https://www.ArtWanted.com/artist.cfm?ArtID=58355 This RSS feed displays the 10 most recent images that have been uploaded by to ArtWanted.com MST en-us https://www.artwanted.com/artist.cfm?ArtID=58355&Tab=Blog Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:39:45 MST It is not often that I enter a blog post here, but I thought that perhaps this would be a good time to do so after receiving an email from some friends of mine in Wisconsin that I had sent some of my photos to. He and I both served in Vietnam together and have remained friends now for a very long time, often sharing parts of our lives together from time to time. He is also a very educated man, a graduate of Harvard with two degrees, one in Theology the other in Business and he and his wife Pam both enjoy art quite a bit, although not a true collector of it as some are. I thought that in writing this blog post that I would include his email as it is such a great comment on some of my work, so very elegant in his wording of it and such revere for my simple work. I hope that if you read it you too will enjoy it as much as I have. Below is the email that I received in its entirety. Pam and I are simply amazed at how good your photographs really are. Pam described your photographs as "gorgeous." I agree with her. They are gorgeous and they are unique and simply beautiful. There is a certain ethereal quality about Erie Falls and Shawnee Falls that makes the spume of the water almost seem heavenly. There is a certain mystic quality about it that I can't exactly describe. I think Pam sees this too. I think that is what attracts us to these two photographs most. Gonoga Falls and Huron Falls are magnificent. Both of these pictures highlight the natural beauty of the Falls in realistic colors. The water dominates the scenery but it doesn't overwhelm it with the mysterious otherworldly quality. The Gonoga and Huron are two of a kind because they highlight not only the water, but the rocks, the crevices, the trees, the flow of the water and all of it looks so majestic and panoramic. The Erie and the Shawnee Falls soothe the restless spirit, but the Gonoga and the Huron Falls makes us contemplate and meditate on God's creation as work of art for us to think about. I don't know what else to tell you about these four beautiful photographs, except to tell you have you done four masterpieces. Wow! Thank you Loyd for sharing these photographs with us. Next, let me comment on the crystal glasses. Pam and I loved what you have done here. Our favorite photograph is the Diamond Lights. Hands down. I guess we both felt that the intricate way in which light and color is woven into the glass is what gives this picture its unique quality. It is a picture that plays with the colors orange and green and reddish lines and shapes them as pieces of a puzzle. It is the tone and texture of the glass that gives the shapes of color depth and beauty. The dark background makes the glass the centerpiece of attention. It captures your eye. It draws you in. And it makes you wonder how the orange color shape suddenly becomes green, then reddish, then orange as the shadows of the glass transform the shape and color. All these intricate weaving of colors, shapes and shadows in a totally black or dark background gives the glass its magical quality. It gives the image the surreal quality of being in a dream or trance. Salvador Dali would have loved what you did here. He played with surreal colors, shapes and images the same way you play with light, colors, shapes and shadows in this crystal glass. Excellent work Loyd. Next are the three that Pam and I loved best: The Winter Sunset, the Color Swirls, and the Multicolor Winter Scene 8084. These three were the opposite of the Diamond Lights. Like night and day. No comparison. The Diamond Lights was intricate weaving of light, colors, shapes and shadows. These three are marked by its simplicity, symmetry, connecting lines, corresponding points, and balance. The lines in the Color Swirls are balanced, the outline of light on both sides of the glass intersect and connect at the bottom of the glass to give the image an equilibrium and simplicity that grabs your attention. The Multicolor Winter Scene 8084 has the same simplicity of truth as the Color Swirls, but even though it is simple the play between colors on both sides of the glass is more complex, more rich, and more symmetrical. The Winter Sunset photograph is in a class of its own. Perhaps what makes this photograph unique is how you captured nature "in a bottle" speaking figuratively. Nature in the glass is inverted, or upside down. In the image, the blue sky colors are at the bottom of the glass, while the ground and the sunset is above. It makes you look twice, and once it does it captures your attention to this important detail. Wow! Does nature have a way of making us see how much we view the world upside down? Sorry, I couldn't get back to you much earlier. We had a busy day both Pam and I but we did not forget to get back to you because your photographs are really a work of art and we simply love what you did here. https://www.artwanted.com/artist.cfm?ArtID=58355&Tab=Blog Sat, 04 Jun 2011 18:40:33 MST Well, first off I must apologize for my absence but that has been due to an extremely bad set of storms that came through here with straight line and tornadic winds of over 120 MPH on Sunday and I am just now getting the net back up for us as well as the electric. I will, however, catch up to all of you in the next couple of days on new posts, comments on art work, and my viewing and commenting on the new art work from you. It was really quite bad here for us as it seems that our area, Battle Creek, was the hardest hit of all the areas. Over 300 houses that had trees dropped on them, over 38,000 without power for almost a week, streets and roads blocked due to trees and downed power lines, and them calling in power companies from all over the state, and even some from Joplin Missouri that came to help us here. How great is that? In all of this, thankfully, no one was injured and no lives were lost. The funny part for us here was that it was supposed to be my daughter and son in law's 8 wedding anniversary party when this storm hit. Talk about a blow out of a party, we sure have some here. Pun intended! I will post some photos that I took afterward on AW in a gallery just for storms. https://www.artwanted.com/artist.cfm?ArtID=58355&Tab=Blog Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:08:36 MST Currently a member of The Art Center of Battle Creek.