Sedona Vista Fine Art Photography

Flowers for Food Raising Money for Meals on Wheels

admin — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:56:05 +0000

Well I’ve been a bit on the busy side putting together this project to raise money in honor of my dad who passed away. He was still delivering Meals on Wheels to “the old folks” when he was 87 years old. So in honor of him and to raise money for the local MOW at the Sedona Community Center I photographed the flowers and created a calendar along with prints and giclees for sale with all proceeds going to them. It has received a bunch of help from business owners in the area, from sponsors to people helping to promote the idea. Here’s where you can find out more, to help or order your 2011 calendar or prints http://www.sccsedona.org/Coates/calendar/index.html The Mayor of Sedona proclaimed the first week in March as Flowers for Food Week. Here’s an article from the Red Rock News in Sedona…

Article about Flowers for Food in the Sedona red Rock News

Press release for Sedona Community Center Meals on Wheels

admin — Sun, 24 May 2009 16:36:13 +0000

If you would like to see the press release for 89 year old hands raising money for Meals on Wheels you can check out these links.

For HTML Version
http://www.prlog.org/10242589-89-year-old-hands-raise-money-for-meals-on-wheels.html

PDF Version
http://www.prlog.org/10242589-89-year-old-hands-raise-money-for-meals-on-wheels.pdf

If you know of any news organizations that might be interested in printing this release please pass on the links. Thanks! Together we can make a difference. If you have , or know of , a non-profit organization that needs photography you can send me a request for services…. I can’t always honor every request but I’m happy to entertain ideas where I can be of help. Email bob@bcphotography.com with your ideas and contact information.

AZPPA 2009 Photographer of the Year

admin — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:38:19 +0000

The Arizona Professional Photographers Association had their annual convention in Phoenix and Bob Coates (that’s me!) was named top photographer in the print competition. I thought I had a pretty good print case but it was amazing how well it did. I’ll list the awards each image received under the images. As a quick recap the print case received Photographer of the Year, First and Second place in the Masters Commercial and Illustrative categories, Arizona Top Ten, the ASP Award and Three prestigious Kodak Gallery Awards. I’m really quite humbled yet excited by the experience. I hope I can inspire others to compete in print competition as it has really helped me to get my photography where it is today and hopefully to continue learning and improving as time goes on. I’ll be getting some of these prints posted on sedonavista.com in the very near future. If you don’t see it on the web site and need to get hold of a print faster give me a call or shoot me an email and we’ll get it started for you.

'Taking Flight' Earned first Place in the Masters Illustrative Category, Kodak Gallery Award, American Society of Photographers Award

'Endurinig Comfort' Earned Second Place in the Masters Illustrative Category, a Kodak Gallery Award and a Judges Choice Award

'Fast Food' Earned Second Place in the Masters Commercial category and a Kodak Gallery Award

Taking flight was captured in San Carlos, Mexico while I was down there on a shoot for a friends rental property. It is a composite of 8 individual images of a pelican taking off. I won’t say it took a while to capture the original images (OK maybe it did) I’d look for a bird I thought was going to take off and another one would. Or if I selected the right bird it wouldn’t fly straight across my field of view. After finally getting the images captured I spent a bit of time putting the images together in Photoshop. If you are interested in this priint you want to have a long space available like over a couch. Print size on this image can be from 5×24 to 17×80 inches.

The ‘Enduring Comfort’ Image you can find about in posts lower down the blog…

‘Fast Food’ was created in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand japaneese restaurant Shibuya where my wife and I had a couple of fabulous meals during the Wedding and Portrait Photographers convention this past March.

Enduring Comfort Image Gets Good Press!

admin — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:37:36 +0000

The press is doing a good job in getting out the word on the Enduring Comfort image which is raising funds for Meals on Wheels at the Sedona Community Center. I’ll be talking about it more in another post but the image won second place in the Masters Illustrative Category at the Arizona Professional Photographers Association convention this past weekend. It also received the prestigious Kodak Galley Award. It is moving forward in competition to Professional Photographers of America International Print Competition this June. If it does well it will be displayed at the National convention to held in Nashville… But I digress. Here are the two articles. One appeared in the Sedona Verde Valley Times and the other in the Scene put out by the Sedona Red Rock News. Both tell the story of the creation of Enduring Comfort and the quest to raise money for the Meals on Wheels program in honor of my dad Joseph Coates… Click here to download a full size PDF of the articles Sedona Scene or Sedona Verde Valley Times. If you would like to order a print click here

Article about Enduring Comfort from the Scene insert Sedona Red Rock News

Enduring Comfort Press Release Sedona Verde Valley Times

New Image

admin — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:47:00 +0000

Went to visit with my wife’s parents this past week. They live in a beautiful spot with marsh surrounding their property making it a great place to shoot wildlife… Mostly birds. I’ve been creating their Christmas card for the last few years using images captured in their “front yard.” Had two nasty days of a northeaster with rain and I wasn’t sure I’d be able to capture any new images. I was shooting in between showers and was able to get these geese and the scene. The overcast acted like a giant soft-box allowing me to capture all the detail with no harsh shadows. I combined three images to create the base for this watercolor art piece. It will grace the Baker’s xmas card but will also be available as a watercolor print. This will be printed on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Photo Rag Pearl paper up to a 17 X 22 inch print. I’d love to hear your feedback.

Geese on the Marsh Fine Art Image

Portrait Thank you note

admin — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 17:15:59 +0000

Here is a note from Genevieve Munson, owner of the 89 year old hands in the Enduring Comfort image. (see post below this) I captured her hands while creating her portrait.

Here is the text from her note…

Dear Bob Coates

Hopefully all is well with your family as well as Ed and Kathleen. The pictuer you captured of me is a true image. It is a perfect, with spirit expression to share with my family. You have prepared and given me the needful gift! With deep appreciation of your talent, I thank you for this treasure. Many who have seen the image of my hands holding the bible consider it an award winning piece. With loving regards and a greatful heart. Genevieve K. Munson.

Here is an image from her session…

Giving back to the Community

admin — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 16:57:14 +0000

One of the things I wish to accomplish with my photography is to give back to the community. In that spirit I have created the image of Enduring Comfort and all money raised in selling this print is being donated to the Meals on Wheels program at the Sedona Community Center. I will do another post on the creation of this image in the future…

If you would like to purchase this image it can be found on http://sedonavista.com under the Charity Gallery. If you would like to purchase this directly from the Sedona Community Center they now have it available through their web site http://www.accsedona.org/Coates/index.html It is available as a photographic print matted starting at 7×5 inches up to a canvas museum mount gallery wrap at 40×32.

Welcome to the Sedona Vista Blog

admin — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:48:30 +0000

This blog is dedicated to keeping you informed about changes and additions to Sedona Vista Fine Art Photography. It will also include some tutorials on how I accomplish the “look” of my work. I hope you enjoy what you see on http://sedonavista.com If you have any questions don’t hesitate to ask….