Hello! Thanks for looking us up. Most of our customer friends have seen us at art shows in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, New York, or Florida. You can find our current art show schedule here with the latest changes.

We also travel almost every weekend to sell our photographs at fine art fairs around the country, taking photographs on the way. Since the U.S. Great Lakes Lighthouse 32c postage stamps, printed in 1995, were painted from three of our photographs we have been visiting many more lighthouses. Our photographic goal when taking lighthouses is to define the form and purpose of the structure and capture the power or tranquility of the moment.

We use 35 mm cameras (Canon) but the clarity you see even in the larger prints is achieved by using slower speed film. We use no color filters. Our prints are full frame -- an 8x12 print rather than 8x10-- and so we do all the cropping or composing with the camera, not in the darkroom.

Our photographs reflect our pleasure in traveling and our daily lives : we have scenery and lighthouses from California to Nova Scotia, but also farm animals, my rose garden, and the Amish we farm alongside. The photograph above was taken in Key Biscayne National Park, Florida.

When we aren't at art shows or taking pictures, we are chasing cows, nursing calves, or baling hay. Frank taught high school psychology and phys. ed. and I (Dianne) was a RN in a critical care unit in a 150 bed hospital. Now we farm 400 acres in the center of Michigan---we raise mainly alfalfa hay, corn, and beef cattle from calving to finish. We sell all natural beef by the quarter or side. Our animals get only feed that we raise, plus some mineral supplements. (The beef you buy in the store has antibiotics and steroids in it. and tastes really different from ours.).

We start calving towards the end of April--we used to plan for earlier calves but warmer weather past the mud season makes things much easier. ---No traveling at all during the first 3 weeks of calving. (Hopefully 75% of calves are born in the first 3 weeks after the bulls go out--a cow's breeding cycle is every 21 days.) Our calving date to start is April 23 this year--9 months after breeding just like people. You thought you were going to get information about photography, not animal husbandry??

Our photo library up with pictures you can order should be on line by November (It would be sooner but we are spending most of October on the Oregon coast and going up to Washington and Vancouver Island).  Our subjects will include lighthouses, barns and outhouses, the Amish, doors and windows, sunrise and sunset, farm animals, and flowers.

Please........ if you don't get an answer to E-Mail, call us (989 681-2801). Leave a message and we'll be glad to call you back. Frank & Dianne Sedlar--9507 N Jerome Rd--Saint Louis MI,--48880