{"id":1220,"date":"2011-08-10T07:14:53","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T15:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inspiringlandscapes.com\/blogimg\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2025-03-06T10:43:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T18:43:57","slug":"accolades","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/inspiringlandscapes.com\/blogimg\/about\/accolades\/","title":{"rendered":"Accolades and Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 403px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inspiringlandscapes.com\/sobfront.htm \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" title=\"Big Sur Turbulence\" src=\"http:\/\/www.inspiringlandscapes.com\/sobfront.jpg\" alt=\" Big Sur Turbulence\" width=\"393\" height=\"261\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Sur Turbulence<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;<strong><em>When I saw your work, I was absolutely stunned. I&#8217;ve lived in Big Sur all my life and never seen a sky so beautiful as what you captured in your image. You were at the right place at the right time with the right stuff<\/em><\/strong>.&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/eringafill.com\/\">Erin Lee Gafill, 2011, Award Winning Landscape Painter, Big Sur<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"width: 403px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inspiringlandscapes.com\/oakcloudablaze.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" title=\"Big Sur Turbulence\" src=\"http:\/\/www.inspiringlandscapes.com\/oakcloudablaze.jpg\" alt=\"Oak Cloud Ablaze\" width=\"393\" height=\"261\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oak Cloud Ablaze<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><i><strong>&#8220;Your photographs are world class art in the tradition of Ansel Adams and the Westons.&#8221; <\/strong><\/i>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130720072853\/http:\/\/zitoart.net\/\">Terrence Zito, 2008, Award Winning International Landscape Painter<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"width: 374px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inspiringlandscapes.com\/moonlobosset.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Point Lobos Twilight Moonset, Carmel\" src=\"http:\/\/www.inspiringlandscapes.com\/moonlobosset.jpg\" alt=\"Point Lobos Twilight Moonset, Carmel\" width=\"364\" height=\"242\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Point Lobos Twilight Moonset, Carmel<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;<em>I just love your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inspiringlandscapes.com\/moonlobosset.htm\">[Twilight Moonset]<\/a>. Even the greatest, most accomplished painter could not capture what you achieved.<\/em>&#8221; <\/strong>-MT, Carmel Fine Art Expert, 2011<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;<strong>We&#8217;ve seen thousands of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inspiringlandscapes.com\/bigsur1.htm\">Big Sur photos, but you&#8217;ve captured it<\/a>.<\/strong><\/i>&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/cfphotographers.org\/index.html\">Carmel Foundation photography critic 2007<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"width: 161px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Eeyore, by Disney\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/67\/Winnie-the-Pooh_166-1.png\" alt=\"Eeyore, by A.A. Milne\" width=\"151\" height=\"144\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Eeyore<\/strong>, by A.A. Milne<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><i>&#8220;David&#8217;s photographs aren&#8217;t as bad as they look.<\/i>&#8221; <\/strong>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eeyore#Disney_cartoon_version\">Eeyore<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Just Kidding&#8211; I made this last one up ;-). Its derived from the ironically witty &#8212; &#8220;<strong><em>Wagner isn&#8217;t as bad as it sounds.<\/em><\/strong>&#8221; . . . Which is doubly ironic because Wagner&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Die_Valkyrie\">&#8220;Die Valkyrie&#8221;<\/a> is one of my favorite music works.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Selected Awards<\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inspiringlandscapes.com\/eyelite.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Eye Light\" src=\"http:\/\/www.inspiringlandscapes.com\/eyelite.jpg\" alt=\"Eye Light\" width=\"390\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eye Light<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inspiringlandscapes.com\/eyelite.htm\">&#8220;EyeLight&#8221;<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20110220113502\/https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/blogs\/culturelab\/2011\/01\/december-2010-photo-competition-winner-light.html\">won a NewScientist International Photography Contest in London, January 2011<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inspiringlandscapes.com\/milkywaybigsur.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Milky Way, Big Sur\" src=\"http:\/\/www.inspiringlandscapes.com\/milkywaybigsur.jpg\" alt=\"Milky Way, Big Sur\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Milky Way, Big Sur<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160305112404\/http:\/\/photography.org\/je\/gallery2012.php\">Center for Photographic Art Judges<\/a> selected &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160320114143\/http:\/\/photography.org\/je\/image2012.php?n=23\">Milky Way, Big Sur<\/a>&#8221; for their 2012 Competition Exhibit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inspiringlandscapes.com\/condor.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" title=\"Endangered Condor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.inspiringlandscapes.com\/condor.jpg\" alt=\"Endangered Condor\" width=\"455\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inspiringlandscapes.com\/condor.htm\">&#8220;Endangered Condor&#8221;<\/a> won a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.culturalmonterey.org\/page\/138816\/\">Jurors award from the Arts Council of Monterey County in 2010 and was displayed outside the Supervisor&#8217;s Chambers for a year from Fall 2010<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inspiringlandscapes.com\/torosnowstorm.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Mt Toro Snowstorm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.inspiringlandscapes.com\/torosnowstorm.jpg\" alt=\"Mt Toro Snowstorm\" width=\"350\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mt Toro Snowstorm<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Arts <strong>Council Jurors of Monterey County selected two Photographs for 2012 Show: \u201cDramatic Flight\u201d and \u201cMt Toro Snowstorm.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 376px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"&quot;Dramatic Flight&quot;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.inspiringlandscapes.com\/kitestopped.jpg\" alt=\"White Tailed Kite Stopped in Mid-air\" width=\"366\" height=\"244\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Dramatic Flight&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b><i>\u201cDavid Dilworth&#8217;s photographs of the coast capture its mood, its magic, and its mystery . . . for many locals, seeing Soberanes Point looming up against the sky is the first sign that we are on the way home. Check out David&#8217;s work . . . <\/i>\u201d <\/b>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nepenthebigsur?_fb_noscript=1\">Nepenthe website-blog, Sept 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When I saw your work, I was absolutely stunned. I&#8217;ve lived in Big Sur all my life and never seen a sky so beautiful as what you captured in your image. 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