January, 2008 Hello from Santa Monica!         Water, water and more water. Seems like Santa Monica is close to floating away into the ocean with all the rain we've been getting recently. The good news is that being forced inside has brought about quite a bit of remodeling to my online galleries and has afforded me the opportunity to move ahead with some new work. I'm also in the process of working on putting together some work that will likely end up in a few gallery shows over the next twelve months... unless we float away into the Pacific first.         The online galleries were closed after New Year's for a few days to do a bit of remodeling. After reopening, there's a new look to things as well as some new work on display in several new galleries: Cnidarians, Abstractions and Urban Color. We've also enabled the ability to purchase work online directly from the galleries. I hope you're able to stop by at some point in the coming weeks and browse through things.         I've recently been working on a landscape project to augment some of the work currently on display in the La Terre gallery. Also, I'm moving steadily close to finally wrapping up the "secret" project I've been plugging away on for over the past year. As always, there's a pile of other randomness in process including further work on my soft-focus architecture project. Rock Light - Acadia National Park, ME · 2001 -         After turning the high, rusty-red crag, called Bass Harbor Head, where a squat little lighthouse, in white cassock and black cap, sits demurely looking off to sea, we see before us... a large cluster of islands, covering the approaches to a deep indent of the sea, over which the mountains bend down as if to shut it out from all intrusion. These are the Cranberry Islands... and that shut-in water is Somes Sound. - Samuel Adams Drake, The Pine Tree Coast, 1891 I had the opportunity to stop here, beneath the Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse, while traveling around Acadia National Park in the early summer of 2001. It's a magical place, particularly late in the day as night begins to seep into the landscape. Sky and ocean join together amongst swirling water crashing against rusty rock. You're truly at the edge of the earth. This print is currently showing in my La Mer gallery. Cheers, Walt Jones Why am I getting this email?! You've received this email because you signed up for the quarterly Liquid Image Photography newsletter. If you decide that you'd prefer not to hear about all of the exciting things going on, please send mail from this email address to news@liquidimagephotography.com asking to be unsubscribed.