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All
of my prints are giclee and archival. I print my own,
mostly on canvas and mount them on streacher bars
for hanging or framing.
The
following ten giclees are 22" x 15".

Humming Bird

Jimson Weed

Butterfly

Blue Flower

Coyote Gourds

Lotus Blossom

Curious Yellow
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Early Morn

Friends

Grafitti
The
next eleven photographs are Triptychs.
Each
consist of three separate Giclee canvas', gallery wrapped
and joined together in the back with 1/4" spacing.

Rounding
Pylon #2 42" x
28"
Remember
when you learned to roll into a steep turn
and had to squeeze just the right amount of rudder and, at the
exact time,
needed elevator to stay in coordinated flight without loss of
altitude?
Wingin'
It 42"
x 28"
We
all know the feeling. It doesn't matter what incredible techniques
you have employed during the flight. What counts is the
landing.
Blow that baby and all of your previous heroics are tossed out
the window.

Cranes,
Cranes, Cranes 42"
x 32"
Formation
references depend on what position you are flying.
You most likely will have a wing-line reference and a longitudinal
reference.
Along with these references you will need to maintain
wingtip/nose-tail separation.

Full
man a Flower
42" x 25"
Full many a gem of purest ray
serene
The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste it's fragrance on the desert air.
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Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard 
...and
the Monsoon Came 42"
x 28"
How
it pours, pours, pours, In a never-ending sheet!
How it drives beneath the doors! How it soaks the passer's
feet!
Rhyme of the Rain, Rossiter Johnson |

Games
People Play 42"
x 34"
We
don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing.
-
George Bernard Shaw

Squirrel
in the Oak Tree 42"
x 22"
I would bet your dog once chased a squirrel into the oak tree
and now expects the squirrel to be there.

Somewhere
Under the Rainbow 42"
x 28"
The
work will wait while you show the child the rainbow,
but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work.

Tribute
to Tom Mix 42"
x 28"
Taken in the Tom
Mix Wash
Tom
Mix, the Whoop-de-do Cowboy
Back
in the 20's, he was King of the West.
He righted all wrongs on his celluloid quest.
He galloped "tlot tlot" through the Hollywood plains.
He caught all the crooks who were robbing the trains.
Round town, he was suave, a star sprinkled with gilt.
He was rich. He was smooth, played it up to the hilt.
His mansion was lit with a silver screen shine
That proclaimed the Mix name on a big neon sign.
He wore fancy dan outfits and lizard skin boots,
Indulged in wild weekends and long, drunken toots.
On his belt glittered diamonds, as well as on spurs,
While his six lovely wives wore voluminous furs.
He packed reels with action for 300 flicks,
Leading Tony, his pony, through daredevil tricks.
He strolled on through time with his tall cowboy walk.
But when talkies arrived, old Tom didn't talk.
Instead, bought a circus and toured through the land.
It was there, outside Tucson, he made his last stand.
Near a wash in the desert, his roadster of speed
Rolled on through the night like a tumbling weed.
All alone in his Cord, who knows why he swerved?
Inattentive or drunk, in a doze or unnerved.
His suitcase slipped forward, a moment he cussed.
When his car went amuck, Tom Mix bit the dust.
Now his name is a legend. And no one knows why.
Just a black and white cowboy. One hellova guy
Connie Spittler (aka my wife)

Waiting
for Van Gogh 42"
x 29"
"I
am hard at it, painting with the enthusiasm of a Marseillais eating
bouillabaisse,
which won't surprise you when you know that what I'm at is
the painting of some sunflowers."
-Van Gogh

Curious
Orange 42"
x 25"
I
will be the gladdest thing under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.
-
Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Afternoon on a Hill"
Curious
Lavender 42"
x 28"
Curious
Yellow 13"
x 19"

Waiting for Hitchcock
72" x 48"
Here I am with a
6' wide, five panel giclee on canvas'
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THE
GALLERY
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Gecko |

Butterfly 1 |
Butterfly
2
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Butterfly
3
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Butterfly
4
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Luna
Moth
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Butterfly
5
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Butterfly
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Butterfly 7
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The Rains of Autumn
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And Then the Rainbow
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Evening Desert
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Finger Rock, Tucson
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Flame Skimmer
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Backyard Visitor |
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Desert Fern |
The Duck
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Western
Lubber Grasshopper - Brachystola magnaue |

These individual blossoms (less than an eighth of an
inch wide)
make up the beautiful bouquet of the African Sumac.
These are
January Blossoms. |

Wild
Desert Flower found near the Tom Mix Memorial Wash
on Highway 77 North of Oracle, AZ. Flowers are about 1/4"
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Arizona Evening Sky
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Old StuffStuff |

18 miles north of
Mendocino, CA, Highway 1 |

The
Vase
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The Flautist, Ft.
Bragg CA

Cat & the Buzzard
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El
Tour de Tucson
(for many pictures of El Tour De Tucson 2003 & 2004, click here)
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SPLITTERATIOS
(photo
compositions)|
For
the following photos, my photographic emphasis is on
Splitteratio’s,
a presentation formulated in paintings I first exhibited in
1987 at the Artists’ Coop in Omaha, Nebraska. Admittedly for this
technique, I tip my hat to David Hockney and Rene Magritte.
I start with a familiar image, then slice it into fragments, a
reminder of the pieces around us that compose the whole. It’s a
visual representation of a simple idea. The pieces and parts that go
into the sum of it all.
In
my film career, one of the important parts of the process was the
editing. So many views and approaches are possible, using different
editing styles. I find that by cutting and splicing, I can also
change the look and emphasis of my still photographs, giving me
unlimited choices.
It’s
been said that Splitteratios are a deconstruction of Gestalt. If the
German psychologists found that we see patterns instead of a
whirling blur of colors and shapes, my camera focuses on the
segments and shades that blend together to make up a bird or a
raindrop or a butterfly. Through editing, I can separate the parts
and juxtapose them in different ways.
The
pieces and parts. The sum of it all.
We go through life surrounded by the familiar,
not noticing, not paying
attention
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Lazy Summer Day
Splitteratios take the familiar and slices it into fragments,
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Winter, Mt Lemon
a reminder of the pieces around us that compose the
whole
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Wing Span
As a design element,
Splitteratios expand space and manipulate
dimension
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Morning
Moon
Splitteratios
photographic division plays with vertical and horizontal images,
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Two
Doves
Grasshopper
a counterpoint to a room's plantation shutters, venetian or vertical
blinds
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Agave
Or just think of
Splitteratios as a visual representation of a simple
idea.
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R.I.P.
Cat Buzzard
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Curious
Yellow
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Bellagio,
Las Vegas
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Highway 1
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Cholla
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Back
When...
Saguaro
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Moon and
Mountains
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Desert
Woodpecker
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The
Catalinas
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Silhouette
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Rain drops are falling...
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Dragonfly in the Wood
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I've been doing still photography for over fifty years.
My
focus varies as I cover nature, scenic views and close ups of small
subjects. My photograph "Follow the Yellow" was selected
by the Pima Arts Council for its present tour of libraries.
My
paintings and photography were featured at the Artists’ Coop and
Antiquarian Gallery in Omaha, Nebraska, and are found in private
collections in the Midwest, as well as Arizona, Colorado and
California.
As a cinematographer I produced and directed presentations from coast to coast.
Recognition of my work includes a Clio, gold, silver and bronze
medals from the New York and Houston International Film Festivals,
as well as a top prize from the Los Angeles Federation of
Advertising Club and Best of NAMA, a National AgriMarketing A/V
award.
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