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On March 16, the Center for Photographic Art (CPA) hosted a members-only evening with local fine art photographer Eduardo Fujii. Eduardo deconstructed some of his most lyrical images and shared a few insights on how he transforms regular photos into Renaissance masterpieces.

With a $6 million dollar collection of more than 1,700 framed photographs on its walls, the Willem Gallery is considered the largest fine art gallery in the country. It features the works of iconic photographers such as Richard Avedon, Ruth Bernhard, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael Kenna, Robert Mapplethorpe, Tom Millea, Irving Penn, Edward Steichen, Andre Kertesz, Brett Weston, Edward Weston and others.

Symphony of the Ocean The work of fine art photographer Eduardo Fujii will be featured in a new exhibition at the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts in Carmel, California. The "After Robinson Jeffers: Photography from Poetry" exhibition will be open from November 18  through December 9, 2016. By juxtaposing poems by Robbinson Jeffers, known for his work celebrating the beauty of Carmel and Big Sur, with poetic images by local photographers curated by the Carl Cherry Center, the exhibition intends to "preserve Jeffers' significance and impact to the artistic culture of Monterey County." Other selected photographers include Edna Bullock,...

Keeping up with technical innovations, the Photography of Eduardo Fujii online store started accepting bitcoins in addition to credit cards, Paypal and Amazon payments  at the end of June 2016.Bitcoin is a "cryptocurrency", an internet based money created by a software developer using the pseudonym of Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008. The real identity of Satoshi Nakamoto is still unknown after years of investigations by The New Yorker and Fast Company. It has grown to a $100 million market since it was launched. Today, more than 100,000 merchants accept the virtual currency as a form of payment. Among them are: Shopify, Amazon, eBay,...

A couple of years ago, the Middlebury Institute (then Monterey Institute) president Clara Yu invited all staff from my department to a "know your fellow colleague better" kind of lunch. While savoring a delicious meal prepared by Whole Foods, we played a game of "guess your colleague's hobby". That's when Yu's guests learned about my passion for photography. Since then, I have been asked to photograph various government and international organization officials invited to visit Monterey for a lecture or meeting. I became the unofficial institute photographer.When I look back at the people I had the opportunity to photograph, I realize what an...