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Mark Kiken Art Collections

Shop for artwork from Mark Kiken based on themed collections. Each image may be purchased as a canvas print, framed print, metal print, and more! Every purchase comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Artwork by Mark Kiken

Each image may be purchased as a canvas print, framed print, metal print, and more! Every purchase comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

About Mark Kiken

June 2020 Welcome and thank you for visiting my website here on Fine Art America. I’m a landscape photographer. My themes include: 1. Birds, Insects, and Other Animals 2. Clouds 3. Contrails 4. Etc. (think of it as “odds and ends”) 5. Flowers 6. From the Air 7. Illuminated Weeds 8. Landscapes (not associated with a particular theme) 9. Mountains 10. National Parks 11. Reflections 12. Sunrise, Sunset 13. The Seasons 14. Water Lily Pads For now, you will see 10 of the 14 categories represented here on the website. Over time I may add photographs from the others. How would I characterize my photography on a macro level? It’s very simple: • The beautiful • The unusual • The often unnoticed • The small made large. • Views off the beaten path. I do not “doctor” my photos and I do not Photoshop them. Photos may, however, be cropped for enhanced effect. My philosophy is to show the world as I have seen it, not how I might imagine it. I’ve been taking pictures since I was eighteen. About 15 years ago I bought my first digital camera. Since that time I have shot more than 30,000 digital images, which I have distilled down to 3,000+ images in my overall portfolio. You will see some of these images when you find a collection/gallery you like and explore from there. I hope you will like what you see and you’ll decide to order one or more of the images from the numerous media options. Being a professional photographer is not something I set out to do. If you examine the path my life has taken there are only occasional, random hints of what took decades to coalesce. When I think about what has brought me to this point there are five words: Soviet Union, digital cameras, and Colorado. An odd combination, I admit. I was born in Denver, Colorado. The Denver area is part of what is called the Front Range, a section of the east side of the Rockies. Denver is, despite its being called The Mile High City, downhill from where I grew up. We had a commanding view of Denver and, from the right spots, a breathtaking view of the Rockies from the Wyoming border in the north to Pike’s Peak and beyond to the south, probably the better part of 150 miles or so. I saw and appreciated this great beauty in my youth and, to this day, it still takes my breath away. When I graduated from high school, my parents bought me a Mamiya Sekor 35mm (film) camera. That was the start of capturing on film the sights I saw and appreciated all around me. Around age thirteen, I found the Russian language—or perhaps it found me. In any event, we were made for one another. I majored in Russian as an undergraduate. In 1971, I spent a semester at Leningrad State University in the Soviet Union. In preparation for the trip, I bought ten rolls of 36-exposure high speed Ektachrome. The film allowed me to take pictures without using a flash (especially helpful in museums) and it was easily made into slides. I quickly realized that with a limited number of frames it would be critical to make each and every one count. I taught myself to walk around looking at the world through a camera lens—whether I had a camera in my hands or not. In very short order I learned to assess the value of a scene and take one and only one picture of it. Upon my return to the United States, I continued to take pictures of people and places, documenting my life as I went. Roughly 15 years ago I decided to dip my little toe into the world of digital cameras. I bought a relatively inexpensive camera and started taking photographs. There was one memorable set of pictures I took on the way to visit a friend in Boulder, Colorado. It was necessary to take a dirt road to get to the house. Off on the left side of the road was a gorgeous field of orange poppies. I stopped, rolled down the window, took a few pictures and drove on. Several years later one of those pictures ended up on the cover of The Colorado Lawyer, the official publication of The Colorado Bar Association. The positive feedback I received from friends and colleagues was the catalyst for my eventually considering a career as a professional photographer. Thank you for your time and interest. I hope you will consider one or more of my photographs for your home, your office or as gifts for family and friends. Please feel free to contact me via the website. I’d be more than happy to answer any questions you may have, etc. Be well. Mark