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Location

P.O. Box 13207, Sacramento, CA 95813

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(916) 719-1776

Hi, I’m Ingrid!

A life of words, pictures and entertaining.

In 2011, unusual circumstances found me in Italy as a photo novice with a new camera (my first), hanging out with art history and photography graduate students from Texas A&M. I had a M.A. in Art which was abandoned for 40 years in favor of building a career. Throughout that time I observed my surroundings and developed an obsession with nuance. Five weeks in Florence, revealed my new voice very quickly through photography. I learned the term for what I shot was called “Street Photography.” The images I frame are stumbled upon, sometimes with objects appearing in precise arrangements as if waiting to be noticed. If the subject is posing, it’s for another lens, unaware of my presence. The compositions are simple, with a photojournalistic attitude as if revealing a snippet of information and begging the viewer to finish the story.

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Blog

Entering Contests

There are lots of ways to get better at what you do, I happen to believe that entering contests is one of the best ways to bump-up your game. Whatever your passion, hobby, creative endeavor or profession – there is some type of competitive activity that pits your work against another. Besides the thrill of […]

Naming Your Photos by Parkinson’s Law

Some photographers spend endless hours agonizing over naming their photos. I think about titles, but I don’t obsess over them, I let them come to me. I randomly consider many options, but rarely make a final decision until I have to fill out a form requiring a title. And miraculously – that’s when it comes […]

About Critiques: Using Critique Techniques to Select Photos for Contest Entries (3 of 3)

Here at number 3 of 3.  After we’ve talked about listening and learning in #1, and editing, cropping and revisiting in #2, we come to #3 which all about critiquing your own work when it comes to selecting images to enter into contests. Let’s imagine you’ve decided to enter a photography contest and you found […]

Workshops, Classes and Shows

Selected past shows

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Viewpoint Photographic Art Center

July, every year

Viewpoint Members Show

2015 J Street Sacramento, CA
https://viewpointgallery.org

Viewpoint’s annual Members Exhibit shows both the artistic quality and the diversity of its members. The show includes over 90 images ranging from alternative process, to black and white, digital and time-lapse photography. The Members Exhibit brings this eclectic range of technical skill and artistry together in one large and visually impressive exhibit.

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PHOTO FÊTE, Crocker Art Museum

An interactive event celebrating photography and featuring a digital exhibition of regional photographers. Five of my images from “Hola Baja” are in the digital show. The show is part of the inaugural photography Month Sacramento 2018.

 

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The Built Environment

Artworks that feature the effects of the built environment on people, including how they flourish or feel pain, and both aesthetically celebrate the built environment and raise questions about its effects in specific situations.

2018 – long-term installation
Rincon Consultants
Sacramento, CA

“Abandoned”
A structure built in the form of a giant mermaid. Her belly houses a restaurant with white linen tablecloths. She sits abandoned on a hillside in Baja Mexico.

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In the Groove 2018

International Print Exhibition of Original Album Cover Artwork
http://bwac.org
Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition
Brooklyn, NY
“Skeleton Crew – Dance All Night”
“Freeway Bandits – Sunday Morning”
“Rica Soli – Three’s a Crowd

OPEN CALL group photography show. “Of Time and Place.” Juror: Gene Kennedy, Viewpoint Photographic Art Center, Sacramento, CA. $1,000 prize money, matting only (no framing necessary), gallery show and online sales. Entry deadline April 11, 2024.

Viewpoint Photographic Art Center – Of Time and Place

Want to learn more about how to marry your words and pictures? See complete teaching schedule at  TheBookInHandRoadshow.com

2024 Spring 

Sierra College Community Education 
  • Create a Memoir – Your Slice of Life Stories  2/24/2024 (live)
  • Write with Purpose – Step Up to Nonfiction  3/16/2024 (live)
  • 60 Minutes to a Better Story  4/2/2024 (zoom)
  • Start Organizing Your Book Today  4/20/2024 (live)
  • www.sierracommunityed.org

2023 Fall 

Sierra College Community Education 

2023 Spring, Summer  

  • Write an UPBEAT MEMOIR
  • 60 Minutes to a Better Blog
  • Start Organizing Your Book Today
  • Let Pictures Drive the Words
Sierra College Community Education

Spring, Summer, Fall 2022 

  • Write an UPBEAT MEMOIR
  • 60 Minutes to a Better Blog
  • Start Organizing Your Book Today
  • Let Pictures Drive the Words
Sierra College Community Education
  • Let Pictures Drive the Words
  • Create a Memoir Book: Your Slice of Life Stories
  • Start Organizing Your Book Today

Spring/Summer/Fall 2021 

Sierra College Community Education

  • Start Organizing Your Book Today (Spring, Summer)
  • Winning Book Awards (Summer)
  • Write Engaging Travel Bogs (Summer, Fall)
  • Let Pictures Drive the Words (Spring, Fall)
  • Create a Gift Book for the Holidays (Fall)

Fall 2020

Sierra College – LIVE online    

“Start Organizing Your Book Today”

Class Fee: $69.00  #2727e

Sept 15 – Oct 6, 2020 (4 classes)

Weekly – Tue 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM

Learn what’s important and what’s not before you start putting your book together. You’ll get tips to ease you through the writing and assembly of the essential, but non-creative, parts of your book. In the end, you’ll know how to turn your story into a real book without feeling like you forgot something in the rush to get done.

 

Workshops and Classes 2019

Sun, Sept 15 & 22 1-4pm

“Write Blogs that Entice and Inspire”

Crocker Art Museum

216 “O” Street Sacramento, CA 95814

(Two Sunday afternoons – free street parking)

$60 members, $80 nonmembers

REGISTER ONLINEhttps://www.crockerart.org/event/2123/2019-09-15

(916) 808-7000

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Sat, Sept 21 10am-1pm

“Miffed by the Book Parts…what they are, where they go, and why they’re important to your book” (learn about the intro, index, epilogue, dedication, table of contents, why you really need them, or not).

Elk Grove Adult & Community Education

8401-B Gerber Road

Elk Grove, CA 95828

(One-day, morning workshop)

$39 registration, $15 material fee

REGISTER ONLINE

http://blogs.egusd.net/egace/always-learning/community-education-enrichment-classes/

(916) 686-7717

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Sat, Oct 5 11am-4pm

“Letting Pictures Drive the Words: writing travel stories that entice your readers to return”

Sierra College Community Education

Nevada County Campus
250 Sierra College Drive

Grass Valley, CA 95945

(One-day workshop)
$59 registration; $10 materials fee

REGISTER ONLINE www.sierracommunityed.org

(916) 781-6280

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Wed, Oct 9, 16, 23, 30 6:30-8:30pm

“Create an Anthology: Turning special stories into gift books”

Elk Grove Adult & Community Education

8401-B Gerber Road

Elk Grove, CA 95818

(Four Wed. night classes)

$89 registration, $15 material fee

REGISTER ONLINE

http://blogs.egusd.net/egace/always-learning/community-education-enrichment-classes/

(916) 686-7717

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Tues, Oct 15, 22, 29 6:30-8:30pm

Create an Anthology: Turning special stories into gift books”

Sierra College Community Education

Roseville Center Campus

316 Vernon Street, RM #255

Roseville. CA 95678
(Three, Tues night classes)

$59 registration, $15 material fee

REGISTER ONLINE

www.sierracommunityed.org

(916) 781-6280

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Friday, Nov 1

“Compiling an Anthology: how to capture and organize the special moments and memories before they flitter away”

California Writers Cub, Writers Network

Location TBD

Time TBD

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