Illahe Studios and Gallery is located on the corner of 4th and B Street in Ashland.  The show will be on exhibit for the entire month of March so if you miss the opening stop by any time.

The show consists of a series of my landscape and nature images from locations in the western US that all share a focus on color, light, texture and form.  The title of the show, Earth Palette, comes from my experiences photographing in the Painted Hills of central Oregon.  The images are vibrant, surreal, dramatic and perhaps in many ways represent my romantic impressions more than a literal representation of the world.
In keeping with my ongoing interest in moving beyond the traditional in landscape photography, I have created this entire show on a medium that is somewhat new to the art form, namely canvas. All of the images in this show have been printed in large format, some as large as 60 x 40, on gallery wrapped canvas. This gives them a painterly quality very different from what we usually expect from photographs. It is also a more raw and simple presentation, allowing one to view the images without competition from frames or separated by a layer of glass.

I hope to see you there!

This winter five southern Oregon photographers, Sean Bagshaw, David Vanderlip, Vitaly Geyman, David Lorenz Winston and Darlene Lyon Kruse, will be presenting a series of photography workshops in Ashland, Oregon. The workshops will cover various topics of creative and fine art digital photography for all levels and interests. On October 20 all five photographers will be hosting a free presentation and round table discussion to kick off the workshop series. The event will be held in the Gresham Room at the Ashland Public Library from 7-9PM. There will be time to ask questions, find out about the upcoming workshop series and socialize. Everyone is welcome to attend this free evening dedicated to creative digital photography. Attendees will have a chance to win a free winter workshop registration and workshop discount coupons.

The list workshop titles and dates for the winter seires will be posted here soon.

Contact me for more information.

Puerto Escondido Lighthouse

On Tuesday, May 11 at 7:00 pm I will be giving a slide presentation to the Southern Oregon Photographic Association.  In images and words, I will share a retrospective of my year in photography.  Since last spring I have had some wonderful adventures with my camera including photographing locations in the Columbia Gorge, the Oregon Cascades, Lassen Volcanic National Park, the Utah desert, the Oregon coast, Mexican mining towns and beaches and many great spots right here in the Rogue Valley.  In addition to sharing some of my photographic vision of the natural world, I will also tell some tall travel tales and discuss some of the techniques I use to create my images.  Call Terry Tuttle at 541-779-3396 or go to www.sopacameraclub.org for information.

Time Sculpture

This week I will be giving a couple of free to the public presentations in southern Oregon that I wanted to let people know about.

On Wednesday, March 17 from 7 to 9 PM at the Business Center located at 109 NW C Street in Grants Pass, OR I will be presenting the second part of my “Working the Light” lecture for the Grants Pass Camera Club.  The presentation is open to guests as well as members.  Part 1 of this presentation covered my approach to capturing dramatic light in the field.  In part 2 I will demonstrate some techniques that I use to process images in the digital darkroom to fully express dramatic light in the final image.  For more information you can go to the Caveman Camera Club site.

On Thursday, March 18, from 5 to 7 PM I will be at the Ashland Art Center Meet and Greet to share some of my photography and talk about my business strategies as a photographer and artist, including topics such as exhibiting, marketing, social media, building a website and making the right contacts.  This talk is open and free to the public. The Ashland Art Center is located at 357 E Main Street in Ashland, OR.  You can find more information on the Ashland Art Center at their web site.

If you have any questions about either of these presentations, feel free to contact me directly as well.

I’m looking forward to both of these presentations and sharing a bit of what I do and how I do it with southern Oregon photographers and artists.

Help me select images for the NANPA Showcase

Want to help me select the images I enter in the 2009 NANPA Showcase competition? I have narrowed it down to the photos in this gallery on facebook.  You’ll need to have or sign up for a facebook account to enter your votes.   I can only enter 6 images in the competition, and it gets really tough to narrow them down. This is where you come in.  Vote for your 6 favorites by commenting with a “Yo!”. The first person who v otes for all 6 of the images I submit will win an 8×12 print of their choice. My final selection may or may not be the 6 with the most votes, so vote for your favorites not just the most popular. Thanks in advance for your help.

Standing Watch, Crater Lake

The Rogue Galley & Art Center in Medford, Oregon will be opening a new photography exhibit called “Of Our Time and Place”.  The show will be a group exhibit that showcases the photography of several artists from the Rogue Valley region.  This juried show will be on exhibit at the Rogue Gallery through September 26.  The reception will be open to the public and be held on Friday, August 21, 2009 from 5:00 to 8:00 PM.

Four of my large prints will be part of the exhibit.  In keeping with the theme of the show, I selected images that depict defining and well known landscapes around the Rogue Valley with my signature attention to dramatic light, sweeping compositions and a sense of adventure and mystery.  The locations featured in my images include Crater Lake, the Rogue River, the Greensprings foothills and the old Wood House near Eagle Point, all icons of our time and place.

The Rogue Gallery & Art Center is one of the finest community visual arts organizations in Southern Oregon. Founded in 1960 by artists, educators, and community leaders, it serves as an art center and artistic catalyst for the region.  More than 40 years later, it continues to serve the citizens of the Rogue Valley with art education, exhibitions, and artists’ services.

Location and contact information for the Rogue Gallery:

40 South Bartlett, Medford, OR 97501

541-772-8118

www.roguegallery.org

The following is the list of my top twelve travel photography tips.  In the article I explain the importance of each one and give ideas on how to integrate them into your travel photography repertoire.

1. Don’t get too wrapped up and weighted down with gear when traveling.
2. Carry your photo equipment with you on the plane.
3. Make time to photograph on your own.
4. Photograph during the magic hours for magical photographs.
5. Vibration is not your friend.
6. Get the lay of the land.
7. Control depth of field for different artistic effects.
8. Add drama with high and low perspective or a unique point of view.
9. While on the move, adopt a rapid fire shooting style and let the chips fall where they may.
10. Make it move.
11. Lose the clutter.
12. Edit mercilessly.

You can read the full article and find out more about my 12 travel photography tips on the Travel Essentials Website.

Then head out on your summer travels with your camera in hand and bring back a winning shot to enter in the Travel Essentials Photo Contest.

While a fine art photographic print is still my favorite way to enjoy great photography, technology is rapidly changing the ways it is possible to view, access and share art. The images that move and excite us no longer have to be confined to a wall or the pages of a book. I love to share my photographs and want people to be able to access them in a way that best suits their needs and purpose. A large fine art print will always be available to those who have the resources and space, but size, cost and location are no longer limiting factors to accessing photography and other visual art.

The iPhone is one of the most innovative pieces of technology to recently come on the scene. It can be very valuable as a tool for communication and storing and accessing information, but it also has great potential in entertainment, education and access to media and imagry, includinig art.

I recently partnered with the folks at Open Door Network in creating an iPhone application of my photography. The application is like a collection of slide shows that allow iPhone users to have a portable art gallery of my photographs right in their pockets. Photographs in the Outdoor Exposure for iEnvision app are organized into three collections including Landscape, Nature and Travel. Landscape includes photos of canyons, deserts, forest, lakes, mountains, oceans, streams and waterfalls. Nature displays abstracts, fall color, flowers, trees and winter. Travel takes you to Hawaii, Mexico and Nepal.

In addition to viewing the gallery shows, the images can also be saved for use as iPhone wallpaper and each image links to the Outdoor Exposure Photography website for more information.

Open Door Network’s flagship iEnvision web image browser, as well as their line of Envi iPhone image applications access and organize images from the Web into fun to view and share slide shows for the iPhone. Other iEnvision “Envi” apps include Art, Earth, Space, Mountain and Yosemite.

So, you might ask, “What’s the big attraction?” I’ll be answering that questions and others as I present my multi-media program, “Above The Shadow Lands“ on Wednesday evening, March 4th, at The Stage Door Coffee House in Mt. Shasta. The presentation will focus on the story of my second ascent of the mountain in 2005.

In 1998 I climbed Denali as part of a six person team. It was a great adventure, but we had a few difficulties. The size of the group was a challenge and the weather kept us on the mountain for three weeks. In 2005 I went back with my climbing partner, Brock. Better conditions, more experience and an efficient two person team made for smoother ascent. However, I still almost didn’t make it.

Climbing Denali is one of the hardest things I have ever done twice. The route we climbed isn’t particularly technical and I’m not a great climber. However, the mountain is big and cold. Setting the goal and then preparing for and experiencing everything it takes to live, survive and reach the summit in that harsh environment made it an enormously powerful and rewarding experience…both times.

This program is presented by the Mt. Shasta Trail Association. Admission is by donation at the door, and guests are encouraged to have dinner at The Stage Door previous to the program.

Stage Door Coffee House, 414 N. Mt. Shasta Blvd.
Wednesday evening, March 4th, 7pm.
More information: 926-5966