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Denise Strahm is an award winning fine art photographer who captures simple graphic contemporary com

San Diego, California-based Fine Art Photographer, Denise Strahm, is best known for transforming her photographs into visually and emotionally captivating art pieces that invite the viewer to enter, connect with the place and stay for a while.

“Is it a painting or a photograph?”

This question is asked daily at her studio/gallery when visitors see her images. Drawing from her 30 years in graphic

design, Denise is able to create simple graphic contemporary artworks that trick your mind’s eye into seeing a painting instead of a photograph. She captures her subject with her camera and then brings the images into her digital darkroom to finish the creative process using her unique vision for the art piece as a guide and to simplify its structure as she deems best for the image at hand. It has been suggested that Strahm might be called a Digital Secessionist, a likeness to the Photo Secessionists of the early 20th Century. Alfred Stieglitz and other secessionists went to some pains to make photographs look painterly and to give their images a feel of something more than a simple record of a scene. Honing her craft since 2005, Denise’s favorite subject to capture is old, colorful, textural and weathered (but charming) architecture, as near as the California Missions and as far as Europe and Morocco. See DENISE’s work 362 days a year, 11am–4pm:
Spanish Village Art Center • Studio #2
1770 Village Place in Balboa Park • San Diego, CA 92101

Also on Instagram:
www.DeniseStrahmImages.com

10/17/2025

Recently went to Door County, Wisconsin. It was so beautiful and clean! Was not expecting this scenery.

08/16/2025

SAVE THE DATE! Just four weeks from today I’ll be taking part in the San Diego Coastal Art Studios Tour. I, along with my Alternate Treeality series, will be at 1228 Beryl Street in Pacific Beach. The other addresses will be posted on the event website as it gets closer to show time. Hope you can make it!

DM me if you want a reminder as this date gets closer!

03/20/2025

“Dance of Spring”
Alternate Treeality Series
Photo Composite

First day of spring! This ocotillo has hands in the air and is dancing in the new season!

03/06/2025

“Grounded”
Alternate Treeality Series
Photo Composite

Last Thursday when I arrived at studio two Center two City of San Diego workers were there to replace the beautiful crusty shutters that were above studio three. I have always loved those shutters so I asked if I could have them if they were planning on throwing them away, which they were. So thanks to them I took home these awesome shutters, the third one in pieces. I believe these could be the original shutters on this building so I was happy to save them for historical reasons, BUT before passing them along I wanted to photograph them, which I did. I captured them in many different ways because I knew I wanted to do an Alternate Treeality piece using the shutters as a background.

Creation process: The sky of “Grounded” is the blue backside of one of the shutters. The grass/ground is a weathered board of the shutter that had fallen apart, placing that at the base of the blue shutter before photographing. The tree was one I captured in Scripps Park, La Jolla, tweaked a bit as I do. Each element are photos I have taken that are combined digitally. I added some bits of texture at the top of the image from another of the shutters and blended it in. The rusty screws at the bottom right are used as design elements and were on one of the shutters.

The name of this piece first came to me because the tree trunk on the right looks and feels like it’s some sort of a “grounding wire” to the earth. Like a tree trunk is but more so. Plus, like many in my Alternate Treeality series there is the human aspect as well. Just like this tree (or the shutter to the building for that matter) we each ground ourselves in different ways — to things or people or our career or our hobbies in our lives. Whatever it may be, these things help us be “grounded” individuals.

This image will be available soon in studio 2! DM me for more info.

02/09/2025

“The Flapper”
Alternate Treeality Series
Photo Composite

You would think all of the parties happened along Bourbon Street in New Orleans, but this lively party girl is a rebel and she prefers to dance the night (and day) away in New Orleans’ City Park!

As usual, creative and colorful liberties were taken.

Do you know what kind of live oak this is ??

10/08/2024

The Kolob Canyon area of Zion National Park had some beautiful trees I enjoyed photographing while on a recent trip to southern Utah. I usually like a square composition but most of what I captured looks better in a landscape format. Trying to decide if this works. Knowing what I’ve cut off makes it difficult to look at this objectively. Hmmmm.

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10/04/2024

Join me tonight from 4-7pm at Oppenheim Group in La Jolla for the First Friday ArtWalk!

7863 Girard Ave.

08/21/2024

“Lilac Love”
Photo Composite

Probably my favorite flower. These flowers used to line the driveway in my childhood home. The scent is intoxicating! Was happy this past spring to pick up two big bunches from a farm in Julian. I plan to do this next year too!

This photo composite is in studio 2 in a small 5x5” size. Larger sizes are available upon request!

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06/25/2024

Charming Piazza Marconi in Vernazza, Cinque Terre, Italy! I had this photo in my archives but can’t remember if I captured it in 2010 or 2016. I’m experimenting with lightening and brightening the colors instead of at full strength. Somehow it feels happier to me. I think I’ll try more this way. Enjoy!

06/21/2024

“Dreamland”
Alternate Treeality series
Photo Composite

SHARE with other art lovers. Available in center or online. DM to inquire.

06/13/2024

The San Diego County Fair opened yesterday and goes till July 7th. I have three pieces in the Fine Art Exhibition so look for them if you go!

Brings back some memories of when I was a kid and had one of my cool macrame wall hangings in the fair. Ah the 70’s! ;)

Pictured are “Aging Gracefully,” “Blossoming” (Honorable Mention) and Catch a Falling Star.”

If you can’t find them ask the representative at the desk. They have a map and can guide you to the general area. Enjoy!

(These images, and more, are also available in studio 2 center in smaller sizes.)

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Thursday	11am - 4pm
Friday	11am - 4pm
Saturday	11am - 4pm
Sunday	11am - 4pm

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https://denisestrahmimages.com/, https://denise-strahm.pixels.com/

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