San Antonio Photographer is lover of Dancing Cranes
<center><img src="http://steppinoutnewmexico.com/images/snowgeese_svoboda.jpg" border=1 alt="Snow Geese in formation near San Antonio, NM"><br></center>
<img src="http://steppinoutnewmexico.com/images/lillypond_svobodova.jpg" alt="Lilly pond near Dancing Cranes Guest House - San Antonio, NM" align=right hspace=5 border=1>San Antonio, NM – It’s no secret the Rio Grande Valley, especially in the autumn, is prime birders’ and photographers’ paradise. The changing seasons turn the fields and bosques into harvest reds and golds, and brings an abundance of birds –and the people who watch and photograph them.
The tranquil beauty of a Rio Grande fall day is beautifully portrayed in the photograph by Jana Svobodova which adorns the cover of Steppin’ Out this month.
We’re not the only ones to think that: The picture placed first in the Manipulated Photos category of the 2006 Festival of the Cranes Photography Contest and was also given the Judges’ Award.<br><img src="http://steppinoutnewmexico.com/images/Steppin_Out_Cover_Oct_Nov_08.jpg" align=left hspace=5 border=0 alt="Steppin' Out Cover Dancing Cranes -- near San Antonio, NM" >
Jana has been an avid photographer for some 10 years but always has had an eye for beauty – and for cranes. She and partner Jim Platt began Dancing Cranes Imports in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1994. Among their jaunts to distant lands in the Far East, they also discovered the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge.
“We followed the cranes to the Bosque,” jokes Jim. After years of visiting the Bosque, the couple three years ago purchased land in the valley. The Dancing Cranes Guest House and Gallery sits at the far east end of Wendy’s Farm Road, just north of Hwy 380 on Farm to Market.
Jana was born in grew up in Czechoslovakia. She met Jim in Prague; she immigrated to the U.S. in 1992. Along with nature photography, Jana enjoys scuba-diving and underwater photography. For more information about the Guest House and Gallery, call 575-517-9273.
<center><img src="http://steppinoutnewmexico.com/images/snowgeese_svoboda.jpg" border=1 alt="Snow Geese in formation near San Antonio, NM"><br></center>
<img src="http://steppinoutnewmexico.com/images/lillypond_svobodova.jpg" alt="Lilly pond near Dancing Cranes Guest House - San Antonio, NM" align=right hspace=5 border=1>San Antonio, NM – It’s no secret the Rio Grande Valley, especially in the autumn, is prime birders’ and photographers’ paradise. The changing seasons turn the fields and bosques into harvest reds and golds, and brings an abundance of birds –and the people who watch and photograph them.
The tranquil beauty of a Rio Grande fall day is beautifully portrayed in the photograph by Jana Svobodova which adorns the cover of Steppin’ Out this month.
We’re not the only ones to think that: The picture placed first in the Manipulated Photos category of the 2006 Festival of the Cranes Photography Contest and was also given the Judges’ Award.<br><img src="http://steppinoutnewmexico.com/images/Steppin_Out_Cover_Oct_Nov_08.jpg" align=left hspace=5 border=0 alt="Steppin' Out Cover Dancing Cranes -- near San Antonio, NM" >
Jana has been an avid photographer for some 10 years but always has had an eye for beauty – and for cranes. She and partner Jim Platt began Dancing Cranes Imports in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1994. Among their jaunts to distant lands in the Far East, they also discovered the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge.
“We followed the cranes to the Bosque,” jokes Jim. After years of visiting the Bosque, the couple three years ago purchased land in the valley. The Dancing Cranes Guest House and Gallery sits at the far east end of Wendy’s Farm Road, just north of Hwy 380 on Farm to Market.
Jana was born in grew up in Czechoslovakia. She met Jim in Prague; she immigrated to the U.S. in 1992. Along with nature photography, Jana enjoys scuba-diving and underwater photography. For more information about the Guest House and Gallery, call 575-517-9273.