Design You Trust

Had some of my work featured in +Design You Trust , a designers inspiration blog.  Check them out!
Enjoy!  

Illusion Portrait Photography by Oktawian Otlewski

Abduzeedo

Had a photographed featured in +Abduzeedo 's Daily Inspiration !!!

Check It Out!!!

East Coast Ink

Got published in this amazing new magazine East Coast Ink !!!  Check out the "New Again" edition and spread the love.  You can view the magazine for free and purchase it thanks to +Issuu .

East Coast Ink Issue 001/ New Again/ Winter 2013

P85Mag

Got published in P85Mag!!!  Check out the amazing fashion work that the team created.  Thank you all this shoot was amazing....here is a sample but check out the rest HERE!

Buy your copy here!!!

Thank You Montana

I would like to take a moment and thank Montana Paint for creating some of the best artist spray paint and paint products that make my projects bright and clean.

Thanks Montana!!!

Luminaries

Come out to +SCAD - The University for Creative Careers  Atlanta on October 3rd for and Artist talk and work by Dan Estabrook!  Come and see alternative process photography works many well known names in the art world and see Luminaries, Alternative process works by SCAD students. Also including works by Blue Shoes Collective Members: +Emma Dobbs, Alicia Collins, and +Alexander Hadjidakis.

Griffin Selects

Come see my work, and other Blue Shoes Collective members, on Friday, September 27 from 7:30-9:30pm. at +Atlanta Photography Group (APG) show, Barbara Griffin Selects.  This exhibition is part of the +Atlanta Celebrates Photography 2013 Festival.

APG: Barbara Griffin Selects

tik-va lan-ti-gua

Absolutely beautiful works by young, up and coming, printmaker/photo-experimenter/hoarder/insta-sculptor Tikva Lantigua!

Come, Look and Follow...Enjoy!

tik·va \'tēk-və\ lan·ti·gua

Collins Surface Manipulations

Alicia Collins is a fine art photographer who has an amazing sense of balance when it comes to the destruction and manipulation of photographic surfaces.  Starting with a photographic image, Collins then tears, burns, rips, paints on, and covers the surface with debris, leaving only a tiny glimpse of the original photograph, giving it tremendous depth and texture.  Enjoy!

Alicia Collins: Photography

Blackwood

Stunning, erotica, photography and writing by Kincaid Blackwood leaves you wanting more.  Check it out....

Kincaid Blackwood

Yesterday I Was Clever

Come out Friday, September 13th to Big House Gallery for the Castle Berry Hill Art Stroll! Enjoy a wonderful evening filled with photography, art, food, and good company with the Blue Shoes Collective first group show, Yesterday I was Clever.

Blue Shoes Collective

Follow the +Blue Shoes  Collective!!!!     This is a group blog/ photography collective, that I am a part of, that posts articles, updates, news, and events on anything and everything art/photography related.  Check us out and start following!!!

Blue Shoes Collective

Gravure Critters

Check out the extension of my "Jar Critters" series... its a group of Jar Critters that are printed in color using Photogravure and other alternative printmaking processes...here is one... check the rest out at my website            O-OPHOTO.COM

Troposcope

Come out and see video and media installations by +SCAD - The University for Creative Careers  Printmaking students Friday, August 23rd, 2013 at CherryLion Sculpture Studios in Atlanta GA.

Amazon Art

A review of +Amazon.com  new fine art market, by the Director at New York Fine Art Appraisers, +Danielle Rahm.  Feature by +Forbes.com.

The Real Risks Of Buying Fine Art In Amazon's New Online Art Marketplace

New Print Collaborative

New print Collaborative by Ben Eine & D*Face!!!  Featured on Wooster Collective!!!

NEW COLLABORATIVE PRINT BY BEN EINE AND D*FACE

Art Print Surface

Dr. Ruth Pelzer-Montada's take on were the art print stands in todays contemporary world.

THE ATTRACTION OF PRINT: NOTES ON THE SURFACE OF THE (ART) PRINT

Featured on: Printeresting.org

Mammoth Indigo

Listen to some amazing tunes by +Mammoth Indigo to help get the creative juices flowin'.  Check out their single Rapture & catch them live on tour now in a city near you.

Daily Inspiration

Find all types of inspiration, that is updated daily, at +Abduzeedo !!!

Photo by: +Ben Hewitt                Abduzeedo.com

Jar Critters

Check out my new body of work Jar Critters, now on my website o-ophoto.com

Jar Critters

Falling With Ease

Funny photographs of people falling with ease by Brad Hammonds, featured by +A Creative Blog.

Interesting People Photos Falling with Ease

Art Whino

Check out some amazing up and coming artists from the D.C., Maryland, Virginia areas.  This collection of artists are very active in the area and work on shows with and are represented by +Art Whino.   Art Whino.com

The Tracker By: +Graham Franciose                                            Graham Franciose's Interweb place

Professionalism

A few tips about professionalism in an article featured in +Photo District News (PDN). Enjoy!

End Frame: The Importance of Professionalism

Polaroid Book

              A fun article featured in +ARTnews Magazine about a man who made a book out of polaroid photographs taken by famous artists like +Chuck Close and  +ANDY WARHOL. Enjoy!

Art News: Camera Ready

The Afronauts

"The Afronauts" by Cristina de Middel

         One of the best photographic books I have seen to date is The Afronauts, by +Cristina De Middel . Using staged photographs and fake documents, Middel recreates her interpretation of the failed attempt at launching the first African space program in the country of Zambia in 1964.  This body of work is currently being shown at The Copper House Gallery in Dublin, Ireland.

Orderly Conduct

A very interesting investigation of how people use and act similarly in public places.  Photographer +bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad composites images of people into one space to show how similar people are based on background.  Enjoy!

Bahbak Hashemi-Nezhad "Orderly Conduct"

Elegant Violence

A beautiful exploration of the elegance and brutality of Rugby. +FlakPhoto.com features Amy Elkins' series Elegant Violence.

Amy Elkins, "Elegant Violence"

Check out some beautiful wet plate collodion portraits by +Alexander Hadjidakis .

Alexander Hadjidakis Wet Plate Collodion

Check out my amazing girlfriend & photographer, +Stephanie Eley's work at the +NBAF Gala tomorrow night in Atlanta Ga.

http://nbaf.org/2013-gala/

Welcome to my new blog everyone!

Just so that you don't get your hopes up, don't expect too much writing from me.  I will be primarily using this blog as a place to post interesting articles or images that I find inspiring.  Visit daily for new posts and inspiration.

Lets start the blog off with a bang.  Here is an article posted by +The New York Times about a Romanian Woman's Son who was suspected of stealing and burning several Picasso's, Matisse's, and Monet's worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/19/world/europe/romanians-tale-has-art-world-fearing-worst.html?ref=arts&_r=0