June 2011 Calendar Wallpaper is Here! Glow of Sunset III, Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge
The June 2011 calendar wallpaper is here! Breathe in the fresh air, bask in the glory of the setting sun, and admire the grace of a flock of snow geese with this month’s calendar wallpaper of Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge on Assateague Island, Virginia. Download the calendar wallpaper of Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge here, in [...]
May 2011 Calendar Wallpaper: World War II Memorial
The May 2011 calendar wallpaper is here! This month’s calendar wallpaper features the World War II Memorial, which is one of my favorite Washington, DC memorials, not only for my personal fine art photography work, but also for engagement photography sessions. Download the calendar wallpaper here, in a resolution appropriate to your computer monitor. And view [...]
April 2011 Calendar Wallpaper: Lilies of the Water
The April 2011 calendar wallpaper is here! Spring is in the air, and this month’s calendar wallpaper features a pair of water lilies at the amazing Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens in Washington, DC. In a few months, the water lilies will be up in few force, and I will be recommending the location for engagement photography [...]
Bare Walls Be-Gone at Hutton Patt Title & Escrow
Last week, I spent about five hours at the offices of Hutton Patt Title & Escrow in Potomac, Maryland installing 15 pieces of Chris Patt and Whet Hutton’s favorite photographs of the American landscape, including a few of your favorite spots here at home. Check it out! And if you’re buying a home or refinancing, [...]
Bring Spring to Your Home with “Red Spring”
It’s cold out there! We can help you bring spring and warmth to your home while snow still dots the air! Empty spaces on the walls of your home or office? Consider a few pieces of fine art photography to brighten your living or workspace and to remind you that spring is just around the [...]
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IRENE ABDOU PHOTOGRAPHY Award-Winning Fine Art Photographer Specializing in African Cultures, Landscapes, Nature, and Architecture Fusing fine art & photojournalism to create images that are simply…unforgettable
On Exhibit: “Of Fairytale Kingdoms” at the Shirlington Library, Jan 3-31, 2011
Last March, I exhibited 10 photographs from my “Of Fairytale Kingdoms” collection at the Arlington Public Library, Central Branch. The exhibit coordinator from Shirlington Library saw my exhibit and called me up just a few months ago to invite me to show at Shirlington Library. So I will be launching the new year with 11 photographs [...]
New Orleans: Garden District
This is my last New Orleans photo story post. This is where I spent my last morning in New Orleans. The Garden District. Classified as a National Historic Landmark, the Garden District is known for historic southern mansions. In fact, this collection of mansions may be the best preserved in the United States. The staircase [...]
November 2010 Calendar Wallpaper is Here! “Turret Arch Red IV,” Arches National Park, Utah
A few days ago, I got a call from the Gallery Coordinator at Shirlington Library in Arlington, Virginia. Turns out that she had seen my May 2010 “Of Fairytale Kingdoms” fine art photography exhibit over at Arlington Public Library, Central Branch. She enjoyed it so much that she put me on her list and called [...]
October 2010 Wallpaper: Zion’s Fire IV
Now that I remember that we’re already a week into October, here is the month’s calendar wallpaper. The title of this high dynamic range (HDR) image is, “Zion’s Fire IV,” and it’s part of my “Of Fairytale Kingdoms” fine art photography collection. I chose it for this month because this image has just been accepted [...]
New Orleans: French Quarter Charm
The Spanish-style architecture of the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana dates back hundreds of years to the 1700s. It is distinctive for the intricate, wrought iron balconies and central courtyards of the multi-story homes, and quaint doors, windows, and stoops of the 1-story homes. Mardi Gras beads, collected by residents each year as they [...]
September 2010 Wallpaper: Light & Motion Abstract
A few weeks ago, I taught a Light & Motion photography workshop at the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair in Gaithersburg, Maryland. I headed back to the fair a week later to work on my own focus blur-zoom blur technique. My abstracts were some of my newsletter readers’ favorites, so I’ve decided to make one available [...]
Light and Motion Abstracts
During my photography workshop last week on Light and Motion: Photographing the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair last week, I wanted to focus on my students, so I didn’t do any of my own shooting. However, I did get the chance to catch two hours of the fair on the last day this past weekend, before the [...]
More Fountains, Lilies & Other Beauties at Longwood Gardens
A week ago, I posted photos of the amazing Longwood Gardens Fireworks & Fountains performance. There’s still one more show left (in September) for the year, so you might want to see if you can catch it. You won’t be sorry! When we drove up to Longwood Gardens, we arrived in the afternoon, so had a [...]
Fireworks & Fountains at Longwood Gardens
My flight leaves from New Orleans back to DC in just a few hours. I’ll go away with a lot of satisfaction and the distinct belief that New Orleans is an incredible, wonderful city. I’m also utterly exhausted, though, from all the walking (in the heat too!), so at the same time, I’m glad to [...]
DC Memorials at Night: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and World War II Memorials
I’ve been so busy with portraits and weddings this summer, then I’ve only just gotten around to processing the photos I shot at my DC Memorials at Nightphotography workshop three weeks ago. We started out at the Lincoln Memorial, then headed to the Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) Memorial, and ended at the World War II Memorial. [...]
Lilies of the Water
After finishing up Megan’s portrait photography shoot at her house in Washington, DC last Sunday, I headed back to Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens for another hour to get a few shots of the lilies by themselves. The garden land was initially bought by a guy named W.B. Shaw, who farmed water lilies in the marshes as a [...]
My artwork is now listed with the Museum of Modern Photography!
Just wanted to let you know that a selection of my fine art photography is now listed in the Museum Store of the Museum of Modern Photography in Pleasant Hill, California! Check it out on pages 2 and 3 of the Museum Store! Here’s the Museum’s mission statement: The founding members of the Museum of Modern [...]
Photographer Review: Irene Abdou
A member of the Gaithersburg Camera Club – Rosemary Smith – approached me a few weeks ago. She is taking an Intro to Digital Photography course at Montgomery College, and her class was given an assignment to write a report on a famous photographer. She felt strongly about interviewing a photographer whose work she felt [...]
Prepping for My Next Next Exhibit: Of Fairytale Kingdoms
Last weekend, I was prepping for my next next exhibit, picking out the 10 images, figuring out what sizes I’ll print them in, and drawing out the schematic of their placement. My next next exhibit will be at the Arlington Public Library, Central Library Branch in Virginia, and I’m calling it, “Of Fairytale Kingdoms.” Since I just [...]
More from the American Southwest…Utah
I’ve finally finished processing all my photos from my two-week Christmas-New Year’s road trip through the national and state parks of Southern Utah. You might notice I’ve also been playing around with textures in some of the photos. Fun!!! My next fine art exhibits will be in April (Art League of Germantown’s “Shades of Spring” show) [...]
Utah Parks Road Trip, Day 13: Arches National Park, End-of-the-Road
Alas, this is our last morning in Utah before heading home to Washington, DC, so we definitely had to get up for the sunrise. Of all the places we’ve seen around Moab, I must say that Turret Arch by the North and South Windows is my hands down favorite. It’s where we started on Day [...]
Utah Parks Road Trip, Day 12: Arches National Park and Behind-The-Rocks, Moab, aka, Day of the Fruitless Search for Mystical Tukuhnikivats
We’re exshausted, having spent the afternoon on a wild goose – or should I say wild arch – chase through the Moab wilderness. We were searching for that most mystical of arches, Tukuhnikivats, the unpronouncable. No one we asked had ever heard of it, not the park rangers at Arches National Park nor the woman who [...]
Utah Parks Road Trip, Day 11: Arches National Park, aka The Day I Almost Died
OK, perhaps I’m being a little dramatic. But still, this is the day that I’ll never forget. The day my Yaktrax fell into the abyss. The day I was stuck way out in the funnel. The day I was too paralyzed to move forward, too petrified to move back. Like always, it all started out in [...]