Woodland Camera Forum to host free images presentation April 20 – Every day Democrat

The Woodland Camera Forum will current a free images presentation of the American West on Monday, April 20, at 7 p.m. on the Living Hope Church, 240 N. West St., in Woodland.

The photographer, Phillip Venable, will showcase his photographs and tales about his travels all through the American West. He will concentrate on Arizona, Yellowstone and South Dakota, with just a few pictures from Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico and Oklahoma.

Venable has been taking pictures photographs since he was a child, when his dad gave him a Kodak Brownie. He studied black and white images in school and had plans to be a photojournalist till life intervened. After spending an maturity in regulation enforcement, he picked up his digital camera once more and started making artwork.

Venable’s desire is nature/panorama, however he’s drawn to shapes, traces, and shadows discovered within the city landscapes. His favourite topics are previous rusted vehicles, trains, deserted buildings, and brightly coloured doorways. He makes use of a number of plugins in Photoshop to create surreal pictures from in any other case abnormal photographs. He has used Nikon gear because the Nineteen Seventies and creates photographs in each shade and black-and-white, relying on the subject material and temper.

Venable is the President of the Napa Valley Photographic Society, and a member of the Fairfield Suisun Valley Art Association, the Vacaville Art League, the Art League of Lincoln, Gold Rush Photo Club, and the Lightwriters Photography Club. He can be a member of the Professional Photographers of America and the Photographic Society of America.

His work has been proven at Viewpoint Gallery, Sacramento; Yountville Community Center, The Old Sugar Mill, Arata Fine Arts Gallery, and the Roseville Brewing Company, together with exhibits on the Vacaville Art Gallery, the Napa Public Library, Solano Town Center Gallery, the Gallery at Village 360, Lincoln Art Gallery, and is a resident artist at The Little Art Shop in Benicia. He has received a number of awards at native exhibits and contests, together with a Juror’s Choice Award on the 2013 Vacaville Art Gallery Juried Art Show and a People’s Choice Award at a member present in Fairfield. He has additionally introduced images packages at Rocklin Arts and the Napa Valley Photographic Society.

For extra details about his images, go to his web site at www.philipvenablephotography.internet. He can be on Facebook as Philip Venable Photography, and Instagram as philip.venable. Contact him at philip@philipvenablephotography.com.