Honorable Mention / 2019 / Nature / Landscape

• Photographer
  Tom Jones, United States
• Studio
  Tom Jones Photography
• Website
  http://tomjonesphoto.net

Run exclusively by local Navajo people, Upper Antelope Canyon is one of the world's landscape wonders, natural beauty so rare and exquisite that the Navajo consider it to be sacred as a cathedral. Created over eons by the Colorado River, the Canyon is still threatened by flash floods. Navajos call it "where water makes a picture of itself in the stone." Sunlight overhead forms distinct shafts of light that slice into the canyon, changing hour by hour. Located near Page, Arizona, in the Navajo Nation, the rare colors of Antelope draws photographers from all corners of the world.

I have always said that the late photographer Harold Feinstein was my greatest teacher: I took a class from him in NYC and building on his techniques, rolling our own Tri-X, pushing it to 800, and walking the streets shooting whatever attracted us for less than a penny a shot. I shot B&W for 10 years (1967-77). I studied Color Photography at You Mind's Eye, Falls Church, VA. Since retiring from teaching on the Navajo Nation in 2014, I created Tom Jones Photography website, now 35 galleries, and 17 different jurors have chosen 11 of my color and 9 B&W photographs for fine art photo shows.

Awards *Roy Flukinger selected one of my photographs for BLACK & WHITE (August) 2015 at the Center for Fine Art Photography,
*Drector Hamidah Glasgow chose oneof Color photo selected for Center Forward (September) 2015 by Director Hamidah Glasgow at the same venue.
*Jennifer Schlesinger chose two B&W photos for BLACK, WHITE..., SE Center for Photography, September 2015.
*Blue Mitchell chose a B&W photo for INTIMATE ALCHEMY, Lightbox Gallery, Portland, Oregon (February 2016).
*Aline Smithson chose color photo for MASKS, SE Center (October 2016)
*Kevin Miller chose color photo for HOME, C4FAP (December 2016).
*Del Zogg selected B&W photo for MONOCHROME, SE Center (January 2017).
*Miss Aniela chose B&W photo fo BEYOND THE SELFIE, SE Center (March 2017).
*Arlene Kayafas selected a color photo for ANIMALIA, C4FAP, (April-May 2017).
*Debra Klomp Ching chose a color photo for LIQUID at the New York Center for Photographic Art, Juror's Selection, Jadite Gallery & catalog (April-May 2017).
*Traer Scott chose a B&W photo for GLASS 2017 and the Jadite Gallery at NYC4PA (October 2017).
*Susan Burnstine selected a B&W photo for SHADES OF B&W at the SE Center (February 2018).
*Stephen Perloff chose ONE of my color photos for PATTERNS & SHADOWS
at NYC4PA, First Place, $300, Jadite Gallery & catalog (April 2018).
*Aline Smithson chose a color photo for ONE 2018 at NYC4PA, Honorable Mention, online & catalog (May 2018).
*Crista Dix chose a color photo for HUMANS 2018, NYC4PA, Honorable Mention, online gallery & catalog (September 2018).
*Louise Fedotov-Clements chose a B&W photo for BLACK & WHITE 2018, NYC4PA, Honorable Mention & online & catalog.
*Stephen Perloff selected a color photo for PRIMARY COLORS 2018, NYC4PA, Honorable Mention, Exhibition Online & catalog (April 2019).
*BEYOND EXISTENTIALISM, a book of 52 pages of my black and white photographs, each juxtaposed with one of my published poems,
awarded 3rd place 2017 Fine Art Photography Book by International Photography Awards