DGZphotos by Dodgie Dator
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Photography is another way to express my creativity, the scenes that surrounds us everyday brings a lot of artistic opportunities. I love making photographs, as much as I love designing jewellery, the story in a scene faithfully captured in the frame. Creating photographs is my way to unwind and enjoy the beauty that's around us, a way to appreciate life. A very expensive hobby but in each photograph I create justifies that it is absolutely worth every single cent I invest on it.
DGZphotos is the photographic side of DGZstudios, here my photographs are featured as works of art DGZ style. DGZphotos is a collection of photographs that I've created through my photographic journey, it's a personal collection that is cherished by my dear friends and relatives. I received a few recognitions and various compliments for some of my photographs and been very blessed to be published along side seasoned professionals in the industry, through Destination Winnipeg's "Picture Winnipeg" photo contests. Photography for me is pure passion and a never ending learning experience, being involved in this artform only since 2006 has been quite FUN. With various different accomplishments in these early years gives me the willingness to pursue it further to create more and more exciting images to share.
These six cover photos represents the albums in my DGZphotos gallery, which includes two Winnipeg Albums, two Travel Albums, Artsy, Flowers, Portraits, Products, Animals, Skyshots and my personal favorite the Lowlights Album. I do have my DGZphotos in Flickr display to view my more recent images, I've uploaded all my recent images on my Flickr gallery to preserve more web space for my designs. The DGZphotos gallery on this website is a taste of my artistic flare in photography, these may be my all time faves of the thousands of images I've created so far.
Some of these photographs are published in the local tourism campaign materials for Destination Winnipeg through their "Picture Winnipeg" photo contest, and a lot of them hang on my own walls. To go directly into the gallery please click here DGZphotos .
Feel free to visit my dedicated photography and blog site DGZphotos website .
Winnipeg
DGZstudios is Winnipeg based and what a gorgeous place to be located. Cold yet always picturesque even when it's covered in snow most of the year and when the snow melts its even more stunning. Winnipeg is also precisely located for Manitoba photographic locations, Winnipeg Beach, Gimli, Riding Mountain National Park, The Wasagaming area and the nearby Ontario destination, Kenora and Rushing River.
The city of Winnipeg offers a lot of photographic opportunities in the city proper and all the nearby areas around it.
To view more Winnipeg shots a couple of albums dedicated to this lovely city in the DGZphoto gallery.
more Winnipeg
Travels
Part of the fun in photography is exploring new photographic locations, to travel and see new places. I haven't exactly toured the world but I am very lucky to get to the places I've photographed, Banff,Alberta and Victoria,B.C. are such gorgeous places.
Calgary, Alberta, Seattle, Washington, and other Canadian destinations such as Whistler, B.C., are featured in my two Travel albums. I love to travel but the time to do so is a bit limited, so I go places when I can and bring home with me fun memories and gorgeous photographs.
Come join me on my journeys to these lovely destinations.
more Sights and Travel shots
Lowlights
Lowlights is my first love in photography, where long exposures create such magnificent images. Light is the key in creating a photograph, the lack of it is the fun challenge in lowlight photography. A fair amount of my shots are taken handheld or the camera braced to a wall, since I hate carrying a tripod.
Here's an album of some of my favorite LowLights photographs I've created.
Animals
I hope you love animals as much as I do, a section in my gallery is dedicated for my animal shots. It's always fun but yet sometimes just as frustrating, trying to capture that exact moment. There are shots that would take a few angles and a lot of patience since these subjects barely pose, it could take awhile to get those priced photographs.
Portraits
Artistry in portraiture is a challenge in itself, to make the model pop out of the frame and add creative flare. Highkey photography is my personal favorite, where outlines creates the photograph with all the excess light in the scene. I favor it since it's a fun way of looking at a portrait and not just a sit down precisely lit studio, light is photography and controlling it to give way to an artistic vision is the fun of it all.
more Portraits
Skyshots
The beauty of the sky is a artwork on it`s own, in some days its nothing short of BREATH TAKING. The sky can break or make a scene, in my SKYshots album in the DGZphotos gallery it`s the sky that brings these frames to life.
All copyrights of photographs and designs belongs solely to the artist Dodgie Dator. No unauthorized use of any of the contents will be allowed without the permission of the artist Dodgie Dator of DGZstudios. All images and designs © 2004-2008 Dodgie Dator
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