The Terra Galleria Blog – QT Luong

Last summer, Fotopedia.com, the first collaborative photo encyclopedia, launched its first application for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, Fotopedia Heritage, a electronic photo book of World Heritage Sites. The application functions like an almost unlimited coffee-table book, showcasing images in an attractive format, with many smart features including tags, interactive maps, descriptions, favorites, and suggestions, [...]

I am honored to report that my Yosemite Winter Sunset photo has been displayed continuously on the home page of the National Park Service for a year and half. The first screen shot is from June 2009, the second screen shot from Oct 2010. You may be able to date them using the headlines.

This year, two different retail calendars feature exclusively my images. I have received some copies from the publisher that I an offering for sale. Images below are to exact relative scale. The first one, similar to last year’s National Park Calendar, is almost an exhibit piece, at 23×16″. If you are interested, you should place [...]

Treasured Lands, the exhibition of my 58 images of the National Parks at the National Heritage Museum was initially scheduled to close this week. I am pleased to announce that due to its success, the Museum has decided to extend the exhibition until Spring 2011. Treasured Lands is the main feature of the summer issue [...]

Rangefinder Magazine has an article about my National Parks project in their June 2010 issue. Here is a link to the PDF. If you weren’t aware of Rangefinder magazine (which is not widely distributed in stores), take a look: calling themselves “The magazine for professional photographers”, they deliver on this promise. You won’t find the [...]

“Treasured Lands”, my series of 58 large format images of the National Parks (one for each park) is on exhibit at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, MA. The exhibition opened on Feb 20 and will run through Oct 17, 2010. I will deliver a Lowell Lecture about the project at the Museum on Sunday [...]

A dozen of my images from Vietnam are on display in the ISSI Carnavale exhibit at the Northeastern University’s Gallery360 from February 22 to March 20, 2010. I was not able to attend the opening, however, I will give a lecture, scheduled at 3:00 pm on Friday, March 12th. In Vietnamese, the same word is [...]

Parks Magazine, the magazine of the National Parks Foundation, features a portfolio of my images in its 4th issue (winter 2009-2010). The National Parks Foundation is the official charity of America’s National Parks. Make a donation of at least $50 to benefit directly our National Parks and receive Parks magazine.

This post consists of three points: a reminder, a clip, and an answer. Missed Ken Burns’ “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea” last fall ? The series returns to prime time this winter, with the first episode airing this Wednesday, Jan 27 on PBS, and then appearing on consecutive Wednesdays through March 3. For local [...]

Tired of seeing images of the US National Parks ? Ten of my images from India are on display in the lobby of the Balboa Theater, in the Richmond District of San Francisco, until early March. It is clearly not possible to portray a multi-religious, multi-lingual, multi-ethic, and multi-cultural country of over one billion people [...]