Peace Gallery Blog

Roaming around YouTube the other evening I ran across the clip from The Newsroom where Jeff Daniels, in response to a question, rattles...

There was a spot in my front yard where grass never grew. For a while I had raised beds there … then the deer found them and most of my...

This weekend is the beginning of the second season for The Peace Gallery! Bernie has chosen the theme “Proudly She Served – A Salute to...

If any of the previous articles on the Hudson River School (HRS) has wet your appetite for the real thing, you’re in luck. There are a...

In my last year (4th year) of art school we were given the assignment of copying works by well known artists of the past. We were to copy...

Is there a particular art work that inspired you? My first thought is: No, there are hundreds, if not thousands. How can I choose one?...

The Luminist style of painting is considered to have occurred from 1850 – 1875. Examples of the style may be found both earlier and...

Frederick Edwin Church was born in Hartford, Connecticut. His father was a jeweler and banker who eventually became an official and...

Asher B. Durand was born in Maplewood, New Jersey. He was the eighth of eleven children. His father was a watchmaker and a silversmith....

In the effort to make the transition from taking snapshots to producing “real photographs” (an ongoing effort) I took a survey course on...

I used to take a lot of snapshots. I'd go out two or three times a week, take a hundred plus photos each outing. At the end of the month...

You’ve arrived at your destination and the setting is perfect. The clouds look fantastic and the light is going to be great. Before you...

The word photography brings images to mind … happy families at scenic vistas with their point-and-shoots, a dozen or so tripods with...

I am not the run-out-and-get-the-latest-model type of guy. Usually, the only time a piece of gear is replaced is when it fails to...

The winter landscape begs for attention …. clean white snow, icicles, simplified scenery, later sunrises and earlier sunsets, and much...

It's been almost 10 years since I called 112 Main Street my "home away from home" and the more time I spend in here, the more it starts...

It's been a few weeks of long days and late nights working at the Peace Gallery to give 112 Main Street a makeover, but it was worth it...