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Recent work | Hopeful yellow flowers

  • Post author:Allison Kendall
  • Post published:March 28, 2019
  • Post category:Fine Art Prints / Monterey / Personal Work
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From recent travels to California, these vivid yellow pincushion protea flowers stood in bright contrast to their dark green foliage. Spotted while on a waterfront walk in Monterey, with blustery…

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Dark and moody storm | Monterey, California

  • Post author:Allison Kendall
  • Post published:January 24, 2019
  • Post category:California Photography / Monterey / Personal Work
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It was just another blustery, spring day on the California coast, with scattered rain showers and blank overcast skies accompanying my drive South from Santa Cruz to Monterey. With glimpses…

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Transitional Light | Manitoba, Canada

  • Post author:Allison Kendall
  • Post published:September 27, 2018
  • Post category:Fine Art Prints / Personal Work / Stories & Studies
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Spring and autumn are rich with photographic inspiration, contrasted in blooming flowers and fresh growth or colourful falling leaves. However, my favourite aspect of these two transitional seasons is the…

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Paeonia, peony, perfection

  • Post author:Allison Kendall
  • Post published:June 7, 2018
  • Post category:Fine Art Prints / Macro Photography
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Is there any flower more beautiful than the peony, bursting with elegant, ruffled petals? Each bloom is at once refined and tousled, often softly fragrant, and so quick to fade…

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Tofino, British Columbia

  • Post author:Allison Kendall
  • Post published:May 31, 2018
  • Post category:Travel Photography
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Any coastal locale in the month of May is likely to be a beautiful place, but Tofino, British Columbia seems to have natural beauty and charming village scenes to spare.…

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Desert Spring

  • Post author:Allison Kendall
  • Post published:March 15, 2018
  • Post category:Fine Art Prints / Stories & Studies / Travel Photography
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Spring in the desert is a gorgeous display of contrasts, with lush vegetation and colorful flowers blooming against the hard edges of a rocky landscape, punctuated by the sharp spines…

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Scarlet poppy flower and raindrops, macro

  • Post author:Allison Kendall
  • Post published:February 24, 2018
  • Post category:Fine Art Prints / Macro Photography
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Everyone knows the copper, orange-gold of California poppies, particularly as they form drifts of color across the hillsides of a Western summer landscape. This poppy is of a slightly different…

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Pastures of Heaven

  • Post author:Allison Kendall
  • Post published:March 14, 2014
  • Post category:California Photography / Fine Art Prints / Monterey / Stories & Studies / Travel Photography
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Pastures of Heaven

"After the bare requisites of living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed. He leaves his proof on…

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Happiness is a butterfly…

  • Post author:Allison Kendall
  • Post published:April 8, 2012
  • Post category:Fine Art Prints / Macro Photography / Updates & Insights
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Happiness is a butterfly…

“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” - Nathaniel HawthorneMore butterflies, flowers,…

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Still Life: Tulips in Blue Vase

  • Post author:Allison Kendall
  • Post published:March 28, 2012
  • Post category:Fine Art Prints / Stock Photography / Studies
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Still Life: Tulips in Blue Vase

Fresh and delicate signs of spring, captured in the tradition of still life imagery. Fading flowers in a second-hand blue vase, shot in the diffuse light of my kitchen window,…

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February Blues

  • Post author:Allison Kendall
  • Post published:February 10, 2011
  • Post category:Bloom | Spent | Flower Photography / California Photography / Macro Photography / Stock Photography
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Water droplets adorn a pale blue wildflower after an early spring rain, California This time of year can feel a bit like limbo - with each new glimpse of warmer…

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