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Feburary 2012
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                   Pebbles & Shells V                                                                © Mark MacKinnon
It's been a great start to the winter season in Florida, weather is perfect, and I wanted to update my schedule for up coming shows through March for those of you looking for some new work, or have seen my work the past couple years and are ready to take another look, if you are in Florida this winter. Please take a look at my website in other parts - as I do plan to be traveling all year, and exhibit in many of the shows I've been doing in the past, and some new ones in Fort Worth, Oklahoma City, Des Moines, Chicago, and counting!

I recently exhibited the some new work at the University of Miami in the Beaux Arts Festival. The turn out was great, and I won first place in photography at the show. It's always nice to be recognized by the judges at the show. 

My new studio in Stuart FL, is working out great, and gives me a base of operations during the winter months. Fishing is good, and taking a ride on my BMW 650 motorcycle is a blast to explore the beaches and inland toward Okeechobee, (look for some new photographs at some point.) I had to take a week off to go skiing in NY this past weekend, before doing 8 shows in a row in FL! Thanks for all the support I have been given by patrons at these shows around the country, and the email signups to keep in touch. 

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     Paddle Boarding         ©2012 MacKinnon 

The resurgence of Paddle Boarding in the surf world.   Guess what, it's not a new thing...  well maybe the stand up version is a new thing - I'm not an expert on that - this is what Wikipedia has to say...

Thomas Edward Blake is credited as the pioneer in paddleboard construction in the early 1930s. In 1926, while restoring historic Hawaiian boards for the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Blake built a replica of the previously ignored olo surfboard ridden by ancient Hawaiian aliʻi(kings). He lightened his redwood replica (olo were traditionally made from wiliwili wood) by drilling it full of holes and then covering them, creating the first ever hollow board as well as introducing the first modern paddleboard. Two years later,in 1928 using this same 16 ft (4.9 m), 120 lb (54 kg) board, Blake won the first ever Mainland surf contest, the Pacific Coast Surfriding Championships, an event integrating both surfing and paddling. Blake then returned to Hawaii to break virtually every established paddling record available, setting half-mile and 100-yard records that stood until 1955. 

 

-Mark MacKinnon 
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