p.1 #1 · current Black And White Exhibit Near Yosemite
Jerry Bosworth, my friend and extraordinary black and white photographer has a show at Stellar Gallery in Oakhurst, CA near the southern boundary of Yosemite NP. Jerry asked several of us to collaborate and contribute work to the show, and I selected these eight photographs that appear in the exhibit. (If you'll be in the Yosemite area in the next month or so, stop by and take a look.)
p.1 #8 · current Black And White Exhibit Near Yosemite
Thanks, folks. The show is really fine — my work is only a small part of it — and it features a wonderful variety of monochrome prints by a half dozen photographers: Jerry Bosworth is the primary artist, and the others include Franka Mlikota Gabler, Jon Bock, David Hoffman, Cathy McCrery-Cordle.
Here's a little more information about the photographs:
"Lake, Rocks, and Clouds" is a photograph that people have told me they like for years, but this is the first time I have printed it for exhibition. I made the photograph over a decade ago after hiking to a high lake along the Yosemite border.
"Rocky Creek Bridge, Surf and Fog" is from the Big Sur coast of California. There's a bit of a story behind it involving some serendipity, but it is too long to recount here. I will say that it was made on the very same day as the "Fisherman" photo.
"Fisherman, Winter Surf" — This was a morning of huge surf, mist rising perhaps 100 feet above the water, and brilliant sunshine above. As I finished making the previous photograph I was surprised to see this fellow fishing from the rocks above the wild surf.
"Two Islands, Fog" was made on a migratory bird photography trip to California's Central Valley. I usually try to go on foggy winter days... but on this morning it was way too foggy for bird photography. (I could hear them but not see them.) While wandering around waiting for clearing I came on these two islands.
"Shoreline Reflections, Trees And Rocks" is a personal favorite, photographed along the overflowing shoreline of a snowmelt-swollen Sierra lake.
"Strata" is one of the most recent photographs, made just a few months ago on a beautiful morning in Death Valley when the light was slightly softened by high clouds.
"Clearing Clouds, Merced River Canyon" was made during a three-month winter/spring artist-in-residency sponsored by Yosemite Renaissance. I was staying at Wawona, and when I got up and started heading toward the Valley in the near darkness the light looked particularly unpromising with thick overcast. But as I arrived at the west end of the Valley light came from the east through a break under the clouds and lit up the thinning clouds and mist. [This print sold at the opening reception]
"Clouds, Sand Storm, Desert Mountains" also comes from earlier this year, on the second of two visits to Death Valley. I had the "good" (?) fortune to experience several days of high winds and dust storms, and on the afternoon when I made this photograph dust filled the lower atmosphere as higher clouds tried to drop rain.
p.1 #13 · current Black And White Exhibit Near Yosemite
Very nice B&W shots Dan. Are tourists ruining the scenery at the Bixby Creek bridge area of Big Sur with their selfies. Sometimes they pose a danger from being hit by passing cars.
p.1 #15 · current Black And White Exhibit Near Yosemite
dalite wrote:
Very nice B&W shots Dan. Are tourists ruining the scenery at the Bixby Creek bridge area of Big Sur with their selfies. Sometimes they pose a danger from being hit by passing cars.
Things have changed quite a bit along the Big Sur coast in just the last few years, I'm afraid. I'm about 75 minutes from Carmel when traffic is clear, and my habit has been to drive that way very early in the morning. A while back, what used to be a quick drive with clear sailing turned into a gridlocked mess approaching and through Monterey — it is now starting to look like Silicon Valley!
It used to be that I could avoid the big crowds along US 1 below Monterey by going early, even on weekends. Those days now appear to over, too. Weekends are pretty consistently bad when it comes to traffic, at least during the main tourist season. Summer weekdays can become crazy busy, too, by the middle of the day.
(Fortunately, I can also get down there outside of the main tourist season... when I find the conditions generally more interesting anyway.)
Bixby Bridge is, as you suspect, a bit of a mess now. Lots of folks stop there, of course, and they frequently interfere with traffic — even posing for photos in the middle of the bridge! (The bridge in the photo is not Bixby, though people often imagine that it is.)
p.1 #19 · current Black And White Exhibit Near Yosemite
Awesome set!!!
Shoreline Reflections has an Escher quality.
Clearing Clouds' alternating dark and light also merits printing big (and sending it to me).
