BIO

I am a nature photographer/digital artist. My digital camera is my primary tool, and post-processing on a computer is how I lay my artistic style on each image. I aspires to make images that delight and inspire.

Like many artists, my journey to finding my self-expression through art has been an incredible, creative adventure.

In 2008, I attended my first photography workshop held in Bose, Montana. The workshop was taught by two Nikon professional staff members, Moose Peterson, and Joe McNally. There I learned about landscape photography, and the use of flash.

In 2011, I attended the Rocky Mountain School of Photography in Missoula, Montana. There I completed the school’s three-month Summer Intensive course and honed my photography and digital image editing skills.

Upon returning, I explored pet photography by taking online classes and photographing my three Labrador retrievers. Shortly after, I attended certified Corel Painter educator, Heather Michelle Chinn’s workshop to learn how to digitally paint and print to canvas my client’s pet portraits.

In 2014, I started my photoblog, “A Bloom a Day.” I started the blog with the intent to dedicate a couple of hours every day to making images. I traveled to attend several more professional photo workshops across the country to acquire content for my photoblog:

Richard Bernabe’s Smoky Mountains workshop
Tony Sweet’s workshops held in the Smoky Mountains, and Charleston
Denise Ippolito Swan Island Dahlia Farm workshop in Oregon.

To this day, I am still posting my “Blooms” and experimenting with different digital processing techniques. Never seeking perfection, only self-expression.

www.abloomaday.com photoblog

ARTIST STATEMENT

I am most inspired by nature, God’s masterpiece. My work usually starts with my inner child and me exploring the great outdoors. She brings her sense of wonder, playfulness, and adventure. We stroll through blooming gardens, hike enchanting forests, or meander beautiful countrysides. When I pick up my camera, she looks through it with me. However, not all is left to chance. With prior planning, I give myself the best opportunity to capture nature’s fleeting beauty in the glorious low light just before sunrise or just after sunset. Mother Nature will not be kept waiting. It’s my goal to place my feet where the magic can be captured best.

How do I go from a simple digital capture to a luscious meld of photograph and painting? It all happens on my iMac Pro. I sort through each photograph and choose only my favorites to take to my digital playground. I find joy and delight as I experiment with different effects in Photoshop. With a taste for unabashed color, I push the limits of saturation and vibrance until the pixels cry, “Uncle!” Then I pull the sliders back a notch or two. My goal is to add depth to my images. I can do this with subtle adjustments to color, tone, and texture that I paint on with a pressure sensitive pen tablet. With the precision of a traditional brush, the pen tablet is key to connecting my work to my heart.

My heart teeters between a world of intricate detail and texture to one of delicate softness and enchantment. I lean toward the real world when I find it’s intricate detail utterly beautiful. But, more often than not, I find that a simple untouched photograph is not enough to express my artistic sensibility.

Why a computer? It allows me to quickly process through endless possibilities to my heart’s content until I find what I am looking for.

Why nature? It never stops amazing me, charming me, enchanting me, and inspiring me. It often leaves me breathless. Nature is my greatest pacifier.

I hope my work transports you to a delightful memory of nature that brings you peace and tranquility.

Feb 2017 Awarded Bossier City Art Council WAM event at Boomtown 1800 Prime Steakhouse

http://www.dianateeters.com

LSUS

1985