I will be attending four art fairs this summer, one a month starting in June with the Iowa City, Iowa Summer of the Arts on June 5th and 6th. Information can be found on their website at www.summerofthearts.org.

In July I will be in Madison, Wisconsin at the annual Art Fair on the Square, located on the Capitol Concourse in downtown Madison on July 10th and 11th. More info at www.mmoca.org/events/artfair/.

In August I will be at the Gold Coast Art Fair, held in Chicago's Grant Park, on August 20, 21 and 22.  Their website is www.amdurproductins.com/f-goldcoast-public.html.

The final fair of the year will be the Festival of Arts in Wausau, Wisconsin on September 11 and 12. 

A recent trip to Everglades National Park and Big Cypress National Preserve provided much need warmth and numerous photo opportunities. I have never traveled to these places and am now wondering why I took so long to visit. Being from the MIdwest I am accustomed to shooting in landscapes that provide open and relatively flat horizons with which I am able take full advantage of early and late light. The Everglades and Big Cypress had about as much horizon as you can ask for.   

Check out the Vintage Tractors gallery under Americana. There are nearly 100 vintage tractors on display, all painstakingly restored to their former glory. Look for additional machines in the future,

 I have added a new portfolio called Americana. In the portfolio are images depicting classic American scenes that have been engineered by the hand of man. Sub-Portfolios inside of Americana include Lighthouses, Barns, Rural Routes and Historic Sites. I'll be adding more in the future.

A number of 4x5 transparency images from my stock files have been added to the Minnesota portfolios of Canoe Country, Lakes and Streams and Lake Superior. I have thousands of images in my stock files and I'm in the process of selecting which images to include on the website. I will also be adding a few new galleries soon. Although all of the stock images are very familiar to me, they seem to take on a fresh appearance on the website. 

I found a nugget of gold while cleaning an external hard drive the other day, a folder full of forgotten images I had taken on a canoe trip in 2008. How can I have forgotten about a folder full of images? Well, I had filled a half dozen cards from the trip for a photo assignment I had done on a certain lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesota. Prior to arriving at the lake I had been assigned to photograph, I took a number of images of a lake I had to cross while enroute. I set these images aside when I got home and focused on the ones that I needed to get done. One thing led to another and before you know it the folder was buried amidst a growing pile of other folders. I was bewildered as to how I had neglected to process these, but at the same time elated that I had some nice new stuff. These photos make me want to return to canoe country, but it will be another 3-4 months before the ice is off of the lakes. In the meantime, perhaps I will unearth more gems from my files.

I have uploaded a number of new Minnesota images to the website and plan on adding more on a monthly basis throughout 2010. Check out the Woodlands, Canoe Country, Lake Superior and Lakes & Streams pages in the Minnesota portfolio and the Panoramic and Abstract portfolios for the new images. Most of the photos were taken last autumn while roaming around northern Minnesota. Next month look for a new gallery that will include images depicting Americana that will include country roads, farms, lighthouses, rural scenes and other images that depict life in rural America. I have also been photographing antique tractors and trucks and may add a gallery of these in the future as well. 

I have booths at two art fairs this summer and will display various sized framed and unframed photographic fine art prints as well as signed books.

On June 6 and 7, I will be at the Summer of the Arts festival in Iowa City, Iowa, booth number 147. See their website for further information at www.summerofthearts.org. This is a great festival with live music, eclectic food and plenty of fabulous art.

On July 11 and 12 I will be attending the Art Fair on the Square in Madison, Wisconsin, as an Invitational Artist, booth number to be determined. Details can be found on their website www.mmoca.org/events/artfair. Last year over 200,000 people attended this very popular event which encircles the magnificent state capitol square. Hope to see you at one of these shows!

Welcome to the new website of Gary Alan Nelson Outdoor Photography. From time to time this site will be updated with upcoming events and new images, along with anecdotes and thoughts from the field. If you would like to be informed of workshops and art fairs or would like to receive an occasional photo from the field, you can subscribe to my email list on the contact page.