This ready to hang, gallery-wrapped art piece features a slightly ajar gate at the bottom of a stone staircase. Alan Blaustein is a passionate Traveler and image maker. During time spent abroad and within the USA, he has captured a unique variety of photography ranging from architecture to landscapes, in addition to portraits and still life photography. Alan's nostalgic, soft, romantic and alluring imagery brings the past into the present. His vast collection of fine art photography is featured in museum, gallery, and private collections. Alan has had success with his work in calendars, cards, and wall decor and also editorial images in periodicals, books, and magazines. Giclee (jee-clay) is an advanced printmaking process for creating high quality fine art reproductions. The attainable excellence that giclee printmaking affords makes the reproduction virtually indistinguishable from the original piece. The result is wide acceptance of giclee by galleries, museums, and private collectors. Gallery wrap is a method of stretching an artist's canvas so that the canvas wraps around the sides and is secured a hidden, wooden frame. This method of stretching and preparing a canvas allows for a frameless presentation of the finished painting.