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About Me
Photography has always been very interesting to me. I love how you can capture a moment in time and go back to revisit it anytime you desired.
I was given my first camera, a Polaroid Land Camera, for Christmas when I was 11 years old. Since then I’ve had all sorts except the ‘real film' 35mm camera. It was far too technical. Give me a point and shoot any day. That was until 2009 when I looked through the lens of my sister-in-law’s DSLR. Wow! I felt like I could do some serious damage with that. So I invested in my first, a Canon7D.
Creating digital art with Photoshop had also been a passion since 2005 but since discovering Instagram in 2012 all that began to shift. A new love had stolen my heart all because of doing a 365 project (a photo a day) with my iPhone.
Mobile photography along with mobile editing has become my latest challenge and passion. I do mix it up occasionally with a bit of Photoshop accompanying my mobile art.
After growing up in cold North Dakota, I reside in sunny Texas with my hubby Blake.
Achievements
2017:
Plains Art Association Exhibit: first place Photography Enhanced, "Vintage Poppy" plus purchase awards.
Brownfield Art Association Exhibit: An honorable mention for Vintage Garden plus purchase awards.
Juried exhibits:
Lubbock Arts Festival Juried Gallery, "A Night on the Farm", "Modern Coneflower"
Other Exhibits:
WTPS PhotoPlains
Lubbock Camera Club Exhibit
MPA: Mobile Photography Awards, honorable mention in Still Life, "Autumn Still Life"
Published:
Somerset Digital Studio Vol 10 Issue 2
"Living the Photo Artist Life” magazine:
Issue No. 25 "Coneflower Abstraction"
Issue No. 26 "Vintage Coneflower", "Modern Coneflower"
Issue No. 28 "Vintage Poppy"
2016:
Local Color Studio Tour, Lubbock Texas
Brownfield Art Association Exhibit: first place Photography "Defining Age" plus other numerous awards.
Post Art Guild Show: third place Abstract, "Fractured Sunflowers"
WTPS PhotoPlains Exhibit: third place, “Midnight Moos”
Juried exhibits:
311 Gallery North Carolina, "Fractured Sunflowers"
mDAC Mobile Photo Art, Palo Alto, CA: "Her Next Glory"
Lubbock Arts Festival Juried Gallery, “Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner” and "Yellow Umbrella"
MPA: Mobile Photography Awards, honorable mention in Visual Effects, "Crimson Passion"
Greenwich Mobile Competition: Top Twelve "The Shovel"
Published:
"Living the Photo Artist Life” magazine:
Issue No. 13 "The Shovel"
Issue No. 14 "Gemini" and "Beauty"
Issue No. 19 "Time Flies"
2015:
Buddy Holly Center Fine Arts Gallery, The Semi-Arid Landscape
“Tangled Boundaries”
WTPS PhotoPlains Exhibit: second place, “Defining Age”.
Lubbock Arts Festival Juried Gallery, “Defining Age”
2015 Local Color Studio Tour, Lubbock Texas
Published:
"Living the Photo Artist Life” magazine
Issue No. 4 "Yellow Umbrella"
Issue No. 6 "Painted Sunflowers"
Issue No. 7 "Seeking Grace"
Issue No. 8 "Sunflowers No.5", "Curious Little One" and "Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner"
2014:
Mobile Photography Awards, honorable mention in Still Life and Macro categories. “The Dance”, “Yesterdays' Stitches”
Lubbock Arts Festival Juried Gallery, “Time Travel”
2013:
Illuminance 2013
Buddy Holly Center: First Place, “The Autumn of Life”
High and Dry XIII
International Center for Arid and Semi-Arid Land Studies; Texas Tech University;
“Baren”, “Prairie Grass Dazzle”
WTPS PhotoPlains Exhibit: third place, “The Getaway”
2012:
High and Dry XII
International Center for Arid and Semi-Arid Land Studies; Texas Tech University; “Dragonfly”, “West Texas Sky”
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All works © Roxi Hardegree 2017.
Please do not reproduce without the expressed written consent of Roxi Hardegree.