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Dear Helyn,
Congratulations to Dubi Roman for his BTDesign Master of 2003 winniner as best photographer 2003 .This award was created in 2000 to celebrate the Best Artist of the Year among all the BTDesign Art Gallery Guest Artists of the Month. BTDesign art gallery's purpose is to present every month the best international artists, winners of BTDesign Golden Art Site Award, in special exhibitions featuring some of their most representative artworks. Visit BTDesign at http://www.barbaratampieri.com/master.html
Dubi Roman's gallery on PixiPort link on quick links below.
A very special online photo gallery is ShutterCity, a site created for photographers by photographers. Comments, rating on your images and more. The quality of photos and the all around general information on shooting great images is to be found here. Visit them at http://www.shuttercity.com
Featured Photographers 
Featured photographers this month are Steve Chong and Huang Kai. Surreal conceptual artists that have the WOW! factor.
have found a comfortable niche in conceptual and surrealistic photography. Perceiving an idea and turning and seeing it materialize is such an exciting process. It is like pointing the camera into the real world but shooting my sub consciousness. I find the role of conceptual and surrealistic photographers is that, they are like a bridge, linking the surrealistic world with the real world. It is their task to bring images from that world into reality.
Motto:It is not what you see, but the way you see it! Steve Chong
I was born in a small town in China. My father who was a teacher brought me to the way of photography. He always used his Richo camera to take photos for me .At that time, I dreamed to become a great professional photographer. The period of studying in college had given me great changes. By magazines and internet, I had a knowledge about fine art photography and saw great images which I had never seen. I was focused by these magic images and attempted to make the similar images.
At 1997, I completed my first image "The garden of trees" .But the late five years,I put my attention to another fileld. In the period, there was no image appeared from my computer. At 2002, I was hired by a company DPNET which focused on digital camera and digital photography. It's obviously a stonemark in my life, I came back and continued to do digital photography which I like to spend all my life to do it.
Hunag Kai
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 We have added another gallery for Mitch Miller. His landscapes are what I call emotional images. Beautiful, delicate full of life.
Mitch is a up and coming artist that I would suggest to start your collection now of his art as he is climbing high and fast.
Remeber to send an email to PixiPort's artists, feedback is lifeblood for artists. 
Enjoy your journey!
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 The Voice Behind The Lens
WHEN THE STREET PHOTOGRAPHER MEETS A FLOWER
Not so long ago, I was not interested in taking pictures of people. My passion for many years was trekking to the beautiful places in the world and making art out of nature.
Five or so years ago, I drove 2 ½ hours each way to this beautiful swamp, 30 miles from the other side of Florida and took pictures of this wonderful place. Much to my dismay, when I examined my contact sheets the pictures were out of focus. I was using a Mamiya RB 67 2 1/4 x 2 3/4 format camera which, if used properly gave wonderful images which could be enlarged beyond belief. Without so much as a thought as to the content of the images, I made the same drive as I had the last week and re-shot the same scenes. This time, when the contacts came back, I was glad to see that the shots were in focus. The pictures were none too interesting, but every shot was focused perfectly. 
That was a long prelude to discussing the images that accompany this article During the holidays, I went to the American Orchid Society gardens in Delray Beach, Florida with my wife. The flowers were beautiful. When I saw the images I had taken when I arrived home, I immediately realized that my old flower shooting skills were rusty. I had used virtually no depth of field and I did use auto-focus, as I would in shooting dark street scenes. That did not work for the flowers I was shooting and I knew better. The images were focused on some point, sometimes the correct one and sometimes the wrong one. Also, the image was completely in focus about a 1/4 of an inch on either side of the point of focus because of the tiny depth of field on the macro lens I was using combined with the narrow depth of field. I returned the next weekend with my daughter. When I tried to turn on my Nikon D1x, it did not work. I had recharged the battery at home and had left it there. The spare had died a few days before and I did not have a replacement yet. I did have my Canon S50 with me and used it, knowing the pictures would not be right. This time, way too much depth of field, showing background that was unsightly was the problem. You know the rest of the story, back again with my daughter the next day and I shot the flower that I had really liked again. .
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 Fame is a curious animal
Michael Mollick
I'm certainly no expert and nor, for that matter, can I lay claim to any part of this beast. However, in younger years, I spent a great deal of time imagining what it would be like - to be recognized as affluent in my artistic field, my name revered on stranger's lips, old forgotten girlfriends pining about "the one that got away". I would confidently discuss fame's pitfalls on a chilly New Hampshire morning sipping coffee with Stephen King or late afternoon during a barbeque at the Speilberg's sun-drenched ranch. Inevitable at such times came my wife's shrill reprimand to quit leaving the garbage bags on the back porch because the trash- rooting possum was back spreading around my son's dirty diapers like a freshly strewn patch of muddy snow. Silly thoughts, really - embarrassing to write, but no less true and from what I gather, a sure signal that I was and still am, indeed, ignorant of what it's like to be famous. .
I started my artistic journey convinced that such fame would be the ultimate measure of my success, much as my sixteen year old daughter embarks on her desperate desire to become an MTV icon like Christina Aguilara. Noble, youthful dreams - backed by a great deal of talent and personal charisma. In truth, my daughter is an absolute stunning beauty by anyone's standards, a classically trained dancer who has been known, I'm told, to clear dance floors. She possesses a perfect figure which strains my comfort-level to even reference, a first rate mind, and deep down, an achingly exquisite and soulful heart. Were she actually able to carry the simplest of tunes, life might become interesting.
That being said, you'll have to excuse me while I attempt to worm my way to her forgiveness by illustrating a few things I've noticed in my own forty years of producing art in relative obscurity.
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Judy Mandolf SOLD |
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 Judy Mandolf's Exclusive one of a kind White Apples has been sold.
A select group of PixiPort award winning fine art photographers were asked to create a one of a kind signed photograph, no others will be printed.
Shipped With Certificate Of Authenticity
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Jeff Krewson |
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 My interest in photography was roused when I started backpacking in 1986. Touring through the incredible scenery of the Cascade and Olympic Mountain Ranges I wanted to have something to show of it. Thus came my photographs.
In March of 1988 the Photographic Center Northwest became my source of formal instruction when I signed up for a certificate program in "Fine Art Photography". The program was completed with a thesis show at the PCNW in June of 1999.
My time is now divided between my growing portraiture business and the creation and marketing of my "fine art" color and black and white landscape and nature prints. Fate has been kind and in the years I've been offering my work it has spread itself around the world. My hope is now to spend the rest of my life in this happy and challenging endeavor. 
When I am not working on the photography I spend my time in the recording studio that I keep. I have played piano/keyboards since the age of nine and very much enjoy making my own recordings and playing with others.
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Shirley Cross |
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 Shirley was born and raised in Oregon. She is a "young" grandmother who loves her family. Her great passion is photography.
She was always artistic: drawing and painting from an early age,trying to get 'art' photos with her brownie camera. She became serious about photography around 1984.
Shirley graduated from New York Institute of Photography in November 1991. Her photographs have been published in several magazines and calenders, and have won awards both nationally and internationally. Beginning in 1988 and each year thereafter,her photos have been included in THE BEST OF PHOTOGRAPHY ANNUAL, which is published by PHOTOGRAPHERS FORUM magazine. 
For the last three years she has had photos accepted for the Austrian Super Circuit,the largest photo salon in the world. In 1999 she received medals both in Austria and South Africa.
Fantasy and futuristic,spacey things fascinate her. At the same time she is an incurable romantic who loves flowers and the wild natural settings. Her latest thrill is using the computer to bring her imagination to life. Shirley enjoys creating art that is pleasurable and uplifting and sometimes amusing.
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Monte Nagler |
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 Monte Nagler began photographing seriously after studying with Ansel Adams. "It was during that period of intensive work that I realized that making photographs is a way to experience beauty instead of just looking at it," Nagler says. He believes that photographers should communicate feelings that are inside them. Through their photographs, a photographer should be saying: "This is what I saw and felt and I'd like to share that!"
Monte's photographs, which have won numerous awards, are found in many private and public collections including the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Center for Creative Photography in Tuscon; The Brooklyn Museum; Nikon International; The Ford Motor Company; General Electric Corporation; Diamler Chrysler Corporation; General Motors Corporation; BASF Corporation; Compuware, and IBM. Galleries and agents throughout the country also represent his photography
Monte is a noted writer, lecturer and teacher of photography. He has conducted many classes and seminars throughout the states. Not only does he write a nationally syndicated photography column, but he is also the author of two highly successful photography books; How To Improve Your Photographic Vision and Statements of Light. Frequently, he is called upon to judge contests and to speak on photography topics on local radio and television shows. 
Monte is the National Fine Arts Photography spokesperson for the Chevrolet Tahoe and is a recipient of the prestigious Artist in Residence Award from the Farmington Area Arts Commission. He is also a member of the esteemed Camera Craftsmen of America, one of 40 members worldwide.
In addition to many award and acknowledgements Monte has received, the State of Michigan Senate and House have honored him with proclamations for his contributions to fine art photography.
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