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Englewood
Artist Retreat
to
Highplains Art Ranch
in Sundance Wyoming
I've had a lot of people ask me about small point and shoot digital
cameras lately.
I've even been in the market for one myself to use as a small back-up
camera.
So I've read the reviews and then made it a point to stop and play
with them at places like
Office Depot and Circuit City etc., to get a "feel" for them.
After checking them all out, I decided on the Canon S5 camera.
It's light and small compared
to my professional cameras... has a good zoom lens, quick response
time and many nice
features including image stabilization. So I purchased one from
Office Depot along
with a fast 4 gig memory card... and I gave it to my friend Marie who
was leaving for a one week
artist retreat in Wyoming. Marie is an amateur photographer
with only basic knowledge,
and I thought it would be a good test of this camera's abilities to
have her use it on her trip.
The following pictures are all from the Canon S5 camera and are in the
approximate
order that she took them. She'll be doing the narration on this
page to tell about her trip.
I'll comment with a "Note:" from
time to time on the quality of the pictures and performance of the camera.
But all in all... I am very pleased with the pictures that Marie
and this camera took.
Enjoy.
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Here I am in the Badlands of South Dakota
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This is Englewood Artist Cindy Reynolds, who is an art instructor
at the North Port Art Center in North Port Florida and the Art Alliance
on Dearborn Street in Englwood Florida. Cindy offers many different
classes and paints private commission work. Cindy organized this
artist retreat for her students and friends.
For more information you can visit Cindy on her photo web site at:
www.cindy-reynolds.com
Or call her at: (941) 473-0530
e-mail
csrrjr48@verizon.net
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My adventure started at 4:30am to catch a plane in Ft. Myers
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With a quick layover in Chicago
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The High Plains Art Ranch is located
in Sundance Wyoming on 100 acres.
Our hostess was Judy Hamm and she can be reached at
307-283-1872 or visit their web site at
www.highplainsartranch.com
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The ranch sleeps 10 hunters , artists and/or vacationers
who all enjoy the wide open space and privacy.
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The house is solid and large and laid out very well inside
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View from the side porch..
Everywhere the scenes are picture perfect.
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Front Yard
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Side yard
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Back yard
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Bar -B-Que on the porch... with an excellent view.
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Our Hostess Judy Hamm in her ultra modern kitchen...
the meals she prepared were fantastic!
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Jaynee Etter of the North port Art Center wants to help .
Jaynee can be reached at sandjetter@verizon.com
or call the North port Art Center at (941) 423-6460.
www.northportartcenter.com
Note:
The small camera flash does a fine job of lighting
this entire room....
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A dining room with a view
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The artist studio area was set up in the garage
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Note: Crisp
clear and full of depth...
these kinds of landscape photos aren't always
easy.
This camera handles depth of field very
well
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This photo takes me back to one of my all time favorite movies...
"Close Encounters"
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Note: This was a rainy day picture,
and so lacks the contrast of a sunny day and
blue sky.
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I'll always remember "Paul Neuman" in the movie
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid...
I just heard that Paul Neuman died today - September 26,
2008
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Local artwork was inspiring for us florida artists
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Shopping was of course totally different.
There were all kinds of pottery, dolls ,boots, and paintings are for
sale.
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Badlands Nation Park in South Dakota
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Mount Rushmore was awesome and we had the perfect day to photograph
this unique western monument
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George is super cool in profile !
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Chief Crazy Horse is a work in progress and supposed to be
10 times the size of Mount Rushmore when finished
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Below is a replica of the finished work of art
that will take many years to finish.
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Bison otherwise known as Tatanka to the indians.
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Fighting Stallions at the Chief Crazyhorse Monument / Museum
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This the Wyoming group of artists who joined our painting group...
It was great to meet and work with them.
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Buffalo skull in the Crazy Horse Museum.
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Sahah Rogers water color animals are vivid works of art.
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Wild Turkey Anyone ?
Turkey in the backyard of famous western artist, Sarah Rogers
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Interesting farm equipment but I have no idea what it is for.
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Karen was one of the guest artists. She invited all of us to her
800 acre ranch and it was one of the highlights of our trip... they have
their own canyon... do you know anyone with their own canyon?
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This is Freckles the mule on the Turgeon Ranch... very friendly
and curious.
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This is only "part" of their canyon
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The Turgeon Horses
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Les Turgeon, I love all the turquoise in his hat
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Moon rise over the hills.
Note: Camera is firmly seated on a fence
post 1/5th of a second at 3.5
Very sharp - and good auto focus
in very low light
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The National Park down the road from Judy's ranch.
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Must have been used for target practice more than a few times.
They do a lot of hunting out here!
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No fences here... cattle roam the range and are rounded up when
needed
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Trout stream at the "A Ranch" in the National Forest.
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This is a really cool log cabin barn!
Don't see many of these in Florida :)
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Looking for a small town ?
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This general store has something for everyone.
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Anybody for a Buffalo Burger?
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You are here....
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Abandoned house - Good fixer upper ?
It probably comes with 100 acres of land
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Judy and her puppies...there were 4 of them
but I couldn't tell them apart.
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Judy's home made bread...the best ever!
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Jaynee had to have just one more hat.
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The Wyoming guest artists enjoying lunch at the art ranch.
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Our artist workspace
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Steve Etter, accomplished artist and instructor at the North port
Art Center is in the beginning stages of his buffalo painting.
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Artists at work.
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Steve's buffalo.
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Jaynee's hawk... beautiful!
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Just having lots of fun!
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This was my version of The Devils Tower
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