PJ BOYLAN PHOTOGRAPHY

I’ve been asked to present a short course in the spring for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s continuing education division titled “Travel the World Without Leaving Home.”  There will be 3 two-hour sessions April 21 and 28 and May 5, 2009. I wanted to let you know to save the dates in case you are interested in attending. The first session will be about my upcoming trip to Vietnam and Cambodia. The second will cover Egypt and Jordan and the last will be on my December, 2007 safari in Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe plus short visits to Soweto and Capetown in South Africa. In addition to showing my fantastic photographs ))  there will be an educational component in that we will discuss some culture, history and/or current events concerning those countries. Watch this page for registration information.

I apologize for those of you who may have tried to find me at the Fine Arts Festival in Wausau. I had sprained my ankle badly at the same time I was packing to move my household and studio and I had to cancel my participation at the fair. Because my computer was not up and running there was no time to contact my list of art friends. 

I can now take photo orders again. Also I definitely will be at the fine arts festival in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin September 27-28. It’s a lovely time of year in Wisconsin and Elkhart Lake is a lovely place to spend that weekend. So–come to the fair!

Unfortunately, I have had to set my gallery page options to not accept comments. The reason is that the page is being spammed a LOT. There must be software programs with robots that automatically leave a long list of URL’s on the page so that their pages get higher rankings with search engines. I end up having to constantly delete them. Since this takes up too much of my time several times a day, I tried installing a Captcha program which is supposed to prevent this but it didn’t work. The spam programs must have a work around. So instead, I set the options for no comments at all. We’ll see how this works….. But you can still leave comments here on my blog…PLEASE! I want to hear from you.

One of my photos, “Moored”, has been juried into PHOTOMIDWEST 2008. The winners of the seven-state competition will be exhibited in the Wisconsin Union Galleries on the University of Wisconsin campus, September 26-November 11, 2008. An opening reception with a talk by juror Lisa Hostetler, will take place on September 26, 2008 from 7-9pm in the Memorial Union. PHOTOMIDWEST is a regional biennial month-long celebration of photography.  Lisa Hostetler is currently the associate curator of photographs at the Milwaukee Art Museum. She came to Milwaukee in April of 2005 after four years in the Department of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

If you go to the Schedule page you will find that several of the art fairs have assigned booth numbers. So, if you plan on attending, check that page so you can see my booth number and find me more easily. I hope to see you soon!

Happy Summer!

PJ

May was competition month for my local club and the state camera clubs organization. I was happy to have received a bunch of ribbons and a couple of medals. Among the award winning photos are a few old ones and some new that have not been shown before. I hope you can come to one or more of my art fairs to see some of these new favorites.

I have recently added many photos to the gallery page on this site. You can access it through the link to Photos in the right hand column. It’s not complete yet and I hope to update it regularly. There is another place where you can see 20 of my images online.  Here is the URL: http://copamilwaukee.com/New/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=7836  After you view my photos, I would like your comments here if you have time. THANKS!

PJ