New Galleries!

Good news! I'm working on updating all of myimage galleries. In order to provide a better shopping experience, I've adopted a new browsing and shopping platform. You can still order via a secure server using PayPal with your credit card; register and keep track of your orders; take advantage of my periodic special offers online; and enjoy an enhanced gallery experience. You can view the newest work at this link: http://photo.parkerparker.info. The galleries here will continue to be active for the near future, until I can migrate everything into the new system. Please let me know how you like the new site!

Current Work

The photographs on the right are part of two ongoing series that I've been working on the past year: "Images of the Great Lakes", and "Stories Told in Things Left Behind". Additional images are still online in this preview gallery.

Spring 2012 schedule

I continue exhibiting my work in several national shows, starting in February. Come by to see and purchase my new work at the Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival, at Atlanta's Dogwood Festival and the spring Bayou City Memorial Park show. And I'm excited to be back in Artisphere in Greenville, SC in early May! And there are a few new shows being added weekly. Check out my current schedule here.

Gallery representation

I currently have work represented at these Detroit metro gallery locations. My most popular images from Michigan as well as shots from the desert can be viewed and purchased here, so stop by and tell 'em I sent you.

Note cards

I've developed a new line of holiday and seasonal notecards this year. Available as single cards, or boxed in sets of 5, the holiday cards feature non-denominational winter scenes. Two other series focus on the natural world, in both sepia-tone and color. Read more about them, here.

News and special offers

I send out newsletters and links to new work periodically. If you'd like to be on the list, please add your information here. We can meet up on Facebook (parkerparker) and Twitter (@dakkid), too.

Thank you for being a part of my community and for the friendships new and continued throughout the year.

-- Jim

August 18, 2011

Path to Empire

Path to Empire

The photograph above was shot on a recent trip to Sleeping Bear Dunes, in upper Michigan. The bluffs and surrounding area are classic Michigan. I've posted a few of these images here, and will have them on exhibit at my upcoming shows.

If you have an interest in our prairie past as I do, you may find my ongoing project to photograph homesteads, ranches and farms of interest. The shot below is from a tiny ghost town in Southwestern South Dakota, and is part of the "Stories Told in Things Left Behind" series, in the new gallery section.

Splendor in the Grass

Splendor in the Grass

An old machine shop, several outbuildings and an abandoned Mercedes Diesel -- perfect subject matter. This shot and others like it from Ardmore, South Dakota are some of my favorite images. I've found this area of South Dakota fascinating to return to as I photograph the detritus left behind when people move on. You can see these photographs at shows this spring and summer.