p.2 #2 · Five Photographs For Upcoming Ansel Adams Gallery Exhibit
renfield33 wrote:
I will be at the gallery in late August. Hopefully your exhibit will still be up.
It will still be up when you get there, and The Adams Gallery is a fine place to get a break from the Yosemite afternoon heat!
The exhibition, of which my five prints are just a part, runs from August 6 through August 10. It is called "The Great Certainty: Photographs Commemorating 100 Years of National Park Stewardship," and it features photographs by quite a few folks that many who frequent this forum may know of: Adams, Bill Neill, Charlie Cramer, Keith Walklet, Michael Frye (I'm pretty sure), my friends Dave Hoffman and Franka M. Gabler, and no doubt others.
Unfortunately I won't be able to be there for the opening due to travel plans made some time ago, but I will be up there during the last week or so of the show. (In fact, I'll probably be in the Sierra a lot through September and most of October!
p.2 #6 · Five Photographs For Upcoming Ansel Adams Gallery Exhibit
Beautiful and deserving group of images, Dan. Congrats on the selections.
I once tried to work with that gallery or some group using it for Yosemite art and it was an impossible experience. I see the folks you submitted to have good taste.
p.2 #8 · Five Photographs For Upcoming Ansel Adams Gallery Exhibit
Jeffrey wrote:
Beautiful and deserving group of images, Dan. Congrats on the selections.
I once tried to work with that gallery or some group using it for Yosemite art and it was an impossible experience. I see the folks you submitted to have good taste.
Perhaps different people then. Everyone I know there is "good people!" I wonder if maybe you were working with the visitor center gallery, found a bit west of TAAG? There is regularly art there, including the 31 year old Yosemite Renaissance program. :-)
p.2 #9 · Five Photographs For Upcoming Ansel Adams Gallery Exhibit
Dan, I think it was the Renaissance group. Like yourself, I feel somewhat qualified to comment on images in a show. Their selections were atrocious compared to what I saw submitted. Sorry to derail your thread. Next time I'll find the group you submitted to.
p.2 #11 · Five Photographs For Upcoming Ansel Adams Gallery Exhibit
Ben Horne wrote:
Beautiful work Dan! Each photo stands very well on its own, and I love how they display as a series as well.
Ben, thanks for mentioning the relationship between the photographs. I tend to be a one-photo-at-a-time kind of guy, and I have to thank the curator of TAAG for seeing these as a group in a way that might have escaped me. (Evan, talking about you!)
p.2 #12 · Five Photographs For Upcoming Ansel Adams Gallery Exhibit
Congratulations, Dan! I agree that these are all just lovely, but I think #2 may grab me the most. Has a Georgia O'Keefe, painterly feel to it. Wish I could get out there for the exhibit.
p.2 #13 · Five Photographs For Upcoming Ansel Adams Gallery Exhibit
Great work, wish I could attend the show. With Ansel in my mind on this thread as I scrolled through your images when I got to #3 (King's Canyon) I thought "this would be really neat in B&W", then when I got to #4 (Sequoia) I thought "this would be REALLY neat in B&W". Congratulations.
p.2 #14 · Five Photographs For Upcoming Ansel Adams Gallery Exhibit
dennisgolfer wrote:
Great work, wish I could attend the show. With Ansel in my mind on this thread as I scrolled through your images when I got to #3 (King's Canyon) I thought "this would be really neat in B&W", then when I got to #4 (Sequoia) I thought "this would be REALLY neat in B&W". Congratulations.
Thanks. (And thanks to Sharonna).
My roots are in black and white and I often still end up "going there" with my photographs. (I recently did a bunch of black and white work with subjects in Death Valley NP.)
I could see those two in black and white, and I may have even tried it with the Kings Canyon photograph at one point. (My recollection is that it ended up with too many neutral tones in BW and was less effective.)
I was especially happy that they selected the black and white Death Valley photograph, and for several reasons. One is exactly what Sharonna mentioned, namely that it is a photograph that tries to abstract the landscape while still keeping a some balance between the raw forms and textures and the underlying reality of the scene.
p.2 #15 · Five Photographs For Upcoming Ansel Adams Gallery Exhibit
Hi Dan,
All of them are special, but #2 is the top for me for the reasons described above. Did Michael take all the Yosemite representation? I'm surprised they didn't select any of your Yosemite photos.
p.2 #17 · Five Photographs For Upcoming Ansel Adams Gallery Exhibit
Timmeh wrote:
Hi Dan,
All of them are special, but #2 is the top for me for the reasons described above. Did Michael take all the Yosemite representation? I'm surprised they didn't select any of your Yosemite photos.
Tim
Tim:
I know of at least one other person's photograph of Yosemite that will be in the show, so Michael isn't the only one. (I don't know everything that will be in the show — just a few specifics from friends whose work will be represented, and I haven't talked to Michael recently, though a mutual friend tells me he will be represented, too.)
I actually did not submit any Yosemite photographs since discussions made it clear that they had plenty of work from Yosemite. Go figure! ;-) I was also told that they had a lot of DEVA work, and that partly explains my happiness about having one of my DEVA photographs included.
I'm looking forward to seeing the show myself! (Though I'll be traveling extensively during August, so I won't get to see it until the beginning of September.)
By the way, I had a lot of fun looking at your recent photographs from a back-country area where I photographed (along with Charlie, Scot Miller, and Karl Kroeber) for about a week in 2013. As I mentioned to you in a PM, I've been going over that work recently to see what I missed the first time. Oh, and the reflecting rocks photograph (#3) in the show was made very close to where you camped.
p.2 #18 · Five Photographs For Upcoming Ansel Adams Gallery Exhibit
Well deserved, Dan. What an honor it must be to be included among folks like William Neill etc!
Also, I am pleased to see that the images chosen for such an honorable, timeless exhibition are exactly that- timeless and honorable photographs. Just goes to show, we can chase light, we can chase new lenses, but at the end of the day, or I should say at the end of the decade even, the timeless quiet photos still have a place in our hearts.
