Lesley Smitheringale Fine Art

March 5th, 2008

Nature’s Miracle re-visited

A while ago I posted an incredible photograph of the metamorphosis of a Monarch butterfly and I was pleased to receive this e-mail from the photographers. Here is this wonderful photograph.

Hello,

I just happened to search my name on Google and it came up with your web site and my image of the Metamorphosis of a Monarch, which I called “Nature’s Miracle.”

I am pleased you liked it. My friend, Judy Switt and I took these images on slides many years ago over a period of 2 weeks. A couple of years ago, I scanned all individual slides into my computer, and designed this image for Nature’s Best Competition. It was the big winner in the Creative Digital Category and later when they celebrated their 10 year anniversary, it was chosen as one of the “Best of the Best.” (unfortunately, they cut off the bottom of my flower in the last issue and on the web which really changed the composition).

It has won several awards since then and I have enjoyed sharing it with schools as an educational tool and with ministers as an inspirational tool with the message that your life can change.

It would indeed be a miracle for a photographer to come on something like this. But I am happy that it I was able to make a picture of the miracle of the birth of a butterfly.

Sincerely,

Ms. Gordie Corbin

gordie.corbin@erols.com

NEWSFLASH

I just wanted to thank you for putting the entire image on your site.  I was so disappointed when Nature’s Best Magazine cropped off some of the image.

This image will be hanging in an exhibit in Harmony Hall, in Prince George County, MD from April 14- June 14.  The exhibit is called “Six Friend: A Photographic Journey” There will be about 14 framed images from each of us.
We are all good friends who met through the North Bethesda Camera Club.

Thanks again.
Gordie Corbin

Posted in Wildlife
By lesart

March 2nd, 2008

Thrilled to announce my very first book in print!

I am so excited about this project which I started a while ago but it is only now available to purchase from Blurb Book Store.

This photo journal contains a selection of my flora and fauna photographs taken in 2007, in and around my garden in the Redlands area of Queensland, Australia. I have already purchased a copy which I am thrilled with and it is sitting with pride on my coffee table. It is a deluxe, hard-cover book in large, landscape format - 13×11 inches (33×28 cm) with 68 pages of full colour high-resolution photographs. Here are some photographs of it plus you can also download the first 13 pages in PDF format from the Blurb site.

Posted in Photography/Digital Art, Wildlife
By Lesley Smitheringale