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	"Fandancer"

	Great Blue Heron - March 2004

	Aransas Channel near Rockport Texas

	This beautiful bird was photographed while landing on her nest on top of a navigation marker near the Aransas National Wildlife refuge. The bird made several flights in and out of the nest as we circled trying to find the best light. Maneuvering the boat to capture her in the proper light was a challenge. Currents kept the boat yawing about. This rare view has her wings back in the split second before she brings them forward on landing. Herons don't always do this, and certainly rarely quite so elegantly as our beautiful princess did on this day. This photograph is unaltered and shot in existing light only. Most people think that it can't be real because the detail and drama are so intense. It is a favorite at shows and galleries.

	Our exclusive Museum Card© is included with this print Available in 12 x 18 and 24 x 30 inch signed and numbered prints. All numbered prints are individually mastered, numbered within the print and hand numbered.

Fandancer is available as part of our Fine Art Print Series - Each true archival photographic print is hand signed and serial numbered, individually mastered with serial number imbedded in each print. An Artist's Statement comes with each print. Many prints come with a Museum Card©.

253-5335 12x18 inch......................$95.00

253-5335 24x30 inch (2-3 week lead time)....$480.00

Other Signed Photographic Prints Are Available From $30.00 In Our

Standard Print Series.

Prints in our standard print series are the same quality of printing and materials as the Fine Art Print Series with a few exceptions. There are no limits on the print runs, and are not serial numbered. There are no Museum Cards© offered in this series and the sizes offered are 6x18, 8x10, and 8x12. These changes allow us to save time and money and still offer the same high quality of archival photographic print.

A 6x12 inch size may be offered as an inexpensive complement to the few 12x24 inch prints we are offering in the 1:2 format. Currently a variety of sizes is available by special order for the 1:2 format prints until a stock size is determined.

	To Go To Information Page On Framing And Matting Of Our Prints Click Here

For best results in viewing the images on this site, you should at least be able to see a contrast difference in the graph above from A to Z.

If nessasary, adjusting the brightness and contrast on your monitor should provide reasonable results.

IMPORTANT NOTE

LCD Monitors

I have noticed many inexpensive LCD monitors today have been advertising how bright they are. This may be great for some uses, but these are terrible for viewing graphic arts print work. Most are way too bright. and their advertised contrast ratios are, at best, optimistic. Advertised contrast ratios over 800/1 on any LCD monitor should be considered suspect.

There are No blown out whites in the images on this site. If you do not see detail in the bright color or white areas of the pictures, your monitor is too bright. Unfortunately, I have tested several LCD monitors from various manufacturers recently (2007) that are so bright that they are too bright on lighter colors and whites, resulting in all detail appearing washed (or blown) out. Sadly, this is even after calibration with a color meter. Or maybe I should say attempted calibration since when the monitor cannot be dimmed to black with pure white on the screen, it usually will not calibrate properly. Likewise, many images may have darker backgrounds in printing than may show up on your monitor. I rarely had these problems on CRT monitors, even really cheap ones.

CALIBRATION

Calibration with a color meter such as the Pantone Colorvision Spyder is recommended if you are really interested in color accuracy. Having said that, it is not really nessasary for viewing photography and other graphic arts on the web. Your colors almost certainly won't match, but unless you are going to compare a print to the screen, the colors should still be pleasing.

If you have never used a calibrated monitor, you will probably find it a bit weird and unnatural at first. The screen will probably look dim and yellowish. But that is only because you have gotten used to looking at monitors that are factory set with more of a blue cast. After a while, the uncalibrated monitor will start to look as unnatural as it really is.

Monitor calibration is very important to individuals preparing work for press printing and other printing processes. Therefore, I use a calibrated graphics CRT and a calibrated LCD for preparing all the masters for print work. Both of these were moderately expensive monitors.

For the web, I use an inexpensive old 17" CRT that is set on the default factory settings so I see what most of the world sees.

Why I Don't Like The Web For Displaying High Resolution Art

Simply, on the web you are looking at graphics with a maximum resolution of 72 dots per inch (dpi). Since human vision can generally distinguish detail down to about 300 dpi, most lithographic and digital printing processes print at 300 dpi, though some can print as tight as 600 dpi.

Fandancer, the heron shown above, for example, makes a stunning 24 x 30 inch print (7200x9000 pixels). But as far as I'm concerned, you cannot tell that from that from the image above. I could have taken that with a 2 mp point and shoot camera and gotten better results for the web. Better, yes, better. Downsizing large images for the web tends to make highly detailed images lose detail, and can even, on certain images make them actually look softer. Conversely, an small image with low, even soft detail can look extremely sharp on the web, or as a small print, but enlarge it, and it will look soft.

To at least give the viewer a chance to see some of the detail of the prints, I have included enlarged inset images on some pages. But they are still only 72 dpi.

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Website Notes:

11-11-07 A Major Update of about 50 new ly added images in several galleries. All of the initial galleries are now open!!!

Flowers expanded to two pages Burr Clover, another garlic chive, flame acanthus (hummingbird bush), lilies, and Turk's Caps added.

Auto Racing, Oil and Gas Industry, Raptors, and Trains and Railroad Galleries are now open. A few autumn scenes were added for the fall in a new Fall Colors Gallery. The wildlife (mammals) gallery is now open. The Auto Racing Galleries are (so far) divided into three sections, Vintage Sports and Sports Racing Cars, Vintage Formula Cars, and Dirt Track, Modified, and Stock Cars Galleries. The Oil and Gas Industry Gallery is called "The Oil Patch" and is located in the Scenic Views Gallery.

Very wet Cardinals were added in the Cardinals Gallery in the Songbirds Gallery. A Yawning Gull (Open Wide) was added to the Gulls and Terns Gallery. A wood duck portrait was added in waterfowl. A gecko and a bullfrog were added in the reptiles gallery. (Is anybody out there interested in 'gators?) A peaceful harbor scene with sailboats and snowy egrets was added in the Atmosphere Gallery, which is a part of the Scenic Views Gallery And a take on a curious parking situation is presented in the Statements Gallery with "Free Parking - Western Style"

Absolutely Stunning Painted Buntings added to Songbirds Gallery

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8-20-07 Roseate Spoonbill Chasing Great Egret added in Spoonbill page of Other Wading Birds - - v1ExtendedWPSc1.freeway

8-8-07 Scenic and Abstract Gallery Added - including: It All Goes By In A Blur -- Atmospheric Scenic Views -- The Oil Patch --Making A Statement! -- also, Cardinals Gallery Wing added in Songbirds Gallery - v1ExtendedWPS.freeway - minor revision on 8-9-07 to Panoramic page adding links in pictures.

8-3-07 Panoramic Page and Framing and Matting Information Pages added - v1ExtendedWP.freeway

Major update 7-22-07 Master title - Scott Kilgore Photo v1GLardehbpwsGB1CFHSW.freeway

All bird and other wildlife galleries up (though not complete) except: Raptors -- Cardinals in Songbirds -- Autos and Auto Racing -- scenics -- art pieces -- sunsets -- railroads --