honorable mention
Y. Hope Osborn united states
Photo © Y. Hope Osborn
title
Release
goal of improving my landscape photography. I arrived at William Kirsch Preserve at North Ranch Woods, Arkansas to be surprised by a mystic fog floating on the surface of Maumelle Lake around cypress trees and an autumnal backdrop.
This “tree” which is symbolic of me or a viewer is similar in makeup to the other ones but different too.
The Release tree is about my surrender to the process of being different and still believing that I have value; not because of anything I inherently do but because of Who created me.
Hope has an MA in Professional and Technical Writing and is published as author and artist with Woods Reader, Plants and Poetry Journal, Whitefish Review, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Writers’ Network, Awakenings, The Sunlight Press, and online Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Her works are exhibited and awarded, including Monovisions Awards, Neutral Density, Julia Margaret Cameron Photography Award, International Photography Awards, Architecture Masterprize, See|Me, internationally, online, and off in Portland, Oregon; New York City; Santa Paula, California, Arkansas—USA and Barcelona, Spain. She won Not Real Art Artist Award and $10,000 Mid-America Arts Alliance Catalyze grants.
Hope believes being a great author and artist is to be entrusted to express reality and imagination that captivates, inspires, or informs while enriching lives.
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entry description
I awoke early on Black Friday morning to go after sunrise photos with my new 2024goal of improving my landscape photography. I arrived at William Kirsch Preserve at North Ranch Woods, Arkansas to be surprised by a mystic fog floating on the surface of Maumelle Lake around cypress trees and an autumnal backdrop.
This “tree” which is symbolic of me or a viewer is similar in makeup to the other ones but different too.
The Release tree is about my surrender to the process of being different and still believing that I have value; not because of anything I inherently do but because of Who created me.
about the photographer
Y. Hope Osborn is an author, photographer, digital artist, and editor residing in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA. Her published writing includes ecological experiences that educate and entertain and personal traumas that encourage survivors and expose victimization. She relies on God’s strength to photographically document space and time of natural color environment; historic often dilapidated black and white studies of built; and more recently, where they intersect. Her absolute art is the fusion of photographs and texts of history and her story, weaving art with how she/we think, feel, believe, connect, and care.Hope has an MA in Professional and Technical Writing and is published as author and artist with Woods Reader, Plants and Poetry Journal, Whitefish Review, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Writers’ Network, Awakenings, The Sunlight Press, and online Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Her works are exhibited and awarded, including Monovisions Awards, Neutral Density, Julia Margaret Cameron Photography Award, International Photography Awards, Architecture Masterprize, See|Me, internationally, online, and off in Portland, Oregon; New York City; Santa Paula, California, Arkansas—USA and Barcelona, Spain. She won Not Real Art Artist Award and $10,000 Mid-America Arts Alliance Catalyze grants.
Hope believes being a great author and artist is to be entrusted to express reality and imagination that captivates, inspires, or informs while enriching lives.
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