcast light, combined with well timed fall color along the riparian areas of Central Oregon’s Crooked River.

Crooked River Canyon in Autumn from the Crooked River Bridge.

I think the textures and colors in this image will look great in a fine art print!  As is the case with all of my fine art prints, I shot this image with my 4×5 large camera.  While standing on the Crooked River Bridge composing this image, I slowly was swarmed with curious onlookers  who enjoyed the Cherrywood, brass detailing and leather bellows on my camera.  It was outside of my skill set to multi-task well but I did my best to answer everyone’s questions while composing and shooting this Crooked River Canyon picture.

Please visit my blog often to get some more updates regarding the new fine art prints that I will be producing in the next month.

Thanks for visiting,

Mike Putnam

Nov 21, 2009 | Oregon Landscape photography blog entries | Leave A Comment »