GalleryM is our new series focusing on visual artists whether their preferred tool is a camera, an inking pen or a paintbrush. First up: Ben Raynor, an Australian photographer that currently displays his works at Broken Toy Shop. 

Coffee Shot
Q: What are your preferred subjects for your photography? 
A: I like shooting spiders and insects (I am looking for a macro lens to help with this). I enjoy shooting people but I really need to learn a lot more before I can say I am any good. I would like to learn …

Jennifer Squires Photography 
Last featured: April 24, 2008 
I initially featured Jennifer Squires’ photography because I was attracted to the stark simplicity of many of her images. This feeling carries on to her latest work, where she also manages to make me insanely envious of her travels through Greece. I wanna travel ::pout:: Ignore my tantrum and enjoy the photos. 

Gateway to the Past, 8″ x 10″ print for $35.00

The top item on my “must do” list- also the item that gets bumped to the bottom constantly- is to travel outside the United States. I’m the only one of my friends that hasn’t yet and I would love nothing better than to take off for a few weeks to navigate through Peru or tour through Europe. But even budget traveling costs more than I have ever had (or currently have) at my disposal.
I’ll have to live vicariously through Scarlet Beautiful’s gorgeous photos taken during the photographer’s European travels. Artistic …

John W. Golden Digital Arts
Last featured: April 7, 2008
My original piece on John W. Golden Digital Arts ended up being a love letter of sorts to his 1950’s pop art reminiscent Lunastrella series of designs. That wasn’t fair to the other, equally worthy themed series that Golden has in his shop. So this post features one item from most of the remaining categories. If you like one of these prints, click the corresponding category in his shop to see more like it.

Instrument, 6″ x 14″ print for $30.00  from …

I love the surrealism that runs through many of Elle Moss‘ photographs. Processing techniques and the subjects themselves have a dreamy, hypnagogic quality. Each image is printed using archival inks on 5 star archival Luster paper. If you would like your image printed on Matte, Velvet Rag or Glossy paper that can be arranged. Elle Moss is also willing to compromise on the size of the image to fit your needs.

Bird Print, 8′ x 10″ for $30.00

 
When I first read the tagline of Jennifer Squires Productions Contemporary Photography, I thought it said “Fresh Photography for Hip Homies”. When I figured out that the last word was actually “Homes”, the theme of stark beautiful images made a lot more sense. But now is the perfect time to buy up some of the photos for your homies since Jennifer is running an Earth Week Sale of Buy One 8″ x 10″ and get one free. Act fast because the offer is only good through April 25th. Because of the sale, I’m …

 
I try to only include five products maximum for the Indie Retailer spots. One reason for this is to keep the post length in check. Another reason is that many of the business featured either don’t have more than five products or don’t have more than five products that I would like to highlight.
I had the opposite problem with John W. Golden Digital Arts. I could have featured every one of his numerous prints. But that would lead to a very, very long post so in the sake of fairness …

 
Sorry for the late Retailer post. It has been a busy day with Admiral Fallon resigning and Sinbad still being alive. But I bring forth some lovely images to sooth your tired eyes.
Jared in Kansas has nature based photography with subjects ranging from bright flowers to a stormy prairie. Price breakdown after the images.

Konza Prairie Wildflower