Landscape photography at Bowentown beach during Rotorua Camera Club Weekend

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I like this shot because it doesn't follow the rule of thirds. 
  I get sick of following rules so I break out sometimes. 
My work is often about moody  colours and soft surfaces than about having a whole pile of technical things ticked off. 
But I realise if I'm going to start winning any PSNZ awards I  may have to change. Yawn
Either that or they need to get some artists on the judging panels. 
 They also need to get some younger edgier and female judges on the panel

 This  was made at dusk while twisting the lens. 
It's impressionist and ghostly. 
The light was beautiful at Bowentown on dusk

This is a shot of Jing with arms up looking like an angel or a bird.
An improvement would be to clone out the tree and straighten the horizon, but I love the light.

 Raewyn and Jing my roommates for the weekend.  

An improvement would be to straighten the horizon because it looks a but like they are heading down hill.

I like the pink and the mist of this shot at Bowentown beach

The sunset was like strawberry icecream 

Liked the sihouetted bushy grasses with the textured sky. 

A lot of my work is about appreciating textures. 

This rock and background like a lot. 
The mint green of the sea is enticing. 

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 I liked the big waves that were kind of like whales. 

The milkiness of this appealed to me . 

I used a graduated  ND filter on manual. 

You use these filters to do those classic slowed down waterfall scenes. 

 The Lonely Hut 

Altered in colour efex pro. 
 Im getting a grauduated ND filter and a polarising filter this week.
 I want to do some slowed down water shots because they look mystical. 

Creative Quote of the day
Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Khalil Gibran

Super moon at Waikite Valley, Rotorua, New Zealand by Janet Keen Photographer.

       Super Moon with my man

 Supermoon over pine clad hills  Waikite Valley , Rotorua New Zealand.

                                 Sunset

                                at the beautiful

                               Waikitie Valley

                               after going for a swim in a private pool at
       Waikite Valley Hot Springs on a beautiful winters evening.

 Creative Quote of the Day
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator. Mahatma Gandhi
                            

Graham and the super moon at Sulphur Point Rotorua.

Sulphur Point Rotorua, Photo Safari with photographer, Janet Keen.

This morning my husband and I went to Lake Rotorua Lake front and walked to Sulphur Point and back. 
It's a nice easy track and took only an hour there and back by the time I'd stopped for photo's.  
These are some of the shots I took. 
The bird life is bountiful here. 
If  I were a bird photographer from overseas this is where I would go to.
The range and proximity of birds is a photographers dream.

A fantastic bird Safari photo workshop could be run from here.

                                               Pukeko

                                            White duck family

                                             With a brownand white duck

                                           family move away then towards me

                                            Fantail Resting

                                                    Geese

                                              Geese in another light

                                                      Geese and swans

                                                       Grasses

                                                            Five Finger Leaves

                                                          And seeds

                                                      Manuka Stumps

                                                         Manuka Flowers

                                                 Pukeko

                                                   Gulls

                                                    Pukeko and gull

                                                      Gull on post

                                                              Gull on tyre

                                                 Gull on rock

                                            Shags on rock with swallows flying

                                      Scapus on water , shags on rocks , gulls on rocks

                                                Scaups resting near Float Plane

                                             Flying seagulls Autumn trees

                                             swan

                                           swallows

                                             Ducks

                                                         Moulting Bull rushes

          

                                                   Geese

                                                  Manuka Flower Close Up
All Photographs For sale 
Phone Janet Keen on 073463435
or email jkeen@clear.net.nz for prices

Decoupage By Janet Keen, Rotorua Artist, as seen in the Rotorua Daily Post.

Decoupage classes
Monday to Wednesday mornings. 
From 9.30am to 12noon
$35.00 per hour plus materials.

Phone 07 346-3435 
Text 0273513887
Email jkeen@clear.net.nz
Janet Keen Drop In Creativity Classes  
374 Clayton Road, Rotorua, New Zealand

Childrens book illustrating workshops with pupils of Janet Keen Artist, Rotorua, New Zealand

This is Momoko's first illustration with me. 

 

 It is Derwent Inktense watersoluable coloured Pencils on Water Colour Paper

 Then we glued it onto some thin MDF board.

 

 This is kyles goldfish illustration. 

Kyle has been with me since he was eight so I have lost count of what number painting this is. 

He's entering it into an art competition. 

He is using acrylic on stretched canvas.

 This is his tropical fish illustration. 
We are concentrating on giving his fish form though modelling light and shade.
I think maybe he could do a trout next, it's up to him. 

Creative Quote of the day 
 Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. Plutarch


If you want to guarantee that your child becomes a better artist and has fun doing his or her own thing with a variety of mediums  from mosaics to oil paint. 
Give me a call now on 07 3463435. 
Email jkeen@clear.net.nz
After school places available on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 3.30pm to 5.00pm For one hour. 
Small classes and kind teacher. 
$25.00 per child per one hour class. 
Most materials included. 
After school pupils will be encouraged to do an illustration per week outside of class in visual diaries. 
All ages and abilities are welcome. 
The most important thing is they are really enthusiastic about art; the rest is practise and patience. 

Rotorua Vision board Specialist Janet Keen

 Vision Board Making Consultations. 

I have run private vision board sessions for people for the past 6 years. 
They last two  hours and cost $65.00 per person including materials. 
In that time we make a mind map and do a collage, Have a talk about what is the next step and have some fun in my  creative studio.



My friend Lyndsay  is a trained counsellor and she came around and made one this week. 

She did one with me at my place two years ago and she has accomplished practically everything on it 

I have accomplished a lot on mine. 

However the big one, a trip to Italy hasn't happened yet. 
I am waiting with quiet anticipation for a large amount of money to fall out of the sky. 
Someone needs to buy from me a $14,000 mosaic commission and I  would be off.