Keith Skinner

Digital Photography Workshop aimed at novice level through intermediate level
Primary focus will be on outdoor - wildlife - nature and vacation photographs.
Classroom portion will teach some basic Photoshop techniques as well as how to edit your images for pinting.
Monroe, Louisiana - Contact for more details

You will find a link here concerning my Exhibition at Monroe Louisiana's ART WITH A VIEW event.
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2005 Northeast Louisiana Watermelon Festival - Farmerville, Louisiana
*Garden Gate Image - 2nd Place
*Cattails in the Fog - Honorable Mention & Purchase Award

2005 Friends of Black Bayou Lake Photography Contest - Monroe, Louisiana
*Cottonmouth - Honorable Mention

2005 Art With A View - Monroe, Louisiana
Displayed My Bayou Visions Series
*sold over $1,500 in prints

Bayou Visions Series
2006 Boating & Outdoor Show
Monroe Civic Center - Monroe, Louisiana
January 27 - 29, 2006

January - April 2006
River Cities Art Association
Monroe Regional Airport Exhibition

January 2006
River Cities Art Association
Northeast Louisiana Agricultural Show Exhibition
Monroe Civic Center

March 2006
Northeast Louisiana Camera Club
Guest Speaker & Exhibition
Monroe, Louisiana

April 2006
Swamp Stomp Louisiana Cajun Festival
BAYOU VISIONS SERIES EXHIBITION
Austin Texas

September 2005
River Cities Art Association
Guest Speaker and Exhibition
Bayou Visions Series

Inspired by Ansel Adams dedication, perseverance and raw talent, Keith creates images that capture timeless moments of natural beauty. Sharply attuned to the interface of land and water, he uses his art to explore the many facets of those environments, encouraging the viewer to appreciate it with different eyes than before.

The bayous and swamps of northeast Louisiana have always held Keith in their magical spell, being first cast as a child on the many hunting and fishing trips he accompanied his Father and brother on. This magnetic attraction has now drawn him to live close to his childhood home, Bayou Bartholomew from which he draws limitless inspiration. He has been compelled to look closer and closer at his wildlife and nature subjects, discovering unimaginable colors, patterns and textures that are invisible from a distance.

Moreover, he has found these to make exquisite fine art images and the more he finds, the more he realizes that his search for new subjects has only just begun. He now sees the natural world through different eyes, always searching for shapes, patterns, colors and hues that combine to form an image that expresses the essence of his subjects.

Photography has replaced many of my former hobbies. I was an avid outdoorsman and hunter most of my life.
I have utilized the many things taught to me by my Father as a young man in my photography work and will go the extra mile to get an image.

There are times I will pack my handmade Pirogue (small wooden Cajun boat) with supplies to last several days and head into the swamps and wetlands in my native Louisiana. I do this for several reasons: 1) I like to shoot in areas that can only be reached by alternative modes of transportation where there is less pressure on the wildlife; 2) I am a light chaser - and will sit for hours on one scene to achieve the perfect natural lighting for my subject.

I look at the transformation from hunter to photographer as the ultimate form of catch and release...
Keith