Nibbling at Contests & Exhibits
Throughout the year I apply to several juried exhibits and contests. I usually choose local exhibits but I do apply to international online contests and have had some success with both. It is always exciting to see my acceptance into one of these in my email box. I feel inspired and honored to be recognized.
I am particular about which juried exhibits and which online contests to enter. At times there are thousands of entrants from around the world in these. And to be nominated in one of them is humbling.
This was the case for me when I recently found out my photograph, “Tree Trimmer” (shown above) was nominated in Refocus Award’s Color Photography Contest in their Wildlife category.
I especially enjoy being chosen for local exhibits where I can see my work hanging in a gallery. There is usually a reception for these exhibits so it is extra special to be able to talk with the people who come to view the exhibit.
Both the online fares and the gallery events have their unique gifts for artists. Online my art is seen by a much larger audience worldwide. Local galleries hang my art on an actual wall and I have the opportunity to meet people in the art community personally, both other artists and patrons.
I am going to be in two local galleries this summer and am looking forward to their receptions.
I hope to see you there!
“Craig” will be in Sacramento’s Viewpoint Photographic Art Center’s
July 9-August 2
Craig is a Super Tusker in Amboseli National Park in Kenya. When I took this image of Craig in November, 2023, there were fewer than 25 Super Tuskers remaining alive.
“View From the Caboose” will be in Roseville’s Blue Line Gallery Membership Medley Exhibit.
June 28-August 8
I took the background image of elephants crossing the salt bed in Amboseli with Mount Kilimanjaro behind them while on safari in Kenya. I created the foreground image of the little girl in a vintage caboose with Adobe’s Firefly AI software and made it into a composite image.
This image was selected in this years’s IPA (International Photography Awards.
Nancy Chadwick is a fine art photographer based in Davis, California.
She has spent over fifty years recording her life and travels with a camera - first as an art student at Purdue University, and later as the quiet second thread running alongside a forty-year career as a psychotherapist.
Since retiring from clinical practice in 2021, Nancy has returned to art fully, camera in hand. Her collections are drawn directly from her travels: repeated safaris across Africa, seasons spent in Paris and Venice, and the golden landscapes of Northern California she calls home.
What distinguishes Nancy's work is her process - each image begins as a documentary moment in the field, then is transformed in post-processing into something closer to painting or drawing, blurring the line between photography and fine art.
