Home    Galleries    Print Sales    What's New    Blog    About the Photographer    Links    Contact Me

Lightscapes Nature Photography
Photographing the North American Landscape

Nature Photography by Kerry Leibowitz

What's New at Lightscapes Nature Photography

August 8, 2011
Spring and Summer Images Posted
It took a bit longer than I had planned, but I finally got around to finishing the task of processing images from this spring and the first half of the summer.  There are a few images from a couple of brief forays to the Morton Arboretum in northeast Illinois back in mid-April, but the main share of the spring update involves imagery from a nearly weeklong trip to the Red River Gorge area of Kentucky during the last full week of April.  It was my first trip to the area and it was a fruitful one.  The work is divided among nine new galleries, all of which can be accessed from the What's New Gallery portal.  Please have a look.  The Gorge covers part of the Daniel Boone National Forest and Natural Bridge State Park and is an area of breathtaking (often mist-strewn) overlooks, intricate arches and natural bridges and, in the spring, abundant wildflowers.  The Gorge is just under four hours from Indianapolis and roughly 7 1/2 hours from Chicago.

All of the summer material, thus far, comes from a couple of trips to Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie in northeast Illinois.  On the site of the old Joliet Proving Grounds, the area was deeded to the National Forest Service in the mid-1990s and, after being off-limits for years due to ordinance removal and cleanup, has been partially open to the public for approximately eight years.  The Forest Service's goal is to restore the area to a true prairie ecosystem via the dissemination of native species, a project that is already well underway.  Trips there in June and July were firsts for me and you can have a look at what I came back with by checking the new Midewin gallery. 

The winter material that had resided in the "What's New Gallery" has been relocated to the appropriate permanent galleries, including a new Eagle Creek Park Gallery (nested within the Indiana Landscapes Gallery).

Awards
"The Cavity" won the Theme Award at the DuPage Art League's July mixed media exhibition.

My blog--cleverly titled the Lightscapes Nature Photography Blog--was named one of the “Best 50 Blogs that Focus on Nature Photography” by Online-Photography-Classes.com.

This Fall
During the first week of October I'll be in West Virginia's Canaan Valley area.  I was there for less than two full days--in far less than ideal conditions--last fall and immediately saw the location's photographic promise.  This autumn I hope to turn potential into reality.

April 16, 2011
Winter Images Posted
A relatively small number of winter images, from forays into a variety of spots in Illinois and Indiana, have been posted and can be accessed via the "What's New Gallery" portal.  A clear majority of the new imagery is of the black & white variety.

New Printer
Late in the fall of last year, shortly before I needed to do a significant amount of printing for a solo exhibit (more on that below), the print head on my venerable Epson 2200 bit the dust.  I'd been noodling about the possibility of purchasing a new printer for years--one with an embedded neutral black & white printing mode, one that would allow for the possibility of printing on larger pieces of paper, etc.  Now I was in a position where I had to do something and do it quickly.  I settled on the Epson 3880, which was available at a steep discount at the time, due to relatively low pricing and a large manufacturer's rebate.  I've been using the new printer for about four months now and I'm very pleased with its performance.  The ability to feel confident about printing black & white is a major step forward.  Additionally, I anticipate offering standard prints up to 16x24"--significantly larger than my present largest offering of 12x18"--very soon.

Solo Exhibit
I was fortunate enough to have a solo exhibit of my work at Gallery II of the DuPage Art League in Wheaton, IL, during the month of March.  An opening reception was held on the afternoon of March 6 and was attended by roughly four dozen people.  Approximately three dozen framed pieces were on display and for the duration of the month of March.  I've included some photos of the exhibit below:

Awards
"Backlit Tree" won a Merit Award at the DuPage Art League's January 2011 mixed media exhibition.

Next on Tap
A trip to the Red River Gorge area of Kentucky at the end of April.  Stay tuned for images.

December 2, 2010
Fall Images Posted
My mid-October trip to points east--in West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio--was a fruitful one.  Despite some extremely difficult photographic conditions during parts of three days in the West Virginia Highlands (in the form of early leaf drop, high winds and blue skies) I came away with numerous images with which I'm pleased.  The same was true for my foray into western Pennsylvania and northeast Ohio.  It took me weeks to sift through and post-process all of the material, then convert it for Web site posting.  The site has been updated and all of the new material has been deposited into a total of seven new galleries, all of which are directly accessible through the "What's New Gallery" portal.  The West Virginia images have been collected into one gallery; the Pennsylvania material has been divided into two; the Ohio work has been dispersed in four galleries.  Please have a look.

Site Administrative Matters
The images that previously resided in the "What's New Gallery" have been moved to the relevant permanent galleries.  As part of this process, the Illinois gallery structure has been revised.  What had been a three-gallery sub-divide is now six.  The Illinois State Parks and Conservation Areas gallery had become unwieldy, so I separated the Starved Rock State Park and Matthiessen State Park images into a pair of separate galleries.  Images from other Illinois State Parks and Conservation areas have a gallery of their own.

Awards
White Birch Forest #3 won Best In Show at the Danada Nature Photo Show in October in Wheaton, IL.   "Columbia Black-tailed Doe and Fawn #1" was an honorable mention at the same show.  Red Jack Lake #4 won a Merit Award at the DuPage Art League's mixed media exhibition in October.

October 6, 2010
Summer Images Posted
As I have mentioned in the past, summer is typically a very slow time for me photographically.  Last year was a notable exception due to the anomalous summer trip to the Pacific Northwest.  In the American Midwest, however, summer time is probably the least interesting and fruitful time of the year for landscape photography.  Still, I managed to get out to a few spots--including some new ones--in Indiana (Fall Creek Gorge, DePauw Nature Park) and Illinois (Franklin Creek State Recreation Area) and the fruits of those sessions are posted in the "What's New Gallery".  Please have a look.

The Coming Fall
For the first time in more than 15 months I'll have the opportunity to make a photographic pilgrimage outside of Illinois and Indiana when I head to West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio for a week during the fall color season beginning in mid-October.  I'll be visiting a variety of spots in all three states--all of them new to me--including the Canaan Valley and Dolly Sods areas of West Virginia, a series of state parks (Ohiopyle, Laurel Hill and McConnells Mill) in western Pennsylvania and Cuyahoga Valley National Park in eastern Ohio.  I'm very much looking forward to the opportunity to photograph in all of these spots.  Look for images from this trip when I next update the site later this fall.

Awards
A number of images were award winners for me over the summer and into the fall, at a variety of venues.

"Bluebells Intimate" won a Merit Award at the DuPage Art League's June mixed media exhibition.  "American Dawn" won a Special Merit Award at the DuPage Art League's July mixed media exhibition.  "Prairie Sunrise" won a Merit Award at the DuPage Art League's August mixed media exhibition. 

 "Columbia Black-tailed Doe and Fawn #1" won first place at the Images of Nature Photo Contest and Exhibition at Eagle Creek Park in Indianapolis in September.  "Grotto Falls #1" and "Council Lake at Dawn" both won honorable mention at the same show.

May 31, 2010
Spring Images Posted
For reasons I won't detail here, the winter of 2009-2010 was a shutout for me.  (If you're interested in more insight on this matter you can check out this blog entry.)  I was finally able to get out and get some shooting in during the spring, beginning in early April and continuing through early May, at a variety of spots including Cataract Falls State Recreation Area and Big Walnut Preserve in Indiana and Starved Rock and Matthiessen State Parks in Illinois .  The new spring imagery can be viewed by accessing the "What's New Gallery" page.  The images previously in the "What's New Gallery" have been moved to the appropriate permanent gallery.

Awards
"Aspen Grove Dawn" won a Merit Award at the DuPage Art League's January 2010 mixed media exhibition.  "Clouds #2" won third place at the "Take Aim" Photographic Exhibition at the Bloomingdale Park District Museum in Bloomingdale, IL in January 2010.  "Aspen Grove #15" won an honorable mention at the Artists Association of  Elk Grove Village "Trees" mixed media exhibition in February 2010.  

"Otter Cliffs Sunrise" and "The Road Less-Traveled" were both juried into "Open Lens" photographic exhibition at Gallery 7 in Joliet, IL.  That exhibition debuts on June 5 and runs through early July.  I'm particularly pleased to have these images accepted for exhibition given that more than 90% of the nearly 500 submissions for this exhibition failed to clear the jury.

November 12, 2009
Fall Images Posted
For a variety of reasons, this autumn's shooting season was an abbreviated one for me.  I was limited to a single day trip to Matthiessen State Park in Illinois and individual half-day outings to Fort Harrison and Turkey Run State Parks (both in Indiana).  While shooting opportunities were drastically reduced, I still managed to come back with a few keepers.  The advantage--and this is really a case of seeing the glass as 10% full rather than 90% empty--is that fewer shots means less time needed to post process the material.  As a result, the fall material is now on the Web site.  Two smallish galleries--one for material shot in Illinois in October and one for Indiana--have been established and can be accessed from the "What's New Gallery" page.  Please have a look.

Site Procedural Matters
Some minor organizational tweaking of the site's gallery structure has been completed as part of this update.  

All the Pacific Northwest material has been moved to a series of permanent galleries with a new portal on the Galleries menu page.  Each of the individual PNW galleries can be accessed directly from the Pacific Northwest Gallery menu page.  The PNW panoramas have been folded into the general Panorama Gallery--much as the Smokies panos were earlier--but a link to the pano gallery has been established on the PNW gallery page.

The summer imagery from the Nachusa Grasslands has been folded into the Illinois State Parks and Conservation Areas Gallery and the Flora Gallery, as appropriate.

In an attempt to keep things from becoming completely unwieldy, Indiana landscape images have been sub-divided into three galleries, all of which are accessible from the Indiana Landscapes Gallery menu page.

Blog Update
The Lightscapes Nature Photography Blog is up and running.  I've received some very gracious remarks about the content, quality of writing and presentation; thanks to those of you who've commented.  Please have a look if you haven't already.  Thus far I've posted a couple of new installments per month and, if anything, I anticipate that rate to increase.

September 28, 2009
New Blog
After much consideration, I've started the new Lightscapes Nature Photography Blog.  I'll muse on whatever's on my mind, as it pertains to nature photography.  Two installments are already in place:  a brief "Why Blog?" semi-explanation of my initiation of the blog in the first place; and a second piece dealing with my thoughts about return engagements to nearby spots versus seeking out new destinations.

I plan to update the blog with regularity--far more regularly than this page--and I hope you'll take a look and make it a habit to check in there from time to time.

Organizational Update
A few minor procedural adjustments have been made to the various page menus, hopefully adding a bit of flexibility to the site.  

Awards
"Bisti Arch Moonrise" won a Merit Award at the DuPage Art League's September 2009 mixed media exhibition.  "Elliott Creek at Miners Point" was the third place selection at the Images of Nature Photography Exhibition at Eagle Creek Park in Indianapolis in September.

September 12, 2009
Pacific Northwest Images Posted
In July I spent nearly 2 1/2 weeks in Washington and Oregon, and the vast majority of that time was devoted to photography.  I spent parts of seven days photographing in various spots in Olympic National Park and parts of eight days in the Columbia River Gorge, the Mt. Hood National Forest and on the Oregon coast.  It took me roughly seven weeks to sift through and digitally process all the material I brought home, but I've finally completed the task and updated the Web site in the process.  All of the material--along with a few images from a late June morning's shoot at the Nachsua Grasslands tallgrass prairie in northwest Illinois--is now available in a group of galleries accessible from the "What's New Gallery" page.  

The trip to the Northwest was an amazing experience.  For one thing it was, by far, the longest photo excursion I've ever taken (the previous longest trip was nine days).  For another, the locales were just incredible, whether it was the Olympic high country of the Hurricane Ridge area, the forests and waterfalls of the Marymere, Lake Crescent, Sol Duc and Hoh Rainforest regions of Olympic National Park, the wild beaches of the Washington Pacific Coast, Mt. Hood, the gushing waterfalls of the Columbia River Gorge or the seastacks and lighthouses of the Oregon coast.  Ultimately I came away--as I invariably do after visiting beautiful spots--counting the moments until I can return and explore the area again, camera and tripod in tow, of course.  Please have a look at my PNW galleries for a small taste of what I experienced: the beauty and variety of the Pacific Northwest.

Several people have asked about my Pacifc Northwest itinerary.  It can be viewed here.

Last, but certainly not least, I want to express my sincere thanks to outstanding professional photographer Jack Graham for taking the time to show me around the Mt. Hood area and the Columbia River Gorge and for all the helpful suggestions and support he provided me during my time in Oregon.  My visit wouldn't have been nearly as successful as it was without Jack's assistance and hospitality.

Kentucky Gallery
I've created a new gallery to house the images from this spring's trip to Cumberland Falls State Park.  I fully expect to add to this gallery with images from other Kentucky locations in the coming years.  Check the Kentucky Gallery out here.

The other images that had been placed under the "What's New" gallery page following the May site update have all been moved to the appropriate existing galleries.

Blog
I've been strongly encouraged by a number of people to write a photography-oriented blog and I'm giving the idea serious consideration.  Part of me--make that most of me--has a difficult time believing that I have enough to say--that anyone would care to hear--to warrant the effort, but I'm being told otherwise.  I'm presently weighing whether these people are being serious or merely polite.  In any event, if I do start a blog, I'll announce it here and definitely link it prominently on the Lightscapes home page and associated administrative pages.  Stay tuned. 

Awards
"Otter Cliffs Sunrise" won a Merit Award at the DuPage Art League's July 2009 mixed media exhibition.

May 19, 2009
Hey, not even four months since the last site update!  Things are looking up.

Winter/Spring Images Posted
A handful of images from this past winter and good number of additional shots from the spring have been added to the site.  The winter material is limited, as usual, to a few brief forays to Ft. Harrison State Park in Indiana and the Morton Arboretum in Illinois.  The spring images are more numerous and varied.  Material is included from Starved Rock and Matthiessen State Parks in Illinois, Big Walnut Preserve in Indiana, Cumberland Falls State Park in Kentucky and Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee/North Carolina.  Check it all out by visiting the "What's New Gallery" page.

Upcoming Exhibition
From approximately noon until 3 PM on Saturday, June 27 I'll be exhibiting (and selling) my work at an individual trunk show at the Visitor's Center of the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois.  I'll be perched in the foyer just outside the Arboretum gift shop.  If you're in the area, please stop by and say hello.

January 26, 2009
Another nearly five-month stint between updates.  Despite my best intentions, this appears to be the way it's going to be, barring some unforeseeable change in pattern.

Fall Images Posted
A good number of new images have been placed on the site, the function of a busy shooting schedule this past fall.  I didn't even finish processing all my fall work until well into December, and from there it took more than a month to prep the images for the Web...then additional time to actually go through the rigors of organizing them in a site-friendly way.  Material from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, central Wisconsin, Starved Rock State Park in Illinois and Pinery Provincial Park in Ontario has been posted in the "What's New" Gallery.  Please have a look.

Awards
"Otter Cliffs Sunrise" was an honorable mention at the Danada Nature Photo Show in Wheaton, IL in October; "The Z" won a Special Merit Award at the DuPage Art League's January, 2009 mixed media exhibition; "Little Carp River" won an honorable mention at the "Images of Nature" photo exhibition at Eagle Creek Park in Indianapolis in October, 2008; "Reeds and Lily Pads" won third place at the "Click" Photographic Exhibition at the Bloomingdale Park District Museum in Bloomingdale, IL.

September 7, 2008
Article Published On-line
An article that I wrote entitled "Non-Photographers Say the Darndest Things" has been published on the Nature Photographers Online Magazine site.  You can check it out here.

August 27, 2008
Summer Images Posted
Less than three months between updates--I must be doing something right.

The summer photo season is essentially over and I'm beginning to gear up for fall.  Summer shooting tends to be pretty slow for me, but autumn's another matter entirely.  I've spent the past few days working on the site--I've done some reorganizing of a couple of the galleries (they were becoming unwieldy in terms of size) and have added the fairly meager images from this summer.

It was a wet spring and first half of the summer in northern Illinois and that led to an exceptionally good summer wildflower season, the fruits of which can be seen in the "What's New Gallery."  I had the opportunity to do some shooting at the Danada Forest Preserve in DuPage County, where the prairie wildflower crop was spectacular, and in north-central Illinois at the Nature Conservancy's Nachusa Grasslands property.  I was a bit late for the best of the purple coneflowers at Nachusa, but other opportunities there beckoned.  The gallery also includes a few shots from an early summer trip to Shades State Park in east-central Indiana and from the Great Falls of the Potomac area of the C&O National Historic Park in Maryland.  The trip to Great Falls was a brief one, designed mostly for scouting, but I saw enough to whet my appetite for a future visit (hopefully) to both the Maryland and Virginia sides of the Potomac.

Exhibition Venues
September and October will be filled with exhibitions that will include my images.  

The Images of Nature Photography Exhibit and Competition at the Earth Discovery Center of Eagle Creek Park in Indianapolis will be held Sept. 20-28; 9-5 except Sunday (which is 1-5).  I'll have three images hanging in this exhibit.

The Danada Nature Photo Show will be held at Danada House at the Danada Forest Preserve in Wheaton, Illinois, Fri.- Sat. Oct. 10-11 from 1-4 and Sun. Oct. 12 from 1-5.  I'll have two images hanging in this show.

The University of Michigan Club of Greater Chicago's Fifth Annual Alumni Art Show will be held at the Madron Gallery (100 W. North Avenue, Third Floor, Chicago).  The show's opening reception is open to all and will be held on Thursday, Oct. 23 from 6-9 PM.  The show will also be open to the public from Oct. 20-24 during the gallery's regular daytime hours.

There are several other autumn venues that I'm considering; information regarding these exhibits will be posted here as it becomes available.

Awards
"Council Lake in Morning Mist #3" won a Merit Award at the DuPage Art League's August 2008 mixed media exhibition.  "Cataract Covered Bridge" won an Honorable Mention in the Alliance of Fine Art's mixed media "Restoration" exhibit at the Mayslake Peabody Estate in Oak Brook, Illinois in September.

May 31, 2008
An as yet undetermined number of my images--something on the order of a dozen or more--will be hanging in the Glen Ellyn Public Library, on the second floor, in Glen Ellyn Illinois beginning June 1.  The work will remain in place throughout the month of June.  The library is located on the corner of Duane and Prospect in Glen Ellyn and is open seven days a week.  If you're in the area and you have time, stop in and take a look.

A few more minor procedural changes have been made to the site to, hopefully, aid in identification and navigation.  On a more substantive note, additional spring images from Cataract Falls Recreation Area in Indiana have been placed in the What's New Indiana Winter/Spring 2008 Gallery.  There are now enough new images from Indiana to warrant giving them their own, albeit temporary, gallery. The winter/spring 2008 Illinois images now have an exclusive home of their own:  the What's New Illinois Winter/Spring 2008 Gallery.  Both of these galleries can also be accessed from the What's New Gallery menu page.

Awards
Just catching up on a couple of award winners from the past few months.  "Lily Pads and Reflections" won a Special Merit Award at the DuPage Art League's April 2008 mixed media exhibition.  "The Road Less-Traveled" won a Merit Award in the DuPage Art League's February mixed media exhibition.

May 22, 2008
After a delay of absurd proportions, it's well past time for another update to this page.  It's only been 5 1/2 months.  Ugh.  I've done a fair amount of shooting since the start of the year and, ironically, it's photo activity that plays a role in delaying the update of a photo Web site.  Go figure.  

I did more shooting this winter than normal--probably because winter itself here in the Midwest seemed to last longer than usual.  The fruit of that shooting--all of it in Illinois and Indiana--can be seen, in part, in the "What's New" Indiana-Illinois Winter/Spring 2008 Gallery which is accessible from the main "What's New" Gallery menu page.  

In the second half of April I spent a full week in the Smokies.  It was, almost certainly, my most productive photo trip to date.  I'd been to the area once before--in the fall of 2004--as part of a photo workshop, but this time I was on my own (though I ran into some familiar faces on a number of occasions).  I created six (not a typo) new galleries, using a subject matter theme, to house the new Smokies images.  All six galleries can be accessed from the "What's New" Gallery portal and from the new Smokies Gallery menu page, along with the gallery holding all the previous Smokies material from the earlier fall shoot.  Many thanks to Danny Burk, for making some terrific location suggestions, taking the time to show me some great spots in person and leading me to the rare Painted Trillium; to Lori Kincaid for encouraging me to visit Cades Cove on this trip (something I hadn't planned to do, but luckily reconsidered on Lori's advice); to Jason Templin, who I had the great fortune to meet for the first time by pure chance at Greenbrier and whose first rate naturalist abilities helped me properly identify some flower images; and to Bernie Kasper, who I also ran into by chance at Roaring Fork and pointed me in the direction of some rich trillium stands.  Thanks to all of you for helping to make this such a fruitful trip!

I've done a bit of minor reorganizing of the site as part of this update--nothing exceptional:  a consolidating of the front page, for instance, and a few other procedural things.  Poke around a bit.  Hopefully the changes will be seamless.

There's more to catch up on--things that have taken place in the past few months that are worth a mention--but I'll have to wait on that until a future installment--one that will come much sooner than the last one.  I promise.

January 4, 2008
All three of my images have cleared the jury process and will be hanging in a photography exhibition at the Bloomingdale Park District Museum in Bloomingdale, Illinois beginning January 19.  The exhibition remains open through February 23.  I'll post additional information as it becomes available right here.

December 2, 2007
New Mexico and Midwest Fall Images Posted--At Last!
It took a lot longer than I had initially hoped--and expected, for that matter--but I finally finished processing and converting all of my New Mexico images.  I've created four new galleries containing the images, all of which can be accessed from the "What's New Gallery" page.  Additionally, images from fall day shoots in Illinois and Indiana can be accessed in separate galleries, also accessible from the "What's New Gallery" portal.  The New Mexico imagery has been divided into galleries for White Sands National Monument, the Bisti Badlands, the Santa Fe National Forest and Bandelier National Monument.  There's a lot to view; take a look and experience my take on the incredible, beautiful variety that New Mexico has to offer.

The Illinois material from this fall is mostly from Starved Rock State Park and the Morton Arboretum; the autumn Indiana images are mostly from Ft. Harrison State Park.

My apologies for the delay in getting all of these images posted.

Awards
Since I last updated this page, a couple of my images have won awards at juried shows in Illinois and Indiana.  Gold-Tinged Forest won first place in the Landscape image category at the Danada Fall Photo Contest in Wheaton, IL this October.  Roaring Fork #4 won second place in the Landscape image category at the Images of Nature photo contest at Eagle Creek Park in Indianapolis, IN, also in October.

October 15, 2007
New Mexico
In late September my wife and I spent a bit more than a week in New Mexico.  It was my first trip to "The Land of Enchantment" and I came away very impressed and with a great number of images from White Sands National Monument, the Bisti Badlands, the Jemez National Recreation Area and Bandelier National Monument.  I've been back for a bit more than two weeks and have only managed to post-process about half of the material.  I'm very pleased with what I've seen so far and, in time, the images from this trip will begin to appear in the "What's New Gallery."  Eventually, at least one--and possibly multiple--New Mexico galleries will be created to house these images.

Another Exhibition
My submission has passed a difficult jury process and will be hanging in a mixed media exhibition and competition at the Norris Gallery in St. Charles, Illinois throughout the month of November.  The image I submitted was a black and white conversion of a shot I took while at White Sands National Monument in New Mexico in September.  The image has not yet appeared on this site, but will soon.  I'm slowly making my way through a wealth of material from New Mexico.

New Pricing
Access to some new, reliable suppliers of mats and frames has enabled me to lower the cost of matted and framed prints.  For specifics, please see the Print Sales page on this Web site.

September 13, 2007
Exhibition Venues
I have a series of exhibitions on tap over the next few months.

Beginning Wednesday, September 19, several of my images will be displayed as part of the annual juried University of Michigan Alumni Association of Greater Chicago's Art Show at the Madron Gallery at 1000 West North Avenue in Chicago (corner of North and Sheffield).  There will be a reception on the evening of the 19th between 6 and 9 PM; I'll be there.  Everyone's welcome, so if you're in the area and you have time, stop by, say hi and have a look.  The exhibit runs through Tuesday, Sept. 25; after the opening night reception, the gallery is open M-F, 9 AM to 5 PM.

I will have an image hanging at the DuPage Art League's "Paint DuPage" juried competition in October.  The league is located at 218 West Front Street in Wheaton, Illinois.  The exhibit will be viewable throughout October during the League gallery's regular hours.  E-mail me for further information.

Two of my images will be hanging in the juried Danada Nature Photo Show at Danada House, Danada Equestrian Center, Danada Forest Preserve on Naperville Road (3S501 Naperville Road) in Wheaton, IL.  The show runs from Friday, October 12 through Sunday, October 14.  Exhibition hours are 1 PM to 4 PM on Friday and Saturday and 11 AM to 5 PM on Sunday.

Three of my images will be hanging in the Images of Nature juried photo exhibition at the Earth Discovery Center at Eagle Creek Park in Indianapolis.  The show will be open to the public beginning Saturday, October 27 through Saturday, November 3.  Exhibition hours are Monday through Saturday 9-5 and Sundays 1-5.

I will have ten images hanging as part of an exclusive display at the La Spiaza Cafe, 114 North Main Street in Wheaton, IL beginning Saturday, Oct. 29 through the entire month of November.  The cafe is open Monday through Thursday from 7 AM to 10 PM; Friday and Saturday 7 AM to 10:30 PM; Sunday from 9 AM to 8:30 PM.  The images are viewable any time the cafe is open.

Five of my images will be hanging throughout the month of December at a venue in Glen Ellyn, IL; details to be announced.

Awards
To date, three of the four images I have entered in juried shows this year have won awards.  Woodland Spring won a Merit Award in the DuPage Art League's mixed media "Spring Into Action" exhibition in April, 2007.  A Special Merit Award was given to Prairie Purple in the League's mixed media "Hot" exhibition in August, 2007.  A Merit Award was presented to Gold-Tinged Forest in the League's juried "Color Me Gold" exhibition in September, 2007.

July 29, 2007
What's New Gallery
I've created a "What's New Gallery" for the site which, with an obviousness of almost painful proportions, will display new (at the time of posting) images.  The goal will be to update this gallery with some degree of regularity; it remains to be seen what reality produces.

In any event, the first installment of the What's New Gallery is in place.  Summer is ordinarily a relatively slow photography time for me and this year hasn't been a significant exception.  In my neck of the woods--northeast Illinois and central Indiana--landscape shooting is most interesting in the spring and fall, and I haven't left the region this summer.  However, a somewhat wetter than ordinary July has brought a somewhat better summer wildflower crop in northeast Illinois than I've seen in a few years and I've been inspired to do a bit of shooting with this subject matter.  A handful of images from these shoots are now posted in the What's New Gallery; after the next major update, they'll be moved to the Illinois Landscapes and Flora and Fauna galleries, as subject matter dictates.

Links Page Update
I've finally gotten around to adding some substance to the Links page.  Check it out.

Gallery Format Tweaked
In an effort to make the galleries a bit easier to view and navigate, some minor procedural adjustments have been made.  If I've done a good job--always a debatable point--the changes should be scarcely noticeable.

July 5, 2007
Lightscapes Photography Site Goes On-line
After many months--nay, years--of teeth gnashing and weeks of mind-numbing rote work, the Lightscapes Nature Photography Web site debuted on-line on June 30, 2007...though almost no one knew about it because I didn't give the URL out to anyone for several days as I feverishly endeavored to seek out and repair bad links.

The site is, by its very nature (oh, what a miserable pun), a perpetual work in progress.  It will be updated...well, as often as there's reason to do so and time with which to complete the task.  Check back regularly for--it goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway--more substantive and interesting updates.

The entire contents of this Web site, images and text, are the copyrighted property of Kerry Leibowitz and may not be duplicated or reproduced in any form without express consent.  Image rights may be purchased; please contact me to make arrangements.  Images may not be hot linked.