We’re having a contest. Tell me which version you like best and why, by posting a comment below.

One lucky winner will receive a complimentary print of your preferred version OR you can choose 1 of 50 images from our Hawaii Collection. See them here.

The image will be printed as a satin photographic paper print (approx 8×12″), and will include free delivery.

The winner will be announced July 4th and will be chosen via a random draw. Good luck!

Here are the two versions:

Profits from print sales are donated to cancer research!

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We’ve also added new images to the Images of a Promise website. Sit back and watch the opening slideshow in full-screen. Our wedding art looks best when viewed BIG. Viewing The Brides’ Ballet, for example, on a 30″ colour-calibrated monitor is wicked. It’s the first image on the new slideshow, so check it out.

Thanks go out to Photoshelter, Graph Paper Press and WordPress. We couldn’t perform these upgrades without them.

There will be more upgrades coming your way during the year, too.

Enjoy.

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These images focus more on the holiday resort aspect of Kona, volcanic rock, and a pretty rare look at an abandoned energy turbine farm in the southern most tip of the USA. Keep an eye out for the cow. Enjoy.

More images to come. Click here to view all the images to date.

A display of nature's perfect symmetry.

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For those that follow this blog regularly, you’ve already seen a larger selection of Hawaii Images.

Click here to view the full Big Island Archive with images that document different aspects of the Big Island, AND with larger versions than available on this blog. (Pssst, more images will be added on an ongoing basis, so check in regularly if you’d like to view additional photos).

All images are available for personal and commercial use.

Click here if you can’t see the following five images. Enjoy!

Tree branches posing as snakes in Kona, Hawaii

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Click here to view all my Hawaii images, and to learn more about this amazing oasis.

Sun sets over lava rock in Kona Hawaii.

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It was also one of the last times I photographed using 35mm film. Back then I only shot for fun.

I’ve been reviewing hundreds of images to archive, and it was enjoyable finding the Hungary negatives and scanning them into digital images. And so, they’ve been given new life, and are now part of my permanent digital archive.

Following are just a few images. Click here to view the rest of them.

Budapest, Hungary

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Downtown Toronto is starting to look a lot like Times Square in New York, especially at Yonge and Dundas, next to the Eaton Centre.

This image of the Toronto skyline, captured just before dusk, with the CN Tower in the background, shows just how busy our downtown core is. Wouldn’t this photograph look great in a commercial real estate office?

Toronto Cityscape. Click to view full-size version.

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As much as I grumble about terrible driving conditions, blustery winds, sleet and ice during our Toronto (Canada) winters, I find the coldest season of the year very beautiful. Especially in The Beaches neighbourhood, where yours truly currently resides. For the urbanites out there, there is actually life east of Yonge Street and south of Eglington Avenue. Get with the program already (yes, this may be a gentle poke in the ribs to those who think the 15 minute drive from downtown is too long).

The Beaches is an amazing oasis. Great community of people, local retailers and small businesses. And an ever-expanding roster of restaurants and cafés, too.

The images in the above slideshow are my first foray into nature photography. They were captured during a snowstorm on the beach and boardwalk. Yes, it was cold. Yes, I had to protect my camera gear from the elements while shooting. And yes, my hands were pretty darn cold at times. BUT, you would never think these scenes are from Toronto’s waterfront. Winter in The Beaches is spectacular (or the BEACH, for those who choose to be politically correct).

I’m really excited to offer these images as part of the Image Archive. These Winter Series photographs are great for Holiday Season Greeting Cards, fine-art canvases, custom prints and editorial use, just to mention a few uses. Simply click on the image you’re interested in to see all the options available. If you can’t see the slideshow, click here to be taken directly to the Winter Series Gallery. I’m planning to make the Winter Series an ongoing project, so check in occasionally to see more.

Thanks for reading.

Winter in The Beaches, Toronto Canada

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Dean Oros Photography offers a fully searchable database of stock images for sale.

With quality stock images now available from a variety of online outlets, many photographers find it makes better sense to self-distribute their Stock Photography Images available for business and personal use. Large organizations such as Getty charge pretty high fees to image buyers, and take large commissions on image sales. Unless the photographer’s images are heavy sellers, they often don’t feel they receive enough dividends. Many photographers used to make their living solely from shooting stock. That’s happening on a MUCH smaller scale now. It’s only for  a specialized few. This is happening more and more, much like in the music business where many successful musicians are self-distributing their music online and via their own private labels.

We’ve been slowly building a stock photography Image Archive over the last year and have done a soft-launch of our online e-commerce store to distribute stock imagery.

One of our newest Collections is the Urban Series. If you enjoy any of these images, you may purchase them in a variety of formats for a variety of uses.

Photographs from the Urban Collection, available for instant download via our Image Archive:

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When I was a young boy (young as in a single digit age), my mother would take me on long walks. It used to drive me nuts; not because I didn’t like walking, but because she stopped what seemed to be every 10 seconds to look at something. It would take hours to make it around the block. At the time, I suppose I didn’t have a lot of patience nor the ability to appreciate beauty in the simplest of things.

A few years ago, an acquaintance snickered when he saw an image I’d captured of a pigeon. It was clear he wasn’t impressed. He thought pigeons were dirty and and a nuisance. When I look at it I still see a colourful, wild bird that has adapted to city life.

It reminded me of when I was a boy going for walks with my mom.

So, if you enjoy this particular image of this particularly beautiful pigeon, you can buy it. Imagine having it on your computer desktop, or as a framed print in your office, or on the cover of your urban wildlife magazine, and remember to look for beauty where you least expect it.

Beaches Pigeon

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