SADDLE-BILLED STORKS AND ELEPHANTS ©2019 View this print at the Amswell Art Compendium at the Ameswell Hotel in Mountain View, CA.

NORTHERN CARMINE BEE-EATER AND GREVY’S ZEBRAS ©2021 - Runner Up Award in the Altered Reality Category

NANPA - - National American Nature Photographer’s Association Annual Showcase 2022

MOPA - Museum of Photographic Arts - “Winescapes With Artists” Interview with MOPA Executive Director and Chief Curator Deborah Klochko in conversation with guest artist Cheryl Medow on February 25, 2021.

NANPA - - National American Nature Photographer’s Association Annual Showcase 2021

PDNB GALLERY, DALLAS TEXAS PRESENTS CHERYL MEDOW: NEW WORK
ONLINE EXHIBITION
JULY 27 - AUGUST 29, 2020

Art photographer Cheryl Medow focuses her lens on the avian world to heighten awareness of the importance of these sublime creatures.  Since early childhood, whether tending chickens or mimicking the sound of birds, Medow has always had an affection toward these beautiful and evolutionary prehistoric winged beings.

Medow’s first step in creating images is to put herself in nature, traveling to environments where diverse species of birds live; sometimes as close as her backyard, but more often traveling to places far from home.  While waiting for the precise moment to capture the image, she studies the surroundings, allowing her to better understand birds in their home environment, looking for food, balancing on a tree branch, hiding from predators, building a nest, courting and fighting for territory; these moments are fascinating and enable her an opportunity for her curiosity and imagination to find expression.

The next step occurs in her studio where images captured in the field find expression as new, imaginative scenes through the use of photographic technology. Against a backdrop of stormy clouds from the Galapagos, the desert landscape of Tucson, Arizona or the Maasai Mara in Kenya, the heightened color of birds conjured by placing the animal somewhere it's never been, are the tools she uses to composite her imagery.

 The beauty Medow sees in nature is realized in the final photographic prints she creates. Once the magnificence of this planet and its amazing creatures is seen, her desire to preserve and protect our world it finds shared beliefs in the viewer. We can all be stewards of the sublime beauty of our extraordinary planet.

“Through my Envisioning Habitat series,  I present the beauty and majesty of birds to others. They are part of the world around us and must not be forgotten.

 If for a moment, the viewer can be transported through my photographic compositions to a new space, where time stands still and everyday problems are set aside,  I have accomplished my calling.” - Cheryl Medow

Zoom Magazine Just published my work. Ten prints from my Envisioning Habitat series in their Italian magazine. ZOOM, Collecting Photography #256

Ten prints from my Envisioning Habitat series were exhibited through August 25 at the Chicago Academy of Sciences - Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.

The Wildling Museum, Solvang California reception in 2019 was a great success.  The Natured Imagined exhibition included 22 prints from the Envisioning Habitat series. 

The Odgen Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans’ permanent collection
includes Tri-colored Heron and a Skimmer ©2017. The gift shop offers the Tri-Colored Heron and a Skimmer Puzzle.

BEST OF SHOW: The North American Photography Association, NANPA's Showcase 2018 has selected Grey Crowned Cranes as Best Of Show - Altered Reality.  Two Snowys received the Judges' Choice Award and seven other images from the Envisioning Habitat series were available online and in Expressions 2018.  

Richard McCabe, Curator of Photography at the Ogden Museum of Art selected six of my photographs for inclusion in New Orleans Photography Alliance (NOPA) 2017 Annual Members Showcase Currents which he juried.

Elizabeth Corden and Jan Potts of Corden Potts Gallery in San Francisco included Tri-colored Heron and a Skimmer in the Center For Photographic Art 2017 CPA Members' Juried Exhibition.

Brooke Jensen's publication LensWork in the August #131 issue, 13 images from the Envisioning Habitat series and the Great Blue Heron at Rest ©2014 was the cover art.

Lafayette Gallery, downtown Boston - Snowy Portrait was included in Paula Tognarelli's Aviary Group Exhibit.

Images from the Envisioning Habitat series were included in the Critters exhibition at Photos Do Not Bend (PDNB)
in Dallas Texas, 2016. Michael Granberry’s article included Great Blue Heron With Chicks Revisited ©2014.

PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury, Vermont

Great Blue In Flight was included in the exhibition "Flight" juried by Laura Moya. 2016.

Featured artists in Photographer's Quarterly Magazine written by Jonathan Blaustein.  Here's the link:  http://photographersquarterly.com/Issue-no.-4/Editors-Letter/1/caption

The SLIDESHOW NIGHT at The Annenberg  Space for Photography in Century City, California was THURSDAY, MARCH 3rd from 6-8PM.

Sunday November 29, 2015
Slate(dot)com Article by David Rosenberg

2015 PX3 - 1st Prize - non-professional for Envisioning Habitat series, Category Fine Art/Digitally Enhanced; 2nd Prize Book Proposal Nature; 3rd Prize for Book Proposal Nature and Honorable Mention Book Proposal Fine Art

Cameraworks Gallery
in Portland Oregon
presents
Cheryl Medow
November 28 - January 1, 2016
 

Silvershotz Magazine - November 11, 2015

LensCulture Earth Awards 2015 Finalist

August 14, 2015 - Link to Photoshop for the Birds by Alyssa Coppelman published in Inspire Adobe

At first glance, Cheryl Medow’s highly detailed images look like real landscapes, but it soon becomes apparent that something more unusual is going on. To create her ongoing series Envisioning Habitat, Medow first photographs birds and landscapes in the United States, Africa, Europe, and South and Central America. Then she constructs an entirely new reality out of those original photographs, resulting in the art you see here.

Link to Photo Realism: Seeing Birds In A New Wild

July 12, 2015 - Sunday Still Issue 43 was on Proof National Geographic. Medow's work evokes the paintings of Martin J. Heade.

June 30, 2015 An article for National Geographic Proof Picture Stories The Art of Birds Seen Through An Altered Reality written by Becky Harlan and appeared online with great success.

Here's a few of the many comments:

Fabulous! Almost like being in a dream!

Stunning! I would be thrilled to have any of these on my walls.

Sea lo que sea o como sea,Cheryl eres una nueva clase de fotógrafo, que puedo decir que no se haya dicho, todo lo bueno para ti,pero creo que tu has sabido llegar a los sentidos de cada uno que ve tus exposiciones como cada quien quiere para si mismo eso es Arte en una nueva clase de contexto, esperando que expongas mas

I love your work, so creative, so beautiful. One can spend a long time with these images, enjoying them. White Ibis With Fish made me laugh.

..Thank you, you have no idea what your talent has brought into my world. I suffer from TN which causes the most severe facial nerve pain on the right side of my face.I do visualization therapy for the pain, I am in severe pain now. When I discovered your magnificent birds. They are so detailed and so alive. I have focused on every detail until I felt as I was there caressing their soft feathers. You have helped my pain tonight and for sharing your art with the world and bring it into my world I am truly grateful. I have added these photos and your site to my photos I use for my therapy. ..

This is the closest photography can come to photorealistic painting as in the Audubon collections, which appear to some extent to have inspired these pictures. Admirable photoshop techniques and, knowing that each part of the image was still photographed somewhere in the wild, immensely beautiful pictures, reminiscent of a world intact and wild long gone. It is like a look into the past of earth history to warn what mankind will be losing – or already lost – in the future if care to preserve the planet is not taken.

The Great Egrets on a Starry Night reminds me of Japanese art; all it needs is a haiku. Some of the others remind me of mediaeval or renaissance tapestry. The difference between these photos and the heavily manipulated photos which are often criticized is that Medow’s work is clearly an artistic presentation where the artist has taken material from different sources and created something new...

Yes!! At last someone broke through that old glass ceiling to reveal emotion, art, beauty all rolled into one magnificent image. This is what I want to see and for those purists out there, I do not care how it was done! I did try this myself and was not brave enough to swim against the tide of hackneyed opinion, now I will revisit it because this is a wonderful breath of fresh air.

J’aime la forme d’esthétique que vous recherchez et que vous avez atteint.

I looked with tears in my eyes at each photograph, each one a work of art. I just returned home and saw this email. While I was out, I pulled off the road to watch a family of Sandhill Cranes (Mom, Dad and juvenile). I intentionally drove by that area hoping to see them, the parents have lived around there for years. I can’t think of anything to watch that is so calming. Thank you for the beautiful pictures.

As a nature lover and a recent visitor to Ding Darling on Sanibel Island, these images truly are ethereal.

Audubon article was written in 2015 by Becca Cudmore on my collection, Avian Alchemy. Five image were selected from my Envisioning Habitat series for the article. Four images were selected earlier as finalists for the Audubon 2015 Photo Awards

Link to G2 Gallery Opening for Nature LA: Cheryl Medow 2015

International Photographic Awards 2014
Digitally Enhanced Category and the Special Photographer
of the Year, Non-Professional

Susan Kae Grant selected Roseate Spoonbills garnering 1st Place and Reddish Egret at Texas Society International Competition 2014 which she juried.

89th Annual International Competition at the Print Center finalist award to Saddle-billed Storks ©2014
received The Olcott Family Award from Jurors, Dan Byers Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and Tina Kukielski, Hillman Photography Initiative, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh