Comment by Donald Maier on October 22, 2012 at 8:21pm

Nice painting Ron. If this did not win, I would like to see the winners. They must really be something. I noticed this is a bit jiggy. looks like motion blurring. taken with a hand held camera. Do you have a scanner. It does a great job on pastels and watercolor and in PhotoShop you can do a great deal to fix many problems. You can put two halfs together if you need to scan a larger on into two pieces. correct for distortion, and of course, color correct and correct the brightness/contrast. You can scan at a very high resolution if you want to post them on FAA for sale as prints too.

Comment by Ron Bigony on October 22, 2012 at 11:06pm

Don- Thanks so much for the suggestion and comment re my photo work. Yes- I did take the photo at the lowest resolution and hand held. I was sending the final painting via e-mail to the purchaser to make sure she liked the final results. When she intially came by the site, she did not get to see the finished painting before she had to leave. So I just wanted a quick e-mail version. She did like it and has confirmed she wants the painting. Uusally when I set up with tripod and high resolution, the photos come out a lot better.  And yes, there are some really terrific artist in SWS. Thanks so much for your comments. Never considered using a scanner.

Comment by Cecile Hines on October 23, 2012 at 9:06am

Beautiful.

Comment by Robert Rohrich on October 25, 2012 at 6:01pm

It's a beauty Ronald.  Also, I enjoyed seeing written up again in the Dec. Watercolor Mag.. Good for you.

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