Moonstruck

Moonstruck has won a very special honor in the Fine Art America group The Artist Buzzz. I have been named SPECIAL 🎨🐝🏆GA FEATURE ARTIST of... more

by Lois Bryan

Title

Moonstruck

Artist

Lois Bryan

Medium

Photograph - Photography / Digital Art

Description

"Moonstruck" has won a very special honor in the Fine Art America group "The Artist Buzzz." I have been named SPECIAL 🎨🐝🏆GA FEATURE ARTIST of DISTINCTION based on Moonstruck, today, October 21, 2023. Most sincere thanks to our amazing group administrator, Laurel Adams, as well as all the other individuals who help administer this amazing group of incredible artists!!

Incredibly honored to announce that "Moonstruck" has won the "WHAT’s the BUZzz (WTB) SERIES - Emotionalism" 6/9/2021. Most sincere thanks to the contest administrator, Laurel Adams, and to everyone who voted for my image. Congratulations to the other winners!!

Excited to announce that "Moonstruck" came in second (or tied for second) out of 394 images in the Fine Art America contest ""Bella Luna or the Beautiful Moon" 9/13/18, hosted by the Myth Magic and Spirituality group. Congratulations to the other winners!! And many thanks to the contest administrator, Katherine Nutt, and of course to all who voted for my image.

Honored to announce that "Moonstruck" came in 2nd (or tied for second, depending ; )) ) out of 507 images July 27th, 2017 in the Fine Art America contest "Planets and Outer Space." My thanks to the contest administrator, Michael Rucker, and to everyone who voted for my image. Congratulations to the other winners, as well!!

"Moonstruck" tied for first place out of 604 entries in Fine Art America's "The Moon Contest" December 6th, 2016. My thanks to everyone who voted for my image and to the contest host, Nicholas Grunas, host of the "Black and White Images" group.

"Moonstruck" won second place in the contest "Cosmic Curiosities," a juried competition, on Fine Art America April 27, 2015. My thanks to Ricky Haug, the host of the contest, as well as to the jurors. Congratulations to Raymond Salani III, the first place winner, and to Svetlana Nikolova, the third place winner.

A snowy, wintery field ... the moon rising over the frozen land ... a flock of birds flying swiftly away ... as if fleeing some danger we cannot see. When I created this image, I'd been reading about the flocks of birds that had been found mysteriously dead and dying ... particularly in Arkansas, USA, but actually all around the world ... and wanted to send this little image out into the universe for them.

The original image of the field and the trees and shed was taken near Osterburg, Pennsylvania (in broad daylight), with the Nikon D40x in January of 2009. I used the 18-200mm vr Nikon lens, shutter speed was 1/500, aperture was f/11.0, exposure was -0.33, iso 400. Lots of playing in Photoshop CS4 and Version 8 and in Capture NX2. HDR in Photomatix Pro. My thanks to Skeletal Mess @ Flickr for the texture and Obsidian Dawn and Brusheezy for some of the brushes.

Fine art purchases of this image will not include a watermark, and if I may make a recommendation ... this image will look its very best on the fine art paper choice of "picture rag."

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January 8th, 2011