Turning Silver, a juried online exhibition by Women in Photography International (WIPI) has selected an image of Christie Parker’s for Honorable Mention. Photographers Joyce Tenneson and Laurie Kratochvil were among the jurors for the exhibition.
The call for entries for black & white images was an opportunity for Christie to revisit her roots in photography. Christie has been shooting color stock images for Houserstock for over 10 years, but her first love and area of study was in the traditional black & white darkroom.
“I was thrilled to have one of my images selected. The honor is validating on so many levels: that photographers whose work I regard so highly were among the jurors, that my black and white images still have merit, and that I could be competitive among such a vast group of female photographers.”
Christie’s image, “Window” can be viewed in the Honorable Mention section of Women In Photography International’s 25th Anniversary Exhibition, “Turning Silver” from August 11 thru December 31, 2006.
Visit www.womeninphotography.org or follow this link to the exhibit:
http://www.womeninphotography.org/Events-exhibits/Anniversary25/Winners2.html
Add Mongolia to the Houserstock list of exotic locales! Dave &
Jan Houser's 17-day trip in July coincided with the annual Naadam Festival --
something of a Nomad Olympics and the biggest and most colorful celebration
of the year in that Central Asian country. The Housers were on hand for
festive opening ceremonies plus wrestling, archery and horseracing events.
Mongols love to be photographed, especially in their traditional ethnic
dress, so there are portraits aplenty of these proud and profoundly
photogenic people.
Staying in ger (yurt) camps, Dave and Jan also visited remote and pristine
Lake Hovsgol, hard by the border with Siberian Russia, and the great Gobi
Desert which is home to the world's northernmost sand dunes.
The Housers are among the first photographers to have fixed their lenses on
the new Three Camel Lodge, a 5-star Gobi Desert ger camp that has been
internationally heralded as a model eco-resort. The remote camp operates
exclusively and quite luxuriously on wind and solar power.
The new Mongolia file is riotously colorful and comprehensive -- a fine
selection of digital images from a wild and scenic destination that's fast
becoming a favorite among adventure travelers.
Dave Houser's April, 2006, visit to Bhutan was a cultural odyssey -- a
step back in time that presented a rare and wonderful opportunity to
photograph a traditional Buddhist society that has all but disappeared from
the rest of the Himalayan world.
The highlight of Dave's 16-day photo-tour (guided by SATW Photographer of
the Year, Blaine Harrington) was the annual Tsechu Festival, an exuberant
and earthy dance-drama that celebrates events in the life of Padmasambhava,
an 8th century Buddhist saint. It is a four-day affair featuring fancicully
costumed and masked dancers -- young monks -- who perform tirelessly on the
grounds of Paro's ancient whitewashed Dzong (a fortress-monastery). Dave
covered it all -- from ringside!
He brought back some splendid images, too, from the capital city of Thimpu,
Punakha (and its famous Dzong), Trongsa, Bumthang Valley and the even more
remote Ura Valley where Dave photographed farmers with yaks plowing/planting
potato fields -- a scene he describes as "emanating from centuries ago."
Dave and Jan Houser have announced the sale of their stock photography agency, Houserstock, Inc., to the firm's long-time manager, Rankin Harvey. The agency has moved from the Houser's home in Nogal, NM, to an office complex in nearby Ruidoso, where Harvey and his new staff will continue to service travel-related publications and companies worldwide with a rapidly expanding digital library. The business name remains the same and, of course, Dave and Jan will continue to produce images for the agency (www.houserstock.com) and will serve a consulting role into the future. Dave intends to more actively pursue his first love and specialty, self-illustrated articles, while Jan dives into a number of photo projects. Dave and jan are best reached at their personal email addresses: daveghouser@zianet.com and jbhouser@zianet.com. The new email address for the agency is info@houserstock.com.
Dave G. Houser notches a win in the 2005 North American Travel Journalist Association (NATJA) contest, claiming a top prize in the Domestic Destination category for his self-illustrated feature on Santa Fe appearing in the Asian magazine MEN'S FOLIO.
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Houserstock, Inc. owners Dave G. Houser and Jan Butchofsky-Houser win first place award at the Annual NATJA (North American Travel Journalists Association) Conference & Marketplace in Santa Fe, New Mexico (May 15 – 18, 2005), for domestic magazine feature ‘Cajun Country’ published in Wellington Lifestyles.
Our photographers are busy traveling the world in search of fresh and exciting travel, people, nature, adventure, and lifestyle images. Why not piggyback your own assignment to a trip already planned? Check our Travel Schedule and then
e-mail us (houserstock@zianet.com) or give us a call (505-354-2500) to arrange.
Rhine/Moselle River Cruise (Basel to Antwerp, plus Brussels); Colorado Rockies RV adventure, Norwegian Coast Voyage (Lofoten Islands); Grand Canyon (rafting the Colorado River); Las Vegas, NV (including Red River Mountain Spa, UT); Southeast Asia (Burma, Cambodia, Thailand).
India (a stunning new file from Rajasthan & Pushkar Camel Fair (w/ pre & post trips); New York City (see posting below) Antartica (sea voyage aboard luxury vessel Antarctic Dream); Mexico (Zacatacas, Michoacan, Sinaloa, Jalisco, Casas Grande, Copper Canyon, Puerto Vallarta), California (Tuolumne County (Gold Country), snow skiing and a winter visit to Yosemite National Park); New Mexico (including new Santa Fe, Taos, Chaco Canyon, Gallup & 4-corners “Indian Country”); Canada (Winnipeg & Churchill, Manitoba) -- If you are interested in any of these and don't find them on the site, we've lagged behind and need a kick start. Please give us a call and we'll get them posted for you!
"The Gates," by artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude, is a work of love created out of 7,500 fabric panels, 16 ft. tall, across 23 miles of walkways in New York City's Central Park. This 16-day temporary piece of art was installed 2-12-05.
Houserstock photographer, Cathy Fox Raphaelson, added a beautiful series of images (9 online, more available analog) to our collection.
At long last, the redesigned website for Houserstock, Inc. launched in mid-February.
Thanks go out for the hard work and
perseverance of our web designers at VisionDance LLC!
Thank you -our clients- for your patience.
Here it is! Enjoy:
• Close to 5,000 images at launch and growing daily
• Client Log-in Accounts
• Destination-based search
• Multiple lightbox functionality for Clients
• Online image ordering
• Free online comp downloads
Please also check out our Travel Schedule to mark new image collections that will be posted upon our photographers' returns.
Coming Soon:
• Keyword search
• E-mail newsletter sign-up
If you do not find what you need on our new site, please contact us to arrange a scan-on-demand or analog order from our more than 500,000 original 35mm transparencies.
If your search is too unwieldy for your time constraints, please contact us to arrange for our researchers to put together a lightbox for you.
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