Welcome. I'm emk - Edie Marie Karras - and I create these arts.
My two primary products are note cards and prints. They're fun to make, easy to use, and cheap to ship. I do have some other items in my shop, though, and will consider special orders. Comments and questions about my work are welcome. Thanks for visiting.
Original Photographic Art for over 30 years
Favorite subjects include food, trees, flowers, landscapes, and anything else that catches my eye, tugs at my heart, or makes me laugh
Clouds over Northern Iowa
Farm Country
Coneflower on Sunday Evening
Lilies in Glass?
Electric Poppy
Happy 4th of July 2020
Lake Superior
Jay Cooke State Park
"Landscapes show spaces within the world, sometimes vast and unending, but other times microscopic....capturing the presence of nature but also man-made features or disturbances"
Cone Blast
Lighting Strike
Somewhere in Northern Iowa
North of Des Moines
Coneflower Art
More Sunday Cones
The ‘Cones’ are Coming
Good Morning Daisies
Early Columbine
Early Peony
I don't garden. Vegetables in years past, but even that was pretty minimal. And yet, I have a large body of work around florals; even had a 40 piece show (almost all flowers) back in 2017 at Vine Arts Center. THANK YOU friends, neighbors, and south Minneapolis communities for providing such beauty and diversity for my iPhone camera. I so greatly appreciate it.
K and K’s Front Yard Lilies
A Rose is Never Just a Rose
Milkweed
Sometimes you don't know you have a favorite theme or subject until you go backwards to 'the way back' of your photo library. "
"You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds" - Henry Thoreau
North of Des Moines
Storm Cloud Over Green Bay
Stripy Clouds
Powderhorn Sunrise
Right Out the Front Door
Like an Anvil in the Sky
Clouds Over Powderhorn
Clouds Over de las dos Casas
Into the Storm
Clouds with Sunset
Clouds Over de las dos Casas #2
I've lived in Minnesota since 1985 but was born and raised in Des Moines, Iowa. While I've always lived in cities, the big open spaces of the Midwest shaped my childhood and continue to draw my eye and pull in my heart.
Iowa Oaks
In Waukee
Winter Farmscape
Ye Olde Bread Factory
Down in the Valley
The Very Good Badlands
The Meadow, at de las Dos Casas
Purple Lilacs
Sunflower Love
Pretty in Pink
Moonlight Clematis
Grand Pinky Lily
I so love taking photos of flowers. They don't move; or at least not too much.
Come to Worship
The Beginning of Lilyfest 2020
First to Arrive
Pinky Peony
Explosion
Downtown Minneapolis from across the River
From the Guthrie Window
Obama Ate Here
Downtown Moment
Nectarine Abstract
Canned Peaches and Apples
Yes, I like to play with my food
Orange Abstract
Cabbage Road
Severe Weather Radar Abstract
Ice Art 2019
Ice Globe Abstract
Misty Michigan Woods
Looking North, on Lake Michigan
Evening on Lake Michigan
Evening at the Harbor
I do not like to be IN water; you never know where the sharks are, but I love being around water. I could spend a week at a Maine beach house, never dip a toe in the sea, and be completely happy.
Crossing Mackinaw
Coffee Cat
Samba in the Daisies
Fun in the Country
I Want Out
What do photos capture? Reality? A split second in time? An emotion felt by the one taking the photo? The viewer never knows how he or she has been manipulated
Early Morning Walk in Powderhorn Park
Grasses in the Park
Looking Towards Global Market
Last One to Fall
Powderhorn Sunset
Mid-June in Powderhorn Park
The Perfect Day is Waiting